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I could also go and edit the Wikipedia page. It is good for technical subjects and otherwise garbage. It is not an authoritarive source. Your English teacher is experiencing pain and does not know why.

Neoliberalism is not libertarianism.

Have a nice night.

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I'm paid twice a month. One of those checks in its entirety goes to rent. No, not rent and utilities. Just rent. I make $1.49 an hour over my state's $15/hour minimum wage. Fortunately, I'm thrifty. That union card can't come soon enough.

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I've heard this. In Denver, the law is that the short-term rental host has to live in the house. If they don't and they get caught, it's a felony. Seems like overkill to me but there you are.

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You horrify me!

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Henry Ford was a despicable Nazi, but he did understand one thing — if you want people to be able to buy your cars, you have to them enough to buy your cars

Oh, gods, the company propaganda again. Ford paid more than the other manufacturers because he had no choice. In the days when people changed employers only two or three times in their life no one was going to leave their current job to go work for a new unknown company. Ford had an entire factory and a mountain of debt, and no one to work there. If he hadn't been able to start production soon his lenders would have foreclosed and we'd never have been stuck with the Pinto. Ford didn't give a steaming pile of crap about his employees, as evidenced by assembly line jobs that would leave a worker permanently disabled with repetitive motion injuries in less than a year. There's a reason Ford was one of the first plants unionized.

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Why? They'll just eat 'em like they did the last ones.

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course not! people who’ve never had to struggle complaining about not having absolutely EVERYTHING perfect, sounds like a good idea for an article.

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I'm not saying housing isn't expensive in a lot of places. I'm just saying my area is cheap (pop. 30,000 though US Census designates us a rural area), and I can't believe my area is the ONLY cheap area. There have got to be others. Also the amount they claim it takes to afford an apartment in IL doesn't work if you take out Chicago and its suburbs. Housing "Down State" is much more affordable. And that made me wonder if they're doing the same kind of arithmetic with other states -- different areas of the states are differently affordable; if you take out the urban areas, housing is more affordable; etc.

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I agree. But I've had controlling bosses before, and I know I'm not the only one. Probably everybody on here has at one time or another. Unfortunately.

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if you take out the urban areas, where will people work? There are only so many vegetables one can pick.

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What you said is a false dichotomy. Plus you missed the point I was trying to make.

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I never saw the show, but I'm sure you're right!

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Heh, The more recent Bundies whose cattle have run up a couple bajillion dollars in land use fees

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Oh, how dumb of me. I hope the Bundy ass stealing grazing range doesn't find out about Youngstown. Lots of lush grass there. Ohio is guilty of a lot of things, but they don't deserve the Bundys.

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A $15 min wage at this point is now too low. Things are out of hand. My rent just went up 35% overnight. Landlord got rid of the clause that was always in there keeping a limit to how much they could raise each year. 35% increase this year. I can't swing it. This country sucks.

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Their use of the term "neoliberal" seems entirely accurate to me. Here's the definition: "A political theory of the late 1900s holding that personal liberty is maximized by limiting government interference in the operation of free markets."

What happens when there's no interference in free markets? All the money trickles up until the poor run out of money. Which seems to be happening.

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