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I think Prof Loomis has a good point- sending in the troops to squash it, murdering or jailing the opposition leads to backlash, but just firing them all is owning the libs, and screw those lazy takers anyway!

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There's a whole lot of sparsely populated Midwest just crying out to be bisected by a coast to coast high speed rail corridor.

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The Cognitive Dissonance of seeing Warren Buffet as a kindly fellow who drives his old car/rail workers have no days of leave

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Read up on Bob's Red Mill.

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Berkshire Hathaway owns a company that makes loans on manufactured homes on Indian reservations. It is rapacious.

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I can always tell when railworkers are pissed off cause the whistles on the trains sound sour.

(and I am really not joking.)

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Yep, ya wanna see a good show, ya gotta pay for it. Everybody's gotta eat.

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Day one he fired Peter Robb at NLRB. The first thing 20 minutes after inauguration. He cleaned house of the anti-union lawyers running the show at the DoL. He wasn't my first choice either, but I knew he'd be good for unions.

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I held a position with no days off for over 20 years. Calling in sick, until the pandemic, was not an option, there was no one to sub for me.

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I listen to no praise from people who do not know what I do for a living.

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PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD!

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ah, one of the sounds of my childhood, on the old hi-fi.

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Ta, Erik. What made the PATCO strike worse IMHO is that Raygun didn’t give a shit about air traffic control. He fired them because the postal workers were ready to strike.

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He’s always been a middle-of-the-party kind of guy. When the party has moved right, he’s moved right, and now that the party has moved back to the left, he’s moved left too. That’s fine, I guess; it’s a politician for you. That is GREAT, Biden moved with the times, UNLIKE tRump who is dragging the whole GOPervert party down the path of fascism.

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