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jacob2484

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    Comment #28805769

    This country needs a lot more talented & gifted students to excel and if we are to compete with China and others. Instead, now a lot of these NYC school kids will instead be waitin…

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    Comment #28514908

    Are you offering to volunteer your place to live? A lot of things, like slavery and public beheadings were done 400 years ago, which aren't done today. Any other arguments you can …

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    Comment #28514489

    Who will pay for all the social services required? The existing tax paying citizen via increases taxes and lowered standard of living. We already have a shortage of housing, overcr…

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    Comment #28428790

    Can you paraphrase it?

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    Comment #28382857

    Why should tax payers have to pay for many degrees that are worthless (undergraduate + graduate)?

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    Comment #28194080

    And yet people continue to move to the South and out of liberal disasters where it's all tax, tax, tax and waste money.

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    Comment #28194059

    Baby boomers did better than their parents in general

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    Comment #28188136

    I was more than fine with the steps taken in Afghanistan after 9/11. Iraq, not so much. How quickly a generation forgets the horrors of 9/11.

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    Comment #28188117

    He would have done in a more controlled manner, and slow down if necessary - not let it get to this point where it's a total takeover by the Taliban while Biden is vacationing. He …

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    Comment #28041524

    Billions of dollars allocated for rental relief is tied up in state capitals. One can count on the government to demonstrate inefficiency.

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    Comment #28037647

    Why 32? Why not 22? Why not 10? What's the reasoning here.

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    Comment #28027822

    Why is the above being downvoted? It's very likely a contributing factor to rise in un sales.

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    Comment #28027780

    Yet another "feel good" policy pushed for by rich progressives in California which makes them sleep better while hurting the lower and middle class.

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    Comment #28020221

    How much woke virtue signaling can one take? Even Bill Maher agrees.

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    Comment #27954432

    Yay large government budgets.... aided by billions given to states via the stimulus. Meanwhile, inflation

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    Comment #27954399

    Please call out these companies by name

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    Comment #27954395

    It'd be good if such companies were identified and called out for it.

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    Comment #27875500

    Something is either being censored or it's not. Regardless of the issue, I'll side with the side that is not censoring information.

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    Comment #27875310

    The people on the "right side of history" are usually fighting for freedom and liberty, not censorship and re-education camps

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    Comment #27872704

    Trump - first president in over 40 years to NOT start a war.

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    Comment #27866408

    "I am in no way advocating that employees should be allowed to post or disseminate any sort of hate speech" -> you want freedom of expression yet support what others will claim as …

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    Comment #27859009

    Same here - you've paid for other to have this privilege. There is no free lunch.

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    Comment #27858999

    This is not a good thing. The government (funded by tax payers who work and produce) is paying people while they are not producing to the economy. Someone pays for this, through ta…

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    Comment #27857307

    If your kids stay out of trouble, they won't be interacting much with them. These people literally put their lives on the line for public safety.