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[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

[StassneyHorn 6540]

Had a union guy from Phoenix rent from me while he worked at Samsung awhile back in Austin. Good dude, loved the price of groceries, LOVED guns more than anything in life. I let his wife live with us, like it was a goddamn commune. Worked crazy fucking hours tho. Like 12-14 hours a day. They finished 2 months ahead of time and were Union crews. Wife makes a great fruit salad and had a solid rack.

Your post had zero context, so does my reply.

Edited May 5, 2022 by StassneyHorn

[WhatTheBuck 28713]

27 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

Had a union guy from Phoenix rent from me while he worked at Samsung awhile back in Austin. Good dude, loved the price of groceries, LOVED guns more than anything in life. I let his wife live with us, like it was a goddamn commune. Worked crazy fucking hours tho. Like 12-14 hours a day. They finished 2 months ahead of time and were Union crews. Wife makes a great fruit salad and had a solid rack.

Your post had zero context, so does my reply.

I’m just going to assume you tossed her fruit salad. 

[StassneyHorn 6540]

She was very liberal w towel usage in the hallway. Tribesman and women knowledge was gained. Fun folks

[Upgrayedd 5806]

3 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

She was very liberal w towel usage in the hallway. Tribesman and women knowledge was gained. Fun folks

Pics aren’t showing up

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13547]

Overton Window illustration eleventy billion of what qualifies as a party of radical leftists to the GQP.

[Biff Tannen 45499]

Well this has been fairly disappointing. 

[Beau Vine 54003]

I thought this was going to be the Cincinnati Reds thread.

[Nivek 16861]

public funding/risk, privatized benefits.  The American way.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

19 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

 

Your post had zero context, so does my reply.

Sorry if it wasn't clear enough.  Here's more context.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont blasted the warped priorities of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as the Democratic-controlled chamber moved to advance legislation that he warned would provide a $53 billion "blank check" to the profitable microchip industry under the guise of promoting innovation, domestic manufacturing, and job creation.

"We have strange priorities here in the Senate," Sanders, the chair of the Senate Budget Committee, said in floor remarks. "We can't extend the child tax credit to combat child poverty. We can't deal with the crisis in child care. We can't provide dental care to seniors on Medicare. We can't deal with climate change."

"But somehow," the senator added, "we can provide a massive amount of corporate welfare to a handful of corporations."

Sanders' comments came as the Senate began holding votes on dozens of motions related to the COMPETES Act, which is currently in conference committee as the House and Senate reconcile their differences on the legislation before final passage. The motions are aimed at instructing the conferees' work on the bill.

In recent weeks, Sanders has vocally warned on the Senate floor and in the pages of major newspapers that the measure in its current form would do nothing to prevent taxpayer funding from going to large corporations that bust unions, outsource U.S. jobs, and buy back their own stock.

The Vermont senator has specifically targeted a provision that would authorize an additional $10 billion in NASA funding for moon landers, money that could wind up benefiting billionaire Jeff Bezos' space flight company Blue Origin.

"Clearly, Mr. Bezos desperately needs this federal assistance," the Vermont senator said sarcastically. "He is only worth $150 billion."

On Wednesday, Sanders introduced motions that would attach a number of safeguards to the legislation's funding and cut the $10 billion NASA provision.

"At a time when 70 million are uninsured, when 600,000 people are homeless in this country, while we are seeing a growing gap between the very rich and everybody else," Sanders said, "it does not make a lot of sense to give $10 billion to the second-wealthiest person in this country."

By overwhelming margins—6-87 and 17-78—the Senate voted down both of Sanders' proposals while approving several Republican-led motions unrelated to the bill's core objectives, including one that would instruct conferees to prohibit President Joe Biden from lifting the terrorism designation on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

 

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/05/sanders-blasts-senates-strange-priorities-it-advances-corporate-welfare

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[Bullneck 18987]

16 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

She was very liberal w towel usage in the hallway. Tribesman and women knowledge was gained. Fun folks

Apparently she believe the camera took a bit of her soul or something?  

[SaucyJack 3487]

14 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

I thought this was going to be the Cincinnati Reds thread.

It’s the abortion thread. 
 

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

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Divided Congress United in Not Giving a Shit About Workers

The Senate voted overwhelmingly to kill a pro-labor amendment to the 2022 America COMPETES Act—right before voting to protect a $10 billion handout to Jeff Bezos.

In a rare display of bipartisanship, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to kill a non-binding, pro-labor measure that would’ve placed safeguards on the United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021—specifically $53 billion set aside for the semiconductor industry. 

The motion was introduced by Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and would have sought to deny federal funds to union-busting firms in the industry. 

“The first amendment would prevent microchip companies from receiving taxpayer assistance unless they agree to issue warrants or equity stakes to the Federal Government,” Sanders said on the Senate floor. “In addition, this amendment would also require these highly profitable companies not to buy back their own stock, not to outsource American jobs, not to repeal existing collective bargaining agreements and to remain neutral in any union organizing effort.”

Sanders also introduced a second amendment that sought to kill the $10 billion provision to create a second Human Landing System for the Artemis program, a NASA effort aimed at getting astronauts to the moon by 2024 and then eventually establishing an ongoing presence there.

“The second amendment that I have introduced would simply eliminate the $10 billion bailout for Jeff Bezos to fly to the moon. If Mr. Bezos wants to go to the moon, good for him. He has $186 billion in personal wealth,” Sanders said on the Senate floor. “He became $81 billion richer during the pandemic. He is the second richest person in America. And, in a given year, Mr. Bezos has paid nothing in federal income taxes.”

The first amendment was crushed 6-87, while the second was shot down by a more modest 17-78.

Last month, Sanders penned a column in The Guardian criticizing plans to provide Jeff Bezos—a man worth nearly $200 billion who paid $0 in federal income taxes—with a $10 billion handout for his Blue Origin space company. The legislation to build that second Human Landing System comes after Blue Origin lost a bid for the first one to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and nearly a year of  lobbying Congress to give the company another chance.

“At a time when over half of the people in this country live paycheck to paycheck, when more than 70 million are uninsured or underinsured and when some 600,000 Americans are homeless, should we really be providing a multibillion-dollar taxpayer bailout for Bezos to fuel his space hobby? I don’t think so,” Sanders wrote in his Guardian column.

Sanders has been railing against this $10 billion provision as far back as May 2021, arguing that neither Musk’s SpaceX nor Bezos’ Blue Origin should receive any federal funds to accelerate the privatization of space travel when both men were worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

"This is something that should be an American effort, that all of us should be a part of, and not simply be a private corporation undertaking. So, I've got a real problem with the authorization of $10 billion going to somebody who is, among other things, the wealthiest person in this country,” Sanders said on the Senate floor.

 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdbvw/congress-kills-pro-labor-america-competes-act-bernie-sanders