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"You can't make this up" she says as she making things up. It astounds me how all those "journalists" could unashamedly lie like that.
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@johnnyfavorite1194 If you're vulnerable, like I am, 70 years old, somewhat overweight and diabetic, STAY HOME. I don't expect you to protect me, although it's nice if you do, because I can do what's necessary, and recommended, to protect myself. I sit outdoors, in my backyard, to maximise my intake of vitamin D. I'm eating better and exercise to lose some weight. I'm self isolating and I've fully vaccinated. I've done everything possible to protect myself from Covid. I've done that so the rest of you can go about your lives as normally as possible. Go to work, support your families, enjoy the life that is so fleeting and precious and don't rob our young of their youth. It'll only happen once and the fact that I'm elderly and facing my demise....as we all will, doesn't mean that YOUR life is over as well.
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Poor Karinge has to lie to cover up the lies and gaffes of Biden and Kamala.
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kai sanders You tip because if you don't, they'll have to pay them a decent, living wage. That means your food bill goes up to cover the cost of increased wages. Tipping keeps that increased cost an option and NOT forced on you if the service is bad. Tipping also encourages the server to try to do everything possible to make your meal a pleasant experience. You don't have to tip poor service and, as a server myself, I would encourage you to not tip a bad server. It's how they make their living and if they see that others are making more money, they will either be forced out of the business or change their attitude so they can do better. You don't have to tip. It's still up to you. Enforce a no tipping rule and what used to be covered by tips will be hidden in your final bill and it will leave no incentive for a server to be the best that they can be. In the end it will cost you MORE money to get poorer service.
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@pavango3812 If they're working to pay bills and put food on the table, that means that they have a JOB. Do you know what every citizen of the United States that has a JOB possesses? A Social Security number. You have to have it to pay income tax and to file your income to get a tax return. A Social Security number is all you need to apply for a mail in ballot in Georgia. So your "working to pay bills and put food on the table" trope is pure nonsense.
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@dangreene9846 45% of those, infected with Covid, in my district, are 100% vaccinated. Another 5% have 1 vaccination. It's almost as if getting vaccinated makes a big difference. This entire thing is what hypochondriacs live for.
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"They should have been able to bake that bread. We gave them the flour. We may have to discipline the worst of those bakeries. Put them out of business. That'll give the remaining bakeries the incentive to work harder" That's been the recurring theme in all socialist nations. My brother was in the USSR in the late seventies. He was in a cab in Moscow when it started raining. Every vehicle stopped dead and the drivers got out of their cars to fix windshield wipers in place. When my brother asked for an explanation, the cabbie explained that there are only so many windshield wipers made each year and they always run out. So people will steal wipers any chance they get. To prevent that, people were taking the wipers off the car, when it wasn't raining so the wipers aren't stolen. That's socialism for you.
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Good question. My sister lived in the US for years, illegally, before she was finally caught and shipped back to Canada. She's a red head and as white as can be. Skin colour was not the issue at all. She didn't go through the proper channels that we ALL have to go through. It's really strange how you and I can know that but the media types don't seem to get it. Anyway, don't go to the US. You're a lot better off here in Canada.
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@pavango3812 So what you're saying is that a little voter fraud is okay by you. Did you know that there have been elections that were tied? Or won by only 1 or 2 votes? Wouldn't "a few cases" of voter fraud have effected THOSE elections? Both Canada and Mexico require voters to show ID as do countries in Europe. Are they suppressing votes? Weak arguments for something that every adult already has. Everyone has ID and the new laws will allow you to get an ID, in Georgia, FREE. If you don't have the ambition to get that ID before 2022, that's YOU'RE OWN FAULT.
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@rhuttrho88 LOL. I'll bet this guy lives in a nice home with a decent pension. Worked hard all his life and did what was right for his family and community. He represents what we should all aspire to be. Humble, wise with an inner strength and determination. If all Americans were like him, there would not be any ghettos. There's too many like you, filled with anger and resentment and totally lacking in wisdom or comprehension.
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@cdrtej I learned that in college computer science back in the eighties and it's still applies.
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@pavango3812 I know that this is going to sound redundant but.....a BIG BUT......you need ID to work. You need a social security number. If you don't have one, you can't file your income taxes. You could have thousands of dollars owing to you and you can't get it because YOU DON'T HAVE A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. What kind of an idiot would do that? If you're working and you don't have a SS#, you're working illegally. You can't pay taxes. A drug dealer or a pimp doesn't need an SS#. A clerk at a 7/11 has one. If you want a drink, just one, you need ID. You need it to buy cigarettes. You need ID to open a bank account. To pick up a package at the Post Office, YOU NEED ID. If, for some weird reason, like you've never worked, had a bank account, have never smoked or drank alcohol, never travelled so you don't have a passport, don't have a driver's licence, never had a student card, never applied for welfare, have never needed to see a doctor, never had a Credit Card, never used food stamps or have NEVER, in your life, had to prove who you are....you can STILL get an ID, FREE of charge, from the Georgia government. If you can't get a FREE ID before the 2022 election, then I'm sorry to accuse you of not wanting to vote all that badly. This idea that needing to show ID suppresses voting is the most spurious argument that I've heard in a long time and deep down you know it. This is all about tribal politics. In fact, the claim that showing ID to vote is the real racist claim. Black people aren't little children. They do the same things that everyone else does. They're cops, doctors, teachers, mailmen, nurses, store clerks, government workers, carpenters and accountants.....JUST LIKE WHITE PEOPLE. They're adults. Quit treating them like children.
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@jefferydraper4019 That's what reasonable people do. Too bad we can't convince others to do the same.
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@Kefka2010 There are an estimated 12 million illegals in the US. If you put them all in one state, it would be around the 75th most populated country in the world. That's more people than Hungary, Belgium, Greece or Portugal. It is a serious problem. Also, Germany did not do that. They never had an immigration problem and they weren't looking for people that were living in Germany illegally and then deporting them. They stole everything that legal citizens of Germany possessed, put them in work and concentration camps because they were of Jewish heritage. My sister was a white Canadian, living illegally in the US. She was stopped by a police officer and had nothing that showed she was in the US legally nor did she have a passport. She was subsequently deported and it was the right thing to do. She couldn't hide behind the fact that she wasn't the right colour, didn't speak the language or any other excuse. The officer is a Border control agent. That's his job. What's the point of having immigration agents is they're not allowed to do their job. He let them go as soon as he verified that they weren't illegals. He did his job.
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Arkroyal How true. The idea that you shouldn't have to work hard yet you should always get paid to the max, is at the root of their socialist attitudes.
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Just what I, as a parent, want to see happen at my children's school. I want people, that I barely know, to recommend sexually explicit material to my children. "Hey Johnny....wanna see some fun stuff? Don't tell your parents, though". Do you know how the kids will react? "My teachers are so cool and my parents suck." Exactly what I intended my kids to react and conclude during their educational journey. (can't help the sarcasm)
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@ChienaAvtzon LOL. It appears that MLB would prefer to see white people in the stands over black Americans.
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If Goldberg was such a concerned citizen, he should have contacted that group immediately, with fears that others, without clearance were also contacted so that this chat couldn't go on with insecure and dangerous people listening in. But he didn't. He used it to further his own career and national security be damned until he got out of it what he wanted and needed to further is own career goals and political agenda. He wanted the worst possible outcome of this breach to maximise his own career. That's my conclusion and I don't think that I'm too far off the mark. He shouldn't have waited no longer than 10 minutes to report the problem to the proper authorities. After the breach was sealed, THEN he could have publishes his story.
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If you go to the 8:55 mark, where Joe says that he won't keep Trump's tariffs, you can see just how far he has slipped since 2020. He was already slipping then but it's gotten do much worse, since then. Americans, in fact the entire world, should be concerned about Biden's mental state. It's sad when this happens to people, including Biden, but facts are facts. We can't wish Biden's health to improve.
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@pavango3812 The topic is Georgia's new voting laws. Also, my ex-wife didn't have ID because she never worked. However, when we got married she had to dig up a birth certificate to prove who she was when we applied for a marriage licence. I'm sure that there are 3 million Americans that have never worked but if you are working, you must have a Social Security Number because you MUST pay income tax. It's the law. You can't pay income tax without that SS# or you can't fill out your income taxes. That's against the law as well. You have to file for income tax, if you work, or face legal repercussions. There are reasons that a person might not have an ID but, and a BIG BUT, if you can't get an ID, something that would be useful anyway, before the next election, almost 2 years away, voting isn't all that important to you. If fact, you've probably spent more time arguing with me than the time it would take to apply for a valid ID in Georgia.
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@pavango3812 You don't feel like it because you have no real argument and you know it. Did you also know that 80 million eligible voters didn't vote in 2020? About 80 million voters out of 233 million eligible voters. That means that 230 million of those voters have ID, using YOUR numbers. If you don't have ID, you don't want one. If 230 million eligible voters can get ID and I'm sure that the rest of the 330 million Americans have ID, as well, the 3 million that don't have it are living outside the American experience. WAY outside and I refuse to believe it's because they're oppressed and you've done nothing to prove that that they are.
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@pavango3812 Also, there's now talk about getting a vaccine ID so you can do ordinary things like going to concerts and ball games or even to go to the store. Are you going to fight that, too if it becomes mandatory?
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So....for thirty years, Jorge didn't break the law.....except for that illegal immigrant thing. He didn't break the law. So what? That's what you're supposed to do. You don't get brownie points for doing what is required of you. You do it because it is the right thing to do and is how we all create a civilised society. When he filled out the forms, incorrectly, he should have gotten another lawyer, did what was asked of him, and he could have been an American citizen, right now. Instead, he ignored procedure (would that be breaking the law?) and basically procrastinated, until the law and fate finally caught up with him. Suddenly, it's Trump's fault that he didn't follow procedure. Maybe he should take a good look at himself. Had he done the right thing when he reached adulthood, none of this would be happening. He'd be happily blowing leaves and plowing snow in Michigan right now. Sorry, Jorge. All you have to do is follow procedure. There are 45 million people in the US that were born in other countries, living legally in the US, right now. If 45 million people can follow those procedures, so can you. You created your own problems.
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kai sanders If the restaurant is keeping the tips, they're being dishonest and may even be breaking the law. I'm a bartender and I will guarantee you that almost every server will fight hard against taking away their tips. Although it's against the law now, I know of places where the servers made their living with NO wage and people would do anything to work there. It was the do gooders that insisted that they got an hourly wage. I know some places will put the tip on the bill and I don't like that practise. However, most places don't do that and it's a customer option to tip and serving staff make an excellent living on the tipping practise. Take away tipping and they make minimum wage.....that's all. If that doesn't bother you, that's fine but the people that depend on it for a living will strongly disagree. I know for a fact that EVERY server I know will tell the woman in this video to mind her own business and leave it alone and that will include minorities, as well.
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gwanael34 You could pay us, like anyone else, but most of us would take a substantial drop in pay. This has to be the only occupation in which well meaning people actually want to take away money from a working class and disguise it as empathy towards their plight. We're not asking for this change. If YOU don't want to tip, DON'T. My life won't change that much if you, as an individual, don't want to tip me. You'll save some money and you can blame poor service, lack of funds or even some kind of social conscience. Just don't tell us what is good for us. We can figure that out for ourselves.
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@Kefka2010 I'm Canadian. There are a little over 35 million of us. We have a tacit agreement that we will work together under certain principles and guidelines to build for ourselves a better life. Part of that is setting policy for immigration that would best suit our Canadian association so that it benefits all within that association. Without guidelines, immigration could run amok and a country could be overwhelmed socially and economically. Worse, we'd lose control over you would enter and if their intentions were good or bad. That's why we insist on applications to immigrate here, a resume, if you will. That's all we ask. That's all the American government asks. However, illegals don't want to apply. They just want to enter. It'd be like a new employee insisting that he doesn't have to submit a resume. Just start working and get paid, whether qualified or not. They want to come and we have to provide them with the means to survive until they get on their feet.....if ever. What a great idea. Also, I have been to the States and have had to show my ID, a number of times. I had to show my passport and once I left it behind and my dad (he had his) had to go to the place we were staying and get it for me, before they'd let me go. Why were we detained? Ontario plates. I had my Canadian driver licence but that wasn't good enough. It was inconvenient but it wasn't the end of the world. Half hour later I was on my way. It wasn't the end of the world for these ladies either. All they had to do was show their ID and away they went. Not that horrible. They just made a big deal about nothing.
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@diamondsfurez7456 The point of this video and his post isn't about whether waiting tables is glamorous or not. It's about whether it's racist and sexist and that they're being exploited by not being paid a living wage. He's stating that he was paid a very good wage which flies against the claim that waiters don't make a decent wage. I've worked as a bartender for years. No it's not always glamorous and it can be a thankless job, especially for the waiters and waitresses. However, the money is excellent and you meet some great people and that's the reason most of us did it. I also worked construction. The money was good, in fact, it was excellent. However, it wasn't glamorous. It's dirty, hot one day, freezing the next, wet the day after. It's backbreaking at times and the hours are long and customers will treat you like crap and try to take advantage of you. But, the money's good and there is a satisfaction in creating a product that customers find value in. Glamorous jobs are the myth of TV movies and romance novels. Reality is a lot different.
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@diamondsfurez7456 I'm a bartender right now and I'm going to Costa Rica in January. I'm being accompanied 3 other waiting staff. I don't own my own home but they all do. I worked with a guy that bought a beautiful waterfront home which was paid off when he retired. If you work at a moderately successful business and get in 30 hours a week, you'll do just fine and as well as any factory worker. I've worked a 7 hour Friday night shift and have taken home almost 400 dollars in tips. Right now, I make minimum wage. If you upped my hourly to minimum wage, I wouldn't make 1 cent more and if that were to take the place of tips, I would take a huge cut in pay. The biggest issue waiting staff have isn't how much they make while working but how owners won't give them enough hours. Most waiting staff are always moving around in attempts to get more hours. I could get by on a 25 hr workweek but anything over 30 is great. I don't think I know any waiting staff that get 40 hours a week which is the norm in manufacturing and construction. Hours are a constant complaint and owners use them to discipline workers or give them shifts that aren't as busy. Exchanging 8 hours of good hours for 8 hours of bad ones could cost you well over 100 dollars. This whole tip thing is just another way for champagne liberals to feel good about themselves without even having to talk to staff any more than they have to. There's a saying among waiting staff. "The size of the tip is directly proportional to the cut of the customer's clothes". What they mean is that the more expensive their clothes, the worse the tip you can expect to receive. Blue collar workers tip the best. Business types are stingy and rude.
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I've worked as a bartender for years. Every time I hear the claim that we need to live only on an hourly salary, I lose it....and so does every other server. We do very well, financially, thanks to the customers and we like it that way. It's an incentive to do a good job and to have a friendly rapport with the customers and it's reflected in how well we do in tips. This woman is out of her mind.
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Exactly in line with my comment earlier. Just because I'm 70, somewhat overweight and diabetic which puts me at risk....EVERYONE STAY HOME!!!! Am I ever important.
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@FlipperRex They're putting people in jail for memes and cartoons. Why bother with books, which don't have the reach that they did in the thirties, when memes are the way socio-political statements are made today? They're metaphorically burning those memes AND those who post them online. You're ignorant on how to assess the way that history can repeat itself. History repeating itself isn't a point by point replication of the past. It's recognising how new political and cultural conventions can cause people to behave in the same way others did in the history. Nazis burned books. The German government now arrests those spreading memes. Both ways are to control speech and thought through the most important communication methods of the time. So yes....Germans are so afraid of Hitler and Nazism that they're bringing back the Reich.
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gwanael34 What the owner of the business I work at makes is NONE of my business. It's his business and I don't get to spend his money or live in his house. I made an agreement with him when I took the job. How much money he made never came up and it doesn't matter anyway. My agreement was that I worked for a certain amount of money and tips and that's what I do. Envy is a vice I try to avoid. In fact, I hope he does make money. It ensures that the business will stay open and I will keep a job I like.
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@dereklewis4321 "as for me, in my opinion, I'm speaking for me, I would not be very patriotic." This is exactly what he said about cheering for a recession. Poofy may have paraphrased but the meaning is exactly the same.
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gwanael34 I make, on average about 25 bucks an hour, including tips. I'd never make that much working for a wage in the small pub that I work in. The place would go out of business. So, yes I do care if I make more money. No job, no money. The logic is impeccable, here. I can guarantee you that everyone that I know that works in my field, will tell you the same thing. "Leave the system alone". It's you. You don't want to make the decision on whether to tip or not or how much to tip. In reality, you think that it will lower the cost of going out to eat. You're masking it with a phoney concern for the worker but it's all about you. I'm in the field and have been for years. Don't tell me what I and my colleagues would prefer. We know. You're being stubborn and disingenuous with your attitude and I'm sure it has nothing to do with how much money I make. It's that you don't want to spend it.
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gwanael34 Now, you're assuming that I'm using guilt to procure tips. As far as I know I've never served you so how could you know that. Your making assumptions about me and all my colleagues without any knowledge of who we are. You're trying to force an idea on me and telling me that it's for my own good. Well, I like the system as it is now and I've worked under that system since 1989. I think I have a firm grasp on what my working conditions entail. I'll decide what's for my own good. I don't need someone else to tell me. "God protect me from those with good intentions." If you're "good intentions" are unsolicited and unwanted, they're not good intentions.
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Don't be. The fact that you'd feel shame tells me that you're a good guy and have nothing to be ashamed of.
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Sillyman However, you're not the one advocating for legislation on something you don't even understand. I would think that understanding the issue, that you're about to make judgements on, would be a priority BEFORE you start babbling about it and make a fool of yourself.
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And I'd make bets that the abysmal men's hockey team would STILL beat the women's national champions. Funny how that works.
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gwanael34 I know of places where they get no wages at all and people would do anything to work there but no one ever quits. I work as a bartender right now and get paid 12.50 and hour and that's not bad but it's not a living wage where I live. I more than double that most nights and would't be able to live if it weren't for the tips. What small business owner is going to pay 30 bucks an hour for help. These aren't all big conglomerates. I work for a small, hole in the wall pub, owned by a married couple, and it's not a gold mine by any stretch of the imagination. Even at 3 bucks an hour wage, I'd still be approaching at least 18 to 20 bucks an hour on average. Not great but not bad. Like it or not, take away tipping and we WOULD be making sweat shop wages. Anyone that would guilt trip to get tips is a lousy server. A busy establishment attracts customers and we will make up your decision to not tip over the evening. I tip cabbies quite generously as well. I live on a long driveway and this one cabbie would drop me off on the street, even when it was raining. I never tipped him. He told his fellow cabbies I was a cheap SOB and they all laughed at him and told him that it was him that was the lazy SOB and I always tipped them. Next time I drew him as a cabbie, he drove me to my door and I tipped him. I didn't know that he'd been told yet and was informed a couple of weeks later. You get what you pay for and you pay for what you get. You just don't like parting with your money.
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Prophet seven I'd say, by reading your comment, that you've never worked in the service industry for a living. I have 14 years in and I'm still there, right now and I'm leaving for my bartending job in 20 minutes. I guarantee you that everyone that I've ever worked with will tell you the same. Leave the system alone. We're doing very well with it the way it is. Notice how it's multi-millionaires, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, that are speaking on our behalf. I never asked them to and I don't want it, either. I work in a small pub and if the owners had to pay me what I make now in wages and tips, they'd be forced to, either lay me off, or shut it down. There's no way they could afford it. I'm no idiot. I see the ring offs at the end of the day and I know, approximately how much they make and they just couldn't do it. All you're doing is shutting down another business and it helps no one.
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City folk perception on farming. You put some seeds in the ground, wait for the rain and then collect the big money. Easy stuff and you get to sit outside to watch the crops grow. I forgot. Lots of illegal migrants to pick the crops and rock bottom wages. You can sit and watch them pick tomatoes and cucumbers and sing folk songs. It brings a tear to my eye to think of those traditional values.
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I've read the entire bill and challenged critics, of that bill, to show me exactly what part of it suppresses voting. I even gave a link to a copy of the bill so they don't even have to look for it. Do you know what? Not one person has responded. Not even when, after 24 hours, I called them out on it. Nothing but silence. I'm Canadian. I've read this bill and I'll bet that Sleepy Joe hasn't. Either that or he's just lying.
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@pavango3812 Which would mean that have proper ID to vote would simplify any investigations, if necessary. If would also limit the opportunities for voter fraud. That's what we want. If ID is used, you can't have a political party claiming that certain people, Russians as an example, are walking in and voting and never having to prove who they are. Russians could go to a precinct, pay a heroin addicts money to not vote and then vote in their places and get away with it because he doesn't have to prove who they are.....and then DONALD TRUMP WINS. Much joy and celebrations in all KKK meetings. Champagne for all, that is, if they have ID to prove they're old enough to drink. You're making a ridiculous argument.
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@pavango3812 Canada has ID requirements to vote. No one in Canada complains about it. They take it for granted because they believe that their vote is sacred enough to have that requirement attached to it. Canada isn't the only country. Mexico has the same requirement. The Netherlands requires ID and a voting pass. In Belgium you need voter ID and a letter from municipal administration calling you to vote. France requires a voting card, ID card or passport. This isn't unprecedented. In fact, most countries require them. Mexico has a voting ID card system that have unique security capabilities. https://www.gi-de.com/en/spotlight/identities/voting-id-cards-mexico This is in a country that is poorer than the US and is the number one source of immigrants to the US but every citizen has one. Every citizen that wants to vote, even those living abroad, has this voting card. You're going to have to come up with one hell of a video to explain it to me so it would make sense. I don't see it happening.
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"I think that's a little unfair how you posed that question" Imagine.....journalists posing unfair questions!!!!! Who ever heard of such a thing? Is this the state of journalism in Biden's America? Shocking!!!!
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I went to school with Jim Crow. No BS. He was a hell of a good guy. He worked at the local paper mill for over 40 years. We live in Canada, though so he may not be the same guy. Come to think of it, my high school bus driver's name was Jim Crow. Didn't care much for him. I think he was drunk half the time.
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@dereklewis4321 It's paraphrased. The meaning is exactly the same. Unless there is a difference in meaning, any real criticism is basic nit picking and pointless.
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I'm 70 years old, somewhat overweight and diabetic, which has been a lifelong affliction. Therefore, I'm at risk of dying if I catch Covid. So, I stayed home. I've decided that, since I'm at risk and should stay home, ALL of you are going to stay home. If I'm to suffer, EVERYONE is going to suffer. No fun for me.....NO fun for you. Thank you for your mandated cooperation.
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@boundlesswithbenito If it was illegal to speak Spanish these two ladies would be in jail, wouldn't they? The officer let them go. That would indicate that it is NOT illegal. It's not a very bright comment.
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When the government becomes the competition when hiring employees, wages will go up. Especially when the government job involves sitting home and playing video games. Inflation anyone?
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@frzstat That's hilarious. I got my SIN card in 1969 and I never once thought of it that way. By the way, SIN is an acronym for Social Insurance Number, in case you were wondering.
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@whatthehell2592 Minorities don't drink in Louisiana. It's alcohol suppression.
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Salvatore Eze The longer we can put that recession off, the better it will be for all of us. If you invest wisely, be conservative with your spending, when the times are good, the better off you'll be when a recession does hit. Therefore, this wishing for a recession before the next election, just to get rid of Trump, is nuts. Only those, the elites, the ones with the money already in their pockets, will benefit from it. The rest of us will suffer. Peoples lives will be destroyed, savings will disappear, suicides will increase and homelessness will increase. This isn't something that a caring individual wishes for. This is something that a caring and responsible person wants to postpone as long as possible.
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That Pollock showed what he's like in the Fox and CNN interviews. He just shouted over everyone that was questioning his narrative. He's a lying POC and he knows it. He shouts to drown out anyone that might call him out for the liar he is.
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They just shot YOU.....the messenger. Instead of hearing the message, evaluating what your message said and then formulating a coherent conclusion on what to do about it, they shot the proverbial messenger. They're angry because they know that the message can only lead to one conclusion. DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT THIS FALL. Better to shoot you than do that. I had the same experience having a few beers at my favourite bar the other night. I said something that made sense, about oil prices, and then had 2 guys yell at me for 15 minutes. I went to the bathroom and sat at the bar instead of returning to my table. The bartenders both laughed and said that it took me long enough to escape those clowns. All I could do was laugh with them and explain that I'm a pretty patient guy.
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@drewpooters62 I live in a small town and I'm a retired bartender/bouncer. I built myself a reputation for being rather "insistent" about maintaining a certain level of behaviour. In other words, these guys knew me and weren't about to take a swing at me. Also both bartenders are close friends, one calls me Uncle Jack and I've travelled all over the Caribbean with the other one. That's why they were laughing about it. Things were rather stacked in my favour. All because I said that increased production would drive down prices and this was basic economics. Apparently, socialists don't believe that economics is a science.
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@TacoPoweredTimeTraveler So there IS a definition for "Independent party". Good. I'm glad we all agree. Also, when you have parties, especially 2 powerful ones like there is in the US, a third party would be independent of the 2 powerful ones. It's a logical descriptive of the party. A party that gone its own way.
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Joe Biden is going to shut down the virus using Trump's vaccine. Good job, Doctor "Joe".
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@Frank71 Read the Georgia bill. This is where ALL the controversy is taking place. The baseball All-Star game is leaving Georgia because of this new bill and it's going to another state that has stricter voting laws than the ones that Georgia will use in the next election. Remember again, that they're calling Georgia's new voting laws oppressive.....NOT American voting laws. It has provisions in it that says that if a precinct, a voting region, has more then 1 hour wait times, they are to increase the number of voting booths or machines and increase polling workers. If the voter's list, in that precinct, goes over 2000 voters, voting precincts will be changed to bring that number back down to 2000 voters. There must be 1 voting booth or machine for every 250 voters plus one extra for the remainder. That means that if there are 1100 voters in that precinct, there will be 5 booths.....4 for the 1000 and another for the remaining 100, equaling 5 booths. There will also be 1 mail-in drop box for every precinct. There will be 17 early election days which will include Saturdays and Sundays and anyone can request a mail-in vote and will NOT required to give a reason for that request. Mail in drop boxes are a new thing in Georgia, only used last year because of the pandemic. Now it's coded into law. This cap on voters, per precinct, isn't based on how many actually vote but on how many eligible voters that there are in a precinct. The reason that you have IDs is so if you do share the same name as someone else, your ID number will identify you, NOT the name. That only makes sense. You're confusing the concept of American voting laws with state laws. Georgia is a state and each state decides its own voting procedures. The big reason that there's an outcry against the bill is that there are those that don't want ANY IDs required at ANY time during the voting process. They say it's racist. In Europe, according to you use your national ID card. That's an ID. In some countries, like Belgium, the law says that you MUST vote. Not so in the US and specifically Georgia. They want you to register, so they can determine your status and the precinct size and number of polling stations needed and then when you vote, they want to see that same ID to prove, just like your wife does with her national card, that you're the person that is registered to vote. I've read the bill....all 97 pages of it. The controversy is fabricated and there is no voter suppression intended in Georgia by the initiating this bill. It's pure politics. The controversy is voter ID. You just told me that they need it in Europe. Why is it so bad when Georgia requires you to show ID, then? I don't get it. Is it because "conservatives" are asking for it? That's seems like a very poor reason to me, especially since you seem to think that it's just fine in Europe.
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@Frank71 So, the Republicans of Georgia, pass a bill, that requires ID to vote, in an effort to lesson the suspicions in a close race, and you object. You don't even have to get special ID. Your Social Security Card will do and all those who have ever worked have it. You need it to pay income tax and when you file your yearly taxes, you have to give that Social Security Number that is on your card. You have to file income taxes. It's the LAW. If you don't do it, you may face tax evasion charges and you have to have a Social Security Card and number to file your annual income taxes. If you've ever worked....YOU ALREADY HAVE ID. You have the ID that will allow you to vote. All you have to do is make sure that you're registered to vote. You can do that online or go to the local precinct and see if you're on the voter's list. If you don't have a Social Security Number, which means that you've never worked, you can use your driver's licence. Once again, you don't have to do anything. You've got the ID already. If you're on welfare, you had to show ID to get it. Same as food stamps so those people already have the ID. See how I'm narrowing down the numbers of people that are being inconvenienced. If you open a bank account, you need ID. If you want to buy smokes....ID. If you want to buy beer....ID. Buy a gun....ID for the background check. A credit card....ID to prevent identity theft and fraud. Almost everyone already has the ID that they need to vote. The very few that don't have any ID, will get it FREE in Georgia. Yet, the Democrats are still complaining. All you have to do is register. Once registered, unless you move, you can vote. If you're unsure of your voting status, you go online and see if you're registered. Almost everyone has a cell phone so it's easy. if you don't have a cell phone, get a friend to see for you. It's not that hard. You can register at any time. You don't have to wait for an election. Register today, RIGHT NOW, so you can vote in mid terms in November 2022. You've got lots of time Just take the ID, that you used to register, and take it to the polling station, when election day comes. It's NOT rocket science.
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@Frank71 Obviously, you haven't read the bill. You're just going on about things that you've heard from the media and the Georgia opposition. It's being interpreted for you. Read the bill. Here it is. I've read the entire thing https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/01/us/politics/georgia-voting-law.html Now, tell me how this is somehow a horrible thing. Use the bill itself, not some media talking point. I've tried to explain it to you, using information that I've gotten from the bill. I don't know what else to do. You're making accusations that have nothing to do with these new election laws in Georgia.
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@Frank71 It won't affect your right to vote unless you live in Georgia. If you live somewhere else, it doesn't affect you. The only thing that might affect you is how you allow the media to interpret thing for you. I'd never allow that. I do understand that if you can't read English that well it could be a problem for you. Your writing is quite good and I never guessed that English was a second language. I understand now what you mean by not trusting that I'm telling you the truth. All I can say, in my defence, is that I did link you to the document itself, believing that you would be able to understand what it said. Why would I do that if I were trying to fool you. If I were lying, the last thing that I'd want is for you to see the evidence and be able to judge it for yourself. I made it easier for you to prove me a liar, if I was lying. I might be wrong on the details but I'm being as truthful as possible and the fact that I did lead you to the bill itself might prove that I'm not trying to hide things from you.
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@Frank71 There are lots of people on welfare here, too. If you don't have the money, there's Medicaid, a government financed medical system. You can get food stamps, a way to get free food, financed by the government and subsidised housing. The problem is that there are lots of people who don't want to work. I've watched them come and go where I work and there's no reason why they can't hold the job but they're too lazy. I don't begrudge anyone, that's having some problems, some help, but to make a life long career out of collecting welfare, you're playing the ones that work hard, everyday, for suckers. It's theft and that's not humane at all. I'd gladly help anyone but there comes a time that they have to grow up and help themselves. We have too much of it here. I'm originally from the Netherlands and they have the same type of social system there as they do in Scandinavia. However, they work and they work hard. They don't ask for money to sit at home and do nothing. America has always been a country of people that are self reliant and we've become the richest country in the world by following a life of hard work and smart decisions. Now, our young don't want that anymore and it's killing our country.
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@eddypdeb And it's STILL and ID system. You just don't show up and say "I'm here to vote. Give me a ballot". You have a national ID card. I don't have one for your country. I can't show up on election day, in your town and vote. Why? I don't have a national ID card for YOUR country. Do you really want every foreign tourist, in your country, on voting day, to head down to the polls and to vote in YOUR elections? The American registration system might be different but all they're saying is show ID when you vote. They don't want every foreigner, who happens to be in the US, on voting day, to vote in their elections. The Georgia law, the voting laws for THAT state, requires that you show ID when you vote. So does your country. You just said as much. You have a National ID card. I don't. You can vote in your country and I can't. As for the purges, if you move to Canada and become a Canadian citizen, are you still allowed to vote in the country that you came from? I'm saying that you won't be. Maybe I'm wrong but I'll bet that you won't be. Also, the US sends a regional representative to the Congress. If you move from Georgia to Montana, you should vote for the representative from Montana NOT the one in Georgia, thousands of miles away. That's why they purge the voting records in Georgia. They don't want your name in Georgia and in Montana on their voting register. That's also why you need to show ID, so that someone can't show up and pretend to be someone that's on the register who happens to be living in Montana. The election system is completely different in the US because the US is organised differently than YOUR country. Each state has its own election laws because each state sends its own representatives to Congress. In a way it's like the EU, each country has its own representatives that is sent to Brussels. Would you want someone, living in a different country, voting in YOUR election? The US is the same. The people of Texas don't want the people of Michigan voting for their representatives. All the law in Georgia is asking for is to show ID. ID.....just like your national ID. If you lose your ID card, you get another one. If a person in Georgia doesn't have ID, he can get one, from the government of Georgia, FREE. How is that different than your country? I'm NOT getting it.
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Another attempt by elitists to "help" the "stupid and helpless" poor people. I would imagine that they love to sit around at the country club and tell each other how they don't tip because it's racist and sexist. From someone who's worked in the service industry for years, I heartily thank them for their caring and empathy but would you please just go f--k yourself. We really don't need champagne liberals telling us what is good for us.
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@transistor3115 We like capitalism that operates withing the bounds of the law. We don't like the sale of slaves. That's capitalism, too. Isn't it ironic how that the Republicans, the protectors of capitalism, is the party that was formed, specifically, to end slavery. We believe in human rights and the Constitution and the rule of law. You're completely misunderstanding what "us guys" stand for.
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I've had two Covid vaccines. I'm as protected from Covid as I'm going to get. If my neighbour doesn't want to get vaccinated.....fine. I'm not afraid of him. I'm protected because I'm vaccinated. If I'm not protected, why did I get the jab?
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@davidjames8031 I've read the new law and it goes a long way to cut down on wait times in a line to vote to no longer than an hour. 1 voting booth for every 250 registered voters in a precinct. If people wait in line for more than an hour, they will add another voting booth, in that precinct, until those line ups are no longer an issue. However, since voters can vote by mail or vote early, it is highly unlikely that 250 voters will show up on election day for every booth and overwhelm the system. Unlikely, as in, it won't happen.
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Why does Biden remind me of Tim Conway's old man skits on the Carol Burnett show?
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Yul Strokheet Al-Wauch I'm going to die, too. It's guaranteed to happen. Don't stick your head in the ground. YOU'RE going to die, too.....Trump or not. What a moronic way to rationalise a state of human hardship and misery. It's hate to the nth degree.
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@Tempelers However, if you do GET Covid, you'd be in a better place to fight it if you're as healthy as possible. That would include having the levels of Vitamin D to help do the job. It's like going on a marathon run but never training for it. You might finish the run but you'll not be anywhere close to winning and you may just collapse due to over exhaustion. Not training and trying a marathon could even kill you. Vitamin D won't prevent Covid but it gives you the physical tools to help fight it off when infected. This is so simplistic, I'm amazed that it has to be explained to you.
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It would appear that taking part in fraud was the best decision of his life. The country is in a sad state when that is allowed to happen.
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The couch has a foot fetish.
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What kind of narcissistic jerk looks at others as if they're a threat, Rachel? That's been my biggest take on this entire Covid epidemic. Just how self absorbed some people actually are. Maddow is quite comfortable labelling people through her own lens of fear. I find it disgusting.
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Apparently, the Democrats feel that's identity representation is more important than qualifications or corruptibility (Kamala Harris?). No wonder they have the problems they do in California.
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Simon Bouchard Then DON'T tip. You have that option. A "no tipping" law will force increased wages and force some establishments out of business and others to cut staff. Then you won't have that option and you'll pay the same for poor service as you would for good service. Then watch the quality of service go down, overall. Tipping is part of the overall expense of dining out and is a part of the expense that both you and the server have control over. You're taking away that control.
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1barnet1 If there's no tipping there is no incentive for the server to do a good job. They have no vested interest in working harder. They'll get exactly the same as a poor server so why go the extra mile. What you'll get is an ownership who is now the only incentive to work hard and that never works out well. I'm a server and I'll will do anything within reason to do a good job because I like making ten to fifteen dollars over minimum wage. No one will benefit from a no tipping law. Not the servers, owners or the customer.
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Simon Bouchard It's still your option. If you don't want to tip....DON'T. I'm in the business and I'm off to work in 2 hours and I'm going to make tips. If this woman thinks that she's doing the servers a big favour by stopping tips, she's sorely mistaken. Ask any server if they want to give up tips and take a raise in pay, they'll tell you to go to the burning fire (I think you know where that is). I'm not being rude. I'm telling you how it is. It's not the servers that want to see an end to tipping. In the end, it's still up to you.
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1barnet1 I'm in the business and I'm off to work in a couple of hours and I will guarantee you that there isn't one server I know that wants to see the end of tipping unless they're guaranteed, at least a 10 dollar an hour raise....or more. Serving staff are NOT the ones complaining of the tipping culture. Not at all.
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@mr.whisky5374 Even if he did, the hate and insanity of those not edited out is appalling.
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light473 It's funny how Canada rates higher than the US as a country to live in, although they're quite close. I prefer the health care here and I think Americans are next to insane when it comes to the gun culture and how it's being perverted in the big cities. I have nothing against hunting but hand gun open carry is just plain dumb and the death toll in the US proves it.
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Chadwicked B I was waiting for the intellectual take on this subject. Took you long enough.
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Chadwicked B Another profound thought. You're on fire, today, aren't you.
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Shoplifting is an undocumented sale.
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80 million, of the 81 million who voted for Biden, are too dead or too embarrassed to watch this town hall.
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I see a Pulitzer in Maddow's future. She deserves to be formally recognised for breaking "Cookiegate".
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Too bad he doesn't talk to the Teacher's union like that. After all, they're behaving more childish than that little girl.
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Because they want to create division in the country. They know that illegal immigration angers and upsets a LOT of Americans.
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@31mAyMgaYanga Why is it wrong? Germany is quelling free speech and the United States has done the same thing. They're BOTH guilty.
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@doubledoubleusmokymirror4d405 Teacher activists are already teaching that to children. They believe that the point of education is to turn out activists. Read the works of Gramsci and Freire. Socialist teachers love their work.
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@snex000 He was established, in an immigration court, to be a member of MS-13. Then an appellate immigration court upheld that decision, naming him as a gang member, and ruled that he be deported. Garcia asked that he not be sent back to El Salvador because he would be in danger from rival gangs so the judge ruled that he not be sent there until conditions change. They have. Since then, gang activities have been slowed to ZERO. He could have been sent to any other country but what country would accept a KNOWN gang member. So he went nowhere....until the gang problem in El Salvador has been solved. Now, Garcia is being charged with drug and human trafficking and an involvement with the killing of a gang member's mother. He's still under an order of deportation from 2019. The US government allowed him to stay so he could commit those crimes and even beat his wife, which is a despicable crime....unless one is of a favoured demographic. He should have been sent home, El Salvador, the minute that the gang problem had been solved. You're defending an indefensible human being.
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The minute I hear that switch from an American accent to a strong, pretentious Hispanic accent to pronounce an Hispanic name, I know I'm dealing with a leftist. They're so fake that I can't even start to believe a word that they say.
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Sometimes I just want to reach into my TV, grab Trudeau by the lapel and slap his face while shouting. "For Gawd's sake, answer the FFing question". One of the most maddening people that I've ever encountered but Kamala is starting to give him a run for his money.
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I'm a person with blue eyes..... a homo sapiens with blue eyes to be accurate. The homo sapiens describe what kind of creature I am. The blue eyes describe a feature that I have but doesn't describe what I am. That's the same thing with a Constitutional Republic. We do have a democratic process but that's a description of a feature of our Constitutional Republic. We are a Constitutional Republic that features the democratic process....a democracy, which is comparable to blue eyes on a human being.
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It appears that these lefties can only be good at either math or at English.....not both. You need to understand what the column descriptive means before you understand how to deal with the numbers in those columns. Be good at both, you guys. English isn't that difficult if you've learned to read and have a dictionary.
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It might be a decorum problem but for the media to call it out the way that they did and then blame Republicans for the back door dealings of that Democrat aide, is a much bigger problem. It shows an hypocrisy that pure propaganda. They'd have been better off ignoring it.
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Of course they hoped that the sanctions would deter the invasion of Ukraine. It didn't work. Why can't they just admit it? "The deterrence failed. I wish it hadn't but it did" There....it's SO simple and no one could call you dishonest.
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If 2000 bucks is going to change my life, my life would have changed a long time ago. This is Democratic Socialism. They pay you to vote for them. People fall all over themselves to get the cash and it really doesn't help most people one bit. It's a band-aid.
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American By Birth Patriot By Choice A living wage is enough for me to get food and shelter. Everything after that is a bonus. Most restaurants or bars pay a minimal wage. It's a tough wage for the average person to live on and it's tough for the owner to pay more. Not always. Some places do really well and the owner gets rich and good on them. However, people think that the serving business is easy. Although there is a minimum training involved, there is a great deal of skill and anyone that's worked in the business can spot the good from the bad almost right away. It takes a certain personality type to do the job effectively. Right now, where I work, they need a new bartender. You'd think that would be easy but, in spite of all the resumes, no one is working out. In fact, most serving staff in our town have run the gamut of taverns in town. That's because it's not as simple as it sounds. That's where the tips makes things better for both the owner and the server. The owner can run a viable business, even though it is small and the employee, the really good one, is rewarded to the point that the owner will retain the services of the best available. What's more, the customer doesn't have to tip. It's an option. If you can't afford to throw down 2 bucks over a 15 dollar meal, you shouldn't have gone out to eat in the first place because you can't afford it. Having said that the motto for the server is this. "Gratuities not expected but always appreciated." It keeps businesses open and provides options for the customer. It works for everyone. Like I said. If you don't wan to tip......don't. Basically, any business that adds tips to the bill is being lazy and doesn't want to deal with the idea that some servers are better than others. The loss of meritocracy in the workplace and the lazy server gets the same as the hard worker.
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Michael Hoover Well, aren't you the little ray of sunshine. The "nothing is ever right" kind of guy. People with that attitude wear it around like an old raincoat. People avoid you because you reek of negativity. Not one positive thing in your entire comment. Life sucks, don't it?
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They've blamed the Republicans for racism, Jim Crow 2.0, segregation and an insurrection on par with the Civil War. This is child's play for them.
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It figures that a wishy washy man would have an unruly dog. I noticed this trend in dog owners. The undisciplined have undisciplined dogs.
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@lisad6106 Yes...I can still infect other people. Some are vaccinated, some not. Those that are vaccinated are protected, like I am, from the severity of the virus. Those who aren't vaccinated, by their choice, have to live with the consequences of that choice or die by it. It's what they've chosen. We have the right to our choices, even the stupid ones.
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The Democrats have nothing except their hatred of the rich and their success. It's been a recipe for disaster all through the 20th Century and they want those disasters to continue into the 21st century. That's what hatred and envy will do to you.
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If you have an ID card then you ain't black.
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Damn, if only more people were like this guy. What a great world this would be. Just when you lose all hope for the sanity of humanity, a guy like this comes along and restores it. There's still hope that people will come to their senses.
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What a great tactic that woman used. Insult the guy and then demand that he not defend the insult she threw at him. Just keep yelling "white supremacy" and someday it will stick. If the public charge law was in effect when that poem was written and, as she seems to claim, only Europeans were allowed to immigrate back then, wouldn't the public charge laws apply to European immigrants? She's intentionally distorting facts to achieve power and is using leading questions to twist the hearings to reflect her own biases.
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@Inaworldoflove There was no primary vote. We were just told that she was the candidate. That stuff at the convention was just a formality.
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I have an idea. Why doesn't Cuomo start programs to discourage people form committing crimes? Programs like incarceration for those who commit crimes and incentives to get early release if they show that they want to change their lives. Also, requiring them to have a job before they get an early release and programs to encourage employers to hire felons who have shown a willingness to change, relocate and work. Also, it might be a good idea to increase the number of courts, judges and the administration to handle those numbers. I'm sure that there's more but this might be a start.
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Jason Pollack.....one of those guys who thinks yelling and interrupting makes him right. His film, juxtaposed against the full film, makes him out to be a liar. He's no different than the person that put together the original video about the Covington Kids. He snipped out what he didn't like and changed the narrative to suit his own purposes. In Pollack's case, he is building a reputation as a film maker through creating controversy. "Creating"...that's the key word. You don't create truth. You relate it.
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You're one of the few in this video that showed any common sense. He's lucky, strike that, we're lucky, that your paths crossed.
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