Maxidyne

In Minnesota and many states UI is capped at 2/3rds of previous wage, with an additional $600 a week during the current crisis. Even two decades ago I didn't crawl outa bed for less than $20 and hour, and in an area like Chicago you need to offer at least $25 an hour. Sounds like you need to raise your wages...

Not in Minnesota, especially when you figure in that a family of four with one member working that $15 an hour job will probably get health care through work or be eligible for subsidized health care if not. We structure our assistance programs so you are always better off working if you are able.

Just about everything you said in that reply was false.

Should work fine for you then.

As budget "holes" go, welfare doesn't exist anymore and it's replacement, TANF, isn't much more than a rounding error. The biggest chunk of government spending is federal, over half of that is military and a lot of the rest is contractually mandated insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare. If you're looking for savings the low hanging fruit was the military budget, but with unemployment over 10% you don't want to force a lot of military folks onto the job market. So good luck cutting the federal budget, no matter who wins tax loopholes will have to be plugged and trillions more borrowed. At the state and local level there's not a lot of fat to cut and in this recession sales and income tax receipts are down so there's little potential for savings their. As for your half baked political theory, the majority of the young voters the democrats are trying to woo are working at low wage jobs, so a $15 an hour minimum wage is a lot more appealing to them than welfare. If you're looking to cut spending, shut down the scams and close the loopholes that let millionaires get free health care and make millions more without paying a cent of tax.

If you're going to order it, write out specifications and get the dealers to quote for a truck with those specs, that way you're not comparing apples to oranges.

Nothin' wrong with using an old truck for local work, if it breaks down you're close to home. But you have to ask yourself if it's wise to take an old truck on a cross country trip when a major breakdown and accompanying tow bill and repairs could cost more than a truck is worth.

Let me get this right... You started a move with a 20' wide load pulled by an old Mack without making sure of your permits and routing for the trip. Now your paying out of pocket for a week wasted in a South Dakota motel... And I'm supposed to be jealous?

If you white guys are so great, how come you have to cut everyone else down?

You forget that we're guests in their land, and we're damn lucky they've tolerated our misbehavior. As for tribal membership, in Minnesota's largest tribal nation about all it gets you is first shot at low wage service jobs in the tribal casino.

Is the U.S. in such bad shape that the only positive comparisons you can make are to failed dictatorships?

Truth is, our infrastructure is in horrible shape, and we're in no place to criticize.

Thanks to the Unions I don't have to celebrate my 70th birthday in a few weeks in a truck thousands of miles from home in the middle of a deadly pandemic. Instead I've been able to spend the last 15 years enjoying life and using my skills to do volunteer work for worthy clients like my city that couldn't afford to pay me. Sorry that you haven't been so lucky.

We're waiting for better COVID-19 morbidity stats, but there's enough ancedotal reports of COVID-19 being a cause of chronic illness and disability that we need to further slow it's spread. As for building this country, even though I'm retired that's literally what I do- The water system rebuild project I've been working on for years was just granted 80% of it's funding. And do you really want all of us skilled workers, techs, and engineers to leave? That's exactly what's happening, Trump is chasing so many of these workers out of the country that his "election" set off a real estate boom in Canada!

The traditional wisdom is that it's not the fatalities that cause defeat in a war, it's the burden of caring for the wounded. While COVID-19 fatalities have largely been in the elderly so the loss of productive years of life may not be that damaging to our economy, Loosing millions of productive working age people to disability and millions more to care for them will be a major drag on our economy for decades.

A noose is a threat, used to intimidate blacks for over a century. In several state's law anyone who has the slightest bit of african-american heritage is defined as black, and that continues in culture today. There was a simple reason for those laws- Masters often raped their slaves, and the mixed race progeny would be free and even heirs to their masters estate if no will existed.

The F150 diesel flopped in the market because Ford only offered it with premium trims at $50+k prices. Fleets could buy it with plainer trims at more competitive prices, and Ford finally gave in and offered XLT trimmed models to the mass markets for around $40k and up. Looks like the inventory of 2019s is finally clearing out and Ford is building 2020 F150 diesels, but at $40k most buyers will opt for a gasser F150 for thousands less or an F250 diesel for about the same price.

Put a diesel in the Ranger and I'll buy one. But fat chance of that, even though the F150 and Transit list diesel options, it doesn't look like they've built any.

May explain why the U.S./Canada market Ranger is such a disappointment while the ROW Rangers are considered best in class.

Not surprising, Jackson basicly declared war on native americans. As for the rest of the fallen and falling symbols of white supremacy, in an america where no race will be a majority in a couple decades, their days as heros are numbered anyways

First, couple relatives of mine got COVID-19, were hospitalized but survived. As for the effect of subservient images of people of color, one of the stronger legal arguments in the court decisions ending school segregation was the research of a psychologist who found that black children had seen so many negative images of blacks in the media that they actually believed they were inferior. That tells us that images of stereotyped black people in roles that look to be one step removed from slavery do not improve the image of black people.

Come up with a solution and write a proposal for a state, federal, business, or non-profit grant. I just had a six figure state and federal grant to rebuild our town's water system approved, we could never have afforded to do it ourselves.

That's a lousy defense, ups the charge to Homicide 1.

That's the west end of 55408, pretty wealthy and predominately white.

The video of the murder of George Floyd proves you wrong.