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17 hours ago, Póg mo said:
Trump of course could quickly destroy Michael Cohen's testimony, by voluntering to release either his tax returns, or university transcripts, rather than wait for them to be subpoenaed.
Looks like everything we've been saying about Trump's corruption has been pretty spot on. at this point releasing his tax returns would just get him into more trouble.
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On 1/17/2019 at 12:00 PM, abum said:
the current "proudly done" shutdown by the President made me pay an extremely close attention to the political issues.
a sad state we are in especially those 800,000 directly affected by the shutdown (no money to pay for a lot of stuff).
My family is from the DC/Baltimore area, so a lot of them have federal government jobs.
Trust me, real people, are really feeling the pain.
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This is gold.
I wish i had been following the latest political climate.
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50 minutes ago, Randyandyuni said:
I miss that sound from the cars of my youth, not the rough sound of resonators on a Toyota or Honda but the roar of a big block Chevy, Ford or Mopar engine. my first car had a 455 in it
Yeah those sounds will never go away, there will always be a market for high performance cars.. my personal favorites are from group b rally.
The Audi S2s from that period sound heavenly.
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16 hours ago, Satisfied said:
Several years ago, I had a Honda Accord V6. Neighbor liked mine, so went and bought one identical in every way except his was a hybrid.
After a couple of months of ownership and fact-gathering, I made a spreadsheet that calculated gas savings. Turns out that it was going to take him about 7 years of driving to break even with me on money, then slowly creep ahead as he saved a handful on MPG.
To me, electric vehicles have to drop significantly in price before I would ever own one. Years later, I chose a Jetta TDi over a Prius, and got as much as 52mpg on the highway in the diesel. So glad I passed on the prius.
Are we talking about hyrbids or EVs.. I believe the Prius is only electric up to certain mpg.. so if you do alot of city driving the Prius becomes more practical. While the TDI is more efficient on the highway.
The volt is not a "hybrid" persay... it's an extended range EV. So it's always running off it's battery. As long as you have a charge you will save money, and even when you don't have a charge. The engine only runs when the battery is under a heavy load with 2kWh left(with one exception of outside temps being sub 25).
But yes you have to drive your EV for about 5 years to recoupe the lost saving via gas prices.. But but..
EVs are way less wear and tear on brake pads and rotors and they don't require frequent liquid changes.
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13 minutes ago, jg121783 said:
Maybe so but electric cars are subsidized far more than any other type of car. To the point that they would be unaffordable for most people without the subsidies.
Too bad the electricity generated for these cars is far from zero emissions. It's literally not any cleaner than gas engines when you look at how the electricity is produced.
To be clear I like the concept of electric cars and I think they are the future. I just don't think the promises of them being more environmentally friendly or economical have materialized yet. Years ago I saw a tv show about a paint that was invented that turns any surface into a solar panel. Come up with a way to paint electric cars with that and you might have something here.
You mean EVs are more subsidized right now.ICE engines have been heavily subsidized for a 100 years. It would be kind of silly to invest heavily with public funds in an already developed technology.
Yes, you are right. the original energy sources are not 0 emssions. We would have to have our whole grid running off of renewable (work in progress).
but... Still more efficient than 100k little generators in uncontrolled settings.
Yes .. your concerns are reasonable/valid. But i thinks more about controlling emission than bringing it down to 0.. smog can put a pretty heavy health burden on an economy.
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17 hours ago, Satisfied said:
When you consider one car battery is about the size of 2,000 cell phone batteries, I think it's valid. To each their own, however.
A drop in the bucket compared to the billions of phones in use today. We are also not including other consumer products as well as commerical vehicles that use bigger batteries.
EV is only about 1or 2 percent of the car market, so you have to keep things in persepective.
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11 hours ago, Satisfied said:
Funny thing about electric cars.... they need to be recharged. With electricity. That sometimes comes from generators.
Not to mention the devastation that abounds where lithium is mined.
This is frequently brought up by anti-EV advocates.
Not really a valid argument considering the phone you use is also using lithium ion.. and the petroleum infrastucture uses a significant amount of energy.
I think you are forgetting that ICE engines are nothing but inefiecient generators, that are being used in uncontrolled settings.
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15 hours ago, jg121783 said:
Not to mention it along with basically every other electric car is heavily supplemented by the government.
Most big industries are heavily supplemented by the government, including petroleum.
Some economies really REALY need 0 emissions and are willing to pay heavy premiums for such products.
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2 hours ago, Cyberfx1024 said:
Of course because they have been losing money on that car for awhile now.
Sigh... The volt did what it was supposed to do.
Government paid R&D.. now GM has some of the top EV and automonous systems around.
The biggest downside about the Volt is the fact that it's using a Chevy cruzish platform and the existence of the Bolt EV(stealing sales). It would be one of the best cars under 50k if it's Voltec was implimented in a blazer or equinox.( Something theyve been planning on doing after the volt was finished with it's last cycle)
It also doesn't help that it's made at DHAM with a whole host of other underperforming ICE cars.
Don't listen to Breitbart... Definition of fake news.
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20 hours ago, Marty Byrde said:
So are you saying dead terrorists can rise from the dead somehow?
Did i say that?
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23 hours ago, TBoneTX said:
Years ago, I asked a retired Israeli Army colonel how to deal with terrorists.
"Foreign or domestic?" he asked. "Foreign," I said.
"Kill them!" he said. "A dead terrorist can rarely cause you future problems!"
Pure ignorance.. that is all.
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19 hours ago, Satisfied said:
Sounds so familiar, eh? Reminds one of 2008 all over again. In fact, I would hazard a postulation that it happens every turnover of the presidency.
Now, are you going to tell us the victories over ISIS in the pat year are thanks to Obama?
Bushs economy was on a downslope, due to multiple factors. Mainly the generations before mine taking advantage of subprime loan market.
Bush was just a catalyst for fisical irresponsiblity.
What Victories over isis?
It's impossible to kill terrorism with a bullet.
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5 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:
It seems pretty clear from the employment gains chart, but the author seems to ignore that unemployment was flattening out at around 5% (according to the chart presented) from the middle of 2015 until 2017, then it plummeted after Trump took office and the GDP growth increased. So to me it is a mixed bag analysis, but in reality, a President really has little impact to the economy as I have stated in the past. They may help as a sort of cheerleader, but their real impact is minimal.
I'm ok with having a mixed bag.
however I'm not okay with people crediting all of the gains to towards Trump knowing that he inherited a good economy.
And i also agree with the presidents impact being minimal ,depending on the industry of course.. Michigan(and the Midwest) has benefited alot from Obama's intervention, without the bail out... who know where the Midwest would be.
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1 hour ago, Chris Duffy said:
Here is what I know. I am a business owner in Texas, Small business owner with a handful of employees.
Since Trump has become President we are insanely busy with work, it like he touch a match and light the economy. I could have 20 to 40 more employees working for me right now and still be swamped with work. I have rather decided to stay small and cherry pick work.
I base the economy based on what is in my wallet and bank account and my back pockets, I have never seen the economy this robust in my lifetime. Making money is insanely easy at the moment, I can call it the Trump effect
What industry do you work, if you mind me asking?
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4 hours ago, Mansini77 said:
I realize a lot of people like to give credit and blame to people that are elected in office as far as the economy goes. As a business owner, government, whether on the local, state or federal level is not a positive driving force in my field. I don't have lobbyists, nor do I have lucrative government contracts. My daily gross and loss all is dependent on my customers. As the owner, I am liable for paying out FUTA( federal unemployment), State unemployment, and probably the biggest : FICA. That is matching all employee's gross of 7.65% to Social security and Medicaid. To put it simply, if the total payroll is $5000 for the week, the employees paid into FICA $382.50, and as the employer, I must match this. Under the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, this has no changed.
2% annual growth of GDP is nothing to write home about. During most of the 90's, we had 4% growth. 2% is what we had out of the recession, but I think 4% growth in the upcoming years is attainable with lower corporate tax rates.
Just my 2 cents. I don't worship at the feet of Washington and wear Obama Hope T shirts, or MAGA hats. Washington is a burden, not a beacon of light.
Fair enough.. economics is truly about the consumer. Not many people understand this.
But for the people who want to credit trump for a strong economy whilest bashing Obama. There's data ... Plenty of delusion crushing data.
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2 hours ago, Chris Duffy said:
Obama was about stifling the economy with regulations
We got rid of the idiot and all of sudden a business comes into office and the economy goes wild.
Just look at the stock market the night Trump got elected, America is ready to prosper with him and the stock market reflected it and still does
"Stock market overnight" has no corralation with year over year of economic trends.
The stock market is just a knee jerk reaction to yesterday's/today's news, and its been on a 8+ year bull run as a long term trend.
It's really hard to argue with data.
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"There has been a fair amount of rhetoric about the job growth and lower unemployment rate seen since President Trump took office. Candidate Trump touted that there would be 25 million jobs created over 10 years if he was elected. In January 2017, I wrote that this was a fairly easy campaign promise when you analyze the data and realize that it will only take 2% annual growth of the workforce to hit this target."
Trump should be thanking Obama.
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21 hours ago, Randyandyuni said:
Let them come, accelerate their court dates for Asylum evaluation to immediate, do not allow to be released to the interior, but held at the border. If asylum is found not to apply, turn them around and send them back where they came from immediately, permanently and without appeal. If they attempt to force the crossing treat them as invaders, charge them with criminal endangerment of children. If they are found that asylum is warranted, welcome them as is the norm for true asylum-eligible seekers.
I can agree with this.
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2 hours ago, Randyandyuni said:
the diversity lottery in its current form is a joke, I would support a merit based lottery system, chain migration needs to be reeled in, children yes, parents, yes, brothers and sisters et al, no. H1b spousal work Visas, again on merit, not blanket, and I support birth right citizenship where one parent is a USC .. I do not consider myself anti-immigration although I do not support unauthorized/illegal immigration
I respect your opinion.
Yes the system needs to be improved but merit is not going to work towards diversity. Countries with the most money ussually put out the most worthy candidates.
Which defeats the purpose of having a lotto for diversity.
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16 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:
So if someone is for having laws to protect the borders and control immigration they are anti-immigrant? Is that why the MDL seems to be embracing open borders?
Of course not.. but wanting to get rid of the lottery, chain migration, work visa for h1b(?) Spouses, and birth right citizenship does make you anti imagration.
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9 minutes ago, Boiler said:
Bit odd as he is married to one. I see this all the time from the MDL but nothing to support it.
So?
Trump is married to an immagrant yet he runs on an anti-immigrant platform.
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16 hours ago, Satisfied said:
Unauthorized immigrant vs. illegal immigrant. Which sounds worse? Why?
Legal resident immigrant, never heard of an authorized resident immigrant. Again... why?
Depends on the type of news you read... Clealy the government regularly uses different terms than that of the anti-immigrant groups.
WATCH: Rep AOC gets Michael Cohen to admit under oath that Trump committed insurance and tax fraud.
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Thank you..
I haven't really been keeping up with current events.
I am just sitting here patiently waiting for Trump to go down in flames.
Poor guy has a whole crew of snitches.