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Comment · 9 years ago
Definition from your link

1. "money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust"

2."something that serves to induce or influence"

Eric Schmidt spending millions to create groundwork isn't a favor? You think Google wasn't trying to influence the Obama white house during those 427 visits?

from wikileaks

"He’s ready to fund, advise recruit talent, etc. He was more deferential on structure than I expected. Wasn’t pushing to run through one of his existing firms. Clearly wants to be head outside advisor, but didn’t seem like he wanted to push others out. Clearly wants to get going. He’s still in DC tomorrow and would like to meet with you if you are in DC in the afternoon. I think it’s worth doing"

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Comment · 9 years ago
I've never seen anything like the censoring by Google and Youtube over the last few weeks. Ron Paul of all people got all his videos demonetized for being "controversial". The most disgusting thing to me is that they don't delete the videos because they don't actually break any policies but they instead remove them from search and remove the ability to comment or share the videos, stifling any potential discussion.
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Comment · 9 years ago
Russia invading Europe is what's stopping us.
Comment · 9 years ago
You proved my point, if US did what Euro countries do to us, European pharma companies would lose their primary profit source. It's a wealth drain from US citizens to Europe.
Comment · 9 years ago
US spends more on military than every Euro country combined. If they are attacked we have to defend them and they know it. They would contribute a relatively insignificant amount if we were ever attacked.
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Comment · 9 years ago
Will those uneducated immigrants earn money when they are no longer needed due to automation? If you have to pay to educate them anyway why not just have your population have kids instead of importing?
Comment · 9 years ago
>capitalist crisis

If not liking your boss is a capitalist crisis I much prefer it to the current socialist crisis going on in Venezuela.

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Comment · 9 years ago
That's my point, incentivize our own citizens to have kids using the money that would otherwise be spent on immigrants. Preferably you would make it a tax cut so that middle class would have kids.
Comment · 9 years ago
Because the goal of mass immigration of unskilled workers isn't what's best for the country, its to bring in people who will be reliant on the government and thus always vote for more government, thus further consolidating power. Also has the benefit of driving wages down resulting in more natives being reliant on government.

If we really needed more workers why wouldn't we incentivize our own citizens to have kids instead of spending that money on refugees and immigrants?

Comment · 9 years ago
BPA, birth control/estrogen in water, and increased obesity rates would be my guess.
Comment · 9 years ago
Why stop there? Just make it 100$ and hour and everyone will be rich!

Oh wait, arbitrary wage increases don't really work out in real life.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/seattles-minimum-wage-h...

Seattle's socialist member of the city council fired the Unversity of Washington team after the results came out and hired an anti-capitalist professor from berkeley to ensure the study finds the right results.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/29/seattle-commissio...

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