President Joe Biden - Kamala Harris Administration

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AM64 said:
Maybe the place to start has to do with zoning laws, and using those to prevent businesses from owning/buying property in residential zoned areas. It wouldn't work for anything zoned beyond R1/R2, but it's a thought. The thing is when companies can use investment funds to finance residential property it changes the whole game - individuals have no way to fight that.
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That's actually much better than my idea of a time limit on how long homes could be owned by investment companies. 5 years max and then they have to sell to the general public.
 
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rekinhavoc said:
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Leaked strategy report reveals Biden admin believes corruption in Ukraine is biggest threat to war support: report

A confidential memo from the State Department reveals that the Biden administration has concerns that the level of corruption in Ukraine could result in Western allies distrusting the Zelensky administration and deciding to no longer back it.
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A confidential US strategy document obtained by Politico warns that "Perceptions of high-level corruption" may "undermine the Ukrainian public’s and foreign leaders’ confidence in the war-time government."

In April, Seymour Hersh revealed that, according to sources familiar with the matter, Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials collectively embezzled up to $400 million in American aid meant to go towards the purchase of diesel."
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Is anyone really shocked???? Ukraine always been corrupt, that why the Bidens and Democrats love it so much
 
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Bidenomics! Average American Can’t Afford Homes In 99% Of Country

It’s time for your daily dose of Bidenomics — where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter. In today’s lesson, we’ll learn how the fact that the average American can’t afford to buy a home in 99% of the country is evidence of a historic economy. On Thursday, CBS reported that real ...
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Part of the reason why homeowners are holding onto their homes is because of high interest rates — which were hiked to historic levels in hopes of slowing down runaway Bidenflation.
That inflation was caused in part by massive government spending. The president’s solution has been more government spending.

Last week, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) blamed part of the problem on corporations buying single-family homes as well.

“They have access to lower interest rates,” Vance told ABC6. “They have access to cheaper money, and they completely crowd out the availability for homes for people who want to just buy a piece of their community.”
Some of those companies have ties to the Chinese Communist Party — something Vance says is nonsensical to allow.

“I look around and say, ‘What are we doing when we’re letting the Communist Chinese Party buy up homes that should be going to Ohio citizens?’ It just doesn’t make any sense.”


Overlooked in the housing crisis has been the role that legal and illegal immigration has played. As flagged by The Washington Examiner last spring, several studies have shown that immigration, lawful or not, impacts both rental and home-owning prices. In short, the millions who enter the country each year drive up demand, which drives up prices.

“I think it’s very hard to talk about the housing crisis in Ohio or across the country without talking about the immigration problem,” Vance said last week “When you let, let’s say, 10 million or 15 million people into the country illegally, those people all need homes.”

Given the fact that one of the most basic elements of the American dream is out of reach for the American people, you’d think Washington might want to address it. Instead, the vast majority are concerned with either making the southern border more accessible, or they’re focused on providing aid to Ukraine. Or both.

Given the enormity of the housing crisis, you would hope that the Republican Party would jump on solving it, thereby securing electoral victories in the process. Aside from Vance and a handful of others, not many in the GOP seem too concerned about it.

So, instead, Biden will continue to bloviate that the American economy is booming, we need to accept millions of foreigners each year, and that we have a duty to spend billions in Ukraine. If you haven’t picked up on it, Bidenomics is code for “America Last.”

This would be a winner for the GOP . I'm guessing they are making mad money on it right now.
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I don't think interest rates are at historic levels.
 
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AM64 said:
Maybe the place to start has to do with zoning laws, and using those to prevent businesses from owning/buying property in residential zoned areas. It wouldn't work for anything zoned beyond R1/R2, but it's a thought. The thing is when companies can use investment funds to finance residential property it changes the whole game - individuals have no way to fight that.
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Or limit the number of units a company can own to a % of their local workforce. That's really big government though.
 
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AM64 said:
If we are to be free of religious influence, then our "leaders" should leave their religious trappings at the door. To do otherwise says they cannot be free of their ingrained religious beliefs. Nobody can separate himself/herself from who and what they are - it's nonsense to ask or require it, but they have an obligation as a representative of all to remove the overt part. If you can't do that, then you begin the entanglement that you need so many of brand A, so many Brand B, etc to be representative of the whole, and that approach is BS.

For the record I have the same belief for the military. A person is a member of the military while in the military. There is an approved uniform and deviation for religious or other affiliation detracts from cohesion.
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Why start now though? Presidents and other politicians have been kissing up to religious leaders and vice versa for generations. It helps with the gullible.
 
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EasternVol said:
Why start now though? Presidents and other politicians have been kissing up to religious leaders and vice versa for generations. It helps with the gullible.
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They certainly have, and dems are doing the same with Islamic groups in the US, too ... as well as any other group like unions that have an organization to get them votes. Maybe because I'm older I have more respect for tradition, and some of tradition is dress. Congress got enough guts to enforce a dress code; they should follow through on overt trappings of religion or other in your face show of loyalty to any organization that detracts from representing the country as a whole. Can you imagine how the squad would have gone over just after 9/11? People who still have sentimental feelings for the old South have been forced to give up any outright display - either we are going to be really inclusive or quit playing that some things are offensive and others aren't.
 
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AM64 said:
They certainly have, and dems are doing the same with Islamic groups in the US, too ... as well as any other group like unions that have an organization to get them votes. Maybe because I'm older I have more respect for tradition, and some of tradition is dress. Congress got enough guts to enforce a dress code; they should follow through on overt trappings of religion or other in your face show of loyalty to any organization that detracts from representing the country as a whole. Can you imagine how the squad would have gone over just after 9/11? People who still have sentimental feelings for the old South have been forced to give up any outright display - either we are going to be really inclusive or quit playing that some things are offensive and others aren't.
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Good points but I don't see how dress specific to a religion is offensive. We really need to get out of our 'everything offends me' mindset.
 
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AM64 said:
If we are to be free of religious influence, then our "leaders" should leave their religious trappings at the door. To do otherwise says they cannot be free of their ingrained religious beliefs.
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Its a head covering. Relax.

And Let's suppose you remove the head coverings, the person still has their beliefs, so what have you really accomplished except some cosmetics?

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For the record I have the same belief for the military. A person is a member of the military while in the military. There is an approved uniform and deviation for religious or other affiliation detracts from cohesion.
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In 2023, I think militaries in The West have less to be concerned about with regards to Sikhs with their head covers and beards than some homosexuals in the units...
 
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EasternVol said:
Good points but I don't see how dress specific to a religion is offensive. We really need to get out of our 'everything offends me' mindset.
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I think the rules forbid someone from wearing something on their heads. The traditional ones did at least. That means no hijab's (or whatever they are called), no cowboy hats, no ball caps, ect.
 
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norrislakevol said:
I think the rules forbid someone from wearing something on their heads. The traditional ones did at least. That means no hijab's (or whatever they are called), no cowboy hats, no ball caps, ect.
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They may well have. I guess at that time they weren't considering that women would be in Congress. At any rate there should be no bar on religious headgear male or female.
 
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Defense official charged with facilitating Dog Fighting Ring​

An official with the Department of Defense has been charged with facilitating a dog fight alongside another man from Maryland, the Justice Department said in a news release on Monday.

The two men, including Department of Defense Deputy Chief Information Officer Frederick Douglass Moorefield, Jr., were charged with facilitating and promoting the dogfight on Sept. 21, 2023, but both men have pleaded "not guilty."


According to an unsealed affidavit, Moorefield and his associate Mario Flythe allegedly used the encrypted messaging app Telegram to discuss how to train dogs for dogfighting and coordinate dogfights. The pair also talked about dogfighting bets, dogs that died due to the fights, and distributed reports about dogfighters who were arrested by the police.


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Defense official charged with facilitating dogfighting ring

An official with the Department of Defense has been charged with facilitating a dog fight alongside another man from Maryland, the Justice Department said in a news release on Monday.
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God ...... will this incompetent Biden Admin ever come to an end & soon please?
I can't take this stupid woman & Biden's pick for janitor another day while on earth.
They're killing Americans daily thinking they're doing such a great job in Office.

 
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clarksvol00 said:
Prayer is allowed in schools. Just not school mandatory prayer. Groups are allowed to do things like "See You at the Pole." (I'm not even going to make fun of the name).
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Silent prayer is allowed. A student is only allowed to silently pray themselves during a moment of silence in the morning or as a group away from the student body as long as other students are not offended by it.
 
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dovervolz said:
When they allow public prayer in school ok. Until then keep their religion out of the legislature
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There's no real connection there. Wearing certain clothing or symbols in Congress in accordance with religious custom isn't comparable in action with organized prayer in schools. There's prayer in Congress so there's that too.
If we want organized prayer in schools, do we do Protestant one day, Catholic the next, then Jewish, then Muslim, then Theraveda Buddhist, then Taoist, etc ? By the time we get to the Zorastrians the school year's over and the kids are confused.
 
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EasternVol said:
There's no real connection there. Wearing certain clothing or symbols in Congress in accordance with religious custom isn't comparable in action with organized prayer in schools. There's prayer in Congress so there's that too.
If we want organized prayer in schools, do we do Protestant one day, Catholic the next, then Jewish, then Muslim, then Theraveda Buddhist, then Taoist, etc ? By the time we get to the Zorastrians the school year's over and the kids are confused.
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True....I'd almost rather have kids confused about faith then gender
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Its a head covering. Relax.

And Let's suppose you remove the head coverings, the person still has their beliefs, so what have you really accomplished except some cosmetics?


In 2023, I think militaries in The West have less to be concerned about with regards to Sikhs with their head covers and beards than some homosexuals in the units...
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I guess it is a form of free speech. Joseph Kennedy (the football coach that prayed at the 50 after high school football games) set the bar on that one.
 
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