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Highmark

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  1. Yeah....its a piece of cake. I'm sure you could do it.
  2. Sure...might be a reason but doesn't change a thing I said. Anyone who runs is arrogant to think they are the right person for one of the toughest jobs in the world.
  3. Anyone who runs is arrogant...especially a virtual unknown. Just because they don't outwardly display it doesn't mean he doesn't think he's the second coming.
  4. At a .005% rate. That many die from other causes. Seek help dude.
  5. He sure talks a big game.
  6. Think the merc 450 is like $65g's or more.
  7. Big banks did....small banks didn't. Almost 63% of loans went to companies with less than 10 employee's. Was it abused by some who didn't fit the spirit of the program...absolutely.....was it a significant portion of the monies.....nope.
  8. They were not smart with the initial restrictions....that and many small places were slow on the applications. Should have kept it to companies under 100 employee's.
  9. Speedboats died in the Midwest right around 2008. Damn they were hot for a while. Good friends use to sell 100 Baja's a year. Nice boat for the money. Then it went to cruisers now its pontoons. They are selling some Bennington's that are close to $300K. Fucking insane.
  10. And those issues will be huge in November.
  11. He likely flipped on this during his metamorphosis. I'm sure MC did as well.
  12. MC doesn't think people know how it works.
  13. Highmark replied to Snake's topic in Current Events
    It will be in the works. He steps down for medical reasons at the right time and that person can server 2 more full terms or 10 years total. Problem with Bernie is he likely won't live that long.
  14. Need to limit or stop some beef, pork and poultry exports. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-to-invoke-defense-production-act-to-keep-meat-processing-plants-open-amid-fears-of-supply-shortage President Trump plans to sign an executive order to ensure meat processing plants stay open during the coronavirus pandemic. The order will invoke the Defense Production Act and will deem the facilities a part of the country’s critical infrastructure as concerns mount that the U.S. food supply chain will be disrupted because of the contagion. The federal government will also supply additional personal protective gear to plant employees. Despite Trump’s reassurances that the food supply chain is not being affected by the outbreak, the announcement of the executive order follows numerous reports that meat processing plants around the country are struggling to stay open without the workers who have become infected by the novel coronavirus. CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST ON THE CORONAVIRUS The plants employ thousands of people who often work side by side carving meat, so it is difficult to apply social distancing rules. Such environments, according to medical professionals, keep high the risk of catching the virus even as companies take steps to increase worker protections. The list of companies dealing with infected workers has been growing every day at plants across the country. Industry leaders acknowledge that the U.S. food chain has rarely been so stressed and that no one is sure about the future, even as they try to dispel concerns about shortages. On Sunday, Tyson Foods ran a full-page advertisement in the New York Times and other newspapers outlining the difficulty of producing meat while keeping more than 100,000 workers safe and shutting some plants. “This means one thing — the food supply chain is vulnerable,” the statement said. “As pork, beef and chicken plants are being forced to close, even for short periods of time, millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the supply chain.” COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, has infected hundreds of workers at meat-processing plants and forced some of the largest manufacturers to close and others to slow production. While the output at beef and poultry plants has diminished, pork plants in the Midwest have been hit especially hard. The viral outbreaks have persisted despite efforts by the meat companies to keep workers at home with pay if they become sick. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The 15 largest pork-packing plants account for 60 percent of all pork processed, so when even one of those plants closes for days or weeks, the consequences ripple across the industry. That has become abundantly clear with two of the nation's biggest plants now closed: Tyson suspended operations at its plant in Waterloo, Iowa, and Smithfield Foods halted production at its plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Each plant can butcher nearly 20,000 hogs a day. Some plants have reopened days after cleaning.
  15. Its really not community wide.....its virtually all within the households of the workers at the Waterloo Tyson facility.
  16. According to you. I'll take the founding fathers opinion over yours. There is ZERO chance its changed anyway.
  17. You would swear he is a doctor, mental health specialist, addiction specialist just to name a few with how he talks yet he is critical of this guy gathering data.
  18. More than anyone here Spin acts like a doctor yet he doesn't have a degree in Medicine.....nor anything else for that matter that we know of in the medical/mental health fields.
  19. It will snowball. Less pork means people turn to something else. If there isn't enough then shortages start showing up in what people switch too. Nobody is going to starve...far from it...but it will have an impact. This goes without mentioning the economic factors that could drive down production.
  20. Very well may stay as such....might not as well.
  21. As intended so a simple majority cannot easily take away the rights of the minority. Its a brilliant system that should and will be kept.