cmdrfred

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by cmdrfred 10y ago
Free market is a one way street in America lately.
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Step one is get rid of identity politics or else it becomes this. Democrat's response: "but they are all racists" Republicans response: "but they are libtards”
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Ask someone who served in Iraq about his time there, it would make your day look like puppies and sunshine. Should we defer to jarheads on all matters of domestic policy?
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by cmdrfred 10y ago
Facebooks new business model CAAS Censorship as a service, at home and abroad. William Randolf Hurst would be proud. Time for me to cancel my account.
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Corporate cash reserves are at record highs currently [1], wouldn't a tax break on the demand side likely have a greater impact on velocity of capitol as it would likely be spent rather than remaining static? [1] http://www.f
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by cmdrfred 10y ago
>ABX says this is a minor contractual dispute, so they should be forced back to work The problem with our free market system is we don't have one. When a company wishes to cut wages or slash benefits, free market. When the workers d
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by cmdrfred 10y ago
Never heard of send before, is it just short for ascend?
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My mistake. Still how much of this growth is hitting the poor and middle class as opposed to executives? My data excludes salaries above 100k.
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98 dollars in 2004 to 105 dollars now is a downward trend once you factor inflation.
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"Another way is to simply lower the corporate tax rate, which would have the additional benefit of repatriating tons of money that is sitting offshore because of American tax rates." That worked so well the first time. http:&#x2F
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They aren't as competitive as they appear.
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Workforce participation numbers are also rather low. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/labor-force-...
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Do you have any data for that position? Wage growth for example has been flat overall: https://frbatlanta.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker/?panel=1 Half of Americans make under 30k a year: http://www.washin
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This discussion has been on the public funding of college education. So, the crux of your argument is: because money is squandered in one area its fine to do so in another?
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Why don't you tell me how much you have donated to "the arts" before you demand that everyone else does so. For context, I give 8% of my humble income to charities that feed the hungry and care for the sick. Is my dollar bett
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by cmdrfred 10y ago
Great, you won't have any issue repaying your loans then I can safely assume? I make 40k a year due to not growing up wealthy enough to attend college, I should be subsidizing people like you?
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I wasent privileged enough to go to college. Why isn't paying off my mortgage affordable instead?
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If humanities are so valuable, why aren't they valuable?
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And when people move away they call it white flight and question why they didn't stick around and give back to the community. What community?
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Sounds like a good business model. Email employers "One of your workers is attempting to unionize, pay us $300 and we will tell you who!"
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by cmdrfred 10y ago
If you are curious like I was why this wasn't a bigger issue during the election, turns out the other candidate wasn't in a position to take the moral high ground on this either. http://www.politico.com/story/
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>The solution to this problem is to encourage small local internet providers to pop up and provide much needed competition. That involves invalidating the franchise agreements that Comcast and others have with major cities and allocating
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User (who lives in an area with competition): "It says Netflix can't be served by my provider? Something about Comcast increasing the cost of data? I'll call Comcast" Comcast (after a while): "Yes, we increased the
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I don't think an ideal solution exists for practically anything at a global scale. Modern sanitation increased public health significantly, but what of the plight of the humble chamberpot maker? What we have is ideology, and in America
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Agreed. Corporations exist only to seek profit, it is indeed the executive staffs duty to do so, there should be a law of economics that states: "With every corporate action, there exists a profit motive”
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They just want social media to do what main stream media has been doing since William Randolph Hearst.
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They made the option easier to find.
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Go read out a hello world in C++, pressing ; is much faster and more accurate for me than verbalizing "Semicolon". What about variable names? You have to spell out the word each time to get camel case. u-s-e-r-Capitol C-o-u-n-t an
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If you have the drives, of course. Also try to obtain your drives from different retailers if possible. They have bad lots from time to time. Getting the drives off different pallets is cheap insurance.

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