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TACO Tuesday!

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He is incompetent and evil. He has gotten a lot of people killed over nothing. I don't think his goal is to weaken the US (if it is, maybe he isn't incompetent after all), but simply to use his position to enrich himself and stroke his ego. The USA was supposed to be a mighty military power and home to a people that would fight to maintain their freedom. Instead, the military has shown the world how impotent it really is, and the rugged individualist citizens of this country simply bent over for him and the ultra wealthy class. Pathetic.

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Thatcher famously said "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money", but isn't it the best way to describe billionaires in late stage capitalism?

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The debt you describe is due to capitalism. Buying kitchen equipment, leasing commercial land, buying food and supplies, etc. None of that has anything to do with the government.

If you can sell something cheaper, you should? What the fuck is that? Why? You figure out volume and margin and land where you want to be. If people are more than willing to pay five bucks for a hamburger, why sell it for a dollar? If everyone else is selling them for eight bucks and your business is slow due to competition, maybe you lower the price and reduce your margin, but you would go $7.50 or something, right? You wouldn't want to go lower than you have to. Most things are priced at what the market will bear. Maximum profit. Right?

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Passing Rule

Ahhh, I've been caught doing this a few times. I would misjudge the speed differential and it would take way too long to pass the other guy. Trucks usually have governors on them and cruise control is set to max... Cars would back up behind me and I would be thinking "come on, man, let off the gas a little and let me by!" I always felt bad about it because I know what a piss off it is being caught behind that bullshit.