shinobi, actually I don’t know what the Border Patrol did with those apprehended. They could have turned them loose. But they said that few illegals ever tried to enter from that area.
Here’s how much damage BLM really did. Turns out policing the police works fine if you do it the old fashion way (use of force investigations), but when you do it with riots and shouting a lot at politicians instead, crime goes way up afterwards instead of down.
For investigations that were not preceded by “viral” incidents of deadly force, investigations, on average, led to a statistically significant reduction in homicides and total crime. In stark contrast, all investigations that were preceded by “viral” incidents of deadly force have led to a large and statistically significant increase in homicides and total crime. We estimate that these investigations caused almost 900 excess homicides and almost 34,000 excess felonies.
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sources: First peek: Immigrant children flood detention center
CBP needs to supply adequate nutrition for children
Lawmaker Describes Ursula Texas Migrant Center at Border
These are the places that were doing well enough to let press in btw.
" Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of immigrant children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets."
Today there are near 3-6 times more illegal’s that will need some confinement. What a pity!!
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That many exofficeholders? I mean sure, there’s basically every cabinet member who was referred to prosecution for various russia/china/trump fraud. But how did you get to the 3-6 times number?
I see the answer to “Have you no shame, no decency?” Is “No”.
“Her family” being high ranking Chinese nationals.
More Family Values:
Stockton California tries a small scale basic income test by giving the people being studied $500 a month cash no strings attached. Results of the small scale test were positive.
/as a conservative I say “hey that seemed to help and work on a small scale, let’s test again on a larger scale”.
// machines and ai are coming for your job, so we have to figure out how to deal with that as a society.
/// truck drivers are going to get crushed by self-driving vehicles for instance.
//// I suggest not putting the truck drivers in cages, as some here might.
"The families receiving the $500 a month tended to spend the money on essentials, including food, home goods, utilities, and gas. (Less than 1 percent went to cigarettes and alcohol.) The cash also doubled the households’ capacity to pay unexpected bills, and allowed recipient families to pay down their debts. Individuals getting the cash were also better able to help their families and friends, providing financial stability to the broader community. "
Additionally it didn’t seem to serve as a disincentive to work, in fact it seemed to be the opposite.
"In the Stockton study, the share of participants with a full-time job rose 12 percentage points, versus five percentage points in the control group. "
it also improved health outcomes, which could have knock on effect in reducing society’s health care spending.
“Finally, the cash recipients were healthier, happier, and less anxious than their counterparts in the control group.”
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“The New York Times reported that 60-year-old Richard Barnett began yelling during a virtual hearing on his case Thursday morning that it was not “fair” that he remained in custody while some others accused of participating in the riot have been released ahead of their trials.”
Well, it’s true it’s not fair he’s in jail while the others have been released, just in the exact opposite way to what he thinks.
And hopefully you already sold them, because now EBay is banning the sale of those Dr Seuss books under their “offensive materials” policy. Barnes & Nobles banned them as well. Amazon has recently banned some books criticizing transgender ideology in kids, but are still selling Seuss for now. Last offer for Mulberry Street was over $300.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-seuss-books-deemed-offensive-will-be-delisted-from-ebay-11614884201
“Dr. Seuss Enterprises has stopped publication of this book due to its negative portrayal of some ethnicities,” said the email message from eBay, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “As a courtesy, we have ended your item and refunded your selling fees, and as long as you do not relist the item, there will be no negative impact to your account.”
Plenty of controversial items—including Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and “The Turner Diaries,” a novel popular with white-supremacist groups—were available on eBay as of Wednesday evening. When asked, the spokeswoman said these two books also fell in the “offensive material” category and would be removed. On Thursday afternoon it appeared that “The Turner Diaries” was no longer available on eBay.
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It costs San Fran more per person to let people be homeless than to let them have market rate apartments. Gee, that sounds familiar, I wonder if anyone’s tried just giving them housing before? Wait, you’re saying the (heavily Republican led and heavily Republican voting so you Republicans can’t complain) state of Utah did exactly that, and it worked?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/05/trump-federico-klein-capitol-riot/
Trump appointee beat police with a riot shield. “Gerd pe0ple on Both s1des!”
Senate Dems agreeing on unemployment benefits at $300/week thru Sept, down from the prior $400/wk thru Aug. Also, $10.2k worth of unemployment would be non-taxable.
should we have a separate thread on possibly useful govt benefits and such, instead of just the partisan bickering?
I remember reading about a study in Finland, no less, where people were given €1000/month for 1 year. At the end of the year there was no significant difference in the percentage of people in the study group who got a job vis-a-vis the general population.
I see a problem with this kind of free money… There are people who get used to having the bare minimum and don’t have the will or the interest in getting more by working/putting extra effort. Hence, the guaranteed money becomes more of a yesteryears’ welfare.
Yes that article was interesting.
But afterwards, I read on & encountered another article:
There’s a Better Way to Parent, Less Yelling, Less Praise.
The writer met parents from around the world & encountered million-old methods of raising “good kids”.
Good ideas & good reading!
Finland does already have a very high level of social welfare, which is why these sorts of things need trials and not jumping into headlong. Even getting the same outcome could be an improvement if the “here’s cash” program costs less to implement than the traditional welfare model of government bureaucracies. Being able to get the same outcome at lesser expense is fiscally prudent. Despite the work setting you free attitude of some here, that’s not really true.
And look what happened on March 4th? The same thing that happened on inauguration.
Twice in the last six weeks, warnings were issued about imminent, grave threats to public safety posed by the same type of right-wing extremists who rioted at the Capitol on January 6. And both times, these warnings ushered in severe security measures only to prove utterly baseless.
The resulting clampdowns were as extreme as the dire warnings. Washington, D.C. was militarized more than at any point since the 9/11 attack. The military was highly visible on the streets. And, described The Washington Post , “state capitols nationwide locked down, with windows boarded up, National Guard troops deployed and states of emergency preemptively declared as authorities braced for potential violence Sunday mimicking the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump rioters.” All of this, said the paper, “reflected the anxious state of the country ahead of planned demonstrations.” But none of that happened — not even close.
Indeed, the only politically-motivated violence on Inauguration Day was carried out by Antifa and anarchist groups in Portland and Seattle, which caused some minor property damage as part of anti-Biden protests
Do you know what happened on March 4 when it came to violence from right-wing extremists? The same thing that happened on January 20: absolutely nothing. There were no attempted attacks on the Capitol, state capitols, or any other government institution.
As I detailed several weeks ago, so many of the most harrowing and widespread media claims about the January 6 riot proved to be total fabrications. A pro-Trump mob did not bash Office Brian Sicknick’s skull in with a fire extinguisher. No protester brought zip-ties with them as some premeditated plot to kidnap members of Congress (two rioters found them on a table inside). There’s no evidence anyone intended to assassinate Mike Pence, Mitt Romney or anyone else.
Yet the maximalist narrative of an attempted coup or armed insurrection is so crucial to Democrats — regardless of whether it is true — that pointing out these facts deeply infuriates them. A television clip of mine from last week went viral among furious liberals calling me a fascism supporter even though it did nothing but point out the indisputable facts that other than Brian Sicknick, whose cause of death remains unknown, the only people who died at the Capitol riot were Trump supporters, and that there are no known cases of the rioters deliberately killing anyone.
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I actually feel offended at the insinuation here. Clearly aimed at evoking the “work will set you free.” Please, stop these insinuations, at least towards me.
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