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Tell you what. Since it becomes increasingly less likely that grown-up discussion will take place here, this may as well be moved the the P&R Forum.

First, this isn't about concepts; it's about life. Second, "the root of this problem . . . is illegal immigration"? Seriously? More dogma. Third, "entitlement programs are being diverted to criminals". Still more dogma. Fourth, "budgets for social services are being stretched to their limits...

Gee, schools, courses, books, and economists. Like I said, knock yourself out.

Debating with you is not a productive use of my time since you invariably run out of steam at some point and detour into the usual LOL and disparaging remarks. In other words, once you've run through your dogma party piece, you have nothing left (e.g., your "proof" that white privilege doesn't...

. . . as Seattle gets acclimated to its $10.10 wage and mulls over the possibility of a $15 threshold (with a likely exemption for small businesses), the sky isn’t entirely caving in. Craig Jelinek, CEO of Costco, told Seattle Weekly that “$15 seems not even a living wage” and that “We at Costco...

Hey, it's the internet. Even so, $10.10 is not a burden. Look at what's happened to bacon.

There’s reason to believe even conservative presidents know the value of supporting the job market through government employment. We can compare the Reagan recovery that began in November 1982 and the Obama recovery that began in May 2009. Five years later, the Reagan economy had seen an...

As America celebrates yet another Labor Day, it’s hard not to dwell on the fact that many in the country are still looking for work. According to April figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 9.8 million people actively looking were unable to find employment. Creating jobs for them might be...

Food stamps became part of American life 50 years ago this Sunday when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Food Stamp Act into law on Aug. 31, 1964. The program has been a whipping boy almost ever since, especially from conservatives who call the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...

WASHINGTON -- Most people know Labor Day as an extra day off of work. Fewer know the holiday comes from a time when the government was offing workers. It all started with a bad recession in the early 1890s that reduced demand for railway cars, prompting Chicago railway magnate George Pullman to...

Not off-topic at all. You're making a number of assumptions that do not necessarily have any grounding in reality because you've never really thought about it or bothered to look at the data without prejudice (i.e., prejudging). Therefore, you rant dogma. But at least you have tons of company.

Not necessarily. Cities would have been limited to the sizes that the water would accommodate, and they would have had to recognize that they were in deserts, which precludes lawns and golf courses. As for agriculture, that would depend on what and where. People have adapted to water and water...

Actually, some advance the case that it is the dams that are the problem, that if the water had been allowed to flow naturally, most of these problems would not exist. For the most part, the problems arise due to our fucking with the natural order of things.

If you were truly interested in finding out rather than repeat rightwing dogma, you could compare those urban schools that are fully-funded with those that are not, controlling of course the variables such as racial and ethnic composition. But why do I not think you will do that?

You're doing it again.

What difference does it make? Either they have value or they don't.

Sounds like they didn't know how to hire. Or fire. I value minimum-wage workers. You don't. Perhaps that's all that needs to be said.

You can start here: http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/rewild/commentary/representative-devin-nunes-versus-the-stupid-delta-smelt.html though it's not breitbart/FoxNews approved. There's a lot more if you can and are willing to maintain an open mind. Otherwise, as you were.

If they provide no value, why hire them at all? I'm sure you've heard of inflation, price and wage. And I'm sure you've heard of the cost of doing business. When, for example, you're faced with the choice of going back to the rear of the kitchen and cleaning the pots and pans yourself, just how...

So minimum-wage workers provide no value? How Dickensian.