Trump will balloon the deficit

You seem to have missed the tiny detail that it's the congress, not the president, that decides how much is spent.

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this is how civilization ends

Idiotic Malthusian hyperbole much?

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I have no complaints with FedEx, but UPS has always been a shitty vendor.

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If you can't keep a job, maybe it's because nobody wants to deal with a racist scumbag.

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fluency in [ mandarin | Chinese ] is a plus

Of course it's a plus. I'm likely to be hiring a group of Mechanical Engineers in the next six months, and I certainly want at least one of them to be fluent in Mandarin to make it easier to work with Chinese suppliers. It would be pretty handy if they speak Korean, Japanese or Hindi, too.

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That's not an unreasonable requirement, given the need to work with manufacturing operations in China.

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The department of labor found a statistical anomaly, and decided to try to nail Thiel for supporting Trump.

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That said, we badly need a high speed rail network in the U.S

No, we don't. We have aircraft.

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Air travel should be one of those novelty things that the lucky few can justify

Fuck you. I'll buy what I can afford, and your approval is neither sought nor required.

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I am miserable because I need to sign the same three letters in my username

No kid, that makes YOU miserable. I'm fine with it.

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Nonsense. Your entire comment is nonsense. Education is just a service and fine best for profit. The problem with the USA system I'd government in student loans - issuing then or backing them, thud removing risk from lending. Government removing risk from interest bearing loans creates a perverse effect of banks dropping lending standards, the same thing that happened with every other bubble created by government money and involvement. Housing, stock, bond bubbles are no different from this student loan bubble. It will burst but before it does the colleges will raise tuition (and they have and they are) all the time much above what a free market would bear.

The reason for the most expensive 'education' today as compared to any time before now is the ocean of money pushed into it through the student loans, by the banks who are guaranteed a return by the taxpayer or the Fed printing (doesn't matter).

There shouldn't be any government money in education, today education can be provided cheaper than ever before in history of the world, do the prices do not reflect the reality. The reason of course is that all the price signals are removed from the system by government manipulation of the money and interest, by the Governemnt violent control.

The actual free market is not allowed UB education and it should be allowed. Government should be removed from it and actually from everything.

After they mismanaged the company for a few years, trashing our corporate culture and making all the employees miserable I found another job and resigned.

If you were an ethical person, you would have bailed as soon as the acquisition was announced.

miserable, judgemental jerk

Why would I be miserable? I don't have the taint of working for a criminal organization on my conscience.

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Perhaps you lack the basic information that oxygen is the most abundant element on earth. It makes up close to half of the mass of the planet. We're not going to run out of it.

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an insurance company that uses Accenture policy administration software

Would you mind telling us what company that is? I want to make sure I never do business with them.

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I was a Senior Consultant at Andersen Consulting

Hey, thanks for the heads-up. Now everybody knows that you're not someone to trust.

Have you also worked at the NSA or any other criminal organization?

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