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3-6-25, 3:29pm

Alan replied to a thread If they cut social security and medicare in Personal Finance

I researched this today and discovered that there is indeed a plan to revoke legal status for approximately 1.8 million migrants who entered the...

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3-5-25, 11:18am

Alan replied to a thread If they cut social security and medicare in Personal Finance

Thanks for taking the time to back up my observation that no one has said that "all illegals from Mexico are murderers and rapists". I'm sure if it...

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3-4-25, 11:25pm

Alan replied to a thread If they cut social security and medicare in Personal Finance

News organizations are businesses and their daily blocks of programming are the profit centers which keep everything running. When those profit...

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3-4-25, 8:28pm

Alan replied to a thread If they cut social security and medicare in Personal Finance

It's not fake news and has been extensively reported through lots of news outlets, although I suspect Rachel Maddow may have skipped it. As for the...

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3-2-25, 11:25pm

Alan replied to a thread Amazon Boycott, Anyone? in Simple Public Policy

The boycott was successful! Target appears to be hardest hit and has been forced to begin downsizing.

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3-1-25, 1:54pm

Alan replied to a thread Government Coup in Simple Public Policy

According to *obscure sources* a deal had been agreed upon by our State Department and Ukrainian officials, the exact details being somewhat cloudy...

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2-28-25, 9:33pm

Alan replied to a thread Amazon Boycott, Anyone? in Simple Public Policy

I didn't buy anything today from Amazon or Walmart or Target or Kroger or anywhere else people like to boycott. It had nothing to do with making a...

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2-24-25, 11:45pm

Alan replied to a thread My 30 year thanks to SLN in Open Forum

Good to hear from you again Yoss! "I really do admire you a bit. You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very...

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2-24-25, 3:38pm

Alan replied to a thread Government Coup in Simple Public Policy

I think it's generally helpful to put things into perspective whenever possible. I think the gist of Carville's oratory was to tell Democrats to stop...

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2-20-25, 12:27pm

Alan replied to a thread Fighting Authoritarianism with Authoritarianism in Simple Public Policy

Of course he wasn't, and he has no authority on his own as he can only advise and perhaps speak on behalf of the President, who was democratically...

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2-20-25, 12:16pm

Alan replied to a thread Fighting Authoritarianism with Authoritarianism in Simple Public Policy

Yes, the definition seems to vary depending upon who's using it and who they're applying it to. To me, fascism involves strident militarism,...

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2-20-25, 11:57am

Alan replied to a thread Government Coup in Simple Public Policy

Can you give us a few examples of oppression and/or unconstitutional acts you're referencing?

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2-19-25, 3:58pm

Alan replied to a thread Fighting Authoritarianism with Authoritarianism in Simple Public Policy

Which of our regimes would you consider fascist, and why?

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2-7-25, 11:15pm

Alan replied to a thread Let the deportations begin? in Simple Public Policy

I don't know. It occurs to me that if a very large organization wanted to make necessary changes to its infrastructure within a reasonable time...

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2-7-25, 10:25pm

Alan replied to a thread Let the deportations begin? in Simple Public Policy

If you can believe Wikipedia, their budget was $238 billion in 2024, down from a high of $637 billion in 2022....

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2-7-25, 9:49pm

Alan replied to a thread Let the deportations begin? in Simple Public Policy

They have an annual budget of nearly a quarter trillion dollars with some of that allocated to states but that seems to be dependent upon how...

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2-7-25, 1:13pm

Alan replied to a thread Let the deportations begin? in Simple Public Policy

I think it's interesting to watch the resistance response to the new executive branch of our government. I believe an audit looking for waste, fraud...

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