Except that as of September 2021, 77% of covid fatalities have been for people aged 65+.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...vid-by-age-us/

You will make up ANYTHING to sling arrows at the right.

I guess you didn't bother to read my post. The op-ed discussed a statistical study. You can ignore every word of the columnist and focus on the data in the study. I encourage you to do that. You won't like the results.

The author of the study, Arthur Brooks, expected to conclude that liberals are more generous (after all, CNN says so). But he found the opposite (not that liberals aren't generous by the way, but conservatives were slightly more so). Brooks concluded, as a rational person might expect, that the role that religion plays on the two sides (important to the right, mocked by the left) is a main incentive for conservatives to dig a little deeper.

Despite what the left says, there's actually more to religion than bombing abortion clinics. Christianity has some pretty good qualities. You won't hear that on any mainstream news though, which is why you aren't aware of it.

Crazy, huh, can't believe how hard it is to get service staff over the age of 65, these days, since this all started. That usually is the target hiring age of the service industry too :rolleyes:
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Molesting children is spectacular

150K were not:rtfm:

It's unbelievable what people will do, when the facts aren't on their side, but they can't admit it.

They claim to care about the deaths, but not one of them criticized Gov Cuomo for forcing nursing homes to admit residents who tested positive for a disease which we all knew was going to target the elderly. They were giving him emmys in the middle of that, calling him the "gold standard".

Yes, that's exactly what I've said, many times.

You can't just admit what has been proven to be true, unless it supports liberalism.

I read your post and the Op-Ed it referred to, nowhere did it link to a study, only inferred information that the author gave his opinion on.
If as you claim you have read that study perhaps you can link it.

By the way it's behind a paywall.

Now take out the over 50's, because most of the service staff folks are usually younger than that. Then narrow it down to what percentage of the workforce that works as service staff

Number keeps getting smaller doesn't it?
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The study is called "Who Really Cares", done by Arthur Brooks, who has a lot of experience in public policy.

And here, according to the Bureau Of Labor Statistics, as of July there were over 9 million unfilled jobs in the private sector.

300,000 in construction
900,000 in manufacturing
1,400,000 in retail/wholesale
500,000 in transportation/warehousing/utilities
1,800,000 in leisure and hospitality
400,000 in other services

Somehow, according to Pete, the 150,000 people under 65 who died of covid, were filling all of those jobs.

In that case, maybe they worked themselves to death, maybe they didn't actually die of covid.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.t01.htm

It's not a study, it's a book written by someone with an opinion.

But now I see where you get your rhetoric.

Brooks is a prototypical member of the modern Republican elite. His ideology is rooted centrally in the class war, a struggle between what he calls “the makers” and “the takers.” He inhabits an imaginary world in which the former are being hounded nearly to extinction by the latter. “At some point,” he sorrowfully predicts, “the rich (as defined by the 30 percent) will pay all the income taxes in America. For the 30 percent coalition, this is fair and just.”

Brooks’s portrait of a world in which the rich are ruthlessly exploited in the name of absolute equality is long on hysterical rhetoric and very short on data. What little data Brooks presents is almost invariably wrong. “In America,” he declares, “the top 5 percent of earners bring in 37 percent of the income but pay 60 percent of the taxes.” This is false. The top 5 percent of income earners pay 38.5 percent of all taxes. And a system where the richest 5 percent earn 37 percent of the income and pay 38.5 percent of the taxes is not, I would submit, a draconian left-wing imposition.


Where does Brooks get this wildly wrong figure? The number he cites describes the share of federal income taxes paid for by the richest 5 percent. But the American tax system is a mix of regressive and progressive taxes. State and local taxes, as well as federal payroll taxes, tend to levy higher rates on the poor and middle class than on the rich. The income tax, which is steeply progressive, helps to tilt the balance of the burden back in the other direction. When conservatives portray the tax code as unfair to the rich, they usually cite just the income-tax burden, calculating that their audience will fail to notice that “income taxes” do not mean taxes as a whole. Brooks uses the term “taxes” when he means “income taxes.” He has fallen for his own ruse.

Maybe they were all illegal aliens

you still have no understand of how encounters do not equal entrance

you assume somehow 40,000 sick people a month are traveling around the US spreading Covid .. the open border lie runs deep in your mind

We have the same border we had under Trump nothing has changed people arrive and are returned stop being so obtuse ..

the Biden administration keeps Trump-era rule of turning away migrants during pandemic..., but seem you missed that memo
another example

https://www.statesman.com/

the vast majority of migrants encountered by Border Patrol are sent back to Mexico under Title 42 — a Trump-era policy designed to curb COVID-19 spread that the Biden administration has left in place.


.. And how would we know 1 in 5 have covid ? because the last republican lie was they weren't being tested..


the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told PolitiFact that it works with state authorities, local authorities and non-governmental organizations to ensure that “100% of noncitizens” are tested for COVID-19 "at some point during their immigration journey." The agency also has told PolitiFact that a negative coronavirus test is required by the federal government before entry to the U.S.


Jim no one on the left or middle have said no migrants don't have covid we just dont Blame them like republicans have done to avoid whos responsible for the explosion of Covid 19 in their base of support .. And we can talk about 2 things at once but once again these 2 things are not remotely the same

its Just republicans promoting fear of the other


Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick went on Fox News Thursday night to address the issue, further stoking political flames.

“The revolution has begun, a silent revolution by the Democrat Party and Joe Biden to take over this country," said Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, (R) Texas. "We need every state, every red state because the blue ones won't do it, to send and invoke Article four, section four, of the constitution, to tell the president that we are being invaded.”

Maybe.

or maybe you’re a dishonest political hack.

which is more likely?


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You're saying under Trump, we had 200,000 encounters a month? The number of people crossing illegally, hasn't skyrocketed under Biden, is that what you're saying?

"people arrive and are returned"

What's the process for returning these people? Where do they go, and how long are they there? My understanding is that many of them are let go in the US, after promising to show up to a future court date. Is that wrong? How are they processed?

I'm not saying they spend years traveling the country, kissing everyone they see to spread covid. But you seem to be saying they are all immediately returned in a way that doesn't expose Americans to their covid, and I'm sure that's not true either.

Under Trump there were more migrants than any year since 2005
Trump reduced aid to Central America, it didn’t make it better there.
Now once again we end up with more people seeking a chance and willing to risk their lives to do that.
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are there more illegal crossings now than under trump? yes or no?

i give trump bad marks on the border, he campaigned on sealing it up but didn’t.

but crossings have skyrocketed under this administration. can you admit that? No you can’t.
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Did I deny that?

I gave the reason why, but you think that there is a magic thing that stops illegal immigration without doing anything about the things that push people to leave where they are.

Just think how bad things would have to be to take your family and go to an unknown place.

No immigration reform has been done since Reagan, who did it with a Democratic Congress.

oh, so crossings are up, but it’s Trumps fault, of course.
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The report didn't, you're citing an interview with a small school paper, not exactly widespread promotion.

This isn't Yahoo, it's a hit piece by a writer that works for Glenn Beck.

WaPo did a breakdown of every house she or her husband bought or sold. There were 4 foreclosures and all we're held for more than six months. Buying homes on the open market for her family to remodel isn't exactly a nefarious act and she was criticizing banks for ILLEGAL FORECLOSURES.

It looks like they offered to continue her contract before they knew she was pregnant.

oh, so it’s ok to profit on foreclosures, as long as you hold them for 6 months!!! Of course!

Spence, you are precious. She said it was predatory for banks to foreclose in search of improving their bottom line. But of course, it’s not hypocritical for her to profit from it. and it’s wrong for
banks to profit from student loans, but ok if those loans paid her $400,000 salary.

It all depends on whose ox is getting gored.
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Really and no cause and effect discussion, come on get real. You call Pete a political hack, yet you somehow are blaming this administration for an increase in crossings, that’s the pot calling the kettle black. Could it be natural disasters, political unrest and many other factors result in the increase.

Well, crossings consistently dropped from the Bush administration thru the Obama ultimately reaching lows of less than 50K until 2019 in the Trump administration when they exploded to over 130K.

Trump reduced immigration a little before the Covid-19 pandemic reduced it a lot.

Trump sharply reduced immigration flows that are easy for a president to control, refugees being the most obvious example, and struggled with the rest.

Trump couldn't even deport as many illegals as Obama.

Illegal immigration has always been a push pull and you can change it in two ways, have a great recession which historically cut illegal immigration significantly or improve things in the countries that people feel forced to leave.

The current Republican minority in Congress is obviously trying for the former.

That's not what I said but if you're holding onto property foreclosure or not it's not really flipping.

If you can't tell the difference between legal and illegal activity I'm not sure I can help you.

A lot of folks can't tell the difference between legal and illegal immigration.

A lot of folks can't tell the difference between Joseph Goebbels and Stephen Miller.

They bear an uncanny physical resemblance - and also share the ability to spread nationalistic hate.

the banks who foreclosed also didn’t break laws.

i never said what warred did was illegal. i said she’s a hypocrite, it a criminal.

If i clearly say hypocrite, and you hear criminal, I’m not sure I can help you.
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Would hypocrisy be like this?

Brett Kavanaugh: ‘I’m a devout Catholic.’

Vatican: ‘Pope wants the execution of a man with mental acuity of a child to be stopped.’

Kavanaugh: ‘I’m not THAT kind of Catholic.’

or that the Catholic church hierarchy in this century and the last wanted to protect the unborn and molest the young?

no that’s not hypocritical, because he’s supposed to decide cases based on what the constitution says, not what the pope says. this is news to you?

if you want him deciding death penalty cases based on his faith? how about abortion cases?

all of the hierarchy wanted to molest the young? or a sick minority?

aren’t you tired of humiliating yourself in this thread? it’s embarrassing, and too easy to bitch slap you.
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There's a whole lot of differences between them, as there are between any human from either of them. Except for identical twins, it's easy find differences from any two humans. But you didn't note all the differences between Goebbels and Miller. You claimed a couple of what you consider similarities--which, in themselves, are superficial. Hell, even you have the ability to spread hate. I have perfect confidence in you that you could do the same with the nationalistic kind.

Of course, you had a bit of an agenda which gave you the opportunity to score another one of your "crose enough" tricks.

Pete, from Psychology today, a higher percentage of public school teachers have been accused of abusing kids, than priests. yet we only talk about priests, because teachers are sympathetic to liberalism. so you, and the media, give them a pass.

bitch slapped.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psy...-fiction%3famp
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And an interesting bit from Jim's attack piece on Warren...

"when in reality, a genealogist found she is a scant 1/32 Cherokee."

It's pretty absurd that while attacking Warren for claiming to be a Native American the author would be so sloppy as to ADMIT that she is one :hihi:

:doh::doh::doh:

Are you actually a teen aged girl or just playing one?
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcstlo...na-test-claims
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and you abandoned your other defenses if her, after i shredded them, see.

one more time. if she attacks banks for making money off foreclosures, why is it ok for her to make
money off foreclosures ( which even you conceded she did)?

f she says it’s exploitative to issue student loans to college kids, why is it ok when a fair amount of student loan money funded her $400,000 salary at harvard??

how come she can attack others for doing what she herself does?
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Either you contradicted yourself, or you don't consider yourself one of us or we that are the Americans you speak of.

You’re overthinking it
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Jim why attack warren and even mention the Indian thing ? but remain silent when Republicans who are not willing to pay Trumps credit card bill which includes his unpaid for tax cut? And are lying trying to make it about fiscal responsibility that only their gullible base is buying !

Republicans have raised the debt ceiling 31 time Dem 12. But Republicans have abandoned facts over fiction

Military spending is is approximately $753. 39 billion a YEAR

Yet Republicans are against 3.5 trillion over 10 years that will be paid for by getting rid of Trumps reckless tax cuts So much for American 1st


President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law in December 2017. CBO forecasts that the 2017 Tax Act will increase the sum of budget deficits (debt) by $2.289 trillion over the 2018-2027

The budget deficit increased from $779 billion in FY2018 to $984 billion FY2019, up $205 billion or 26%. The budget deficit increased from $666 billion in FY2017 to $779 billion in FY2018, an increase of $113 billion or 17.0%.[10] The 2019 deficit was an estimated 4.7% GDP, up from 3.9% GDP in 2018 and 3.5% GDP in 2017. The historical average deficit is 2.9% GDP.[11] During January 2017, just prior to President Trump's inauguration, CBO forecast that FY2019 budget deficit would be $610 billion if laws in place at that time remained in place. The $984 billion actual results represents a $374 billion or 61% increase versus that forecast, driven mainly by tax cuts and additional spending. Similarly, the FY 2018 budget deficit of $779 billion was a $292 billion or 60% increase versus that forecast.[12]

Fiscal responsibility on display Republicans style
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Wayne. When someone gives you back some of the money that they’ve taken from you…..it’s not a “cut”…..”fiscal responsibility” is not wringing more money out of taxpayers because you can’t control your urge to spend
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