Forum: USA Politics
31st December 2013, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 109
Views: 4,250
If you will back up AGAIN to my post (#76), you...
If you will back up AGAIN to my post (#76), you may remember that I was offering that as a suggestion that might help you with the trouble you were having in identifying possible criteria that could...
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Forum: USA Politics
31st December 2013, 01:23 PM
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Replies: 109
Views: 4,250
Perhaps if you tried reading it again, paying...
Perhaps if you tried reading it again, paying particular attention to the wording of the portion I bolded for you:
"Why did the United States, alone among industrial societies, lack a significant...
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Forum: USA Politics
31st December 2013, 08:35 AM
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Replies: 109
Views: 4,250
There obviously is no single criterion that...
There obviously is no single criterion that defines left versus right -- nor even one that defines "conservative", which is also less a gradient than a hodgepodge of various viewpoints which tend to...
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Forum: USA Politics
30th December 2013, 07:30 AM
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Replies: 109
Views: 4,250
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Forum: USA Politics
24th December 2013, 07:47 AM
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Replies: 332
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Forum: USA Politics
20th December 2013, 06:42 AM
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Replies: 161
Views: 8,957
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Forum: USA Politics
19th December 2013, 05:38 PM
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Forum: USA Politics
19th December 2013, 01:36 PM
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Forum: USA Politics
19th December 2013, 10:56 AM
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You can't serious. Do you understand what the...
You can't serious. Do you understand what the word "wealth" means in this context?
Where are you getting this garbage? Glenn Beck? That's not consistent with any of the analyses I've been looking...
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Forum: USA Politics
19th December 2013, 07:23 AM
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Replies: 161
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"My" author, Michael Hiltzik (winner of the...
"My" author, Michael Hiltzik (winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism), makes some compelling arguments that it is not mere paper. I don't see...
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Forum: USA Politics
18th December 2013, 09:41 PM
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Replies: 161
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Forum: USA Politics
18th December 2013, 09:36 PM
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Forum: USA Politics
18th December 2013, 04:38 PM
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Unfortunately, House Republicans still have the...
Unfortunately, House Republicans still have the ability to manufacture a crisis by holding the debt ceiling hostage again. And Paul Ryan is already saying, "We don't want 'nothing' out of the debt...
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Forum: USA Politics
18th December 2013, 04:27 PM
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Replies: 161
Views: 8,957
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Forum: USA Politics
18th December 2013, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 161
Views: 8,957
You stopped just a bit too soon:
"After...
You stopped just a bit too soon:
"After 2020, Treasury will redeem trust fund asset reserves to the extent that program cost exceeds tax revenue and interest earnings until depletion of total...
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Forum: USA Politics
18th December 2013, 04:01 PM
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Replies: 161
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Forum: USA Politics
18th December 2013, 02:49 PM
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Forum: USA Politics
18th December 2013, 12:14 PM
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Replies: 161
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I'm not sure why you see it as a derail. Old...
I'm not sure why you see it as a derail. Old people like Social Security. The GOP's base is very old-people heavy. Start messing with Social Security and a lot of those people are going to do what?
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Forum: USA Politics
18th December 2013, 12:12 PM
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Replies: 161
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Forum: USA Politics
17th December 2013, 11:50 PM
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Replies: 161
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Forum: USA Politics
17th December 2013, 04:14 PM
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Replies: 161
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Forum: USA Politics
10th December 2013, 11:04 AM
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Replies: 161
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I would say that probably of most interest to...
I would say that probably of most interest to those seniors on Medicare who are aware of how the ACA affects them (which now includes you, thanks to me) are items 2 and 3 on the list of "Top 5...
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Forum: USA Politics
1st December 2013, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 202
Views: 9,936
Already said I don't have a lot of time right...
Already said I don't have a lot of time right now, and I meant that. Recall my earlier post? "Been here, done this"? I'm in this for the long haul. Been discussing these questions for years. It gets...
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Forum: USA Politics
1st December 2013, 07:30 AM
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Replies: 202
Views: 9,936
Here's another idea for a timesaver. There's a...
Here's another idea for a timesaver. There's a thread from a few months back in which I totally mopped the floor with that fool, Wildcat... er, that is, in which the semantics of the word "subsidy"...
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Forum: USA Politics
30th November 2013, 07:58 AM
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Replies: 202
Views: 9,936
Well, as has been noticed in previous...
Well, as has been noticed in previous discussions, the word certainly is subject to various interpretations, and one of the things I look for as a metric is careful attention to the way a particular...
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Forum: USA Politics
29th November 2013, 08:03 PM
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Replies: 202
Views: 9,936
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Forum: USA Politics
29th November 2013, 06:05 AM
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Replies: 202
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Forum: USA Politics
27th November 2013, 05:03 PM
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Replies: 202
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Forum: USA Politics
27th November 2013, 09:32 AM
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Replies: 202
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I agree. And I would be the last to argue that...
I agree. And I would be the last to argue that aesthetic considerations have no place in the discussion. I'll even concede that, while I am personally biased against them in general (for a number of...
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Forum: USA Politics
26th November 2013, 11:45 PM
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Replies: 202
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Yeah, gosh darn that ol' bias, anyway, right?...
Yeah, gosh darn that ol' bias, anyway, right? Even has a way of creeping into actual history textbooks, requiring that they constantly be rewritten to reflect the latest and most advanced thinking,...
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Forum: USA Politics
25th November 2013, 11:18 PM
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Replies: 202
Views: 9,936
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Forum: USA Politics
25th November 2013, 11:17 PM
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Replies: 202
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Excellent points. That's the very sort of thing...
Excellent points. That's the very sort of thing I'm talking about when I use phrases like "the way of life we will soon be moving beyond." We're like paleontologists who have the luxury of examining...
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Forum: USA Politics
25th November 2013, 05:41 PM
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Replies: 202
Views: 9,936
I partially agree on both points. Freeways have...
I partially agree on both points. Freeways have been essential to the way of life we will soon be moving beyond, and, conversely, have played an essential role in creating that way of life. We will...
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Forum: USA Politics
25th November 2013, 10:41 AM
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Replies: 202
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On that point you and I are in complete...
On that point you and I are in complete agreement. I am very confident in predicting that before much more time goes by, most of the freeways we have now will come to be viewed as monuments to the...
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
25th November 2013, 07:00 AM
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Replies: 186
Views: 7,991
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Forum: USA Politics
25th November 2013, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 202
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I posted this the other day in a thread on...
I posted this the other day in a thread on federal funding for transportation. It seems relevant here as well, one of the objections most often raised having to do with whether there exists the...
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
24th November 2013, 05:24 PM
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Replies: 186
Views: 7,991
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Forum: USA Politics
24th November 2013, 08:28 AM
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Replies: 146
Views: 8,047
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
24th November 2013, 08:26 AM
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Replies: 186
Views: 7,991
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Forum: USA Politics
24th November 2013, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 202
Views: 9,936
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Forum: USA Politics
24th November 2013, 08:16 AM
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Replies: 76
Views: 3,385
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Forum: USA Politics
23rd November 2013, 09:28 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,331
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Forum: USA Politics
22nd November 2013, 10:25 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,331
This seems relevant:
SACRAMENTO,...
This seems relevant:
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a state noted for its freeways, Californians are riding trains in unprecedented numbers. In 2012-13, Amtrak California carried a record...
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Forum: USA Politics
21st November 2013, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,331
Uh yeah, no. They use the funds already...
Uh yeah, no. They use the funds already authorized for the already agreed upon purposes, or they lose it and take their chances reapplying for block grants. No retroactive bait-and-switch.
And one...
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Forum: USA Politics
20th November 2013, 07:27 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,179
I think this topic is more complicated than it...
I think this topic is more complicated than it might first appear, and will look different from various perspectives. As part of the ongoing health care debate, "right wingers" may be expected to be...
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Forum: USA Politics
18th November 2013, 09:26 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 2,547
I would say that the ignorance of that Forbes...
I would say that the ignorance of that Forbes contributor is best represented by this statement:
"The main reason why Peak Oil theorists always turn out to be wrong is that they by and large...
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Forum: USA Politics
18th November 2013, 07:09 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 2,547
Presently, the payout for extracting petroleum...
Presently, the payout for extracting petroleum exceeds the investment (in both money and energy) -- but that's speaking only in a general sense. Production from any well reaches a peak point and then...
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Forum: USA Politics
13th November 2013, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 2,547
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Forum: USA Politics
13th November 2013, 07:06 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 2,547
...in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, and...
...in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, and Indiana. It can even be grown on "marginal" land, or so I've heard (I guess "marginal" doesn't mean the same thing to everyone). Are you sure you aren't...
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Forum: USA Politics
12th November 2013, 07:35 PM
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Replies: 81
Views: 2,547
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