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Yet liberals insist there is not an immigration problem, and this assault is not about immigration policy. Uh- What? True, the release of the assailants is not an immigration policy issue, but it begs the question – would the attack occurred if the White House insisted on enforcing current immigration laws?
I believe he will draw from both sides. Those who believe Biden is doing a great job will vote for slow Joe. Those who believe Trump is the second coming will vote for Trump. Those looking for an alternative might turn to Kennedy.
Its anyone’s guess as how many run to Kennedy, who has his own issues. Still hoping a miracle occurs and Trump is determined to be ineligible to run.
In all fairness, the Oregon legislature is trying to clean up a voter initiative mess. The law was so eff’ed up, a person could openly smoke Fentanyl in a public park but you could get arrested for having an open beer in the same park.
Incredibly, the measures supporters still maintain we are criminalizing addiction, not solving the problem. Of course, the standard answer to any problem is more money is needed for outreach programs and facilities.
The insanity of Oregon’s approach is the assumption that addicts will make responsible and reasonable decisions. Misunderstand addiction? Well, duh.
California, Oregon and Washington have similar programs for dealing with addiction and homelessness, spending billions with little to nothing to show for it. How long will it be until voters start paying attention.
Oakland does not have exclusivity here. Portland area agencies, schools, etc have a similar problem. Many took covid relief money and rather than banking it, established programs that would not be funded after bailout money dried up.
Evergreen school district (a small example) cut 140 jobs as Covid money expired. The district received in excess of $57M over 4 years, more than $40M for staff. $32M went to “Certifcated Staff”, whatever that is.
ESD is only one example, but there many others suffering budget shortfalls for the same reasons.
California – $250B State Budget
$68B in debt.
Wealth Tax $3-5B.One would think CA could find enough fat in the annual budget to get the same result as implementing a wealth tax. This will add more moving vans heading out of state.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/rich-californians-are-leaving-and-taking-their-tax-dollars-with-them/ar-AA1lXdDhRandom thoughts.
- I’ll take even money 3 out of 4 Americans don’t know we are not a democracy.
- I believe current dissatisfaction is the result of unrealistic expectations by voters. All to often I hear “Government should fix this”, or “the government should solve this problem.” Government doesn’t fix problems, and the only thing it excels at is taxing and deficit spending.
- Another even money wager. 90% of incumbents running for re-election will win.
We aren’t satisfied with what we have, but somehow can’t bring ourselves to vote incumbents out of office.
“Our concern is that standards are not being applied consistently, resulting in different rules for different members of the academic community,” she (Foxx) wrote. “If a university is willing to look the other way and not hold faculty accountable for engaging in academically dishonest behavior, it cheapens its mission and the value of its education.”
Ok, help me out with this. Other than obvious political grandstanding, WTF does Congress care about plagiarism? Congress has abdicated its roll as the legislative branch and is now ground zero for meaningless inquiries .
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The scary part- it does not seem that far fetched.
One should be angry after reading this. My reaction – going on 3 generations after after the Civil rights act, the best tool we have for fighting racism is more racism?
Of course, university leaders where unaware of these hiring practices and have instituted corrective and disciplinary actions.
And I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
I’m sure no one will be charged, fined or even loose their job over this. That said, you can imagine the outrage if the same hiring methodology was used to exclude minorities and hire only white candidates.
What is the dem’s strategy here? Wait for the GOP to unravel? Hope voters will flee from Trump? Pray that Hillary stays on the sideline?
Biden won’t stand up to a tough campaign, and I don’t believe voters will let him get away with fireside chats moderated by Karine Jean-Pierre.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-crossed-red-line-israel-response-2024-election-1844726
Dems can’t afford to loose votes in a lot of states. It would not require a big shift in votes to swing the WH back to Republicans.
Recent experience has ICU cost at $650/hour. Figure in and out over 3 months, your friend gave you a pretty good estimate.
Here is a surprisingly balanced piece from NPR. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/1007022652/oregons-pioneering-drug-decriminalization-experiment-is-now-facing-the-hard-test
Measure 101 was sold to the voters that it would improve access to treatment. Access to treatment was not a problem. Getting people to treatment IS the problem.
Oregon policy makers develop programs based on the premise drug addicts are just like everyone else, the only difference is a dependency problem. That might be true, but the numbers don’t lie. Our current methods of treating addiction are not working.
Not behind a paywall
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/31/nar-lawsuit-brokers-fees-verdict-sitzer-burnett
Interesting twist. Didn’t know that sellers will often get stock paying buyers reality fee. Looks like double dipping too me.
