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#101
#101
DinkinFlicka said:
Imagine complaining that no one wants to work low paying jobs anymore, and then attributing the high employment rate to those same jobs 🤣🤣🤣
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Who is talking low paying jobs?
I saw a sign today at a plant offering up to $26+ to start.
 
#102
#102
Orangeburst said:
Who is talking low paying jobs?
I saw a sign today at a plant offering up to $26+ to start.
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Tweedle Dipshit (Volstrom).

That's the higher end. Most entry level jobs are sitting at 15-20/hr. Even with roommates, that's hardly enough to live sans parents without busting hella overtime.
 
#107
#107
DinkinFlicka said:
Tweedle Dipshit (Volstrom).

That's the higher end. Most entry level jobs are sitting at 15-20/hr. Even with roommates, that's hardly enough to live sans parents without busting hella overtime.
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Poor souls..I did it making 20K a year in 1991 by myself, which today has a 2.6 dollar factor,,ie $52K currently and even had a car payment of like $150/month (stupid) and I didnt have a $100 month phone bill.
It wasn't easy but I thrived to be promoted and was young.
If it isn't cutting mustard, change your situation.
With such lack of workers..get a couple of years in and you would be at $30/hour.

Now take a two income family making $20/hour each, a couple can live. Housing is out of control though.
 
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#110
#110
VolStrom said:
I use Visible $25/mo but they have since gone up to $30, but I'm grandfathered.
This trend of people not willing to work will come to an end when people start going hungry.
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I am $30 sans taxes..and why such taxes in the first place.
Look at your cable..taxes taxes and more taxes. Sick of taxes.
 
#111
#111
Orangeburst said:
I am $30 sans taxes..and why such taxes in the first place.
Look at your cable..taxes taxes and more taxes. Sick of taxes.
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Yep. I have decided to ditch Spectrum internet and cable TV because they have increased my prices nearly 100% over the last year or so. They have gotten to the point that they have gone up $20/mo over the last several months and they finally broke me. I won't call them and threaten to leave, I have AT&T coming this week to hook up their internet service for $30 less per month and I'll subscribe to some TV service. They lost a 25 year customer because they started ripping me off.
 
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#112
VolStrom said:
Yep. I have decided to ditch Spectrum internet and cable TV because they have increased my prices nearly 100% over the last year or so. They have gotten to the point that they have gone up $20/mo over the last several months and they finally broke me. I won't call them and threaten to leave, I have AT&T coming this week to hook up their internet service for $30 less per month and I'll subscribe to some TV service. They lost a 25 year customer because they started ripping me off.
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Careful..AT&T sucks as well.
Had the ATT in Houston and signed up for NFL streaming at like $300/year ..they even tried to bill me even after I closed my ATT account.
Had a contract with Verizon and it went up for equipment only. Not much, but Thought that was shady.
They always nickel and dime you to the point that you dont fight it. But at 100%, heck yes I would ditch them.
 
#113
#113
Orangeburst said:
Careful..AT&T sucks as well.
Had the ATT in Houston and signed up for NFL streaming at like $300/year ..they even tried to bill me even after I closed my ATT account.
Had a contract with Verizon and it went up for equipment only. Not much, but Thought that was shady.
They always nickel and dime you to the point that you dont fight it. But at 100%, heck yes I would ditch them.
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This is AT&T fiber optic internet. AT&T sold off Direct TV a year or 2 ago. Every neighbor I've talked to that has it is completely satisfied with their service.
 
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#115
lawgator1 said:
I think we should amend the Constitution to provide that a person cannot be POTUS if, at the end of the term, they will be over the age of 78.
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Put it in the same amendment with congressional term limits. 4 terms for Congress, 2 for senate.
 
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#116
#116
lawgator1 said:
I don't think you understand my point.

Using Democrats -Biden, Clinton, or JFK -- to say that they also had moral failings -- is beside the point. My criticism is not of them (or of Trump).


It is that the GOP religious right, which claims to hold moral high ground and routinely bashes those with whom they disagree politically for such moral failures, explicitly did not do so here.

So when the religious right claims to be motivated not by pure politics but by purity of their moral beliefs, I question that since they are ready to bash a Dem who falls short of the mark but openly supported a guy that both paid a porn star for sex while married and then went to great lengths to hide it.

His moral failure with women is his. As was Clinton's, as was JFK's. But the religious right, to have any credibility, should have bashed Trump just as they have others. And not only did they stay mum, they rallied for Trump.
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I have bashed Trump plenty. And a lot of my fellow evangelical Christians I have head have done so as well. The Bible is full of examples of God using ungodly people to accomplish His will. I don’t think I have heard any serious Christian I am aware of suggesting Donald Trump as a role model in any sense of the word. And the day Trump announces his retirement, i will celebrate joyfully and loudly.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
I have bashed Trump plenty. And a lot of my fellow evangelical Christians I have head have done so as well. The Bible is full of examples of God using ungodly people to accomplish His will. I don’t think I have heard any serious Christian I am aware of suggesting Donald Trump as a role model in any sense of the word. And the day Trump announces his retirement, i will celebrate joyfully and loudly.
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Well isn't that convenient: use the unGodly to achieve what is Godly. Nice free pass they have built in for their hypocrisy in that its okay to be a hypocrite as long as they can rationalize something good for themselves out of it.

Always has amazed me how the religious right will stand up and announce a categorical rule of morality .... until they themselves or someone they want to promote breaks it and then they make up some exception to cover their own lack of backbone.
 
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