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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'd cry for unions if they weren't such an exclusive club that nobody else benefits from.

What I don't understand is why the teacher's union hasn't been shut down yet. These are professional people with college degrees who aren't risking life and limb in mines and around dangerous equipment all day long. Kids get dumber every year but they maintain their wages, wage increases and jobs while the rest of the work force has remained stagnant and even regressed since GWB took office.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I'd cry for unions if they weren't such an exclusive club that nobody else benefits from.

What I don't understand is why the teacher's union hasn't been shut down yet. These are professional people with college degrees who aren't risking life and limb in mines and around dangerous equipment all day long. Kids get dumber every year but they maintain their wages, wage increases and jobs while the rest of the work force has remained stagnant and even regressed since GWB took office.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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There are couple of things that only a Republican would believe: 1) That it is the fault of the teachers that your children are getting dumber. The teachers' own children are doing fine. Foreign exchange students can clue you in on what is wrong. (Hint: it is not American teachers' fault): Valuing sports over knowledge is distinctly American, according to these foreign students. Nearly two-thirds of foreign-exchange students in the United States view American teenagers as placing a much higher value on athletic success than teens in their home countries do. By comparison, only 5 percent of international students say American teens place a much higher value on success in mathematics than teenagers abroad. Around 65 percent of foreign-exchange students also feel that American teens spend less time on homework than their international peers.

Still, U.S. schools need not panic about its overall performance. Out of around 70 educational systems tested by the PISA, the United States scored equal to or better than 51 nations in science and equal to or better than 55 nations in reading. Similarly, out of 42 educational systems that tested eighth-graders using the TIMSS, the United States scored equal to or better than 35 nations in both math and science.

www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/03/examining-poor-school-pe
rformance-in-the-us/520653/

The other thing only a Republican believes: 2) "I'd cry for unions if they weren't such an exclusive club that nobody else benefits from."

It's too much trouble to explain, but how in the hell could an agreement with union auto workers in a Ford plant change how much gets paid in a non-unionized job in a non-auto industry in another state that forbids unionizing? Foreign companies place factories in states controlled by Republicans because they don't want to pay union level wages; it is one large corporation versus one employee. Who loses? Always the one employee.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

There's so much wrong with everything in this reply that it's not even worth going into a debate with you about it.

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There's so much wrong with everything in this reply that it's not even worth going into a debate with you about it.

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If, big IF, I take you at your word about how many problems you have caused yourself, and how poorly you are doing in the world, has it ever crossed your mind that your strong opinions are wrong? Maybe you did shitty in school and you blame the teacher. You didn't say that, but it could be why you are angry at teachers. Maybe the real truth is you were a shitty student? And why are you blaming unions? I have seen how unions negotiate with their employers. I've seen how individuals negotiate, without a union. The individual always does worse than a union. If you want to keep on being a victim of cheapskate employers who screw their workers, keep on misunderstanding what a union does. No one can teach you (not a teacher nor a co-worker) what you do not want to learn, whether in a school or in a job.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'm doing fine, Second. I guess you haven't been paying attention. I'm happier these days than I've been in many years, and that even includes the ones where I made a great buck.

Don't talk to me about knowledge or learning either, son. I'd love to play you in a game of chess one day and crush that pathetic little ego of yours.

I've made so many improvements in my life on so many fronts in the last 20 months it's stupid. All you've done is bitch and whine about everything and lace every single post of yours with personal attacks showcasing your disdain for the 99%.

What does that say about you since, if we're to believe you, there's a few billion more resources at your disposal than mine?

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I'm doing fine, Second. I guess you haven't been paying attention. I'm happier these days than I've been in many years, and that even includes the ones where I made a great buck.

Don't talk to me about knowledge or learning either, son. I'd love to play you in a game of chess one day and crush that pathetic little ego of yours.

I've made so many improvements in my life on so many fronts in the last 20 months it's stupid. All you've done is bitch and whine about everything and lace every single post of yours with personal attacks showcasing your disdain for the 99%.

What does that say about you since, if we're to believe you, there's a few billion more resources at your disposal than mine?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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6ix, where did your imagination get the idea of $billions? You meant $millions, right?

Try playing chess against a machine, not against me www.chess.com/play/computer
while set on level 10, Grandmaster. Come back and brag about how well you did.

Once you have lost a few games, then take note that AI is predicted to seriously disrupt jobs that require intelligence. You are safe, 6ix. Your job can’t be automated away by a computer and you work too cheaply to be replaced by an expensive robot. You have job security! Thank Trump!
www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2018/04/18/will-robots-and-ai-take-you
r-job-the-economic-and-political-consequences-of-automation/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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...so Democrats aren’t just running on good old ideas like requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns, but on good new ideas like barring lobbyists from getting paid by foreign governments.”

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

(LOL... the quotidian word for quotidian is daily.)

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(LOL... the quotidian word for quotidian is daily.)

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6ix, get a dictionary. Or is that too "elitist" for you? (You self-diagnosed why you and average Trump voters (the non-rich ones) have great difficulty maneuvering in this world. Is Maneuver too elitist? Is your general knowledge too little for success in the 21st century?)

quo·tid·i·an
kwo'tide n/

adjective: quotidian

of or occurring every day; daily.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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quo·tid·i·an
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adjective
adjective: quotidian

of or occurring every day; daily.
"the car sped noisily off through the quotidian traffic"
ordinary or everyday, especially when mundane.
"his story is an achingly human one, mired in quotidian details"
synonyms: daily, everyday, day-to-day, diurnal More

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...Every word from his post is copied straight from the article, even though it isn't quote as such. - SIX

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I have asked SIX...

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I have asked SIX...SIGNY

I'm sure you meant Second. -SIX

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I have asked SIX...SIGNY

I'm sure you meant Second. -SIX

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Oh dear! :embarrassed: Yes, I meant SECOND. Sorry about that! Was in a hurry, had to meet with a contractor. A thousand apologies!

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I have asked SIX...SIGNY

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Oh dear! :embarrassed: Yes, I meant SECOND. Sorry about that! Was in a hurry, had to meet with a contractor. A thousand apologies!

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I was really just using that as a means to bump the thread and see if Second wanted to play another game of chess, which apparently he has no interest in doing.

Can't say I blame him. ;)

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** (For 6ix, who knows not of dictionaries: louche is defined as disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way. "the louche world of the theater")

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According to Trump there is no such thing as the greenhouse gas effect, also global warming does not exist. It follows that the “Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Release Methane Into Air”

The Trump administration, taking its third major step this year to roll back federal efforts to fight climate change, is preparing to make it significantly easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere.

Methane, which is among the most powerful greenhouse gases, routinely leaks from oil and gas wells, and energy companies have long said that the rules requiring them to test for emissions were costly and burdensome.

The Environmental Protection Agency, perhaps as soon as this week, plans to make public a proposal to weaken an Obama-era requirement that companies monitor and repair methane leaks.

The new rules follow two regulatory rollbacks this year that, taken together, represent the foundation of the United States’ effort to rein in global warming. In July, the E.P.A. proposed weakening a rule on carbon dioxide pollution from vehicle tailpipes. And in August, the agency proposed replacing the rule on carbon dioxide pollution from coal-fired power plants with a weaker one that would allow far more global-warming emissions to flow unchecked from the nation’s smokestacks.

More at www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/climate/methane-emissions-epa.html

Stephen Hawking feared Donald Trump's policies on global warming could endanger the planet and make global warming irreversible. He said, "Climate change is one of the great dangers we face, and it's one we can prevent if we act now. By denying the evidence for climate change, and pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Donald Trump will cause avoidable environmental damage to our beautiful planet, endangering the natural world, for us and our children." – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking#Politics

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
I can't think of a single thing he's done that's helpful for this country - in fact, I can't think of anything he's done that isn't harmful for this country.

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Keynesian economics is a Ponzi Scheme.

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I can't think of a single thing he's done that's helpful for this country - in fact, I can't think of anything he's done that isn't harmful for this country.

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Yep, and you can't either - not without googling and getting some dodgy list from a Republican web site that says, "Not as bad as Hillary would have been! Not as bad as that black fella was!"

Go ahead - without searching what's he done that's been beneficial for a majority of Americans, not the 1%?

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I can't think of a single thing he's done that's helpful for this country - in fact, I can't think of anything he's done that isn't harmful for this country.

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Yep, and you can't either - not without googling and getting some dodgy list from a Republican web site that says, "Not as bad as Hillary would have been! Not as bad as that black fella was!"

Go ahead - without searching what's he done that's been beneficial for a majority of Americans, not the 1%?

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Immigration crackdown.

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I can't think of a single thing he's done that's helpful for this country - in fact, I can't think of anything he's done that isn't harmful for this country.

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Yep, and you can't either - not without googling and getting some dodgy list from a Republican web site that says, "Not as bad as Hillary would have been! Not as bad as that black fella was!"

Go ahead - without searching what's he done that's been beneficial for a majority of Americans, not the 1%?

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Health insurance increase in premiums for the middle class, although still very high, were half of what they have been in years.

Immigration crackdown.

Paris accord middle finger.

NAFTA/TTIP.

Oh, right. You said one. My bad.

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I can't think of a single thing he's done that's helpful for this country - in fact, I can't think of anything he's done that isn't harmful for this country.

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Yep, and you can't either - not without googling and getting some dodgy list from a Republican web site that says, "Not as bad as Hillary would have been! Not as bad as that black fella was!"

Go ahead - without searching what's he done that's been beneficial for a majority of Americans, not the 1%?

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Health insurance increase in premiums for the middle class, although still very high, were half of what they have been in years.

Immigration crackdown.

Paris accord middle finger.

NAFTA/TTIP.

Oh, right. You said one. My bad.

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So zero then just like I said.

Health insurance increase in premiums for the middle class, although still very high, were half of what they have been in years. > mine increased the last 2 years.

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Immigration crackdown. > Yeah, "f*ckin darkies" is a great policy.

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Paris accord middle finger. - Explain why. I bet you we'll be trying to bet back in when we see how much fun everyone else is having. You know why Trump doesn't like these International group things? Because he's intimidated by them. He knows he's an idiot and it's even more apparent to him when he's out of the country. You can see him fumbling.

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NAFTA/TTIP. Eh? Why? And don't just repeat ZeroHedge or ZeroSiggy.

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"You said one. My bad." Yep so far you got zero. Like I said...

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The Pew Research Center found a peak of 12.2 million in the population in 2007, decreases for 2008 and 2009, and then a “relative stability” since then.

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Under the Obama administration, the yearly apprehensions on the Southwest border declined by 35 percent from calendar year 2008, the year before President Obama took office, through the end of 2016. In President Donald Trump’s first full year in office, the apprehensions declined by 43 percent, from calendar year 2016 to 2017.

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The Pew Research Center found a peak of 12.2 million in the population in 2007, decreases for 2008 and 2009, and then a “relative stability” since then.

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Under the Obama administration, the yearly apprehensions on the Southwest border declined by 35 percent from calendar year 2008, the year before President Obama took office, through the end of 2016. In President Donald Trump’s first full year in office, the apprehensions declined by 43 percent, from calendar year 2016 to 2017.

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So Trump achieved a higher reduction in one year than Obama did in eight?

According to other sources ...

Trump's immigration enforcement helps slow illegal border crossings by 76%
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/9/illegal-immigration-so
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876

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Under the Obama administration, the yearly apprehensions on the Southwest border declined by 35 percent from calendar year 2008, the year before President Obama took office, through the end of 2016. In President Donald Trump’s first full year in office, the apprehensions declined by 43 percent, from calendar year 2016 to 2017. So Trump achieved a higher reduction in one year than Obama did in eight?

According to other sources ...

Trump's immigration enforcement helps slow illegal border crossings by 76%
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/9/illegal-immigration-so
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PARIS, Texas — When he heard the helicopter, Juan Esquivel was halfway through his 6 a.m. shift at Load Trail, a northeast Texas trailer manufacturer. Maybe someone needed a medical evacuation, he thought.

He was wrong.

Federal agents were swarming the property near the city of Paris that morning on Aug. 28. They rounded up 159 employees who they believed immigrated here illegally, including Esquivel, who is 39 and has lived in the United States for 23 years.

The event was big news in the area, where voters overwhelmingly supported President Donald Trump. Some found themselves grappling with the personal consequences of hard-line immigration policies on their neighbors. Others continued with life as usual, standing strong in their views that deportation is deserved for people who come here illegally.

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Kudlow downplays the effect of the GOP tax cuts on budget deficits, saying the shortfalls are due to longer-term spending problems.

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