Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Don't Walk, Run! Productions"
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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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@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
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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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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