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Culprit 
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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David 
I dare you to try
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| Culprit wrote: | | https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/treasury-secretary-urges-senators-to-support-easing-russia-sanctions-20190116-p50rlk.html |
One one level, yeah, it opens up suggestions of conflict of interest (particularly given Trump's business interests in Russia). But let's turn this around: should the US president really be forgoing making an important decision on something that has a far-reaching impact on another country's economy (and, indeed, the global economy and international politics as a whole) just so he won't appear to have a conflict of interest? That seems to be what Democrats want him to do, unless of course they're just sincere hawks who really want to ratchet up tensions with Russia 100%. Ultimately, though, whether you support easing sanctions, increasing sanctions or maintaining the status quo, surely you must agree that the decision is too important not to be taken on its own merits, regardless of how it looks domestically or how it relates to the FBI investigation.
I guess an ideal situation might be that Trump would recuse himself from any Russia-related policy decisions and delegate all such decision-making to his second-in-command, but that's a functional impossibility – they will insist on maintaining a political system oriented around one elected God-King.
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Culprit
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Wokko 
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| Lt Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender until 1974 and killed in the name of the Japanese Empire. Does that mean that Japan wasn't defeated? |
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Pies4shaw 
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About bloody time. Just can’t get my head around the fact they can force people to work without pay! And it’s always the little people. Disgusting
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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| think positive wrote: | | About bloody time. Just can’t get my head around the fact they can force people to work without pay! And it’s always the little people. Disgusting |
They get back payed... forced saving really.
It is a strange system though.
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think positive
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| Skids wrote: | | think positive wrote: | | About bloody time. Just can’t get my head around the fact they can force people to work without pay! And it’s always the little people. Disgusting |
They get back payed... forced saving really.
It is a strange system though. |
yes and free loans if they need them, but its still stressful. I have facebook friends effected by it. just not necessary or right. Do parliament still get paid??
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| Skids wrote: | | think positive wrote: | | About bloody time. Just can’t get my head around the fact they can force people to work without pay! And it’s always the little people. Disgusting |
They get back payed... forced saving really.
It is a strange system though. |
What the effect is on discretionary spending and the knock on effect on small businesses..
nearby cafes to national parks, hairdressers, swimming or music lessons, going to a bar to watch football, birthday parties, movies,
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Then stress added by borrowing money from relatives, deferring payments, the uncertainty.
they also won;t pay up for lost overtime .
Both sides are behaving like a pack of spoilt brats.
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| What kind of people are you talking about? |
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Culprit
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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Spending on border protection, on technology as well as on personnel, climbed under both presidents Bush and Obama.
In FY 18, which ended in September, 521,090 people were apprehended at southwest border.
At the same time, monthly apprehensions are climbing. More than 51,000 people were captured at the southwest border in November, 2018. That's a 78 percent increase over the same period last year. Yet it still far lower than the monthly totals in 2000.
In November, the government announced a $324 million contract for 32 miles of "primary pedestrian replacement wall" in Arizona.
A 20-mile border wall replacement project in Santa Teresa, N.M., was announced in April 2018. The cost is reported to be $73.3 million.
A 6-mile "levee wall system" is set for construction in Texas's Rio Grande Valley beginning in February 2019. It will cost $145 million.
A 14-mile "border wall construction project" along the border in San Diego was announced in June 2018. The project actually will replace an "eight-to-10 foot high scrap metal wall with an 18-to-30 foot bollard-style wall topped off with an anti-climbing plate." The cost will be $147 million
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675892744/fact-check-trump-says-a-lot-of-wall-has-been-built-as-he-demands-we-build-more
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Skids
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It's nothing new, yet the leftards carry on like it's the end of the world.
The border already has over 25% of it protected by a physical barrier, Trump just wants to make it better. MAGA.
The barriers were built from 1994 as part of three larger "operations" to taper transportation of illegal drugs manufactured in Latin America and immigration: Operation Gatekeeper in California, Operation Hold-the-Line[ in Texas, and Operation Safeguard in Arizona.
The Mexico–United States barrier, colloquially called simply the Border Wall, is a series of vertical barriers along the Mexico–United States border aimed at preventing illegal crossings from Mexico into the United States.[1] The barrier is not one contiguous structure, but a discontinuous series of physical obstructions variously classified as "fences" or "walls".
Between the physical barriers, security is provided by a "virtual fence" of sensors, cameras, and other surveillance equipment used to dispatch United States Border Patrol agents to suspected migrant crossings.
As of January 2009, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that it had more than 580 miles (930 km) of barriers in place. The total length of the continental border is 1,954 miles (3,145 km).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_barrier
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