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  • #61
    Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
    Kind of a cute gal. Can't hear what she is saying though.

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    • #62
      Originally posted by byu71 View Post
      Kind of a cute gal. Can't hear what she is saying though.
      You've got the sound muted on your computer.
      "Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied

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      • #63
        Originally posted by byu71 View Post
        Canada spends .9 of their GDP vs the USA at 3.3% Who do you think benefits greatly from the USA being strong militarily. I am curious as a percentage basis what are the numbers of undocumenteds coming to the USA vs Canada. If Canada is great, I would think at least some would keep on moving on up to Canada.

        I googled the Canadian tax rates. As I read it, 15% corporate and highest individual rate is 33%.

        Maybe someone familiar with Canada can tell me if the progressive party up there is bashing energy production and claiming global warming is the greatest threat to the world.

        It was hard for me to tell if college is free. I think it is left up to the individual provinces.

        That said, I do think Canada would be a nice place to live if you could find a place where it is at least as warm as Utah.
        Canada is simply more welcoming to immigrants and refugees and doesn't make them come illegally. Also (more to the point and less tic), Canada doesn't have a border with a country where the wealth gap is big. There are plenty of illegal Americans in Canada, and vice versa. People just don't notice them because they look the same and speak the same language.

        Canada has about the same tax burden as the US:

        http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset...ble18-en#page1

        http://www.businessinsider.com/oecd-...e-chart-2015-4

        Canada's is a little lower currently.

        Most of the Canadian oil bashing is coming in the US. All the politicians in power up there support keystone.

        College isn't free.

        Vancouver doesn't get as cold as Utah, but housing is ridiculously expensive there.

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        • #64
          Originally posted by byu71 View Post
          Kind of a cute gal. Can't hear what she is saying though.
          Doesn't matter, she's speaking polish.
          Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.

          "The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American

          GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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          • #65
            Ya no hay cerveza. http://www.wsj.com/articles/beer-bec...ges-1461963129
            "Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied

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            • #66
              "Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied

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              • #67
                http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...ation-explodes

                In a tale that highlights the chaos of unbridled inflation, Venezuela is scrambling to print new bills fast enough to keep up with the torrid pace of price increases. Most of the cash, like nearly everything else in the oil-exporting country, is imported. And with hard currency reserves sinking to critically low levels, the central bank is doling out payments so slowly to foreign providers that they are foregoing further business.
                Venezuela, in other words, is now so broke that it may not have enough money to pay for its money.
                "Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied

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                • #68
                  Falta poco ya:

                  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36318553

                  Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles has urged the army to choose whether it is "with the constitution or with (President Nicolas) Maduro", after a state of emergency was declared.
                  "Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied

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                  • #69
                    Bernie's wife appears to have managed that college like Chavez and Maduro ran Venezuela. I have zero confidence that Sanders, the left and the American population could never adopt Scandinavian level socialism and make it work like those small, homogenous countries.

                    It wouldn't be Venezuela, but it also wouldn't be Sweden. It would be closer to Greece than Sweden.

                    Btw, there's a real humanitarian crisis in Venezuela now. There's a real possibility for civil war if Maduro doesn't step down.
                    Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post

                      Btw, there's a real humanitarian crisis in Venezuela now. There's a real possibility for civil war if Maduro doesn't step down.

                      "Btw?" Are you serious? There's a real possibility of civil war?

                      "Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied

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                      • #71
                        http://fortune.com/2016/05/20/coke-venezuela-suspends/

                        They should change the name to Sin-ezuela.
                        "Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied

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                        • #72
                          http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/finan...y-worsens.html

                          They're selling their gold reserves to pay down their external debt to bond holders of the national oil company.
                          "Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied

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                          • #73
                            Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
                            "Btw?" Are you serious? There's a real possibility of civil war?

                            Venezuela isn't Syria or 1997 Serbia yet.

                            And three years ago there were numerous lefty writers singing the praises of the Venezuelan miracle, and it's now devolved into mass hunger bordering on starvation.

                            A year ago it was a joke about running out of toilet paper, and it's turned into something totally different. Not everyone is informed that Venezuela is in a genuine humanitarian crisis right now, that's my point.
                            Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
                              http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/finan...y-worsens.html

                              They're selling their gold reserves to pay down their external debt to bond holders of the national oil company.
                              Inflation is forecast to exceed 1,642 percent next year, fueled by printing money to fund a fiscal deficit estimated at about 20 percent of gross domestic product.

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                              • #75
                                ...anyway 0-2.

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