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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: August 12, 2025, 04:17:46 PM »Monthly jobs reports are a statutory requirement. If we would like better data, and thus fewer revisions, perhaps we should restore funding to the BLS.
you are going to enrage some dummies with this kind of talk.
What will fix the problem #slowdug? Apparently a $728m dollar annual budget for this one little faction of the DOL wasn't enough. So $1b a year - $2b a year - how much?
For starters, they could bring back the advisory committees that DOGE disbanded. Part of their function was increasing response rates to the monthly surveys and modernizing the survey process. We've also not had "crap reporting."
I'm sure EJ Antoni will be able to navigate these waters, however.
Who measured the effectiveness of this committee and their functions? Are you implying that there's now a block on BLS staff collaborating with academia and outside sources? if so, please provide a link.
Over 2,000 full time staff dedicated to one function.
Are you under the impression that the monthly jobs report is the only function of the BLS?
No - I am sure there are numerous sub functions.
But in typical you fashion - you keep avoiding other parts of what I am saying and/or asking. Very onbrand for you and others on here.
Only extreme hyper-partisans don't get the political implications of a election impacting jobs reports - that ultimately turn out to be massively overstated (or understated). Only hyper-partisans continue to try and pooh pooh away the 2 if not 3 times during the Biden administrations that jobs numbers turned out about to be very very wrong.
They are not and were not massively overstated or understated. Regardless, if that is your stance.. why would we then stop efforts to improve the jobs surveys, institute a hiring freeze, fire the experienced commissioner, and hire this Twitter moron? Seems like that would make it worse.
I don't know why I bother to interact with you. You are ignorant of complicated topics, either unknowingly or on purpose, and yet there exists no area where you don't think of yourself as a subject matter expert. rough ridin' frustrating individual. Have some self-reflection and consider that perhaps thousands of trained economists know what they are doing, if you are able.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: August 12, 2025, 04:07:06 PM »Monthly jobs reports are a statutory requirement. If we would like better data, and thus fewer revisions, perhaps we should restore funding to the BLS.
you are going to enrage some dummies with this kind of talk.
What will fix the problem #slowdug? Apparently a $728m dollar annual budget for this one little faction of the DOL wasn't enough. So $1b a year - $2b a year - how much?
For starters, they could bring back the advisory committees that DOGE disbanded. Part of their function was increasing response rates to the monthly surveys and modernizing the survey process. We've also not had "crap reporting."
I'm sure EJ Antoni will be able to navigate these waters, however.
Who measured the effectiveness of this committee and their functions? Are you implying that there's now a block on BLS staff collaborating with academia and outside sources? if so, please provide a link.
Over 2,000 full time staff dedicated to one function.
Are you under the impression that the monthly jobs report is the only function of the BLS?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: August 12, 2025, 03:52:17 PM »Monthly jobs reports are a statutory requirement. If we would like better data, and thus fewer revisions, perhaps we should restore funding to the BLS.
you are going to enrage some dummies with this kind of talk.
What will fix the problem #slowdug? Apparently a $728m dollar annual budget for this one little faction of the DOL wasn't enough. So $1b a year - $2b a year - how much?
For starters, they could bring back the advisory committees that DOGE disbanded. Part of their function was increasing response rates to the monthly surveys and modernizing the survey process. We've also not had "crap reporting."
I'm sure EJ Antoni will be able to navigate these waters, however.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: August 12, 2025, 01:57:47 PM »Monthly jobs reports are a statutory requirement. If we would like better data, and thus fewer revisions, perhaps we should restore funding to the BLS.
Pubs will never fund something so close to the acronym BLM.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: August 12, 2025, 01:50:25 PM »
Monthly jobs reports are a statutory requirement. If we would like better data, and thus fewer revisions, perhaps we should restore funding to the BLS.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: August 05, 2025, 08:45:25 AM »
It feels more Marie Antoinette to build a giant, ostentatious ballroom and tack it on the side of the White House imo
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: pos 'pubs being complete pieces of crap
« on: August 01, 2025, 01:21:34 PM »https://www.theverge.com/news/717308/irs-direct-file-gone-billy-long-trump-administration
Why not get rid of something already built that is helpful to people when you can make them go to a corporation that makes doing said thing harder and that will try and make you pay for something that is free?
Getting rid of free Direct File is dumb and can only be viewed as a handout to corporations involved in tax preparation.
It's rough ridin' stupid and Billy Long is a total dipshit. I can't believe that rough ridin' fraudster got confirmed as IRS Commissioner.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: So immigration...
« on: July 22, 2025, 11:27:47 AM »People have been incorrectly arrested and detained in this country forever and ever.
Arrested and detained for multiple days, without a change of clothes, or access to representation? I'm aware the legal system is terrible but if that is indeed true perhaps we should not just hand wave these things away with "eh that's how its always been." I realize civil rights are a touchy subject though.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: So immigration...
« on: July 21, 2025, 03:31:56 PM »
https://apnews.com/article/us-army-veteran-immigration-raid-53cb22251a01599a0c4d1a8d5650d050
Check out these hardcore criminal immigrants.
Check out these hardcore criminal immigrants.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: These are the life and times of #blueanon/#blueanongE/#armchairneocons/#neocongE
« on: June 26, 2025, 04:02:21 PM »
That's how it currently works. Your business address does not matter.
Surprising that an intellectual like Wall Street Apes doesn't know that.
Surprising that an intellectual like Wall Street Apes doesn't know that.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: These are the life and times of #blueanon/#blueanongE/#armchairneocons/#neocongE
« on: June 26, 2025, 03:46:46 PM »
I look forward to future takes from Wall Street Apes on the various nuances of state income tax nexus.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA
« on: June 12, 2025, 02:07:40 PM »
GM is actually going to be building the successor to the Bolt in Kansas, their EV.. at a plant that has been here for forever. Other than that, spot on Doc.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Women's golf
« on: May 19, 2025, 09:09:54 AM »
Did not make the cut as a team, but Carla Bernat and Alenka Navarro advance as individuals. They played well, the rest of the team did not play great.
This is a hard course though and Stanford is kicking everyone's ass. Only three teams are under par and Stanford is in first at 23 under, 15 strokes better than second place. Its a whooping.
This is a hard course though and Stanford is kicking everyone's ass. Only three teams are under par and Stanford is in first at 23 under, 15 strokes better than second place. Its a whooping.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Women's golf
« on: May 07, 2025, 03:51:54 PM »Its likely either them or Stanford. Bernat can hang with the best of them but, unfortunately, the rest of our squad is hit or miss. We are certainly capable of putting together good rounds though. Should be fun to watch.The ladies advanced to nationals today and tied for second at regionals. It could be tough, but not impossible, to make the cut at nationals. Florida State has the #1 and #2 ranked golfers and will be hard for anyone to beat. This is still the best season in program history.Considering FSU beat everyone's ass at the regional, I'm at least glad we won't be facing anyone better. Bernat seems about as good as anyone out there.
Carla Bernat also scored an albatross on a 422 yard par five.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Women's golf
« on: May 07, 2025, 03:42:16 PM »
The ladies advanced to nationals today and tied for second at regionals. It could be tough, but not impossible, to make the cut at nationals. Florida State has the #1 and #2 ranked golfers and will be hard for anyone to beat. This is still the best season in program history.
Carla Bernat also scored an albatross on a 422 yard par five.
Carla Bernat also scored an albatross on a 422 yard par five.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Recent motion picture viewing - Add your own!
« on: May 01, 2025, 04:27:46 PM »Somehow I missed it was about vampires in the trailer. It was a like a huge twist for me.
I want a spin off with the Native American vampire hunters.
Check out Twilight (2008)
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Why is dax so unhinged today?
« on: April 23, 2025, 04:28:07 PM »
Its four in the afternoon?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: April 22, 2025, 04:17:58 PM »We declare you an "Al Qaeda Leader" and no longer an American Citizen
Drone that sombitch . . .#blueanongE
That's almost exactly what you're saying is okay. I declare you a "foreign enemy" because you are brown. Off to El Salvador for life imprisonment. Aren't both bad?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: April 22, 2025, 03:51:06 PM »Viewers of this blog are reminded that #blueanongE fully supported an administration that unilaterally declared someone no longer a US citizen and killed them, openly argued for indefinite detention of US citizens without charge, and apparatchiks from that same administration openly call for the internment of their parties self declared US Citizen political "enemies".
Who is this referring to?
This is a Dax fav. There was an Al Queda leader guy that was also a citizen, that Obama droned.
Ah. I don't really follow who is arguing for indefinite detention either.
Also (as you mentioned), how does all of that being bad change the facts of today?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: April 22, 2025, 03:47:37 PM »Viewers of this blog are reminded that #blueanongE fully supported an administration that unilaterally declared someone no longer a US citizen and killed them, openly argued for indefinite detention of US citizens without charge, and apparatchiks from that same administration openly call for the internment of their parties self declared US Citizen political "enemies".
Who is this referring to?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: April 22, 2025, 10:49:32 AM »
I severely underestimated the level to which you would approve of the government disappearing people. That's on me I suppose.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: April 22, 2025, 10:37:22 AM »This whole matter centers around Venezuela
I appreciate the fact that you are extended the full rights and privileges of American citizens to illegal alien criminal enterprises, potentially controlled by a foreign government.
It also hammers home the plan - to flood the US with illegal immigrants, knowing full well the courts could not handle it, and then hoping people with just throw up their arms and grant blanket amnesty.
All of that from the people who once pounded the lectern and screamed about how you couldn't just jump over a river, and that illegal immigration was an evil rich Republican plot.
The 14th Amendment applies to everyone, not just citizens. Again, absent that the government could decide tomorrow that you are controlled by a foreign government and send you away. I suspect you would cry foul if that happened.
Sorry that you're upset about your replacement theory nonsense. Perhaps they should hire more judges and pass meaningful immigration reform through Congress.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: April 22, 2025, 10:21:49 AM »
I have absolutely zero clue what you are talking about with regards to Venezuela.
You are moving the goal posts. I am advocating for everyone to have the right for due process and a trial. I am not advocating for everyone to have the "largest political party fighting on their behalf," nor do I even know what that means. I'm going to bat for everyone to receive the rights laid out in the constitution. If they are part of a terrorist organization operating a criminal enterprise that should be easy enough for the United States government to prove in court.
Who did we have assassinated? I must have missed that. Also.. if that happened, does that make this right?
You are moving the goal posts. I am advocating for everyone to have the right for due process and a trial. I am not advocating for everyone to have the "largest political party fighting on their behalf," nor do I even know what that means. I'm going to bat for everyone to receive the rights laid out in the constitution. If they are part of a terrorist organization operating a criminal enterprise that should be easy enough for the United States government to prove in court.
Who did we have assassinated? I must have missed that. Also.. if that happened, does that make this right?
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: April 22, 2025, 10:10:48 AM »Which citizens do you think are not getting due process?
with a level of process, few if any American citizens could ever dream of getting should they be charged with a crime.
I don't understand your complaint. The discussion is about how these people are not being afforded any due process and are being held for an indeterminate amount of time in a foreign prison. What American citizens are getting less due process and dreaming of that level?
They're not being given due process because they were rightfully declared alien enemies and members of a terrorist organization(s).
In addition, the #blueanon narrative that the Venezuelan gangs are not under any guidance from the government of Venezuela is falling apart. There's a growing list of evidence that suggests that Maduro has used them to assassinate political opposition such as dissident Ronald Ojeda who was kidnapped and murdered in Chili.
Everyone gets due process. Otherwise I could just claim you're an alien enemy and away you go to El Salvador. I still don't see how that answers your ridiculous claim that somehow these people are spoiled compared to American citizens.
Whatever you say on that second part.