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ParticipantL-Thek, it’s BS to say we can only use your approved sources. The Patriot Act is responsible for Brandon.
The Patriot Act requires no oversight, that’s a fundamental flaw.
ParticipantThere is no one, single case of
violating anyone’s civil liberties by the Patriot Act.You are uninformed.
Brandon Mayfield is the Portland Lawyers that was falsely imprisoned and then had his house and belongings searched under the patriot act.
In addition, several foriegn nationals have been returned to their countries without ANY charges having been filed even though they were detained for months.
The reason there isn’t more backlash on the patriot act is the information on anybody charged is kept classified. In addition, anybody taken under the act, subsequently released is also barred from talking about it under provisions of the act that make talking about any activities under the act a crime.
ParticipantI’ve always been of the opinion that people need to do basic math when the teachers union cries poverty.
Average funding per pupil: $11,000.
Kids in your kids class: 30.
Funding per class: $330,000.
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Average Teacher Salary: $65,000.
Teacher Benefits: $35,000.
(Teacher subtotal) $100,000.
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Books ($1000/student): $30,000.
Classroom/Building Maintenance: $70,000.
(Classroom subtotal) $100,000.
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Total class spending $200,000.
Unaccounted bereuacracy $130,000.And let’s think about it, is it really costing $70,000 per classroom to build and maintain the schools?
ParticipantI like HSBC’s economic analysis of the bubble and one of the ratios they use: presnet value of the future debt load to income.
Essentially, it accounts for the low interest rate effect in flattening the curve, however it’s still outrageous.
ParticipantIt’s a Halloween party, get over it. That Penn party, It’s the height of tyranny to claim things are above question or reproach.
ParticipantParticipantThis prostitute may be trying to influence the vote.
Yep, it’s put up or shut up time for the Pro.
If he doesn’t have it, the AG needs to find a way to prosecute him under election tampering laws.
If he has it… let the chips fall.
ParticipantBark at them to put the phone down and quit inconveniencing everybody else.
Participantwhy would anyone be buying now?
Because this is the best time to buy.
1. You have selection, probably the best selection in literally a decade.
2. You have leverage on the buyers. In PS’ neighborhood, there’s three relatively similar homes for sale, that’s negotiation power.
3. You have homes available in prime shape. As the housing market sours, maintenance will be deferred, upgrades will cease and homeowner’s financial frustrations will be taken out on the home.
4. You have historically low interest rates.
5. You have a plethora of financing options to use smartly.
6. Most importantly, you have Sellers that are financially capable of selling.
Now is the best time to buy since 1999. Next year may be better, may be worse, may be a lot worse. Bank Repos don’t make a good housing market to buy in.
An unaffordable ARM reset payment ISN’T an opportunity if the owner doesn’t have substantial equity (and most of them don’t). It will be the two or three year death of the house.
Yes, two to three years. I get that long by guessing 6-12 months of the mortagee fighting to make payments, 3+ months of falling behind, 4 months of foreclosure and stripping the house to delay it, and then sitting as a Bank Repo on the bank books for 12+ months. Empty, abandoned, no power, no heat, no running water, squatters.
Then someone buys the abandoned, delapidated house and refurbishes it before putting back on the market looking to make their 20-30% profit above the cut rate price they paid the bank and the thousands of dollars they stuck into it.
Home ownership is a three legged stool, it’s time, it’s money and it’s effort. You’re only looking at the raw dollars and both time and labor (effort) are very expensive too.
ParticipantHeaven forbid the government have the ability to wiretap suspected terrorists or look at their email.
They always could wiretap suspected terrorists, they just needed to follow well established processes to make sure they weren’t abusing their power.
Now they can do it without review, without information and it is illegal for anybody detained under the patriot act to even talk about it. It isn’t about security, it’s about hubris and administrative arm of the government not wanting to have to justify their actions to another part of the government.
It is the dismantling of the checks and balances the founding fathers installed in our government to prevent the government from abusing it’s citizens.
The government can put you away with no charges. That’s not right.
ParticipantBank owned in less than six months?
That’s not an investment gone awry.
ParticipantLet’s face fact, speaking as an Orange County Republican, if your biggest concern is whether John Kerry said our military lacked education and opportunity and hence ended up in Iraq (a comment about opportunity in the country) or merely bumbled a joke on the President’s handling of Iraq, IMHO you aren’t paying attention for the last five years.
This “issue” is nothing more than a distraction from our current administration mis-handling of many things. The current administration is not conservative, they’re religious fundamentalists.
They have increased our debt. They have increased our spending. They have increased Government interference with the States. They have pared away your freedoms in the name of “security”.
ParticipantREIC say over the last few years is that the public is willing to pay more
Two main reasons why that doesn’t matter:
1. The public is willing to spend 105% of their income until they max their credit cards.
2. Spending more than 30-40% of your income on all housing costs typically is economically fatal.
Their heart may be willing, but their wallet isn’t up to the task.
ParticipantAdd to that the high levels of congestion, the trucks and very old dangerous drivers that inevitably get on the roads, the over-loaded, rickety trucks stacked with mattresses etc, and it is a recipe for disaster at the newer speeds.
No. It’s a recipe for disaster at any speed.
You need to stop treating the symptoms (accidents) and start treating the problem. (the situations you just discribed.) We need to regulate speed better, and the basic expectations should be you need to be able to drive safely at that speed or you are wrong for going on that road. There should be ticket for people going to slow as well as too fast.
I don’t remember exact numbers, but the stretch of the I405 through Huntington Beach is up for widening. It sees something like 300,000+ vehicle trips a day.
At 80% of the 300,000 trips being rush hour with an average speed of 15 miles an hour, the five miles going past Huntington Beach accounts for 7 wasted people-years every single day.
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