Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Hunter Biden's Dad Says Get A Proper Job!" video.

These corporations are countries now.
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A summer working at minimum wage used to pay for a year of tuition at the late, great state universities. No one had much debt. So weird! /s
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@Michael Sprague The comparison is between May 2019, May 2020, and May 2021 . . . ABC News: "Gas prices hit $3 a gallon for 1st time in nearly 7 years . . . "
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@igorszamaszow171 The Telegraph article allegedly described a bare legal possibility, based on its reading of a German article, and portrayed it as factual. There was no evidence it ever happened in reality, but the law was indeed written so that that was a possible interpretation. Here is the Google translation of the beginning of the German article: "A job like any other [Title] Hartz IV makes it possible: The placement of long-term unemployed women in the red light milieu. Legally, there is no lower limit to the reasonableness of job placement. Employment agencies - still - impose self-restraint" I have never seen English language media get a story right about France, so . . .
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@igorszamaszow171 A million reasons? Yeah, you only need one: it was a British source. That's why it didn't receive appropriate coverage. It's not about the Anglosphere.
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@iamnottodd First time it appears not to be working. And a line was crossed: in the demonstrations taking place not long before the pandemic shutdown, the firefighters had joined in the strike and had taken the side of the other protestors against the police. They started protecting protestors from the police -- not just once or twice, but systematically, every week. I know no one reported that here. Look up pompiers contre policiers. I had never seen that before. One video, that I never could find again, showed a firefighter place the French flag on the ground in front of an advancing police line. He motioned to the policeman in front of him to go ahead and step on it. Since he was doing it figuratively, he may as well do it literally. And I thought I was radical. I gasped when I saw it.
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@Michael Sprague Now raw data is a conspiracy if it contradicts a point you hold dear? Why am I not shocked, shocked?
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@DC-bp8sx Which country? Some ref, not a link. This could be spurious.
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@igorszamaszow171 Exactly what I did. Found a Der Spiegel article as well. The article asserts that it was not enforced in the way the English article suggested. That is because brothels became legal, the people who work in them became fully covered by all of the benefits that any other worker had, and a law was later passed (or possibly was on the books already -- I forgot, and it's not relevant) that those receiving unemployment benefits would need to accept a suitable job if offered, or lose their unemployment benefits. Did the new law legalizing and regularizing all brothel workers mean that it became a suitable job, so that a cocktail waitress laid off from a luxury hotel should accept a barmaid position in an exceptionally classy brothel? Seems that no one was actually pushed to do so, but the suggestion was made. The unemployed person asked to be advised of similar jobs, and was. What's so tough about it? No one was actually kicked off of unemployment for saying no to brothels. A few were furious at the proposal. That was what the German press I consulted said. But believe the English if you want. (According to them, the gilets jaunes are neo-fascists and Corbyn is an anti-Semite -- and the yellow vest is worn in protest for having to buy one!)
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Dusty Nickels Shows what you know.
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@117Ender And state legislatures started systematically withdrawing gobs and gobs of money from state universities, to lower taxes. There are LOTS of private actors in the student lending business. Look it up.
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@117Ender "Sallie Mae is one of the largest private student loan lenders in the industry . . . " and has been private since 2014. For example. In 2015, people were still taking out those loans thinking they were federal!
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@117Ender Maybe the testimony was . . . false or misleading?
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@117Ender Look it up.
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@117Ender Federal application requirements exist to make sure OTHER avenues of financing are exhausted before private loans are obtained, since no student loan is dischargeable in bankruptcy and private lenders have more onerous terms. Private loans are a major source of student loans, especially after a bachelor's degree. Sallie friggin' MAE was privatized. LOOK IT UP.
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@117Ender BUT THAT WAS THE POINT. Sallie Mae has been privatized. "Government adjacent?" Is this a legal term? You could say every bank chartered in the US is government adjacent, and you could make an argument to support it.
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@117Ender And people need loans when summer jobs used to cover a year of tuition because . . . ?
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@117Ender What changed was close to total withdrawal of state funding from state schools.
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I doubt that.
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@zugdarr They shouldn't be if they get jobs in the most politically sensitive areas of the world thanks to being related to Biden.
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@Michael Sprague That doesn't sound seasonal to me.
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@Michael Sprague Aww. Don't be sad. Reading issues does not mean you are a bad person.
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3:24 THIS 5:34 and 6:30 as well
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@iamnottodd But even in France, the movement appears to be weakening. I truly hope it is not. At the moment, it doesn't look that good, but I am hopeful. The shutdowns could not have come at a better time for Macron. :/ The firefighters shocked the establishment, I can tell you that much. Really shocked them.
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@zoobrizz People who use the term "loser" are at risk of becoming a cat lady.
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