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FastLane said:
You can volunteer 20 hours a week or even work online 20 hours a week. They just want you to do SOMETHING for four hours a day. The work requirement are very liberal. This is actually a pain the the but for doctors because slackers will be beating a path to the doctors for medical exemptions from work. They will tell the doctor anything to get what they want.
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There are hundreds of options... And it is certainly not an unreasonable requirement... Doctors need to stop handing out "medical" exemptions like candy... That's a part of the problem right now...
 
Tbird19482 said:
All the effects of the BBB and Trump's tariffs are going to take some time to kick in , some as long as several years , and Trump's stupid MAGA followers will keep cheering them on until they get hurt by them then it will be too late to go back and they will be crying like babies.
It is going to take time.
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Keep waiting for the sky to fall. That is your choice... You'll be pleasantly surprised when it doesn't....
 
TOP said:
There are hundreds of options... And it is certainly not an unreasonable requirement... Doctors need to stop handing out "medical" exemptions like candy... That's a part of the problem right now... ]
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Only SOME doctors do that. I won't even sign for handicapped parking tag unless you can't walk 200 feet without a medical device. (cane , walker, scooter) There are too many people parking in handicap parking spaces that do not need to .
 
FastLane said:
Only SOME doctors do that. I won't even sign for handicapped parking tag unless you can't walk 200 feet without a medical device. (cane , walker, scooter) There are too many people parking in handicap parking spaces that do not need to .
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Some doctors are too many doctors.... As for the handicap parking fakers...so many... I'm always happy to see people calling them out though...
 
Tbird19482 said:
All the effects of the BBB and Trump's tariffs are going to take some time to kick in , some as long as several years , and Trump's stupid MAGA followers will keep cheering them on until they get hurt by them then it will be too late to go back and they will be crying like babies.
It is going to take time.
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Well the tariffs are there to help bring manufacturing back to the US. I'll accept some pain if it helps the working man. In my father's day a working man could get a manufacturing job that would support a family. Those jobs have been shipped over seas. Trump is trying to bring them back to the US. Tariff will make US more competitive. Like in Japan, they ship millions of Japanese cars to US but don't allow us to sell cars to them. They also won't let our farmers sell rice in Japan. China subsidizes steel and dumps low priced steel into the US. That DESTROYED the US steel industry. It is hard to restart steel manufacturing Trump wants to make US steel competitive with subsidized Chinese steel.

What do you prefer cheap Chinese junk or a strong manufacturing base in the US?
 
Tbird19482 said:
All the effects of the BBB and Trump's tariffs are going to take some time to kick in , some as long as several years , and Trump's stupid MAGA followers will keep cheering them on until they get hurt by them then it will be too late to go back and they will be crying like babies.
It is going to take time.
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Exactly. This has to play out over the next year or two before the results are experienced by millions of Americans.

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FastLane said:
Well the tariffs are there to help bring manufacturing back to the US. I'll accept some pain if it helps the working man. In my father's day a working man could get a manufacturing job that would support a family. Those jobs have been shipped over seas. Trump is trying to bring them back to the US. Tariff will make US more competitive. Like in Japan, they ship millions of Japanese cars to US but don't allow us to sell cars to them. They also won't let our farmers sell rice in Japan. China subsidizes steel and dumps low priced steel into the US. That DESTROYED the US steel industry. It is hard to restart steel manufacturing Trump wants to make US steel competitive with subsidized Chinese steel.

What do you prefer cheap Chinese junk or a strong manufacturing base in the US?
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Promises, promises. Where are the results?

If you stopped smoking so much meth, Ms. Fat Lame, you'd see Trump's actions are splitting the Party of Trump. MAGAts are attacking each other.
 
TOP said:
Some doctors are too many doctors.... As for the handicap parking fakers...so many... I'm always happy to see people calling them out though...
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Once I was waiting in the car as my wife ran into Korgers I saw a young guy in a Jeep pull into a handicapped parking spot. He put a tag on his mirror and hopped out and fan into the store. He obviously was not physically handicapped. I pulled out a post it note and jotted a note and stuck it on his windshield. Handicapped means physically handicapped not mentally handicapped please park in regular parking and keep this spot for people that really need it. He probably ignored it but it sure made me feel better. People that abuse handicapped parking are no different than line jumpers at a theater.
 
FastLane said:
Well the tariffs are there to help bring manufacturing back to the US. I'll accept some pain if it helps the working man. In my father's day a working man could get a manufacturing job that would support a family. Those jobs have been shipped over seas. Trump is trying to bring them back to the US. Tariff will make US more competitive. Like in Japan, they ship millions of Japanese cars to US but don't allow us to sell cars to them. They also won't let our farmers sell rice in Japan. China subsidizes steel and dumps low priced steel into the US. That DESTROYED the US steel industry. It is hard to restart steel manufacturing Trump wants to make US steel competitive with subsidized Chinese steel.

What do you prefer cheap Chinese junk or a strong manufacturing base in the US?
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Well right now we have lost two major auto manufactures because of Trump's tariffs, the price of an auto is going up some as much as 7 thousand dollars or MORE, causing sales to drop and more auto workers to get laid off.
It is a fact manufacturing is going to be slow and hard to bring back , we do NOT have the infrastructure in place and we would have to build new factories and even then big companies will put in automation and AI and that will replace a lot of people and that could take years.
And most of the steel industry and other manufactures moved out back in the 60s and 70s.
And my big point is it is the AMERICAN CONSUMER that will pay the majority of these tariffs slowing our economy even more and like many of the worlds economists are saying this could cause a very deep world wide recession or even a depression.
 
FastLane said:
Once I was waiting in the car as my wife ran into Korgers I saw a young guy in a Jeep pull into a handicapped parking spot. He put a tag on his mirror and hopped out and fan into the store. He obviously was not physically handicapped. I pulled out a post it note and jotted a note and stuck it on his windshield. Handicapped means physically handicapped not mentally handicapped please park in regular parking and keep this spot for people that really need it. He probably ignored it but it sure made me feel better. People that abuse handicapped parking are no different than line jumpers at a theater.
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I've seen that too. Are you seriously claiming a doctor signed off on him or do you believe he simply lifted it from a parent or grandparent?
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Exactly. This has to play out over the next year or two before the results are experienced by millions of Americans.

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Well a lot of the medicare / medicaid cuts don't go into effect until AFTER the Mid terms and that was done on purpose so that the MAGAS don't see what is going on until they vote the Republicans back into office IF they can.
A lot of that is going to depend on just how bad the economy gets and how much other cuts hurt them.
 
FastLane said:
Once I was waiting in the car as my wife ran into Korgers I saw a young guy in a Jeep pull into a handicapped parking spot. He put a tag on his mirror and hopped out and fan into the store. He obviously was not physically handicapped. I pulled out a post it note and jotted a note and stuck it on his windshield. Handicapped means physically handicapped not mentally handicapped please park in regular parking and keep this spot for people that really need it. He probably ignored it but it sure made me feel better. People that abuse handicapped parking are no different than line jumpers at a theater.
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What a judgmental busybody cunt. SFEO! lol
 
FastLane said:
Actually food, gasoline, and inflation are down and wages are up..
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Are you implying Trump has something to do with all that?
Gas and oil are only going down because the Saudis are flooding the market it has NOTHING to do with Trump.
and for your info some food prices have been going up.
Get out and go shopping and see for yourself.
And NOT all of Trumps tariffs are in place just wait and see what the price of just about everything you buy does when they are.
 
FastLane said:
Actually food, gasoline, and inflation are down and wages are up..
FastLane said:
Once I was waiting in the car as my wife ran into Korgers I saw a young guy in a Jeep pull into a handicapped parking spot. He put a tag on his mirror and hopped out and fan into the store. He obviously was not physically handicapped. I pulled out a post it note and jotted a note and stuck it on his windshield. Handicapped means physically handicapped not mentally handicapped please park in regular parking and keep this spot for people that really need it. He probably ignored it but it sure made me feel better. People that abuse handicapped parking are no different than line jumpers at a theater.
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Good for you... That's a big fine here... And they often enforce it...
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Tbird19482 said:
Well right now we have lost two major auto manufactures because of Trump's tariffs, the price of an auto is going up some as much as 7 thousand dollars or MORE, causing sales to drop and more auto workers to get laid off.
It is a fact manufacturing is going to be slow and hard to bring back , we do NOT have the infrastructure in place and we would have to build new factories and even then big companies will put in automation and AI and that will replace a lot of people and that could take years.
And most of the steel industry and other manufactures moved out back in the 60s and 70s.
And my big point is it is the AMERICAN CONSUMER that will pay the majority of these tariffs slowing our economy even more and like many of the worlds economists are saying this could cause a very deep world wide recession or even a depression.
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And yet inflation is down and wages are up.

In the first quarter of 2025, median weekly earnings for full-time workers in the US were $1,194, a 4.8% increase compared to the same period last year. This increase outpaced the 2.7% rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U). https://www.google.com/search?sca_e...FHSY5IisQ1QJ6BAhGEAE&biw=853&bih=367&dpr=2.25

The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index, increased 0.1% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate at 2.1% in April 2025. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, https://www.google.com/search?q=inl...AgiwAgHxBeeKCMCTZtAy&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
 
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