There are conservatives, aligned with the Republican party, who believe, write, and say that poor people deserve to be poor because they live immoral lives and make nothing but bad choices. They use this as justification to try and slash or eliminate public services to the poor.
Is that better? Does that get at your things flowing from other things headspace?
There are conservatives, aligned with the Republican party, who believe, write, and say that poor people deserve to be poor because they live immoral lives and make nothing but bad choices. It's not even close to whether someone deserves to be obese.
While the approval margins have gone down, no conservative appointee since Bork has been voted down. Kavanaugh was not. Alito was not. Thomas was not. Barret was not.
You are trying to start building a molehill using an excavator.
Funding for the program is provided from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, which receives revenue from taxes on airplane tickets sold to the public and a tax on aviation fuel. The federal grant may cover between 75 and 95 percent of the eligible costs, depending on the type of improvement and the size of the airport.
< blockquote>It’s the secret fear that if you tolerate the moochers, the moochers will soon outnumber the producers.
Given the number of politicians who have talked openly about this the last 20 or so years I doubt its still secret.
It’s basically admitting that your society either A) lacks the ability to instill a work ethic, and/or B) that your society is bad at creating the incentives to work.
This is not true, at least not based on data. If anything, the data points to very much the opposite conclusion when people are given actual support.
That secret fear needs to be gotten over and the sooner the better.
As more and more parts of the economy become automated, and thus people aren't needed, this fear will come to haunt us. We will, at some point, need to provide people with economic support that's work independent.
What I find ironic about this is that airlines EXPECT that the FAA will build and expand runways and terminal capacities as the airlines dictate . . . . without any skin in the game themselves, and then complain mightily when the FAA doesn't do their needs in full at XX airport. Which, if we were running the airlines as an actual market would not be the case . . .
Until well into the 1980's, southern states taught the Civil War as "The war of Northern Aggression" where in the issue was states rights, not slavery. Not even states rights to own slaves - which ever single article of secession from every Confederate state mentioned. In most places, those "facts" were part of legally mandated state curriculums. The state prevented the teaching of historically true facts because we it didn't fit the politicla narratives of the Lost Cause they were desperate to preserve. That's what this law, and others like it appear to be pointing educators back to.
That aside, we now live in a world where parents are so riled up about all this that they are complaining about Black History Month commemorations being CRT.
The Select Committee has two paths to accountability - criminal referrals to the DoJ and legislation after it concludes its work. Both will come, though the later may be too little too late.
When I went to Fairbanks, AK for the first time in 2010, I became a firm believer in the all electric transportation sector. Why, you ask? Because every public parking spot, and most private business parking spots - had a 110 outlet to plug in a block heater so vehicle engines wouldn't freeze in the winter. It was, so my hotelier told me, city code. My conclusion was that if that could be done, then charging for EVs wasn't an engineering problem. I have yet to see any data contradicting that conclusion.
My expectation is, as a percentage, the number of people who have their act somewhat together has gone up, not down. Certainly if we use the standards of the 1950’s,
If this is indeed the case you should have data. Because while wages have grown in absolute dollars, they remain stagnant in adjusted dollars and that means less and less purchasing power. I would expect that to translate into increased barriers to success . . . .
And there's the not to trivial issue that you keep trying to separate race and culture as driving forces . . . which they aren't for the vast majority of Americans.
Well if you believe the National Review - as I quote below, they have. If you believe Mike Pence - they have. That the left saw this decades ago and started screaming about it, all the while being told to go sit in the corner and suck our collective thumb is I suppose now beside the point.
The Republican National Committee has voted to formally censure Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for “actions in their positions as members of the January 6th Select Committee not befitting Republican members of Congress.” This is both morally repellent and politically self-destructive.
The action of the mob on January 6 was an indefensible disgrace. It is deserving of both political accountability and criminal prosecution. Aspects of it are also fit subjects for a properly conducted congressional inquiry. It is wrong to minimize or excuse what happened that day.
Well now, even the National Review thinks the RNC has gone too far. There's a new day dawning I guess.
PL 91-518, which created Amtrak, required railroads to allow Amtrak to use their services, facilities and track in exchange for being relieved of their common carrier obligations for passenger service. Railroads have been crying fowl ever since. Even now they are fighting tooth and nail to keep former routes from being restored:
But why? Why are CSX and Norfolk Southern using the nuclear option for a single train on a small stretch of track between New Orleans and Mobile? A train that ran before 2005 without crippling their freight network.
It’s because they see the public excitement for new passenger rail services, the dramatic bipartisan increase in funding for passenger trains, and they will finally be required to live up to the agreement they struck when Congress bailed them out by creating Amtrak. They worry that this case will establish a precedent. A precedent that will allow states to start new rail services in a fair and timely fashion.
wages for workers aren't paid by those returns. Institutional investors don't go out and hire more people to do things. Companies don't increase wages. Dividends from my TSP account went up, but I can't use that to buy gas or groceries. Stock buybacks don't actually help most Americans.
no, they are buying back company stock. they aren't increasing compensation to labor, nor are they really innovating or driving major purchases. But boy oh boy is the financial sector happy.
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There are conservatives, aligned with the Republican party, who believe, write, and say that poor people deserve to be poor because they live immoral lives and make nothing but bad choices. They use this as justification to try and slash or eliminate public services to the poor.
Is that better? Does that get at your things flowing from other things headspace?
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I believe that's the recorded history of coal country in the US . . . and sharecropping down south . . . .
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There are conservatives, aligned with the Republican party, who believe, write, and say that poor people deserve to be poor because they live immoral lives and make nothing but bad choices. It's not even close to whether someone deserves to be obese.
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While the approval margins have gone down, no conservative appointee since Bork has been voted down. Kavanaugh was not. Alito was not. Thomas was not. Barret was not.
You are trying to start building a molehill using an excavator.
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At least you are willing to concede that some folks think other folks deserve to be poor.
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Bingo.
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he's the only one, and he was voted against by his own party.
Try again.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_Improvement_Program
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< blockquote>It’s the secret fear that if you tolerate the moochers, the moochers will soon outnumber the producers.
Given the number of politicians who have talked openly about this the last 20 or so years I doubt its still secret.
This is not true, at least not based on data. If anything, the data points to very much the opposite conclusion when people are given actual support.
As more and more parts of the economy become automated, and thus people aren't needed, this fear will come to haunt us. We will, at some point, need to provide people with economic support that's work independent.
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Most of those projects are undertaken with federal funds.
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What I find ironic about this is that airlines EXPECT that the FAA will build and expand runways and terminal capacities as the airlines dictate . . . . without any skin in the game themselves, and then complain mightily when the FAA doesn't do their needs in full at XX airport. Which, if we were running the airlines as an actual market would not be the case . . .
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And after the election, unless something really heinous happens, SCOTUS will essentially say - yeah it might be a bad map but people voted so ......
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Note that Amtrak's best services - by all measures - is on the Northeast Corridor where they own all the tracks. this s not that hard.
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And they should be stopped, just as Republicans should.
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Until well into the 1980's, southern states taught the Civil War as "The war of Northern Aggression" where in the issue was states rights, not slavery. Not even states rights to own slaves - which ever single article of secession from every Confederate state mentioned. In most places, those "facts" were part of legally mandated state curriculums. The state prevented the teaching of historically true facts because we it didn't fit the politicla narratives of the Lost Cause they were desperate to preserve. That's what this law, and others like it appear to be pointing educators back to.
That aside, we now live in a world where parents are so riled up about all this that they are complaining about Black History Month commemorations being CRT.
https://www.al.com/news/2022/02/alabama-officials-receive-complaints-about-black-history-month-as-state-debates-crt-legislation.html
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The Select Committee has two paths to accountability - criminal referrals to the DoJ and legislation after it concludes its work. Both will come, though the later may be too little too late.
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I have two good reasons:
petroleum is a finite resource. We will run out. waiting until we do to switch to something else is courting economic disaster for no good reason.
The global climate crisis - we can't begin to mitigate, much less reverse if we continue burning fossil fuels.
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When I went to Fairbanks, AK for the first time in 2010, I became a firm believer in the all electric transportation sector. Why, you ask? Because every public parking spot, and most private business parking spots - had a 110 outlet to plug in a block heater so vehicle engines wouldn't freeze in the winter. It was, so my hotelier told me, city code. My conclusion was that if that could be done, then charging for EVs wasn't an engineering problem. I have yet to see any data contradicting that conclusion.
On “Inflation and the Historical Challenge”
If this is indeed the case you should have data. Because while wages have grown in absolute dollars, they remain stagnant in adjusted dollars and that means less and less purchasing power. I would expect that to translate into increased barriers to success . . . .
And there's the not to trivial issue that you keep trying to separate race and culture as driving forces . . . which they aren't for the vast majority of Americans.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide-to-statistics-on-historical-trends-in-income-inequality
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/
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When we see the corporate fleets - like UPS, Fed Ex and USPS - finishing the electric transition, then we will know the game is on.
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Well if you believe the National Review - as I quote below, they have. If you believe Mike Pence - they have. That the left saw this decades ago and started screaming about it, all the while being told to go sit in the corner and suck our collective thumb is I suppose now beside the point.
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Well now, even the National Review thinks the RNC has gone too far. There's a new day dawning I guess.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/02/rnc-should-take-a-lesson-from-mike-pence/
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PL 91-518, which created Amtrak, required railroads to allow Amtrak to use their services, facilities and track in exchange for being relieved of their common carrier obligations for passenger service. Railroads have been crying fowl ever since. Even now they are fighting tooth and nail to keep former routes from being restored:
https://railpassengers.org/happening-now/news/blog/the-trouble-with-winning-csx-and-gulf-coast/
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wages for workers aren't paid by those returns. Institutional investors don't go out and hire more people to do things. Companies don't increase wages. Dividends from my TSP account went up, but I can't use that to buy gas or groceries. Stock buybacks don't actually help most Americans.
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no, they are buying back company stock. they aren't increasing compensation to labor, nor are they really innovating or driving major purchases. But boy oh boy is the financial sector happy.