Two-way street, double edged sword, goes both ways, mutually assured destruction, etc, etc.You mean other than the fact that she was likely an at-will employee in a state that has been whittling away what little labor protections they had?
President Biden has said that he would reject the $50,000 payoff of federal student loans, and would only support payoffs of $10,000 and free community college tuition for those families making less than $175,000 a year. He also indicated that he does not believe that he can use executive order to forgive student loan debt.
What are your thoughts on this, especially being that he is breaking with the democrat position on this? Do you think that something will become reality within his administration or do you think it will just linger on as discussion for decades?
As for Talk Radio, I don't think that this is the end of it.
I haven't seen any real proof thus far that she was "fired" for anything related to her idiot husband. That being said, if she was and she wasn't posting anything inflammatory I'd have a real problem with that. Being married to a jerk isn't a crime. At least not yet.
I can't imagine why the wife got fired. Could there maybe be some other reason, apart from her being married to a douchebag?
The timing sounds quite suspicious. He goes off on a rant and experiences the consequences of 'free speech' (rightfully so BTW). However it will be interesting to see how all this shakes out out given the wife was let go shortly after the husbands made those comments.You mean other than the fact that she was likely an at-will employee in a state that has been whittling away what little labor protections they had?
Unfortunately, he will still get re-electedNew spelling of Cruz's fist name - it isn't ted, it is FLED
'We did not send him there to do the right thing'
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Sen. Pat Toomey faces censure over impeachment vote: 'We did not send him there to do the right thing'
"We did not send him there to vote his conscience," a Pennsylvania county GOP official said after Sen. Pat Toomey voted to convict Donald Trump.www.usatoday.com
Entire school board resigns after hot-mic comments
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An entire school board resigned after they criticized parents during a public virtual meeting
The president and three members of a school board in Northern California have resigned after they were heard making disparaging comments about parents in the school district during a virtual board meeting last Wednesday.www.cnn.com
Didn't realize they were being broadcast and were making funnies...
I'm in the Manchin camp on this. If people should be held to a high(er) standard of public conduct, then this vote against is justified.It appears Neera Tanden is toast. First nominee defeated because of tweets?
I'm in the Manchin camp on this. If people should be held to a high(er) standard of public conduct, then this vote against is justified.
This was a poor choice by the Biden team. I'm sure there are equally qualified people with better online history.
One needs to learn this lesson in year 2 or 3 when you're a public employee or ever want to be one (especially appointed by politicians).It is amazing to me that someone like her, who is very educated just went off on Twitter like she did. Most people set up anonymous ones for that. The lesson here is; be careful what you post and certainly don't get into flaming wars.
I would imagine it's as universal for school board members to complain privately about parents wanting their babysitters back as it is to find planners complaining about citizens with next to zero knowledge about planning or zoning advising 'how the city should conduct its business'..I posted about this in another thread. I question how common their perspective is with other school districts.
I'm in the Manchin camp on this. If people should be held to a high(er) standard of public conduct, then this vote against is justified.
This was a poor choice by the Biden team. I'm sure there are equally qualified people with better online history.
One would also think that the person selected to run Department of Energy would have a background working in energy and not just a former Governor of Michigan.One would think that the person selected to run OMB would have some sort of financial background? Not just another policy advocate.
One would also think that the person selected to run Department of Energy would have a background working in energy and not just a former Governor of Michigan.
But I have come to realize that these federal appointments are not about having experience, it is about party. And it's not just the Democrats, but also the Republicans.
I think you hit on it with not being a practitioner... I agree with quite a bit of what she wants to do in terms of shifting to renewable energy, reduction in consumption, and less reliance on fossil fuels. But I don't believe that she has the technical understanding of how to do it, or how to make it affordable for people. Electric cars are wonderful... but how is that going to help the single mother of 2 who needs to work 2 jobs just to afford rent and food for her kids? Wind and Solar Power is wonderful, but why to the rates go up to fund those installation projects?She's not a nuclear physicist (or hair-idol) like Obama's Secretary of Energy Ernie Moniz, but she has been focusing on how policy relates to energy and the environment for quite a few years now while she's been associated with Berkeley and headed up the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory there. She's also been on the board of directors at Dow Chemical (for whatever that's worth), worked with Pew on energy issues and has written quite extensively on manufacturing, energy, and energy independence since leaving office. She may not be a practitioner trained in the physical sciences, but having somebody well versed in the policy side of things can be equally important, especially when it comes to a top-level administrative position like this one.
I'm not saying that she's the best candidate for the job, but I think she's a lot more qualified than people imagine. I think residents (and former residents) of Michigan probably just see her as another politician and the one who happened to be governor here during a huge decline in the prosperity of the Big 3 which hurt the state immensely and (probably unfairly) colors our opinion of her.
The student loan debt is a symptom of a larger issue: the cost of higher education has grown enormously over the past few decades. Some from an older age cohort talk about how they were able to pay their way through college and make it through, so kids today should be able to as well, but that isn't exactly feasible for most. And wages for new graduates isn't exactly great for a variety of careers, so the ability to repay the size of the loans can be difficult. I do agree that trade schools should carry greater weight as well, but some of them are not cheap either.
I personally do not think we should pay off everyone's loans, but we should take a greater priority to have an educated populace, including both technical skills and humanities, and make those opportunities accessible.
'Twas arson, apparently.Massive fire there early this morning.
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UPDATE: Iconic Krispy Kreme in Midtown ‘totally destroyed’ in fire, officials say
Cellphone videos showed flames shooting into the sky above the doughnut shop, which was purchased by NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal in 2016.www.ajc.com
Well played, Dunkin' Donuts. Well played.'Twas arson, apparently.
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BREAKING: Arsonist sought in fire that destroyed iconic Atlanta Krispy Kreme
Investigators believe the fire that destroyed the iconic Krispy Kreme in Midtown was the result of arson, officials said Friday.www.ajc.com
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If the price of oil increases its because either the demand has increased or there's anticipation demand will increase in the near future, or at any rate its usage will outstrip current global supplies. What role politics plays into this I'm not sure. Pent up demand over the last 12 months is probably as likely an explanation as any.![]()
Oil is up nearly 70% since the election, a record in the modern era
The oil market is starting off the Biden era with a bang. That means Covid-weary Americans returning to the roads this spring and summer will be greeted with higher prices at the pump.www.cnn.com
Why do you think the price of oil (and gas) has increased so much since the election? How do you think politics has, or has not, played into the cost?
I think there were more democrats not supporting than let on. Golden and Schrader are both anticipated to have tougher elections and were hedging for that. That's especially true for Golden.Over the weekend the House voted to approve the President's COVID relief bill and it was mostly down party lines without any GOP support. However I am curious about Representatives Golden and Schrader. They were the only two democrats to vote against the bill. Golden stated, “During challenging times, the country needs its elected leaders to work together to meet the most urgent needs in their communities. This bill addresses urgent needs, and then buries them under a mountain of unnecessary or untimely spending,"
Do you think the lack of any GOP support is representative of the next 2 years? Additionally, do you think that there was more to the 2 democrats who did not support the bill than they are letting on?
So yes, you think this is representative of the GOP for the next two years.I think there were more democrats not supporting than let on. Golden and Schrader are both anticipated to have tougher elections and were hedging for that. That's especially true for Golden.
I think there were many republicans more supportive than let on.
Bipartisanship requires two to tango, and it requires a relaxation of "party discipline." What the Republicans proposed was a disingenuous joke intended to undermine Biden's comments on bipartisanship. I would've written them off as well and walked from the negotiating table. Plus, the GOP has no moral high ground left regarding appropriate responses to COVID at the national level. The GOP has a longer history of overt obstructionism. We witnessed it most of the Obama presidency.
Wind power comes from turbines, not windmills. Windmills grind grain. Trump always gets that wrong.
So yes, you think this is representative of the GOP for the next two years.
Personally, I worry about the long term effects of this much federal spending without profound cuts elsewhere. I agree that people need help, but right now we are selling our children's future to send money to a bunch of people... so of whom have not been natively effected by COVID.
I think you are spot on and ever since we departed from the gold standard in to a fiat system, the value of the dollar is progressively declining. I also really fear what will happen when we need to correct the monetary system since the federal reserve has not raised interest rates in quite some time, the volume of money continues to be printed at record rates, and the value that we see now is artificial. It will correct and when it does a lot of people are going to lose everything. It will make the 2008 housing collapse look like a bad day.My opinion: the Trump tax cuts should be put in the paper shredder, and then some. It was a cut to revenue without a corresponding cut to expenses. This is also part of why I'm not inclined to invite the GOP to the table--fiscally conservative only when the Democrat is in office. I think A LOT about our tax structure during some of the greatest periods of wealth and innovation in our history, particularly the birth of the space age... and about how the stock market is perhaps the worst metric of economic performance.
Or...since it's a fiction that everyone agrees to accept, it can continue on it's merry way.I think you are spot on and ever since we departed from the gold standard in to a fiat system, the value of the dollar is progressively declining. I also really fear what will happen when we need to correct the monetary system since the federal reserve has not raised interest rates in quite some time, the volume of money continues to be printed at record rates, and the value that we see now is artificial. It will correct and when it does a lot of people are going to lose everything. It will make the 2008 housing collapse look like a bad day.
Or...since it's a fiction that everyone agrees to accept, it can continue on it's merry way.
Our monetary system is the worst, except for all the others (to paraphrase Churchill)
Protip: use this very plentiful cheap money to buy (with low or zero debt) as many hard, durable assets you can (land, real estate, long lasting cars, etc).
You can't really change it, so steer into the skid and make it work for you.
That is my point with the Money supply. They keep printing it as if the value doesn't change.Big difference between 2008 and now with housing though is supply. There isn't that much and there is tons of demand.
But money is fundamentally different than an asset (like cars or real estate or real property).That is my point with the Money supply. They keep printing it as if the value doesn't change.
In 2008 it was not just about supply, but it goes back to the mark to market regulations that Congress put in place in the months after the Enron collapse. No longer was the value of something what you said it was, it was what the market said it was in relation to the supply available. Coupled that with the all the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae incentives for federal back mortgages on first, second, third, investment homes, it didn't matter what it was you were qualified. They knew that they could make those mortgages then sell them to the open market in package bundles knowing that the big banks would scoop them up... until one stopped. Overnight they were not work the face value and everyone else followed suit because it was no longer what feds said they were worth, but what the market said they were worth.
The M1 money supply is the federal backed mortgages now. They just ended daily reporting because they know their are going to be issues. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1
It was in the best interest of the citizens of every failed economic system around the world to keep living the lie. The only thing that is keeping us afloat is that it is the world's major reserve when it comes to foreign trade. For example 90% of the world's oil is traded in US dollars and the US is minor fraction of that volume. But China, Russia, and the EU are all working against continuation of the US Dollar because they see that we just keep printing money without any type of balance.But money is fundamentally different than an asset (like cars or real estate or real property).
It is in everyone's best interest to continue the money value fiction because it is the literal foundation of our economic system.
A specific categorical market within the Economy can be permitted to falter/fail, since everyone is not completely reliant on it.
See the difference?
Money and houses are not equivalent by a long shot.