What city is this? In NYC household trash and many recyclables picked up by the city's own Department of Sanitation (DSNY). Commercial trash however is not handled by DSNY, and the businesses are required to contract with commercial carters; these folks are as you describe - everything goes into the hopper same as the days before the word "recycling" was ever used. Everything except what falls onto the street, that is - that stuff is left for DSNY to clean up the next time they pass through.
With whom he will not discuss anything of national significance for the remainder of his term in office. Except when they or their sister sit in on the meetings of course. With the various foreign leaders whose countries host Trump properties, Trump-branded properties, or Trump investments. Nothing to see here.
When John Ehrlichman, the President's counsel and assistant, asked Nixon why he kept Agnew on the ticket in the 1972 election, Nixon is said to have described Agnew as his "best insurance against assassination"[29] given that "No assassin in his right mind would kill me. They know if they did that they would wind up with Agnew!"[30]
Absolutely on target. And with the Department of Justice behind him, anyone who claims that he isn't the best president ever will be sued into silence, permanently.
It sounds like it's only US government that's being kept away from the info. We can rest assured that other countries' spy agencies will continue to have full access.
Clinton has repeatedly and clearly stated that she made a mistake on Iraq. I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here but I think it's off-topic anyway.
Thanks for posting this. It appears that the email sent by Charles Delavan in fact said that the email (purportedly from Google Gmail) was legitimate and that therefore Podesta should change his password.
It looks like Delavan is trying to wiggle out of that mistake now by claiming that he meant illegitimate; however Delavan's stated conclusion that Podesta should immediately change his password in response to that "illegitimate" email shows otherwise.
I find it curious that so many of the folks posting here are confusing the act of someone clicking on a phishing link as proof positive that -- contrary to US intelligence agencies reporting -- the illegal access to Podesta's email account was not in fact the result of a Russian operation.
Normally the slashdot folks are smart. What happened here?
Oh, I'm so sorry. Had I read the Wikipedia article II'd have learned that the Oklahoma City terrorists also weren't Muslims. Too complicated, must simplify.
NEWTON, Iowa — Donald J. Trump, who earlier in the week said he was open to requiring Muslims in the United States to register in a database, said on Thursday night that he “would certainly implement that — absolutely.”
Mr. Trump was asked about the issue by an NBC News reporter and pressed on whether all Muslims in the country would be forced to register. “They have to be,” he said. “They have to be.’’
When asked how a system of registering Muslims would be carried out — whether, for instance, mosques would be where people could register — Mr. Trump said: “Different places. You sign up at different places. But it’s all about management. Our country has no management.’’
Asked later, as he signed autographs, how such a database would be different from Jews having to register in Nazi Germany, Mr. Trump repeatedly said, “You tell me,” until he stopped responding to the question.
Or perhaps you really meant that although he said it he didn't mean it. Because he's just pandering. Just a con artist. Is that what you meant? I don't want to count on his being just a con though — that's OK for a gambling casino operator, not for a POTUS.
Besides, since we're entirely talking about hypotheticals here, if Twitter were to do a Lavabit how is TheRealDonaldTrump going to get MSM to jump and report any <40 character bit of random thought as front-page news?;-)
Given that you are offering $12/hr cash payment to evade taxes
Nonsense. I am paying MORE taxes. If I pay cash, then the cost of hiring that person is not a deductible expense. So I pay the taxes, not the worker. I am almost certainly in a higher bracket.
Nonsense returned: There is absolutely nothing preventing you from deducting your business expenses that are paid in cash. Of course if you aren't paying into the Social Security program for them, and you aren't paying into Unemployment Insurance, then you would not want to draw attention to your own tax evasion while encouraging theirs, hence you forego your expense deduction.
b. The workers aren't getting credits towards Social Security so no retirement "safety net" for them.
They are illegals. They don't get benefits from these programs, so why should they pay into them?
Do you mean "Why should they obey the law?" Or do you mean "Why shouldn't I take advantage of their tenuous position and profit illegally from their status as undocumented workers?"
Workers who are paid illegally in cash can still pay their taxes with an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN), filing a return just like any other taxpayer; having a history of paying taxes can be an important step in securing legal status. In 2010, about 3 million people paid over $870 million in income taxes using an ITIN, and according to the IRS, ITIN filers pay $9 billion in payroll taxes annually. (The IRS says it does not share ITIN information with immigration authorities.)
And as for your concluding statement:
That is a lot better than picking tomatoes in Chiapas.
Your analysis has just reached the bottom of the barrel.
Given that you are offering $12/hr cash payment to evade taxes that means that:
a. The federal, state, and local governments get nothing; you are ripping off your fellow citizens, all of them.
b. The workers aren't getting credits towards Social Security so no retirement "safety net" for them.
c. The workers aren't getting credits for unemployment so no insurance when you fire them.
You on the other hand are getting $15/hr value for $12/hr.
Furthermore, you are talking about "day jobs" not full time jobs, so your $30K (tax-evaded) equivalent assumes that they can get a job every single day of the work week. You don't mention 1.5X rate for overtime, which they would normally be entitled to. They get no sick pay or vacation pay - something that a normal full time job would offer. And you're talking about six adults working full time for minimum wage sharing a 3 bedroom house (or apartment); that sounds a lot like the Samsung worker dormitories https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/300-samsung-security-cameras-record-a-young-worker%E2%80%99s-four-attempts-at-suicide-yet-fail-to-save-him/ - maybe not exactly what we ought to be hoping to make the standard here in the US.
A "queue of people seeking workers" for full time jobs with benefits and overtime pay? No. You describe a queue of people seeking impoverished workers for day jobs paying not enough to rent a room and buy meals and clothing let alone medical care? Cheap labor is wonderful for the buyer.
The additional location information you provide suggests a reason for your friend's failure: the cost of living in the Twin Cities area is about 1.4 times that of, say, Brown County. The average hourly wage in Twin Cities is around $15 to $16. In Brown County it's $11.50. The reported yearly COL for Twin Cities is more than $32K; for Brown County it's $24K (for a single individual with 0 children).
So let me amend my statement; your friend is papering the Twin Cities with ads for jobs that pay slightly less than average. Tell her to go a little further into Minnesota where people would be happy to earn $3.50 per hour more in a full time job with benefits.
Maybe instead of giving her card to people with "Please Help" signs your friend ought to place some "Help Wanted" ads around town. If she can geet them $31,200 annually "with no experience required", I am pretty sure she'd get takers.
(Note: this is my polite way of saying that your friend's claims are bogus. Does she work for Breitbart?)
Merely because a foreign power manipulated the US electorate doesn't mean we have to stand by the manipulated result.
Perhaps if you were a US citizen you'd feel differently; I assume that you are a Russian citizen who has benefited from the Putin regime or maybe just someone who hates the US and applauds anything that hurts it and its populace.
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What city is this? In NYC household trash and many recyclables picked up by the city's own Department of Sanitation (DSNY). Commercial trash however is not handled by DSNY, and the businesses are required to contract with commercial carters; these folks are as you describe - everything goes into the hopper same as the days before the word "recycling" was ever used. Everything except what falls onto the street, that is - that stuff is left for DSNY to clean up the next time they pass through.
He is divesting his businesses to his sons ...
With whom he will not discuss anything of national significance for the remainder of his term in office. Except when they or their sister sit in on the meetings of course. With the various foreign leaders whose countries host Trump properties, Trump-branded properties, or Trump investments. Nothing to see here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew
Absolutely on target. And with the Department of Justice behind him, anyone who claims that he isn't the best president ever will be sued into silence, permanently.
Shhhhhh. Are you trying to get those poor folks walled off from the rest of the US?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer
It sounds like it's only US government that's being kept away from the info. We can rest assured that other countries' spy agencies will continue to have full access.
Clinton has repeatedly and clearly stated that she made a mistake on Iraq. I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here but I think it's off-topic anyway.
Thanks for posting this. It appears that the email sent by Charles Delavan in fact said that the email (purportedly from Google Gmail) was legitimate and that therefore Podesta should change his password.
It looks like Delavan is trying to wiggle out of that mistake now by claiming that he meant illegitimate; however Delavan's stated conclusion that Podesta should immediately change his password in response to that "illegitimate" email shows otherwise.
US Intelligence didn't, Bush & Cheney did:
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/20/george_w_bushs_cia_briefer_admits_iraq_wmd_intelligence_was_a_lie/
I find it curious that so many of the folks posting here are confusing the act of someone clicking on a phishing link as proof positive that -- contrary to US intelligence agencies reporting -- the illegal access to Podesta's email account was not in fact the result of a Russian operation.
Normally the slashdot folks are smart. What happened here?
Russian to English translation is not easy. Please give dispensation.
You are so right. And Jews didn't murder 168 people via the Oklahoma City bombing either:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
Oh, I'm so sorry. Had I read the Wikipedia article II'd have learned that the Oklahoma City terrorists also weren't Muslims. Too complicated, must simplify.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/20/donald-trump-says-hed-absolutely-require-muslims-to-register/
Or perhaps you really meant that although he said it he didn't mean it. Because he's just pandering. Just a con artist. Is that what you meant? I don't want to count on his being just a con though — that's OK for a gambling casino operator, not for a POTUS.
Don't laugh just yet my friend:
http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/11/president-trump-can-send-emergency-alerts-to-everyone.html
He said exactly that here:
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/20/donald-trump-says-hed-absolutely-require-muslims-to-register/
But I feel you, bro. His field of expertise is golf course development. Everybody has pegged the guy wrong. He was talking about this registry:
http://www.usgolfregister.org/
He undoubtedly was talking about registering Muslims to vote, yes, that's the ticket. /s
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/20/donald-trump-says-hed-absolutely-require-muslims-to-register/
Nonsense returned: There is absolutely nothing preventing you from deducting your business expenses that are paid in cash. Of course if you aren't paying into the Social Security program for them, and you aren't paying into Unemployment Insurance, then you would not want to draw attention to your own tax evasion while encouraging theirs, hence you forego your expense deduction.
Do you mean "Why should they obey the law?" Or do you mean "Why shouldn't I take advantage of their tenuous position and profit illegally from their status as undocumented workers?"
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/undocumented-immigrants-and-taxes/499604/
And as for your concluding statement:
Your analysis has just reached the bottom of the barrel.
Given that you are offering $12/hr cash payment to evade taxes that means that:
a. The federal, state, and local governments get nothing; you are ripping off your fellow citizens, all of them.
b. The workers aren't getting credits towards Social Security so no retirement "safety net" for them.
c. The workers aren't getting credits for unemployment so no insurance when you fire them.
You on the other hand are getting $15/hr value for $12/hr.
Furthermore, you are talking about "day jobs" not full time jobs, so your $30K (tax-evaded) equivalent assumes that they can get a job every single day of the work week. You don't mention 1.5X rate for overtime, which they would normally be entitled to. They get no sick pay or vacation pay - something that a normal full time job would offer. And you're talking about six adults working full time for minimum wage sharing a 3 bedroom house (or apartment); that sounds a lot like the Samsung worker dormitories https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/300-samsung-security-cameras-record-a-young-worker%E2%80%99s-four-attempts-at-suicide-yet-fail-to-save-him/ - maybe not exactly what we ought to be hoping to make the standard here in the US.
A "queue of people seeking workers" for full time jobs with benefits and overtime pay? No. You describe a queue of people seeking impoverished workers for day jobs paying not enough to rent a room and buy meals and clothing let alone medical care? Cheap labor is wonderful for the buyer.
The additional location information you provide suggests a reason for your friend's failure: the cost of living in the Twin Cities area is about 1.4 times that of, say, Brown County. The average hourly wage in Twin Cities is around $15 to $16. In Brown County it's $11.50. The reported yearly COL for Twin Cities is more than $32K; for Brown County it's $24K (for a single individual with 0 children).
https://mn.gov/deed/data/data-tools/col/
So let me amend my statement; your friend is papering the Twin Cities with ads for jobs that pay slightly less than average. Tell her to go a little further into Minnesota where people would be happy to earn $3.50 per hour more in a full time job with benefits.
Maybe instead of giving her card to people with "Please Help" signs your friend ought to place some "Help Wanted" ads around town. If she can geet them $31,200 annually "with no experience required", I am pretty sure she'd get takers.
(Note: this is my polite way of saying that your friend's claims are bogus. Does she work for Breitbart?)
Because things just aren't working out?
Merely because a foreign power manipulated the US electorate doesn't mean we have to stand by the manipulated result.
Perhaps if you were a US citizen you'd feel differently; I assume that you are a Russian citizen who has benefited from the Putin regime or maybe just someone who hates the US and applauds anything that hurts it and its populace.
Cut the poor guy a break here folks. Maybe, just maybe, all he wanted was to download John Podesta's risotto recipe.