Biden promises there will be a cure for cancer if he’s elected

[Sea Dangles]

To some the glass is half empty.
Others act as the sky is falling.
Things look fine from my toilet. Retirement is looking better all the time. Kids have jobs with a great future. It has not been easy admittedly but this is a great time in America. Enjoy it.
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

To some the glass is half empty.
Others act as the sky is falling.
Things look fine from my toilet. Retirement is looking better all the time. Kids have jobs with a great future. It has not been easy admittedly but this is a great time in America. Enjoy it.
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I think the deck is stacked in favor of the powerful and connected to some extent. If I wanted to go to Harvard and be an executive VP at Goldman Sachs and have a summer home in Watch Hill, sure it helps if my family has connections, which we don't. But if I want to be upper middle class and still be home for dinner most nights and take my kids to Disney every few years, there are plenty of ways to do that. I think it's a little harder than it should be, but still within reach of most of us. You have to work hard, and it really helps to have good parents to set kids on the right path.

I've said this before, there is a family that owns the local Shell station and convenience store near my house, they came here from Liberia, literally with nothing. They now own that business, their kids are college graduates, one is in medical school. every town in the country has families with the same exact story, and many are refugees because they don't take anything for granted and are willing to work insanely hard to get what they want. If big business runs everything, how did they pull that off? The answer is love and hard work, but our grievance and entitled culture doesn't want to hear about such things.

[Pete F.]

How many owner operated gas/convenience stores have you seen in the past few years?
How many have been bought by corporations and now have hired help paid minimum wage or slightly above and a remote manager.
Is the gas or items less expensive at the corporate store?
Those anecdotes are getting fewer and fewer around here, there are a couple in this county where there were one or two in each town.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

How many owner operated gas/convenience stores have you seen in the past few years?
How many have been bought by corporations and now have hired help paid minimum wage or slightly above and a remote manager.
Is the gas or items less expensive at the corporate store?
Those anecdotes are getting fewer and fewer around here, there are a couple in this county where there were one or two in each town.

"How many owner operated gas/convenience stores have you seen in the past few years?"

I don't keep track. But many industries are being swallowed up by a small number of huge companies, you're right. This makes it harder to get ahead, but not impossibly so. There's fewer paths to independence, and smaller margin of error. And working for a large company is more demanding and less rewarding than it was in my father's time for sure.

[scottw]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

There's fewer paths to independence

what??? there has never been more diverse opportunity

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by scottw

what??? there has never been more diverse opportunity

Not in the Rust Belt. i guess i mean primarily manufacturing.
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[wdmso]

funny the thread was started because of a biden statement that was positive hopeful but maybe unrealistic ... the New Green deal fall into the same category.. and without fail both were attacked wholesale from the Right


But the right ignores Trumps Messages shrugs them off as mere hyperbole..

even if his words and actions are clear

Foreign Interference And 'Opposition Research' Are Not The Same


unless your Trump

Trump disputed the idea that if a foreign government provided information on a political opponent, it would be considered interference in our election process.


"It's not an interference, they have information -- I think I'd take it," Trump said. "If I thought there was something wrong, I'd go maybe to the FBI ..

"The FBI director is wrong, because frankly it doesn't happen like that in life," Trump said. "Now maybe it will start happening, maybe today you'd think differently."

the law prohibits American political campaigns from taking "a contribution or donation of money or any other thing of value" from foreigners. The ban isn't limited to money, as Justice Department investigators wrote.


But once again Trump supporters could care less that their man is willing open to defy the Law or feel it doesn't apply to him or his administration...

BUT BUT Biden 'we're gonna cure cancer' if he's elected president

Still havent seen the word I or I am in that statement

but we have seen many Trumps statements 'Mexico will pay for the wall 'I Would Accept Information On My Opponent From Foreign Governments, "It's Called Oppo Research" or Tariffs are "paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us."

and not a peep from the usual players here who conventely have nothing to say when it come to their side which they will insist they dont have a side

[Sea Dangles]

Originally Posted by wdmso

funny the thread was started because of a biden statement that was positive hopeful but maybe unrealistic ... the New Green deal fall into the same category.. and without fail both were attacked wholesale from the Right


But the right ignores Trumps Messages shrugs them off as mere hyperbole..

even if his words and actions are clear

Foreign Interference And 'Opposition Research' Are Not The Same


unless your Trump

Trump disputed the idea that if a foreign government provided information on a political opponent, it would be considered interference in our election process.


"It's not an interference, they have information -- I think I'd take it," Trump said. "If I thought there was something wrong, I'd go maybe to the FBI ..

"The FBI director is wrong, because frankly it doesn't happen like that in life," Trump said. "Now maybe it will start happening, maybe today you'd think differently."

the law prohibits American political campaigns from taking "a contribution or donation of money or any other thing of value" from foreigners. The ban isn't limited to money, as Justice Department investigators wrote.


But once again Trump supporters could care less that their man is willing open to defy the Law or feel it doesn't apply to him or his administration...

BUT BUT Biden 'we're gonna cure cancer' if he's elected president

Still havent seen the word I or I am in that statement

but we have seen many Trumps statements 'Mexico will pay for the wall 'I Would Accept Information On My Opponent From Foreign Governments, "It's Called Oppo Research" or Tariffs are "paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us."

and not a peep from the usual players here who conventely have nothing to say when it come to their side which they will insist they dont have a side

Look in the mirror and what do you see?

Now point your finger and see who that guy is pointing at.

Pretty simple but you don’t seem to get it.
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[scottw]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

How many owner operated gas/convenience stores have you seen in the past few years?
.

I thought leftists liked centralization?

[scottw]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

I think the deck is stacked in favor of the powerful and connected to some extent.

ya think?