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@Sven- Thanks- that article sums up the situation rather nicely. A problem though, is that some individuals, including even some here on MFO where you would expect better, simply refuse to acknowledge such information. It's like trying to reason wit…
@MJG "his policies?" What "policies"? Are you accepting his infantile temper tantrums where he reverses and contradicts what he just said the day before as "polices"? One of the main problems is that he has no "policy" other than self-aggrandizement.
Let us Pray. I'm not a great believer in God, but we're going to need all the help we can get before this is over.
And I'm serious. I've been thinking the same thing for quite a while now. We're asking the military to disobey direct orders in the h…
@VintageFreak- From what I've seen so far, the "technology" is about at the level of when mass mailings first attempted to "personalize" by being addressed to you. This, if you remember, produced some interesting artifacts, along the lines of "Dear …
Following are excerpts, edited for brevity, from a current Washington Post commentary:
The simple message from the trustees of Social Security and Medicare:
Yesterday, the trustees of our two big social insurance programs — Social Security and Med…
"I'm wondering when media companies will deploy robots to write articles for them."
Some already have, with short financial "articles", to a primitive degree. So far the result isn't pretty.
@David_Snowball- David, thanks much for your non-financial comments this month. I'm not going to be specific, but I suspect that you'll know which ones.
Speaking of the Koch brothers, here's some info from The Washington Post:
"[T]he Koch brothers’ political network is stepping into the breach, launching what its executives are framing as a multiyear, multimillion-dollar campaign to knock down the …
"I keep hoping they'll put out a hybrid small/mid pickup, but it's not happening."
Me too. Consumer Reports isn't too thrilled about the Tacoma, although in fairness they never really have been. I really like our 2009 V6 Tacoma- it's been completel…
I've been reading this left-wing crap all of my life. It's like an Echo-Chamber in here! The Kochs and the American Enterprise Institute are all well-known hate-America Marxist-Leninist rats. (Well, rats, anyway.) :)
I've been reading this left-wing crap all of my life. It's like an Echo-Chamber in here! The Kochs and the American Enterprise Institute are all well-known hate-America Marxist-Leninist rats. (Well, rats, anyway.) :)
I'll have to check with Ted and Maurice, but it's highly likely that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is just another left-wing Marxist-Leninist America hater.
"Bought a Chev. S-10 when they debuted in the early 80s and traded it in 6 months later"
@Hank- Based on my extensive personal experience with an S-10 that was probably one of the smartest things you ever did. Although mine was an early 2000s model…
"we love it because he's telling the truth"
How can you say that with a straight face? That man doesn't know the meaning of the word, nor does he care.
Don't you find it interesting that the 'Teds' and the 'Maurices' don't have a lot to say when faced with overwhelming evidence of the corruption of this administration?
"The current projections for the 'trust' is it will go broke."
@BrianW: I'm afraid that I have to question the accuracy of your assertion. I'll go with info from MFO contributor msf, who has a long and proven track record for balance, accuracy, and…
@BrianW- I've really no issue with your suggestions as to what the nature of the 'social contract' should be. You make some interesting suggestions, and your format might very well be superior. The problem though is that you are really not making mu…
"Of course around the time of the Vietnam war, some a-hole politician pondered, 'hey, look at all that money over there'!!!!"
Unmentioned is the fact that around the time of the Iraq war, some a-hole politician pondered, "let's just do this... who …
@hank- I knew that you were kidding... you had to be. But you do validate a point that I tried to make a while ago in the midst of an unusually acerbic exchange with Maurice: if you don't challenge these attacks, than by default they become so commo…
@Catch22: Hello there. Not to critique your post, but you probably could have condensed it down to "I have not found an intellectual statement from the POTUS" and left it at that. I'll refer your question "what is the "game plan" with this tariff" t…
