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nw30
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| mac wrote: | Boggs--when I first discovered fine wines, with wines mostly from the 1968 vintage, you could buy the best wine in California, Heitz Martha's Vineyard, for $12/bottle, and perhaps the second best, BV Georges Latour Private Reserve, for $8. When Diamond Creek first came out with wines, I think they were $30, and the 1978 was legendary. All Cabernets. Alas, it is hard to find a really good cab now for under $50.
But don't despair--you can find California's other classic wine, Sonoma Zinfandel, often for under $20. And some cabernets, like Freemark Abbey, are still a very good deal. I'll open a 2013 in about an hour. |
And thanks for fires made worse by not clearing out old and dead wood, this was created a couple of years ago, I hear it's really good. |
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mac
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 10:15 am Post subject: |
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| Today’s agenda. |
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nw30
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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mac
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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When you have no substantive response, you don't actually know the difference between socialism and fascism, and you are willing to tolerate racism from the President and many of his supporters--this is what someone like NW posts.
"Socialism" for the starving--or for corporations?
| Quote: | Republicans are outraged for all the wrong reasons.
This past Friday, $5 billion was automatically slashed from the federal food stamps program, affecting the lives of 47 million Americans.
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The USDA estimates that because of these cuts, a family of four who receives food stamps benefits will lose about 20 meals per month.
But these enormous cuts to food stamps aren’t enough for Republicans.
They still want to slash an additional $40 billion from the program in the name of reducing spending and federal debt.
Republicans love to argue that programs like SNAP – the federal food stamps program – and other social safety net programs put an unfair burden on American taxpayers, but if they just took a minute to crunch the numbers, they’d realize that’s flat out wrong.
In 2012, the average American taxpayer making $50,000 per year paid just $36 towards the food stamps program.
That’s just ten cents a day!
That’s less than the cost of a gumball.
But Republicans think that’s still too high a price to pay to help the neediest and most vulnerable Americans.
And when it comes to funding the rest of America’s social safety net programs, the average American taxpayer making $50,000 a year pays just over six dollars a year.
Simply put, the American taxpayer isn’t paying much for social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicare.
But we are paying a lot for the billions of dollars the U.S. government gives to corporate America each year.
The average American family pays a staggering $6,000 a year in subsidies to Republican-friendly big business. |
Master of bullshit, not understanding. |
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nw30
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Typical,,,,,,,,,,, again. |
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wsurfer
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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But wait, haven't you heard of the trickle down economy?
I can feel those big business subsidies trickling down now!
Oops, that's something else trickling down! Damn!  |
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mac
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| nw30 wrote: | | Typical,,,,,,,,,,, again. |
When you don't know enough to actually respond... |
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mac
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| At least for some. Meanwhile, Republicans hold firm against requiring sick leave. So here’s what Republican leadership leaves us with during a public health crisis. No health care for a significant part of the population—including many of those thrown out of work this week. No sick leave for people who should be in quarantine at home. This essentially guarantees a population with the virus that will go untreated and un-isolated. But not to worry—3 Southern Senators got their money out of the stock market in time. |
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mac
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| It just gets worse. |
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