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  1. BRT

    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    This is very confusing. If it's not too much trouble; read over what you type at least once before you hit "post reply". For clarification: Are you in Canada? I believe you are saying that; "corruption isn't an issue here". Yet, in the next sentence, you say, "The legal system favours people...
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    Wood chips to chip mulch

    On that note: A company here that sells and spreads a lot of mulch caught fire over the summer. They traced it to a cigarette butt. Word I got was that the Fire Dept. had to foam it. Sent them a bill for $10,000.
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    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    I can tell you that I've spoken to Navy "Red Ropes" and Division Commanders who've given me their findings. If they have a recruit come in with problems, they can predict with an amazing percentage of certainty--that child comes from a single parent home. (Most likely with behavior problems that...
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    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    Why look in the US? Because they also have benefitted from a model based on Judeo-Christian values. I don't think anyone is looking to Asia or India for models of prosperity. We can go there if you want--but I don't think you're gonna like it.
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    Throwline/electric protocol

    I'm not a utility guy. I've had throwline go over a single phase line--no issue IME. I was using Dyneema. I did take the bag off to retrieve the line. If you leave the bag on, and it gets tangled up--you're left "not holding the bag" :D Also, if you pull the bag over the line, the resistance...
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    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    I'm not going to take your tone personally Levi. Are you offended? Because you certainly sound defensive and your anger is showing through--just a little bit. So far, most everybody has been using their words here. Pounding the keyboard and shouting BS is often a sure sign that you're out of...
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    World Champion Climber

    It looks like it fell off him, or he let go at the end--so the camera hits the ground. I did get a call a week ago or so--some fella had gotten his drone stuck about 50' up. He told me that if I couldn't get it down for under $30, then it would be worth it to just purchase another $40 drone. :loco:
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    World Champion Climber

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    2015 Best Photos Thread

    That must be the craziest optical illusion I've ever seen! That thing doesn't look an inch over 70'. Can you put it back up and measure it again? :D
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    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    Hey--it's free choice. Just don't be disappointed when humanism leaves you empty and hopeless. And--on a macro level--society will experience the same plight.
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    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    Then promote it. And vote for public officials who promote it. The current administration has done everything within its power to undermine these values. Of course. They want to live a lifestyle of their choosing void of consequences. Is it? For myself (and I venture to say most in this...
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    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    Encourage morals. Encourage traditional family values. The best thing that can happen to those groundies, and their children, and their children's children, is to live with their biological mom and dad, in a home with their siblings, for their entire childhood. Look up the statistics on...
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    Grassroots for Bernie Sanders 2016

    I don't mean to sound insensitive. I'm sorry you've had some bad experiences. If you were in my area, and needed help, I'd probably give you a hand. I do give, and recently when some guys in my church were out of jobs, I gave them as much work as I could. So don't take offense, please. It...
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    Grassroots for Bernie Sanders 2016

    "As is the concept that this is somehow new to this administration..." -----I never said that. But the fact remains that this administration has nearly doubled the deficit--$8 trillion which has been added on to the $10 trillion generated by all the previous administrations combined. "...that...
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    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    Found this on a personal finance blog: "In my country the wages are pretty small. Let’s say many Romanians make 400-500 dollars/month and consider themselves lucky (others make maybe 250). And yet most of these hard-working people would give money to beggars, since we’re Christians, aren’t we...
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    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    Here's a good read for you Mike: http://fee.org/freeman/why-socialism-failed/
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    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    "What we want is not equality of outcomes, but equal opportunity to advance." In one word--America. "And there is the rub with the whole system: it is set up in such a way that few people can become wealthy from their starting point." Tell me: how many can become wealthy in Russia? Venezuela...
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    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    Over, and over, and over, and over--yet, like the drunk to the bottle, we keep going back to the same old failed ideology.
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    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    "Perhaps we can ask ourselves if we collectively have the right?" Just how are "we" going to decide who gets to take people's possessions and distribute them around to others? See, this is the crux of the whole thing. And you were good enough to take a stab at the root question: "What ratio...
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    What is 'fair' wealth distribution?

    Interesting. Possible? Beneficial? Still, interesting.

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