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#176
#176
utvolpj said:
How do you know she's honest when she won't answer any questions? Avoiding the people of this country isn't a good leadership quality

Price gouging is already illegal and what she's talking about is cutting profit from companies that is already lower than it was 5yrs ago. She is discussing govt price controls over the market. Anyone who drove in the 70s can explain how that worked out

Why do dems make up their own definitions to words or phrases? I know it's inconvenient but why not just be honest?
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Price gouging is being practiced daily here in knoxville,that's the real culprit behind inflation.
Weigles on pleasant ridge sells regular gas 42 cents higher than Weigles on Western Ave, about a block apart.
 
#177
#177
swampfoxfan said:
Price gouging is being practiced daily here in knoxville,that's the real culprit behind inflation.
Weigles on pleasant ridge sells regular gas 42 cents higher than Weigles on Western Ave, about a block apart.
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Except that's not gouging by any definition. You have no idea why that is but you have an option to use the cheapest one. That's a market
 
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#178
#178
McDad said:
Over the years my thinking on the improtance of CiC has evolved. I used the think the role was critical. Now, I believe the position is really inconsequential until something critical shows up. The challenge with that is that critical moments are never planned so it is risky to put unqualified people in qualified positions.
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And I would argue unqualified people create more critical, consequential situations due to their ineptness… that they then cannot handle. Downward cycle…
 
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#179
#179
McDad said:
Over the years my thinking on the improtance of CiC has evolved. I used the think the role was critical. Now, I believe the position is really inconsequential until something critical shows up. The challenge with that is that critical moments are never planned so it is risky to put unqualified people in qualified positions.
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I still think it would be an awful experience to have Kamala Harris in a room 1 on 1 with Putin, *Jinping, or Jong Un?

*spelling edited due to spell check change
 
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#180
#180
utvolpj said:
How do you know she's honest when she won't answer any questions? Avoiding the people of this country isn't a good leadership quality

Price gouging is already illegal and what she's talking about is cutting profit from companies that is already lower than it was 5yrs ago. She is discussing govt price controls over the market. Anyone who drove in the 70s can explain how that worked out

Why do dems make up their own definitions to already understood words or phrases? I know it's inconvenient but why not just be honest?
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Well many claim they can't answer the question "what is a woman?" You shouldn't be surprised
 
#181
#181
luthervol said:
We will have gridlock for at least a couple of more years.
But ultimately, I want moderates and compromise........THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF TRUMPISM!!!!!!!
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Yeah, no one said anything about Trump. My guess is the House and Senate remain as they are, but will be close. Whomever is elected will have to make deals and compromise. I prefer they legislate less as over legislation has made things more difficult. Moderate Democrats in Congress, the very few that exist, if at all, don’t seem to have a very long shelf life with far left controlling the party. It’s fall in line or else. So, I’m not sure you can count on moderates within your own party if that’s what your looking for. R’s are replete with them as indicated by the fracture that has existed in between those R members in Congress for a while now.
 
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#184
McDad said:
Unless your posting here is exclusively an effort of agitation, I am not as confident as you that our versions of "better" are in sync.
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Smaller government? Reduced deficit?

Those are your big two - right?

I'm in full support of both.
 
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#185
BreatheUT said:
I still think it would be an awful experience to have Kamala Harris in a room 1 on 1 with Putin, Jennings, or Jong Un?
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Awful for them. Can you imagine trying to have a substantive conversation with that moistened bint?

$100 Freak-bucks to anyone who gets the reference.
 
#186
#186
Volfan8282 said:
And I would argue unqualified people create more critical, consequential situations due to their ineptness… that they then cannot handle. Downward cycle…
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Agreed. The downward cycle away from our constitution is proof.

But the presidency should be relegated to a minimum amount of opportunity for unqualified people to create more critical consequential situations. The majority of the USA's business should be handled by the House.
 
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#187
luthervol said:
Smaller government? Reduced deficit?

Those are your big two - right?

I'm in full support of both.
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You get credit for being close.
Smallest possible constitutional government
No deficit ...although they have to be reduced before eliminatiing.

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Reduced taxes.
Fewer laws
More personal liberty.
 
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#188
luthervol said:
2008 and 2012 in no way represented the line going down.
2016 represented the line plummeting to a massively historic low.
I believe 2028 will be better. I have always claimed that trump represents the bottom.
There has been absolutely nothing happen over the past 8 years that refutes that claim.
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2008 gave us the passing of ACA. If you care about democracy or any sort of importance of our government, it died when that was passed. not the bill itself, even though I take many exceptions to it, but the passing of it.

A secret bill, that not even the voters in Congress knew what it was. There is no way to sell that represented the principles behind democracy or our government to not know on what you are voting on. Even Obama signing it, didn't know what was in it. completely invalidating the entire executive office and the checks and balances that maintain a semblance.

I got back and forth between the Patriot Act, ACA, or the Covid Lockdowns, about which is more representative of the failures of our government, and has had the worst impacts. not just direct, but indirect too.

Trump was just the next in line with the Covid bs, like Obama before him and ACA, and Bush before Obama with the Patriot Act.

Biden's handling of the economy has been terrible, but we won't know the full outcome of that for years, but I imagine it will go down as one of the worst periods in a long while. His presence on the stage of international affairs has been nothing but an absolute bloodbath, literally and figuratively.

neither Trump nor Harris have a real plan on how to actually deal with the problems in 2024. they are both just selling snake oil at this point. and that is without any new issues popping up.
 
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swampfoxfan said:
Price gouging is being practiced daily here in knoxville,that's the real culprit behind inflation.
Weigles on pleasant ridge sells regular gas 42 cents higher than Weigles on Western Ave, about a block apart.
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Which is actually proof that price gouging is NOT occurring. If there was collusion going on to raise prices; Weigles corporate would pressure ALL of their locations to raise prices to the 42 cent higher rate. The fact that one franchise is able and willing to cut prices shows that the free market is operating EXACTLY as intended. This will eventually force the other location to cut its prices or lose business. Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand are alive and well
 
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#196
#196
swampfoxfan said:
Okee dokee
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Here's a question to consider. I recently took a vacation.

I had a can of soda from my home before i left. It cost me .42 cents

I had a soda at the airport. It cost me 2.50

I had a soda from a gas station at the destination. It cost 2.99

I had a soda from the resort. It was 3.50


Were any of those prices gouging (or gauging as Kamala pronounced it) me?
 
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#197
#197
swampfoxfan said:
Price gouging is being practiced daily here in knoxville,that's the real culprit behind inflation.
Weigles on pleasant ridge sells regular gas 42 cents higher than Weigles on Western Ave, about a block apart.
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Weigel's is banking on you to not drive another 15 seconds.
 
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