Just heard the Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds say that Iowa is starting to open up April 30th. Good for her to have the balls to do it. 
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You're correct Mark. I got a Brain fart.I was thinking of Joe Walsh. Duh.
A Senior moment.
I thought I was smelling somthin.
Mark
Junkman 104
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Junkman 104
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I heard a covid joke today.
You probably won't get it.
You probably won't get it.
Hey I've heard of people that use to say that (Libatards) there was nuffin to worry your purty little heads about.
Mark
Killinois’s lardass Billionaire “for the little guy” trust fund baby who purchased the position..never had a hard day in his life , removed toilets in a mansion to lower his taxes and got caught but still elected just extended the shutdown until end of may. He also made wearing a mask in public mandatory for anyone over 2 years old if you have to be closer to 6 feet from someone. I will not comply. I legally can’t comply because I am a CCL holder and in that statute it is illegal to carry a weapon wearing any sort of mask. Sorry lardass. I take this illness seriously and will not knowingly put anyone at risk but the time has come to say FU. The numbers from Illinois are mostly BS. Oh and his little ploy to get the Feds to bail out this bankrupt state from decades of corruption and mismanagement made him a laughing stock.
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It wasn't hard to see this coming and the dumb a$$ Senate let the bill be passed. Why didn't they make changes? I think we all know.
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>>> For those who are familiar with Former IBM Chairman Thomas Watson Jr., he once wrote that: “In IBM we frequently refer to our need for ‘wild ducks.’ We are convinced that any business needs its wild ducks. And in IBM we try not to tame them.”
>>>
>>> The moral is drawn from a story by the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard who told of a man who fed the wild ducks flying south in great flocks each fall. After a while some of the ducks no longer bothered to fly south; they wintered in Denmark on what he fed them. In time they flew less and less. After three or four years they grew so lazy and fat that they found difficulty in flying at all. Kierkegaard drew his point: you can make wild ducks tame, but you can never make tame ducks wild again. One might also add that the duck who is tamed will never go anywhere any more.
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>>> The pandemic is potentially changing that attitude out of necessity and perhaps by design. Across the country, people who were gainfully employed prior to COVID-19 are finding it attractive not to work thanks to the CARES Act (The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act). In New York State, the unemployment stimulus package approved by Congress enables someone collecting state unemployment benefits, which are calculated based on the salary of the job they lost, and an additional $600 a week in unemployment benefits funded by the federal government. Many workers are collecting up to $1,000 a week under the two programs.
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>>> The result is that many workers are asking to be furloughed. It’s creating a major problem for companies that are in limbo and not completely shut down. An employer can notify the state Department of Labor if an employee refuses to return to their job or the payroll, and the benefits can be rescinded. But that reporting is not mandated, and some employers fear having to rehire an employee who is disgruntled because they lost an opportunity to make more money not working than they would make on a payroll. Employers also must pay higher unemployment insurance rates if they lay off more workers for longer periods.
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>>> The government has motivated people to collect benefits and stay home rather than work, which will keep unemployment numbers high for months to come. This will further hinder businesses from growing in a reliable, steady and strong manner in the coming months because they can't find people who want to work for less than they received during the crisis.
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>>> And, the longer that we delay the economy from opening for whatever ostensibly valid reason - more testing, more tracking, threat of a flare-up, need for a vaccine, etc. - the more conditioned people are to living off the government dole. Plus, the states are now asking for federal aid because they can't balance their budgets. Moreover, a longer delay leads to the need for even more government assistance as the economy sputters to restart. It becomes more and more difficult to turn off the aid spigot.
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>>> Like it or not, the Coronavirus pandemic is a ready-made vehicle for advancing socialism. It is like a test drive for the non-believers. How better to sell socialism than to have a crisis that forces people to avail themselves of the supposed perks? And, with the nation running up a tab of a trillion dollars expenses for business loans, unemployment benefits, deferred rent payments and other delicacies on the menu or proposed for future aid packages, what happens when the check comes due? Will there be a massive call to forgive some or all of these obligations (e.g., like the Sanders proposal to forgive $1.6 trillion in student loans) by the new converted socialists?
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>>> Like it or not, there will be fewer wild ducks in the free enterprise pond come November election time and even more sentiment for a socialist America.
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It wasn't hard to see this coming and the dumb a$$ Senate let the bill be passed. Why didn't they make changes? I think we all know.
>>>
>>> For those who are familiar with Former IBM Chairman Thomas Watson Jr., he once wrote that: “In IBM we frequently refer to our need for ‘wild ducks.’ We are convinced that any business needs its wild ducks. And in IBM we try not to tame them.”
>>>
>>> The moral is drawn from a story by the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard who told of a man who fed the wild ducks flying south in great flocks each fall. After a while some of the ducks no longer bothered to fly south; they wintered in Denmark on what he fed them. In time they flew less and less. After three or four years they grew so lazy and fat that they found difficulty in flying at all. Kierkegaard drew his point: you can make wild ducks tame, but you can never make tame ducks wild again. One might also add that the duck who is tamed will never go anywhere any more.
>>>
>>> The pandemic is potentially changing that attitude out of necessity and perhaps by design. Across the country, people who were gainfully employed prior to COVID-19 are finding it attractive not to work thanks to the CARES Act (The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act). In New York State, the unemployment stimulus package approved by Congress enables someone collecting state unemployment benefits, which are calculated based on the salary of the job they lost, and an additional $600 a week in unemployment benefits funded by the federal government. Many workers are collecting up to $1,000 a week under the two programs.
>>>
>>> The result is that many workers are asking to be furloughed. It’s creating a major problem for companies that are in limbo and not completely shut down. An employer can notify the state Department of Labor if an employee refuses to return to their job or the payroll, and the benefits can be rescinded. But that reporting is not mandated, and some employers fear having to rehire an employee who is disgruntled because they lost an opportunity to make more money not working than they would make on a payroll. Employers also must pay higher unemployment insurance rates if they lay off more workers for longer periods.
>>>
>>> The government has motivated people to collect benefits and stay home rather than work, which will keep unemployment numbers high for months to come. This will further hinder businesses from growing in a reliable, steady and strong manner in the coming months because they can't find people who want to work for less than they received during the crisis.
>>>
>>> And, the longer that we delay the economy from opening for whatever ostensibly valid reason - more testing, more tracking, threat of a flare-up, need for a vaccine, etc. - the more conditioned people are to living off the government dole. Plus, the states are now asking for federal aid because they can't balance their budgets. Moreover, a longer delay leads to the need for even more government assistance as the economy sputters to restart. It becomes more and more difficult to turn off the aid spigot.
>>>
>>> Like it or not, the Coronavirus pandemic is a ready-made vehicle for advancing socialism. It is like a test drive for the non-believers. How better to sell socialism than to have a crisis that forces people to avail themselves of the supposed perks? And, with the nation running up a tab of a trillion dollars expenses for business loans, unemployment benefits, deferred rent payments and other delicacies on the menu or proposed for future aid packages, what happens when the check comes due? Will there be a massive call to forgive some or all of these obligations (e.g., like the Sanders proposal to forgive $1.6 trillion in student loans) by the new converted socialists?
>>>
>>> Like it or not, there will be fewer wild ducks in the free enterprise pond come November election time and even more sentiment for a socialist America.
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Junkman 104
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Junkman 104
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Junkman 104
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I remember when Trish was let go but I never looked into why that was and then I watched this vid and found it strange why would she be fired for saying something that several others has said on Fox, that chump Hannity probably had her fired for invading his turf and I'm really getting to dislike this guy.
Mark
Mark
Everything she said was True. She nailed it.
The Murdoch's, sold part of Fox to Disney. Money talks. We know, which direction Dizzy leans.
I don't believe Hannity, has any bad feelings towards Trish Regan. She had the courage, to say what everyone, was already thinking.
The Murdoch's, sold part of Fox to Disney. Money talks. We know, which direction Dizzy leans.I don't believe Hannity, has any bad feelings towards Trish Regan. She had the courage, to say what everyone, was already thinking.
I'm so glad to NOT know anything about it! I turned off the "programming box" a long time ago. It's all like some hellish nightmare soap opera and I'm glad to be no longer a part of it. 
Just think, I could have been watching and worrying about everything they said for the past 2 years and the outcome of today would be no different. Instead, this is me:
Just think, I could have been watching and worrying about everything they said for the past 2 years and the outcome of today would be no different. Instead, this is me:
wristpin
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Shouldnt this be you....I'm so glad to NOT know anything about it! I turned off the "programming box" a long time ago. It's all like some hellish nightmare soap opera and I'm glad to be no longer a part of it.
Just think, I could have been watching and worrying about everything they said for the past 2 years and the outcome of today would be no different. Instead, this is me:
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