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pcardh0 | 7 years ago | on: Why US Inequality Is Worse Than Other Developed Nations

This article doesn't mention the large number of illegal immigrants in the United States. To what extend does this affect income inequality? A large supply of unskilled labor would tend to keep wages lower.

Maybe the US should keep the unskilled labor market tight(er) and then wages should rise.

pcardh0 | 8 years ago | on: Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily

Is it? I don't have a good handle on the logistical issues involved. Does the media? Commenters on this site?

Which resources should the government haved used and didn't?

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: ESPN Can't Afford to Go on Like This

The National Review is not alt-right. Don't believe me, read it and decide where it fits on the spectrum of things.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Time to Take a Stand

I missed how Trump is a homophobe. Seriously, is there evidence for this or is it just a general insult thrown out when someone does something you don't like?

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Time to Take a Stand

>This is exactly what the Tea Party did (with tremendous >help from Koch brothers) in last eight years. They >unseated the old leaders and took over the party.

Do you have a link showing where, "they took over the party"? My understanding is that the Tea Party is a minority faction within the GOP.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Is there something more to the story? I travel with laptops and iPads all the time. Never been stopped.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 401(k)s

I think Darth Vader is worse than neo-Nazis and equally likely to affect affect my life in any measurable way.

Street gangs have done several killings near where I live, neo-Nazis and Darth Vader, not so much.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Pipeline spills 176,000 gallons of crude into creek about 150 miles from Dakota

Way to stand up for the little guy liberals, you are truly an inspiration to us all.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Map of gang territories in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley

The whole Bay Area

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft will make adjustments to Azure pricing in British pound (22% increase)

Probably will take a few weeks before the UK has to go "full North Korea"

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: This Pizzeria Is Not a Child-Trafficking Site

First a pizza place in the Rust Belt won't cater to a hypothetical gay wedding and now this. I guess that Pizza is the new front-line in the culture wars. Pretty sad in my opinion. That said, if there is a war, I hope Domino's and Pizza Hut don't make it. They are the true villains of Big Pizza.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: We live in Aleppo, here’s how we survive

Thank God this is in the newspaper. Now Barack Obama will know about it. Maybe he can make a speech and end the war. I think there is a prize for that.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Survey: 69% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings

Millions of government workers have pensions. Most of them are quite generous.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Panama: The Hidden Trillions

Your retire with 100K, that year you lose 20K in the stock market, you pay no taxes. Next year you make 20K in the stock market. Is it fair for that entire 20K to be taxed?

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Bay Area wages soaring but still can’t keep up with housing prices

That is wrong, you couldn't buy a house in 90s on a high school drop outs salary. You have to go back to the early 80s for that.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Why prisons continue to grow, even when crime declines

So under your system, a person can steal without the threat of jail so long as they don't do it violently. Hard to see the downsides of such a system.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Why prisons continue to grow, even when crime declines

No. I would rather they go to jail.

I had insurance, it did not cover all of the losses. Assuming this wasn't the first house they robbed, there are many people who suffered losses as well.

I do have a son and I would be very unhappy if he started robbing houses. Because of this, I consider it my responsibility to raise him correctly. A concept that seems sadly out of fashion these days.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Why prisons continue to grow, even when crime declines

I want them locked up, so they don't commit more crimes. Obviously the police don't catch every criminal that commits every crime. So catching them and locking them prevents them from committing more crimes.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Why prisons continue to grow, even when crime declines

I pay taxes from my salary and a portion of those taxes goes to pay prisons. I would be happy to pay more.

pcardh0 | 9 years ago | on: Why prisons continue to grow, even when crime declines

What is the average number of property crimes committed before a criminal is arrested and jailed? The crew that robbed my home hasn't been arrested for that crime. When (if) they are eventually caught, I want them locked up.