bunnydrops

Yes, but now we have that pan calling the kettle black.. I have no doubt you would have defended his use of FEMA funds then. Trump took the money. Congress allotted the money this time, not Biden or Harris.

It is not the first time Someone has taken money from FEMA https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/11/femas-budget-cut-10-million-support-ice-documents-show/1274723002/

FEMA is always slow walking. I lost 2/3 of my house to a flood in 2000. FEMA showed up about a week later wanting to know if we needed any help. By then a local B&B gave my then-girlfriend and her son a place for free. I stayed in the last part of the house that wasn't damaged and had a wood stove (it was in January, Oregon). Went to ask FEMA a question, and the woman at the desk told me I had to pay $75 to make an appointment, almost two weeks out. Went to the appointment. The same woman that told me I had to make the appointment met me at the meeting and told me I would have to fill out some forms and send them in. At that point I gave up on any help from them.

Its not clear if Trump was successful, but he gave it a good try.

Maybe I am missing something in your line of thought, but Tiananmen Square is in Beijing, not Hong Kong.

Border walls https://www.texasobserver.org/engineer-who-helped-build-the-wall-details-its-weaknesses/

Statement from DHS 9/30/24 https://www.dhs.gov/news/2024/09/30/statement-secretary-alejandro-n-mayorkas-biden-harris-administrations-securing

As you can see from the graph, the number of unauthorized immigrants in the US has remained about the same for many years. Nobody made a stink about the big increase from 1990 until 2007. Only when a certain someone wanted to make a political issue out of it did it become an issue. Of the 2.x million is an estimated 600,000 slipped through without detection, and there is a large number of repeat offenders, so the number of new offenders can't be known. When I was still in high school, I had to work in the fields harvesting green beans and strawberries. I worked alone side many illegals that came to work. None of them stayed and returned to Mexico after the season. The number of those workers that leave the country are also uncounted.

motorcycles!

I believe all Visa cards have the same rate. At the moment Bht to US 31.64. 09/29

You do remember that Trump lost Georgia by 12000 votes. That was .0012% of almost 11 million of the state's population. Or Gore's loosing Florida by 537 out of 582000. A few votes can make a big difference.

OK, do you want to match with 16 from the right?

Father died at 35 in a car accident along with his father. His younger brother who was driving survived. My poor mother was told she had 6 months to live with lung cancer, went home, within 2 weeks had a stroke, survived that, died a month later with a heart attack at 71. My younger brother died of liver cancer at 74.

The mother should receive some praise also!

Had mine done by Laparoscopic surgery at a government hospital for less than 30K about 5 years ago. Downside was I didn't get a private room for the 2-day stay, and the nurse kept calling me "baby".

Yes Brazil is still thanking us for that one. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/11/trump-trade-war-delivers-farm-boom-in-brazil-gloom-in-iowa.html

No debt at all at the moment. I did buy a car on time about 8 years ago. Before that only on machinery for my work that brought in more work and income than the machinery cost.

No, they like you just fine. They collect their 3% every time you use it from the merchant who raised their price to account for it.

A friend of mine almost lost sight in one eye because of shingles https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/shingles/symptoms-causes/syc-20353054

"It's pretty tough when a citizen with an unblemished record must be hounded from his home by the very policemen whose salaries are paid, at least in part, from the victim's pocket." Al Capone

Some of the villages north of Korat still speak a Mon dialect from northern Cambodia. My wife still speaks some with her friends. I don't think there is much culture from there, but I don't think I would be able to know if there was a difference.

One more https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/17daily/1703/170308_AnotherContractor

https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/16Daily/1607/Trump According to thousands of lawsuits filed against him and his companies, when union contractors were hired, Trump developed a reputation for stiffing some, delaying payment to others and shorting workers on overtime and even minimum wage. The lawsuits included 60 for not paying his bills, 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and four corporate bankruptcies that left hundreds of contractors with dimes, nickels, even pennies on the dollar. He has been sued for hiring undocumented workers, presided over thousands of layoffs and acquired tens of millions of dollars in personal wealth while companies he owned failed. At least five of the companies he has owned have terminated health insurance for employees, ended retiree health insurance, canceled their pension plans or some combination of all three. Trump Tower, where he announced his presidential campaign, was built on a site cleared by undocumented immigrant laborers from Poland. The tower was built on the site of Bonwit Teller, a landmark stone fortress that for decades was a filled with fur coats, French dresses and fine jewelry. But in 1980, a platoon of 200 undocumented immigrants from Poland worked round the clock, seven days a week tearing it down in preparation for the black glass and marble tower to rise. Three years later, a member of the Demolition Workers Local 95 sued Trump for trying to avoid paying union wages and benefits. After eight years in the court, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York wrote, “No records were kept, no Social Security or other taxes were withheld, and they were not paid in accordance with wage laws. They were told they would be paid $4.00 or in some cases $5.00 an hour for working 12-hour shifts seven days a week. In fact they were paid irregularly and incompletely, sometimes with [the subcontractor’s] personal checks, which were returned by the bank for insufficient funds.”

But, but, I didn't bring the subject up!