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This is precisely why they can’t negotiate, if you keep allowing them to dictate and bypass the budget process they will always do it. Put a clean debt ceiling bill out for vote. Get people on the record for blowing up the country, invoke the 14th and let them fight against the economy in court. Ideally you can remove the entire stupid mechanism totally and allow the budget process to be what it should be. But, that’s a pipe dream.

@Larry Completely agree with that. They need to put it out there in straightforward terms, keep it short and simple. If the GOP has a budget goal, that should be dealt with in the budgeting process, not by holding the nation hostage to pay for the already approved budget.

I’ll preface this with I’m a federal employee. I do not want them to negotiate with the GOP, I want Biden or one of his surrogates to go on major news networks and explain that the GOP is refusing to pay the budget that was already passed. They are refusing to pay the debt of the country they already agreed to and are using this one mechanism to hold the entire country hostage. I want the Dems to blast it constantly on every major network they can. I then want Biden to invoke the 14th amendment and give a speech on why he’s doing it, and how the government shall pay its debts. If they negotiate at all, this is going to repeat itself indefinitely. At some point you have to make a hard choice and not negotiate with the hostage takers.

Whenever I see something like this I always think of the planet money episode about CEO pay. Episode 682: When CEO Pay Exploded Great episode that provides a really interesting breakdown on CEO compensation.

Is Musk involved in a Brewsters Millions situation? If blows 45 billion does he then get a 100 billion for spending it all and having nothing left to show for it?

Considering it’s one of the only jobs left in the country that offers a pension after 20 years, that’s a big incentive. Offer signing bonuses (this is done already), tuition forgiveness after X years served. Provide a stipend to students similar to what Wes Moore is proposing for teachers. Starting salary now is 58k in Anne Arundel county, non inclusive of OT. The signing bonus is 20k and dispersed over three years of service. Starting pay and benefits are solid out of the gate, long term pay is good also. The career perception needs to be changed, I don’t want a bunch of people driving around with punisher skills on their cars enforcing rules. There are a lot of good cops, wanting to have a better prepared officer should be a good thing. —Edit— As my wife just pointed out. Teachers are now being asked to take a bullet from a complete stranger, should we lower their requirements?

Associates Degree in criminal justice as a minimum. Ideally a bachelor’s in criminal justice or some derivative related to it. If your job is to enforce a complicated set of standards we should require something similar to at least other professions paid by the state / county. My wife is a teacher, she has a bachelor’s and was required to get her masters within a set period of time. My cousin is a forensic laboratory technician for Baltimore police. Minimum requirements was a bachelor’s degree. They had a more rigid entry requirement to their jobs and they don’t have even get qualified immunity for making mistakes. —edit— Our local community college offers an associate’s degree for law enforcement. Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice I don’t think this is controversial, asking a person to undergo some type of higher education for a career that is as important as law enforcement is a big ask. Most professional jobs require advanced degrees. I’m not advocating for a four year program out the door. But a two year program should be the bare minimum to get in the door.

It blows my mind that as a country, we don't have a single universal standard for police training. State to state we can have wildly different standards from recruitment, training and continuous learning for LEOs. In some states training requirements are set at county levels or lower. I will never understand it. Hell in some places it takes more training to be a cosmetologist then a cop. I live in Anne Arundel County Maryland. The minimum requirements to be a county cop are; U.S. Citizen, at least 21 years old at the time of graduation from the academy, H.S. Diploma or GED, valid driver’s license. ** No Felony or Serious Misdemeanor Convictions. To be a teacher the minimum requirements in the same county; Minimum Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made on request to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Education · Bachelor’s degree in applicable field of education from a regionally accredited college or university.

Or, hear me out on this. It's Tucker stroking Elon's ego about fighting the woke mind virus on Twitter and how the big bad liberal companies are hurting an upstart privately owned business. Just spit balling.

I can only picture that interview going down one way.

We could all be so lucky to be like Rick Fox. Man was anchoring championship teams and was so good looking he was working in Hollywood at the same time. Kuzma may be on to something with Spencer.

Didn't think I'd see this day for many years. Buddy and I have been kicking around the idea of getting season tickets again. My family had them for 10 years, 1999 - 2010, he had them for four years. We both dropped out around the same time. Exciting to think about going back. I keep thinking about how this is like the game "The Oregon Trail", we made it to the end but lost some good people to dysentery along the way.

I understand, that and he's angry they actually left. Him shouting "defund" is an easy thing for people of a certain though process to rally around. They see NPR and think that the government gives them all their money and therefore chooses what they report. He's not a deep person, there are no interconnecting dots here. He's effectively Charlie working in the mailroom right now.

They left twitter, and now he's unhappy. He's a man child and can't control his big feelings.

That's not accurate. NPR gets the majority of it's money from corporate sponsorships, from what I can see it receives 1% from direct federal funding and 10% from indirect sources. NPR Funding NPR - Public Radio Finances Chart is NPR overall funding.

I'm a contracting officer at the federal level, if you accept a gift (you shouldn't) it has to be less than $20.00 per occasion and cannot exceed $50.00 for the year. Like you we take annual ethics training and have to fill out our annual disclosure for myself and spouse. The issue is not if you can do it, it's the perception that you create for the entirety of yourself and agency. It has always been told to me; the possible perception of impropriety is unacceptable. This to me is a huge deal, it's so far outside of what morally and ethically should be done. The ambiguity this creates is just outside of anything, and it may have had no influence on him, but the perception is there. That is the issue. But I'm sure they will investigate themselves and determine nothing wrong has been done.

I have two very good friends who are combat veterans. One is an officer still serving the other is a retired marine, multiple tours, specifically Fallujah. Under no circumstances would I want either working in that capacity at my kids school. Super small sample and anecdotal, but I’ve known both of these guys for almost 35 years. I wouldn’t trust them in that capacity around my kids.

I finished it last night. It got better, but I mean, it wasn't good. But for some reason I had to finish it. So, I guess in some way it was good? I enjoyed watching the Far character constantly berating people, that was funny.

My understanding is that it would have to wind its way through federal court, running out the clock on Desantis seems to be the plan. Also, from what I've read the agreement itself appears to be valid.

Does it have a foot shaped gas pedal? If not, I'm out.

We live in a HOCL area, we had our first kid enrolled in a center as a one-year-old in 2011. We got incredibly lucky that a new center was just finishing construction about ten minutes from our house. It was $1,275 a month. We had our second kid in 2015, the first people to know my wife was pregnant was that center. Our son was born in February, he didn't enroll until September, the only reason we were able to get him enrolled is because another couple had to move. We told the center in July / August of 2014, we had to prepay for a month to hold our spot for a year later. The price for a baby was $1,925 a month, our daughter was still going there. Our daughter was in her final year at the daycare. Our total out of pocket cost for that year averaged out to $2,500 a month. It was more than the mortgage on our house. We have friends that are our age and have a one-year-old, they have her in a daycare in a lower cost of living area, I think they pay something like $275 a week. I'd love to know what they think affordable is for childcare.

That's not a you thing. My parents have two cards, and really only one they use. They also may be the most financially literate people I know, and their PenFed card got compromised like 4 times in the span of six months. It happens, it's just super inconvenient.

I had ACL & LCL reconstruction done end of January this year, 14 years ago I had ACL reconstruction and some meniscus repair on my other knee. I was 26 the first time and 40 now. It's crazy how far medical recovery has come in that 14 years. I'm 8 weeks out and walking with a limp without crutches, the first time I was still on crutches and working on weight bearing. I'm floored with how fast and how much smoother this has been especially at an older age and being less active prior to surgery. I'll be able to resume light cardio in another four weeks and back to full activity six months from surgery. The first time it was one year to full activity, medical improvements are neat to see in places you don't really think of them.