He got fifteen months, but was released after twelve for good behavior.CAA Flagship wrote:So how long is he in for?
That should be, "Once you graduate college, you're moving out." You've got kids now a days who will take months or years to find a full time job...light a fire under their ass, and they'll find a full time job much quicker..or full time hours, until they do..∞∞∞ wrote:GannonFan wrote:
Do your parents let you put up all that stuff in their house, or just in your part of the basement?
My parents were always clear: once you found a full-time job, you're moving out. It took me a year to find a job after college and they made my pay rent during that time. Same with my sister. Hell when her boyfriend went to prison, she wanted to move back in because she was feeling down. They said no.
They've always been about promoting independence.
Club Fed..∞∞∞ wrote:He got fifteen months, but was released after twelve for good behavior.CAA Flagship wrote:So how long is he in for?
It was a low-security federal prison...for doctors, lawyers, businessmen, etc. I went once and it was just a large open room with a bunch of bunk beds, dining area, community bathroom, and outside space. Visitors could roam the entire prison. Prisoners even had vending machines and limited internet access.
∞∞∞ wrote:This is how I know you've never played Monopoly. The only way Monopoly ends is like this:Ivytalk wrote: More often, the game of Monopoly ends in a boring draw, with players holding widely scattered properties, a modest amount of cash, and being too pussyfied to engage in the aggressive property trades that would produce a clear winner...
89Hen wrote:We actually played last week and 89Jr didn't talk to me for a day afterward... until we played Risk the next night and I once again crushed his psyche and he was silent for another day.Ivytalk wrote:More often, the game of Monopoly ends in a boring draw, with players holding widely scattered properties, a modest amount of cash, and being too pussyfied to engage in the aggressive property trades that would produce a clear winner.
Good for your parents!∞∞∞ wrote:GannonFan wrote:
Do your parents let you put up all that stuff in their house, or just in your part of the basement?
My parents were always clear: once you found a full-time job, you're moving out. It took me a year to find a job after college and they made my pay rent during that time. Same with my sister. Hell when her boyfriend went to prison, she wanted to move back in because she was feeling down. They said no.
They've always been about promoting independence.
I don't disagree but I think you missed the point of my questions. It isn't free-market capitalism but the government helping to pick the winners and losers that will most likely to lead to monopolies.Chizzang wrote:Because in 1995 our Federal Government fell for the oldest trick in the book...UNI88 wrote:
Questions:
1) How do corporations like Comcast become a monopoly? Is it by beating out the competition or does it more typically require government intervention? Should we blame Comcast or our governments?
2) From a consumer perspective, how are monopolies different from a state controlled economy (lefties' wet dream)?
That's how Comcast got where it got
See: Title 3 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
and get back to me...
I would laugh were what followed not the single largest example of corporate fraud
of all time perpetrated on the American tax payer
He also hated the brothers.UNI88 wrote:Good for your parents!∞∞∞ wrote:
My parents were always clear: once you found a full-time job, you're moving out. It took me a year to find a job after college and they made my pay rent during that time. Same with my sister. Hell when her boyfriend went to prison, she wanted to move back in because she was feeling down. They said no.
They've always been about promoting independence.
But Che Guevara art? Is it on the wall next to John Wayne Gacy clown pictures? Che was a war criminal. How many people did he have executed or sent to labor camps / gulags for Castro? There are much better left-wing revolutionaries to hold up as role models than Che.
Yeah nobody ever asks why Cuba is nearly 65% black, but the Communist leadership there is practically all white or mestizo.SDHornet wrote:He also hated the brothers.UNI88 wrote:
Good for your parents!
But Che Guevara art? Is it on the wall next to John Wayne Gacy clown pictures? Che was a war criminal. How many people did he have executed or sent to labor camps / gulags for Castro? There are much better left-wing revolutionaries to hold up as role models than Che.
I always chuckle when I see some dumb ass wearing his face.
UNI88 wrote:But Che Guevara art? Is it on the wall next to John Wayne Gacy clown pictures? Che was a war criminal. How many people did he have executed or sent to labor camps / gulags for Castro? There are much better left-wing revolutionaries to hold up as role models than Che.
Why is that girl white?∞∞∞ wrote:UNI88 wrote:But Che Guevara art? Is it on the wall next to John Wayne Gacy clown pictures? Che was a war criminal. How many people did he have executed or sent to labor camps / gulags for Castro? There are much better left-wing revolutionaries to hold up as role models than Che.
This is my leftist art:
So he's here legally....... Yea!∞∞∞ wrote:I met a fascinating person today, and a great example of why many of us fight Trump's immigration policies. He's a 29 year-old male from Sri Lanka who lived in Tamil Tiger controlled territory. When the group was defeated, the Sri Lankan gov't rounded up his entire village and threw them into camps. Since he was the right age, and male, they accused him of being part of the organization. Feeling an arrest and false charges coming, he fled Sri Lanka and eventually made it to Mexico, after which he worked odd jobs and saved up enough money to get smuggled into the United States.
Border patrol caught him and he ended up being detained by the US gov't for 2 years until his asylum case was worked out, which it did. In the three years since being released, he moved from Texas to Georgia and now lives in DC working as a bouncer, lifeguard, and dishwasher. However he wants a more stable job and was absolutely fascinated by the construction site he saw today. He said he wanted a well-paying job that's not in an office environment, but light on educational requirements (which he says he can't afford). I told him the construction industry is a perfect fit and easy to get into, although you have to work your way up, work hard, and prove yourself. We exchanged info and it's now my personal mission to get this guy a job.
But his story is the America I love. It's not an America that closes itself from the world; it's an America that celebrates the human spirit and our shared love of freedom.
...and the VAST majority love LEGAL immigration.ALPHAGRIZ1 wrote:So he's here legally....... Yea!∞∞∞ wrote:I met a fascinating person today, and a great example of why many of us fight Trump's immigration policies. He's a 29 year-old male from Sri Lanka who lived in Tamil Tiger controlled territory. When the group was defeated, the Sri Lankan gov't rounded up his entire village and threw them into camps. Since he was the right age, and male, they accused him of being part of the organization. Feeling an arrest and false charges coming, he fled Sri Lanka and eventually made it to Mexico, after which he worked odd jobs and saved up enough money to get smuggled into the United States.
Border patrol caught him and he ended up being detained by the US gov't for 2 years until his asylum case was worked out, which it did. In the three years since being released, he moved from Texas to Georgia and now lives in DC working as a bouncer, lifeguard, and dishwasher. However he wants a more stable job and was absolutely fascinated by the construction site he saw today. He said he wanted a well-paying job that's not in an office environment, but light on educational requirements (which he says he can't afford). I told him the construction industry is a perfect fit and easy to get into, although you have to work your way up, work hard, and prove yourself. We exchanged info and it's now my personal mission to get this guy a job.
But his story is the America I love. It's not an America that closes itself from the world; it's an America that celebrates the human spirit and our shared love of freedom.
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So you guys are now ok with people crossing the border illegally and declaring asylum?Baldy wrote:...and the VAST majority love LEGAL immigration.ALPHAGRIZ1 wrote:So he's here legally....... Yea!
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He was held for two years while working through asylum...yes???∞∞∞ wrote:So you guys are now ok with people crossing the border illegally and declaring asylum?Baldy wrote:
...and the VAST majority love LEGAL immigration.
Cool. Glad we had that entire argument over whether that was fine or not a while back.
You know at this point I think it does look like we're into a pattern where the GDP growth "bottom" has increased:CAA Flagship wrote:2nd Quarter GDP (First Read) is 4.1%.
1st Quarter GDP (Second Read) revised up from 2.0% to 2.2%
That article is talking about annual economic growth. There was quarterly GDP growth as high as 5.2% during the Obama Administration. But annual economic growth never exceeded 2.9%. The last time annual GDP growth reached at least 4% was in 2000.CID1990 wrote:Remember CNN way back when?
https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/11/news/e ... index.html
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You know the only thing harder than getting GDP positive and coming out of a recession? Keeping it going.JohnStOnge wrote:You know at this point I think it does look like we're into a pattern where the GDP growth "bottom" has increased:CAA Flagship wrote:2nd Quarter GDP (First Read) is 4.1%.
1st Quarter GDP (Second Read) revised up from 2.0% to 2.2%
I'm talking about the fact that if you look at 2012 through 2015 there are a number of instances in which quarterly GDP growth was <1%. The problem with attributing that to Trump is that the last time GDP growth was really low like that was the 4th quarter of 2015. If you look at that graph and try to peg a time when something may have changed you'd peg the beginning of 2016.
I wasn't responding to you.JohnStOnge wrote:That article is talking about annual economic growth. There was quarterly GDP growth as high as 5.2% during the Obama Administration. But annual economic growth never exceeded 2.9%. The last time annual GDP growth reached at least 4% was in 2000.CID1990 wrote:Remember CNN way back when?
https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/11/news/e ... index.html
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