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There have been outlines of what is planned already and the huge bulk of it is 'public-private partnerships'. That's fancy political talk for 'private capital buys and profits from infrastructure in any way they can while the public retains all risk of something getting hosed up and dealing with/paying for the problems'.
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Just don't forget to emphasize things like entrepreneurship, innovation, and wealth creation as you loot the public coffers.
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bird food bathtub posted:There have been outlines of what is planned already and the huge bulk of it is 'public-private partnerships'. That's fancy political talk for 'private capital buys and profits from infrastructure in any way they can while the public retains all risk of something getting hosed up and dealing with/paying for the problems'. The UK government tried the whole Private Finance Initiative thing, except it has blown up in their face when Carillion (one of the biggest firms in the PFI project) collapsed a few weeks ago with a massive pension deficit and insolvent balance sheet. Despite the government knowing they were on financial difficulties since mid 2017 they continued to feed them contracts. A lot of other smaller firms were reliant on Carillion subcontracts so not only do we have a lot of public sector infrastructure projects stalled like hospitals etc, but more firms are probably going to end up insolvent as a consequence. So basically lol at that plan.
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Orlando Furioso posted:The UK government tried the whole Private Finance Initiative thing, except it has blown up in their face when Carillion (one of the biggest firms in the PFI project) collapsed a few weeks ago with a massive pension deficit and insolvent balance sheet. I was about to post this. If you think PPI are a good idea just look at us, it's a loving disaster area.
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Hexyflexy posted:I was about to post this. If you think PPI are a good idea just look at us, it's a loving disaster area. It’s all the immigrants you’re letting flood into your country.
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Vengarr posted:The ISS is funded through 2024. Yes that is correct. That hasn’t changed. The article talks about what happens after that. I don’t think industry will bite, though. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Feb 12, 2018 |
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boop the snoot posted:It’s all the immigrants you’re letting flood into your country. We are unironically short of immigrants, to the point where our government and the press will release a report on Monday saying "We've stopped all these people coming in, isn't it wonderful!" and then on Tuesday "We can't run the hospitals, schools, factories or pick the crops due to a lack of people!". That actually happened, verbatim, last week. It's like watching a mass schizophrenia event.
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Hexyflexy posted:We are unironically short of immigrants, to the point where our government and the press will release a report on Monday saying "We've stopped all these people coming in, isn't it wonderful!" and then on Tuesday "We can't run the hospitals, schools, factories or pick the crops due to a lack of people!". That actually happened, verbatim, last week. You have a link to this?
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 15:14 |
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https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/963058819235549185 Olive Branch is the current Turkish offensive against kurds
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 15:43 |
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Hexyflexy posted:"We can't run the hospitals, schools, factories or pick the crops due to a lack of people!". I watched a report on the PBS News Hour last week that said p much the same thing. Here in North Carolina the last two seasons, farmers have been having a hell of a time finding folks to work the fields. ICE starts deporting migrant workers and the locals (even the dirt poor ones) aren't willing to take up the slack.
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Mods, name change, etc. https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/962811979193831424
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Xenoborg posted:You have a link to this? This is happening every bloody week, these are from the guardian but it's reported everywhere. Last Friday: poo poo, we have no workers Last Monday: Immigration workers really love loving over brown people!.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Mods, name change, etc. I realize it is all about his power and untouchableness but, you'd think it wouldn't be tough for people to realize not to explicitly single out the reason for firing something based on a protected class in an email on your own servers. To work HR at a place like that must be a nightmare.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 16:08 |
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Hollywood just seems like a bad fit for someone who hates gay people idk, but I guess money and an unlimited rape buffet probably outweighs any homophobia
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Vengarr posted:ISIS is funded through 2024. Misread that a little bit. Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Mods, name change, etc. Holy poo poo. Yeah that's not going to end well for ol' Harve.
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aphid_licker posted:If anyone itt is looking for something to read Nixonland, mentioned on the last page, and this are both amazing. If anyone is wanting to read it, PM me and I'll send a copy. I've been putting together (albeit slowly) books from the war literature thread as well.
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dubzee posted:I watched a report on the PBS News Hour last week that said p much the same thing. Just get prison labor like the prison/plantation system deeper south. Problem solved.
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aphid_licker posted:If anyone itt is looking for something to read Nixonland, mentioned on the last page, and this are both amazing. Echoing that both are pro reads. I heard Pearlstein's Reagan book wasn't as good but I still want to read it. mods change my name posted:Hollywood just seems like a bad place ftfy
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 16:30 |
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Godholio posted:Misread that a little bit. It'll be a long time before
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 16:41 |
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Mods, name change, etc. That sounds like the lyrics to a Sk8ter Boi parody that you'd get if you crossed Weird Al with a huge pile of poo poo.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 16:46 |
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but but but government death panels https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/963062666314076161
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shame on an IGA posted:but but but government death panels Death Panels: Real and Stupider than ever.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 16:51 |
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shame on an IGA posted:but but but government death panels No, no, you see when a private company denies you care arbitrarily and capriciously it is good because of the invisible hand of the free market. If the government were to do it after studies and analysis, well that's just straight up tyranny.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 16:53 |
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Unilever is threatening to stop advertising on Facebook and Google. Unilever to Facebook and Google: Clean up 'swamp' or we'll pull ads
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 16:55 |
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it me https://twitter.com/evanmcmurry/status/963087547265056769 it her WAIT NO IT ISN'T wait maybe it is iuno https://twitter.com/evanmcmurry/status/963083527293153282 https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/963079956208156672
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 17:46 |
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Obama can frig off for all I care!
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 17:50 |
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Mods change my name to Nostalgia4WhenThePresidentWasQuietAboutCrimesAgainstHumanityAndNotAnInternationalEmbarassment. tia
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 17:57 |
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Remember how Flynn Sr. wanted to kidnap that Gulen dude for Turkey? Nunes was also allegedly present https://twitter.com/USseriously/status/845740827129397248
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 18:20 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Remember how Flynn Sr. wanted to kidnap that Gulen dude for Turkey? Nunes was also allegedly present Well, well.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 18:27 |
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Lol like it will matter
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 18:28 |
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mods change my name posted:Lol like it will matter This
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 18:32 |
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Well that explains nunes' burn it all to the ground strategy. He did some baaaaad poo poo and it's his hail Mary play.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 18:33 |
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Can't wait for Trump to call him a super Patriot
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 18:34 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Remember how Flynn Sr. wanted to kidnap that Gulen dude for Turkey? Nunes was also allegedly present see what happens when you doth protest too much devin
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 18:36 |
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FAUXTON posted:see what happens when you doth protest too much devin
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 18:59 |
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That was last year too I just noticed so nothing will happen
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 19:01 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Remember how Flynn Sr. wanted to kidnap that Gulen dude for Turkey? Nunes was also allegedly present The bigwig breakfast on Jan 18, 2017 that Nunes and others attended was not the summer 2016 or December 2016 meetings where the Gulen kidnapping was discussed. This (non) story is not quite a year old - granted, that's about 8 years in TrumpTime Cavusoglu also 'met with' Mattis around the same time as Nunes 'met with' Cavusoglu.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 19:12 |
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CNN reporting now about how “dozens of WH officials” still don’t have full clearances, and some interviewees talking about how Kushner’s investigation probably wouldn’t have taken this long if there wasn’t a whole lot of questions. Also apparently Kushner is the person who reads the daily intel briefs.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 20:36 |
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Hey guys, just a reminder Neocons are still butthurt that Obama didn't go balls deep into Syria. https://twitter.com/Millermena/status/963123293049049088 https://twitter.com/Millermena/status/963132655637291008
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As I recall, it was conservative lawmakers (particularly in the house) dragging their heels that stopped Obama from going into Syria after the red line idiocy. Not that I think that was really a bad idea, as sticking our dick into yet another hornet's nest in the middle East without any real path to a better state of affairs seems like a real bad loving idea, but what the gently caress do I know.
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