None of that is remotely relevant to what I'm referring to, but thanks for playing. Fyi, I have never been to Iran, nor do I plan to travel there for the foreseeable future. I am quite satisfied with my nationality and would not trade it. I have no interest in gaining Iranian nationality. Otoh, you like many neo-cons appear to be obsessed with Iran.
How can it be legal?
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None of that is remotely relevant to what I'm referring to, but thanks for playing. Fyi, I have never been to Iran, nor do I plan to travel there for the foreseeable future. I am quite satisfied with my nationality and would not trade it. I have no interest in gaining Iranian nationality. Otoh, you like many neo-cons appear to be obsessed with Iran.
It's all relevant. You might not have been to Iran, but you are all about Iran here. You know it so don't deny it. Iran has been responsible for 100s of US military and civilian deaths in Iraq (and also Lebanon and Syria) and have largely been given a pass to date. If thinking that the Iranian government should suffer consequences for this makes me a neo-con, sign me up.
I can't imagine that at all, actually, unless it means that people can be shuttled in and out of low end jobs.
There's now starting to be work saying that during the Great Recession and the long recovery there never was any skills mismatch. Ever. Unemployment rose because demand plummeted, then employment returned slowly because so did demand. This is exactly what textbook macroeconomics would predict.
As we fell into the Great Recession, employers saw growing pools of applicants, and they rationally responded by raising their standards to hire anyone. (Which is also what textbook macro would predict.) Then they reported that they couldn't find anyone to meet their (higher) standards. Which was as irrelevant as it was true. Because it was the macroeconomy driving their standards, and not their standards driving the macroeconomy.
By all means let's help people improve their skills. But when our macroeconomy is crushing ordinary people, it's not good enough to say we need better ordinary people. We need a better macroeconomy. But this would require us to shed a lot of bad instincts about what the right answer is likely to be.
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How many died on 9/11 at the hands of our "ally"?
How many innocent civilians has the "war on terror" slaughtered? At latest count, over 1 million.
The Iranian regime is a terrible actor, but there are a lot of "bad actors" out there. One of those actors recently stole a presidential election... But Iran!
And let me guess, you are a huge fan of John Bolton.
Fyi, I support punishing the Iranian regime for their actions. But our approach is totally wrong and not even handed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/i...lions-pressure-sanctions-190112173559995.html
And you think the regime is suffering? They love the current sanctions. They enrich themselves during times of sanction.
Oh good. I thought I was responding wrong again, which sometimes happens. Thanks for the help. After that sucky IU game, I’m not sure I’m seeing straight yet. Clang, clang, clang.
I had a friend in line for security for two hours in Atlanta. She was on national news. Sorry, another friend story. Missed her flight and she was on her way to a major convention.
We are all emotional beings. The only difference is that while I see shades of grey, you see only good and evil.
Pffft. That's not a problem. Why didn't they just get to the airport 12 hours early???!
vbg.
Ever wonder why? The Brits started it. BP (AIOC) to be exact. US didn't really get involved until the 50s. Brit involvement started with the tea trade but expanded with petroleum. It's the same old story. Ripping off foreign nations for their commodities and then supporting puppet tyrants tends to create enemies.
Reagan and the republicans did a masterful job of convincing the rubes that government just doesn’t work. Reagan was just a spokesmodel for the US oligarchs who didn’t want to be regulated anymore and who didn’t want workers to have any power.
Thanks. When I go for dickishness, I like to succeed.
That IU game made many people dickish. We needed it and they didn't play like they did. That was the worst showing of the season IMO.
Now they're calling back furloughed IRS workers. Not going to pay them though.
https://apnews.com/b30c59dfb53a48cea00109a7462bd1e0
https://apnews.com/b30c59dfb53a48cea00109a7462bd1e0
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown — nearly 60 percent of its workforce — to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won’t be paid during the shutdown.
With the official start of the tax filing season coming Jan. 28, the Trump administration has promised that taxpayers owed refunds will be paid on time, despite the disruption in government services caused by the partial shutdown now in its fourth week.
There had been growing concern that the shutdown would delay refunds worth hundreds of billions of dollars because the money wouldn’t be available for them from Congress. But last week, the administration said customary shutdown policies will be reversed to make the money available to pay refunds on time.
With the official start of the tax filing season coming Jan. 28, the Trump administration has promised that taxpayers owed refunds will be paid on time, despite the disruption in government services caused by the partial shutdown now in its fourth week.
There had been growing concern that the shutdown would delay refunds worth hundreds of billions of dollars because the money wouldn’t be available for them from Congress. But last week, the administration said customary shutdown policies will be reversed to make the money available to pay refunds on time.
Just like with TSA. Who can blame them when they're spending their own money just to get to work. They're losing money every day. Trump needs to end this shutdown ASAP.
