Pete Buttigieg: Racism is 'physically built into' country's highways

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  1. Darth Gravus

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    Can you give an example of tying a show?

    Thanks.

    Yes, the 2nd guy took what the first guy started and increased business by 25%.

    Lets do that math.

    I will use easy round numbers for you so that you can follow along.

    Guy 1 takes the business from zero customers to 1000.

    Guy 2 comes along and takes the business from 1000 customers to 1250.

    So, guy one added 1000 customers and guy 2 added 250 and yet you somehow think that guy 2 did better.

    Seems you are just pulling my leg, you cannot actually believe that.
     
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    lol, you funny..
     
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    LMAO, it's unbelievable that someone would think that higher numbers better then less.. Well that explains the how and why the DNC get away with arithmatrics, the base is clearly easily manipulated ;)
     
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    Ya ya, we get it, improvement is not a thing with you :) Bottom line, Mr. Obatard barely recovered the employment numbers Bush had UNTIL the subprime crash.. Trump took what Mr. Obatard claimed was the NEW NORM and lowed his and Bush's best numbers and that ultimately put MORE people to work then they both did.. Well until the Chiner flu collapsed the economy again..

    But you are more receptive of the idea Mr. Obatard recovering what Bush had and thinking he did something wonderous ;) All he did was buy Bush's unemployment number back for eight trillion is all.
     
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    Improvement is a thing, but it is not everything.

    Obama was one of the worst presidents ever, doing better than Obama is like being a better QB than Ryan Leaf...not much of an accomplishment

    Obama did not say that about employment numbers. Lying does not help your case

    You have a wonderful imagination, I will give you that. My point was never that Obama was that awesome, just that Trump was not all that awesome either.
     
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    All highways lead to racism when you go left!
     
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    Shoes.

    I said the 2nd guy increased the head count by 25%
    The 1st guy infinite.0/any number is infinty.

    I was agreeing with you. So, no, I wasn't pulling your leg.
     
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    Tell you what. I give you $10, you give me $60. And I'll let you think you got more. I would love to be manipulated again.
     
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    And some will hate lawyers, and some will be too fat to run for the bus downtown to the Legal Aid office, and some will think they can represent themselves, and some will be away on vacation, and some will be criminals who don't want any contact with the law ... etc etc ad infinitum.

    Again, what in Hades do individual personal circumstances have to do with Govt policy on compulsory property acquisition? How can you possibly discuss a thing itself, when you have no way to reach it due to constantly blowing off course into the infinite minutia of irrelevant distractions?
     
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    So they ARE planning to demolish the old highways and build new ones? So it IS about the future?

    Glad you finally agree!
     
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    Those personal circumstances are what allow the government to low ball the "market value" when taking people's land by force.

    Some where in this thread there is a great article about how often that has happened with the government taking of the land for Trump's fence.

    This fairy tale land you live in where the government always does the right thing does not exist.
     
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    The reality is that in any given street up for demolition, each individual property owner is going to have different personal circumstances. The only KNOWN and CONSTANT is Govt's desire to acquire all the properties in that street. Each owner will know that, and therefore will know the parameters of that known, as it were. It's up to them to adjust to those parameters AS THEY SEE FIT. Govt is already causing pain to some (remembering that not everyone in the street will be unhappy about the aquisition, because everyone's circumstances are different!), so Govt cannot then dictate the terms of how people should respond to the situation. What a freaking overreach that would be!

    Once again, Govt can't 'lowball' when market value is not decided by Govt!
     
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    Of course the government can lowball, they are the one that determines what the market value is.

    If you do not agree with them then you have to take them to court.

    It happens all the time. I have never seen anyone have such blind faith in the government like you do.
     
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    I don't have 'blind faith', I just know that Govt are answerable! I've seen dozens of cases of individuals (and some class actions when a group from an impacted area joined forces) sue Govt for a better price on compulsory acquisitions. It's difficult for Govt to win these cases because market price is so easily proven via the market. Remember that market price is the sum of influence from PRIVATE buyers.
     
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    Thank you for admitting that the government does not always offer a "fair market price". That took a while, but I finally got it out of you!

    Progress!
     
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    No, you give the last guy $60 and give me what increase I brought to the company lets say in this case around $73 :) You clearly haven't much business experience that's more than apparent.. You just don't understand that having to hire more because of higher sales and production demands is a net positive..

    Well that's why the economic world has those that get paid to take work instruction and smarter people that know how to increase GROWTH and profits from it.. Even if it were 2% growth above the last guys BEST it's net gain, and anyone that believes in NORMS is doomed to fail to another that actually understands basic math :)
     
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    No they didn't, in Mr, Obatards case he simply returned the economy to the level Bush did before the subprime crash, and THAT's all he did! It is also argued by top economist that the rebound was inevitable "Just like we will see after COVID scam runs it's course". Trump on the other hand bested both Bush and Mr. Obatard by setting records in employment growth across the board and much better for minorities before the DNC/COVID scam..

    I truly believe you do not understand numbers, that's clear at this point! And I apologize for my lack of empathy, at this point you have proven that this is not a ploy to annoy but just your lack of understanding..

    Again sorry bro..
     
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    So, guy 1 took the company from 0 sales to 1000 sales and guy two adds 20 more sales and you think guy 2 is the better businessman?

    While you might understand basic math, you do not understand business.

    I bet you think the pinch runner that takes over after a guy hits a triple and then makes it home on a passed ball did better than the guy that hit the triple.
     
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    No I'd go as far as say he was as good a salesman as the last person in his position! And the salesman that added 20 more sales was clearly a better salesman then the previous two before him..

    I wouldn't be insulting when you are posting ridiculous nonsense like this
    Might ask yourself WHAT a SALESMAN is suppose to DO ;) But you two are trying to give credit where credit is not due.. Most of those sales were there before the crash and were bound to return..
     
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    You still just do not get it. But if you think that 20 is better than 1000 there is nothing anyone will ever be able to do to get you to.

    So, have a great day! Hope the weather there is as beautiful as it is here.
     
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    Nope I get it fine :) What you don't get is much of those fuzzy numbers you keep throwing out there were JOBS that SIMPLY RETURNED once the economy bounced back! It cost Mr. Obatard 8 trillion to bring back LOST jobs to a level that were, before the subprime crash.. Of course you and your buddy are more then welcome to throw up ALL THE NEW jobs Mr. Obatard created, should be fairly easy since you and the other poster are convinced he "Mr. Obatard" built the U.S. from the ground up. I mean clearly you two think NO ONE returned to previous jobs, and clearly EVERYONE across the U.S. was jobless and most of all no previous business, production reopened :)

    You guys crack me up, really!
     
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    Nope 1020 is better than 1000.. WOW your math is amazing :)

    Add much :roflol:
     
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    I do not give a **** about Obama, I have not given him credit for a single thing.

    I think Obama sucked, where we differ is I think Trump did also
     
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    ohhhhh.....I get it.

    You think the second guy should get all the credit for the work done by the first guy.

    Why did you just not say so in the first place.

    Lets apply this to football....QB 1 throws for 7 TDs and his team has 49 points. QB 1 leaves the game and QB 2 throws for 1 TD and the team now has 56 points...and since the 56 is more than 49, clearly QB 2 did better than QB 1 in your confused little mind.
     
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    And I never said that Mr. 1000 is better than 20 :)
     

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