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There's always some risk, even with savings accounts, as banks just love to restructure their fee schedules without warning, which can eat up any interest you might be getting. My ex-bank started charging $6 per month for checking account paper statements, without advance notice, and this was more than I was earning on a small savings account at that same bank, which meant negative interest. Mutual funds can get you 5-6% if you are savvy, or your advisor is savvy, with low to moderate risk. And yes, I can live in considerable comfort on $50,000-$60,000 in the Midwest and in many parts of the world. Everyone's definition of "comfort" is slightly different.

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Poor Paul Manafort. What with working for Trump pro bono, I don't know how he gets paid at all.

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Audits are the IRS' 'Stop and Frisk.

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I'm convinced the truck knew the secret words. No other explanation for a herd to follow that thing!

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So what you're saying is, Hillary did it.

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I'm beginning to think left and right are pointless descriptions for politics. Too many on either side are shockingly comfy with other crooks. Look at the way the Wikileaks Party in Australia shifted their influence to a hardcore gun party there. One Wiki party spox said that people were 'mistakenly' under the impression the party was leftwing.

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I heard nice things about Chris Cuomo but then someone said he's gone to begging for the Trumpies to come back so he can be nice to them, like Megyn Kelly did.

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Maybe . . . or more likely whosomever forged Barry Soetoro's Hawaiian certificate of live birth, put the birth notices in both Honolulu newspapers 40 years before Barry ran for Preznint, filed away the genuine Kenyan birth certificate for Obama about 2 years before British East Africa became Kenya, and stuff . . . !

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You should check your article for typos.Oh, and I could tell Manafort was a crook the moment I first saw him just by the way he looks and talks.Christopher McDonald will play him perfectly in the movie.

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"confused boundaries" is an interesting euphemism for 'Blitzkrieg'.

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"If I had a million dollars,..."

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"..but not a real green dress, that's cruel"

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;)

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I wonder what the Venn Diagram for people that comment at the NYT and people that comment here, looks like? If we had commenting.

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Yeah, not really. As Obama keeps reminding us, voter fraud on that scale would require intervening in the state, county, and local election commissions in 50 states.

But buying a major political party? Turns out that was not even terribly expensive.

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