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    3 minutes ago, airflite1 said:

    It's hilarious you don't see yourself as a liberal, as I said it shouldn't be the role of the government to show empathy, it's just too easy for people to justify stealing from the government. Empathy used to be the churches and families responsibility, let's bring that back. Healthcare in the US has gotten out of hand because we've become a country built on litigation, everyone's looking for an opportunity to sue someone, it's become a lottery prize for some. When I was working in Mexico I met several people who doctored there even though they had good insurance because they got better care for half of what their deductible would be, why because you can't sue the hospitals, they stay busy because they provide great care.

    sigh... I'm not advocating for 'free shit' here.

    done

    1 minute ago, airflite1 said:

    People in Missouri will be just fine one way or another, what happens people and churches will be supporting their neighbors and when it's done on a local level it's much easier to see who really needs it and then makes it easier to weed out the fraud. Empathy isn't the governments role, crying "don't you care" is just a way to steal, look at Minnesotas fraud, Minnesota Nice was taken advantage of.

    "However, he noted that about 1.3 million Missourians rely on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and contended that most were working."

    that's enough folks to sway an election, being my last point

    wonder how many people in WI and MN are under the same programs...

    2 minutes ago, airflite1 said:

    If it wasn't for ranked voting Murkowski would be voted out, they did what they had to do to get the bill passed, now the fun part will be if Hawley submits a bill to change this, after all the crying by Democrats, will they support it.

    'fun'... my guess is it never sees the light of day, but he'll be able to say 'see, I tried... for you my fellow Missourians' so he can get reelected...

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    6 minutes ago, hayward said:

    Word on the street is they all suck. Tracking # shows it to be here today.

    They lost the first box of parts somehow over the weekend. Tuesday Spicer sent out 2 more (last 2 in existence, and no more being made till October) also next day air, and somehow, someway, those turned around and started heading back toward Tennessee.

    What pisses me off most, is you can't get anybody on the phone to talk to. It's all automated bullshit, and you know goddamned well there's offices with bitches hired to sit there on thier asses all day long and pretend to be busy, but noone to answer a phone call to help someone out.

    Oh, and here's another bigfinger just for good measure....

    yes... and the chatbots on their websites are usually as useless as tits on a bowling ball.

    I have the unpublished phone numbers to our local UPS and FedEx distribution centers if we need shit found asap, as you're right... there's no actual humans to talk to with either for the general public. feel free to blame snake and viper as they cut anyone who could possibly help you to pay for their lavish pensions... lol

    3 minutes ago, Stephen Hawking said:

    Don't even get me started on them. We had a package sent from CT to MA last week and it had a company name on it. They delivered it to a private residence 50 miles from here. Three grand worth of machine parts lost that we now have to remake.

    We are switching to fedex like a good portion of our customers have. Ever since the strike they have gone down hill.

    FedEx loses and damages shit all the time, when the item isn't lost in Memphis... fwiw

    11 minutes ago, hayward said:

    On day 7 now waiting for parts that were overnighted last Friday.

    No one gives a shit anymore, irregardless of how much you pay them to work, and even after they retire.

    bigfinger

    got a tracking # ?

    4 hours ago, airflite1 said:

    I still see nothing wrong with his stance, the major bill got passed and now he's trying to get some adjustments that people seem to be concerned about, I doubt there has ever been a major bill passed that was perfect, look at all the weird spending the Democrats put in their last funding bill.

    they couldn't have made the adjustments in the bill initially like Lisa Murkowski...

    The American Prospect
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    Senate Passes Megabill as Murkowski Stays Bought

    In a “wraparound” amendment, a new tax on solar and wind gets dropped.

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    3 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

    Try harder MC.

    which team are you on today?

    the magatards who want to see everything or the magatards who will vehemently defend anything and everything Trump says?

    or should I say pretend team as you're not an American... 😉

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    2 hours ago, mnstang said:

    You're so right, it was just some nobody weirdo that had all the powerful people coming to his houses. Nobody knows how he got his money but hey just minor details. His painting of Bill Clinton in a dress means nothing. Nothing to see here folks! Move on! Get back to hating the left grrr!

    So based.

    https://www.freedomsledder.com/index.php?/topic/75718-jeffrey-epstein-international-moneyman-of-mystery/#comment-1880277

    his backstory (or at least what's known of it) is actually rather interesting aside from all of the kid diddling shit. he wouldn't take clients with less than a billion to invest...

    11 minutes ago, Highmark said:

    How many times do I have to say this. I don't vote for candidates based off single issues. I vote for them both the broad range of their policy stances as well as against the policy stances of the most competitive other candidate.

    Just because I dislike something Trump has or has not done isn't going to all of a sudden make me like MC and vote for big spending, socialist who are gun hating, pro abortion greenies.

    I like Vance....I think his story is compelling and I very well could support him down the road.

    The Epstein thing policy wise is irrelevant. Should it get released....yes....can it.....I have no idea what legally can or can't or if there is even this list of people that I would be concerned about.

    whoa, calm down there!!! lol

    4 minutes ago, Highmark said:

    Why does it need revitalizing? Seems to me it just needs to be done.

    I don't recall seeing anything about a farm with legal H2A visa workers being raided? Do you?

    I have more empathy for the worker than I do the farm owners who may loose some crops. Fuck them.

    as we've discussed... bust the balls of those utilizing illegal labor, make them 'aware' there are legal paths to guest workers and their requirements to employ them. institute harsh... seriously harsh penalties for those caught employing illegal labor.

    neither have I, which puts a spotlight on those farms that are being raided. where's the list of those names and guilty parties? no punishment or fines levied? wtf, right?

    I have empathy for those here legally working who are scared and concerned. Illegal, not so much. we've somehow created this 'need' for cheap foreign labor and it's time to address it imo. also, if the administration showed they care about the issue they'd take a two pronged approach of deportation and strengthening the existing programs. win-win imo

    Trump may have broken Wall Street

    In TACO we trust?

    Of like *waves hands wildly* all of this has ever happened. And the empirical evidence may be showing that markets, like everything else, can become so conditioned to chaos that all the old rules no longer apply.

    "Markets appear to be getting accustomed to a pattern, most notable in the area of tariffs, in which the Administration threatens fairly radical action, only to dial it back when the initial market reacts negatively,” Jonathan Doh, professor of management at Villanova School of Business, said in an email. “In each successive round, the responses have been increasingly muted.”

    This is the much-buzzed-about TACO trade — the idea that “Trump always chickens out” — that has proven profitable this year. If there’s a Trump-related sell-off, investors buy the dip, wait for Trump to change his mind or scale back the offending policy, and then ride the rally. (Increasingly, though, investors are skipping the whole panic-selling part and just assuming nothing Trump says is real until some watered-down version of it has actually happened.)

    To be clear, even though stock markets shrugged at reports of Powell’s imminent firing, the news did provoke some movement in the currency and bond markets. Wednesday morning, before Trump’s denial, gold, the classic safe haven, and long-term bond yields went up, while the dollar fell almost 1%.

    Those reactions are pretty much what you’d expect, said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, though he noted that “in theory, the bond vigilantes should have reacted more vigorously,” to the news. (“Bond vigilantes” are investors who use their buying power to signal their disapproval of a policy — they were a big reason why Trump decided to pause some tariffs for 90 days back in April.)

    But stocks’ relatively muted response, he said, could reflect some troubling dynamics on the Street.

    First, traders may be signaling that they are more excited about the prospect of lower interest rates (the No. 1 thing Trump wants from the Fed) than they are worried about the central bank’s protection from the political fray.

    Stock investors, he said, may be “so enamored with the idea of lower rates that they don’t care if they come as the result of governmental interference.”

    Which is a pretty wild idea!

    When I asked Sosnick if the Fed’s independence may not be as precious to the market as market participants have long claimed, he said:

    “I will assert that central bank independence is critical, and I think that I’m not alone with that belief,” he added. “But maybe not.”

    More worrisome, perhaps, is how the Trump administration perceives the market’s reaction.

    “We have to wonder if the earlier report was a trial balloon designed to see how markets might react if Powell were indeed fired,” Sosnick said. “Quite frankly, the relatively muted reactions from stocks and the 10-year bond might have increased the president’s willingness to take action, since the initial reaction was hardly catastrophic.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/business/wall-street-trump-fire-fed-powell-nightcap

    read

    11 minutes ago, Highmark said:

    Well I'd argue that picking fruits and veggies is hardly something that needs much training. Physically demanding work.....absolutely.

    AGAIN....I'm not opposed to H2A visa's because they force similar pay and have other requirements like transportation and housing. These farms aren't doing this because they want to SAVE MONEY.

    Personally I think its disgusting making these people come and pick our fruits and veggies and be paid shit wages. Studies show even in AG 40%+ less than legal or American workers. How many of these other farms have children working at them?

    all valid points... and wouldn't it be smart to focus on fixing, improving and revitalizing our guest worker programs in conjunction with deporting those here illegally?

    The lawmaker said that he did not have a problem with some of the marquee changes to Medicaid that his House Republican counterparts wanted, including stricter work requirements, booting illegal immigrants from benefit rolls and rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the program that serves tens of millions of Americans.

    However, he noted that about 1.3 million Missourians rely on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and contended that most were working.

    "These are not people who are sitting around, these are people who are working," he said. "They’re on Medicaid because they cannot afford private health insurance, and they don't get it on the job."

    "And I just think it's wrong to go to those people and say, ‘Well, you know, we know you're doing the best, we know that you're working hard, but we're going to take away your healthcare access,’" he continued.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/its-wrong-hawley-warns-senate-gop-not-boot-americans-from-medicaid-trump-megabill

    that was back in June @airflite1