Re: Job Offer

On 3/21/2025 5:51 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/21/2025 6:20 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/21/2025 5:10 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:44:56 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:43:13 -0300, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:11:10 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:05:24 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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On 3/21/2025 4:49 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/21/2025 3:28 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:

On 3/21/2025 3:28 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/21/2025 2:23 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:20:01 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 3/21/2025 8:40 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/20/2025 11:33 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

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Apparently the far right still maintains its world view by ignoring
all relevant facts it dislikes.
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An universal trait, across all ideologies.

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I strongly disagree. "Univeral" seems to imply "everybody" of "all
ideologies." I think complete dismissal of facts is far, far more
common
on the right.
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What's more common universally is to disagree on the relative
importance
of various bits of data. And there were long periods in U.S. history
when that was the main subject of disputes - which data set is more
significant? Which facts should get more attention? Which issues are
more important?
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We're far beyond that now, at least with the right wing. Once a Trump
administration invented "alternative facts" verifiable data went
out the
window. The right now has a strong tendency to blatantly invent
"facts"
to justify its ideas. Vance essentially confessed to that, regarding
small town Ohio pets being eaten by immigrants, claiming it was OK to
"create stories" - IOW, outright lie. Musk is "finding" billions and
billions of dollars of fraud that regularly disappears whenever anyone
else looks into the details.
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Your efforts today are less blatant, but related: "Here's _one_
glacier
that grew, so we should ignore the immense worldwide shrinking of
almost
all glaciers." And "Land here is slowly sinking, so we should ignore
worldwide satellite measurements showing oceans rising."

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I recall hearing that Joe Biden is so sharp that his staff can't keep
up with him.  That Trump went to Russia and had women pee on him. That
there was choice but to pack up and leave Afghanistan the way it was
done.  That there was no way to close the border without Congressional
action. That Hunter Biden would not be pardoned. (etc)
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Both sides lie. Both sides make up "Facts." Both sides fund their pet
projects. Both sides are crooks.
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-- Speaker Pelosi to Congress
"We need to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it."

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Leave it to the dumbass to intentionally conflate politics with science.
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Dishonesty may be among our smaller problems.
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Ms Pelosi also said (clearly and correctly) that Mr Biden could not
waive student loans without an Act of Congress.
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Merely being truthful and correct had no affect on what actually
happened, as Mr Biden bragged about subsequently defying the direct
Supreme Court ruling.
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No, he didn't. He said "we'll have to find another way to do it".
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And then continued anyway, misusing a 'special cases' provision for
large classes of borrowers.
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People (me) who worked two jobs to pay tuition at retail in cash were
miffed at least.

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Must have felt the same way my cousin did when the drinking age in
Massachusetts was lowered to 18 the day after he turned 21.
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That's not the way life turns sometimes - I learned to live with it.
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My loans were paid off long ago, but I thought student loan forgiveness
was a great idea, and still do. One of the reasons this country lags in
education is that we make it hard to get one. It's why Musk wants to
keep the H1B program going, and convinced trump to make it so - couple
that with this asinine thought that the government shouldn't be involved
in education, and it's no wonder American companies need to have foreign
students.

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    Indians, Pakistanis and Russians are taking over American's
jobs And they are "legalized" by the rich guys that want to profit on
the FREE education they received in India, Pakistan, whatever.

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It's smacks of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

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Plumbers, truck drivers, and construction workers paying off college
graduates' loans. Well of course.....

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    Charge it to people that have hundreds of billions of dollars.
They probably won't even notice.
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They already pay most of the income taxes...  and also, most of the
wages.

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    Wow. And there was still enough left over to become almost
trillionaires?
    What if they paid more taxes and better wages, would they have
to scrape by with few dozen billion dollars today? Like plumbers,
truck drivers and construction workers do? Poor guys.
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Mr Tricycle is correct on that point:
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https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal- income-tax- data-2024/
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"The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97.7 percent of all federal individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 2.3 percent."

 I don't usually get all biblical, but:
 Mark 12:41-44  "Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. 44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”
 Sounds to me like he would not be in favor of a flat tax.
 Also, our country's biggest surge in prosperity occurred when the top tax rate was something like 90%. As I recall, a Republican was president then, and approved.
 And countries with far higher marginal tax rates seem to be doing better than the U.S. by most measures that matter to the public.
 And what the hell does someone need a billion dollars for? What's the point?
 

You're conflating theoretical marginal rate with actual collections. They are (purposefully, because, well, Congress) utterly different things.
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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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