The Shining City Upon a Hill

[Phil B.]

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More bad news for Fauci.
Not Just Puppies: Fauci's NIH Funded Experiments on AIDS Orphans in NYC

This MF only was in it for the funding he could pocket.
I HOPE he gets charged for lying to Congress and the world.
He hasn't told the truth... hid information.. conspired with the CCP and got rich off of the demdemic.

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[SalesServiceGuy]

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Costco this week raised its starting wage for hourly store workers in the United States for the second time this year as businesses hike pay to draw and retain workers amid a labor shortage.

Costco (COST) told employees last week that it would increase its minimum wage from $16 an hour to $17 starting on Monday.

Costco has around 180,000 US employees, and 90% of them work hourly. Costco's new starting wage puts the chain— which has among the lowest turnover rates in the retail industry— $2 per hour above Amazon (AMZN), Target (TGT) and other top retailers' minimum wage, and $5 an hour above Walmart's (WMT).

Costco's latest pay bump comes as many retailers, restaurants and other service sector employers raise pay, offer signing bonuses and sweeten their benefits packages in response to struggles hiring workers.

There is pressure on companies to raise wages as they compete for labor. Average hourly pay for retail workers increased 3.8% in September from the same time last year, according to the latest data from the Labor Department.

Amazon (AMZN), Target (TGT), Best Buy (BBY) and others have raised their starting wages to $15 an hour in recent years. Amazon said in April that it's increasing hourly pay between $0.50 and $3 for 500,000 employees.

Walmart (WMT) raised its minimum wage from $11 to $12 last month, while CVS (CVS) and Walgreens (WBA) said in August they would increasing starting pay to $15 an hour.

Wages in September across the private sector grew 4.6% from a year earlier.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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I would say 3/4 of the USA citizens, the Afghanistan refugees all blame Biden for that.
Biden had the chance to control Kabul aorport... he turned it down.
So in effect, he gave up ALL airports in Afghanistan... how do you fly people out IF you don't control at least ONE airport?

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... I would say that 3/4 of American citizens would think you are cuckoo!

[BillyCarpenter]

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... I would say that 3/4 of American citizens would think you are cuckoo!

How many would say that you were cuckoo if they heard you say that the Taliban will be a valued trading partner for America?

[bsm2]

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In closed-door testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, Dr. Deborah Birx said the Trump White House failed to take steps that could have prevented tens of thousands of deaths.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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How many would say that you were cuckoo if they heard you say that the Taliban will be a valued trading partner for America?

... the Taliban sit on a treasure trove of rare earth minerals that the world needs to produce many different kinds of electronics and defence electronics. Would you prefer the Chinese get these minerals?

The USA currently has some leverage over the Taliban as their faltering economy is heavily dependent upon foreign aide $.

If the USA can play this right, Afghanistan could eventually become as valuable a trading partner as Vietnam, a former USA enemy.

[BillyCarpenter]

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... the Taliban sit on a treasure trove of rare earth minerals that the world needs to produce many different kinds of electronics and defence electronics. Would you prefer the Chinese get these minerals?

The USA currently has some leverage over the Taliban as their faltering economy is heavily dependent upon foreign aide $.

If the USA can play this right, Afghanistan could eventually become as valuable a trading partner as Vietnam, a former USA enemy.

I wouldn't hold my breath. Lets first see if we can get the Taliban to stop throwing gays off buildings and mutilating the genitalia of women. Baby steps.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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I wouldn't hold my breath. Lets first see if we can get the Taliban to stop throwing gays off buildings and mutilating the genitalia of women. Baby steps.

... the Chinese have already been in the country for months trying to get a feel if the Taliban gov't will protect their investments.

[BillyCarpenter]

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... the Chinese have already been in the country for months trying to get a feel if the Taliban gov't will protect their investments.

This is true. There were also countries that did business with Nazi Germany. I suppose it comes down to morals.

[slimslob]

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... the Chinese have already been in the country for months trying to get a feel if the Taliban gov't will protect their investments.

The Chinese are mostly interested in keeping their opium dens supplied. The Opium Poppy is Afghanistan's chief cash crop.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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The Chinese are mostly interested in keeping their opium dens supplied. The Opium Poppy is Afghanistan's chief cash crop.

... the Chinese want to control the world's supply of rare earth minerals. They already control the majority and want more control.

Without rare earth minerals, many USA defence electronics and telecommunication systems cannot work.

The Taliban, who needs international recognition as a legitimate country to access foreign aide $, cannot run a national economy based upon the illegal drug trade.

[BillyCarpenter]

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... the Chinese want to control the world's supply of rare earth minerals. They already control the majority and want more control.

Without rare earth minerals, many USA defence electronics and telecommunication systems cannot work.

The Taliban, who needs international recognition as a legitimate country to access foreign aide $, cannot run a national economy based upon the illegal drug trade.

We should have just taken them while we were over there. Consider it pay for attacking America.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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We should have just taken them while we were over there. Consider it pay for attacking America.

... any advanced mining operation is too vulnerable to attack without the consent and protection of the Taliban. Even if the Taliban were to start mining rare earths, the facilities are vulnerable by attacks from ISIS or Pakistan.

[BillyCarpenter]

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... any advanced mining operation is too vulnerable to attack without the consent and protection of the Taliban. Even if the Taliban were to start mining rare earths, the facilities are vulnerable by attacks from ISIS or Pakistan.

It's interesting to me that liberals refuse to do business with a cake store that refuses to bake a gay wedding cake but have no problem doing business with the Taliban. Just saying....

[FrohnB]

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Costco this week raised its starting wage for hourly store workers in the United States for the second time this year as businesses hike pay to draw and retain workers amid a labor shortage.

Costco (COST) told employees last week that it would increase its minimum wage from $16 an hour to $17 starting on Monday.

There is pressure on companies to raise wages as they compete for labor. Average hourly pay for retail workers increased 3.8% in September from the same time last year, according to the latest data from the Labor Department.

A well respected economist said last week, "If you didn't get a 6% raise this year, then you have taken a 6% pay cut." Plain and simple.

These companies that are "upping their pay" are merely keeping peoples' incomes RIGHT WHERE THEY WERE due to this "little thing" called Inflation!

Doesn't take a fuckin' rocket scientist to figure that out!