impartialobserver

First... I know your types. My not buying into grand claims (no matter who says them) comes from life experience. Not being brainwashed by news media. If you want to continue this, lets get this clear?

Or gasp!... I can think for myself. No way.. that can't be.

How do you know that I listen to CBC, CNN, or anything?

I will say that there is something about the mostly irrational fear of being attacked that is exclusive to Conservatives. I met a gentleman once who lived in Bruneau, Idaho who claimed to own 400 guns. When i asked why he had so many.. he said, "self defense". I asked "defense against what". He replied, "my house being broken into and them criminals taking what I have worked hard for" So, to give you some context.. Bruneau is a very small and remote town. You do not get to this place by accident. 60 miles from Boise (the nearest major city) and 30 miles from Mountain Home (mostly suburban town of 8000). After that... its 3 hours at minimum to the next town of any size. Second, Bruneau is poor. The few homes are modest to say the least. So a criminal is going to drive 60 miles out into the desert to rob a home that looks like a collection of dilapidated wood and rusty vehicles.. Extremely unlikely.

Oh... so because I do not adhere to the words of a stranger on an internet forum, I am "doing as I am told" Wow, that is some rich stuff. So by that logic.. If I make a recommendation and you scoff at it.. you are doing as you're told.

I will make it simple... It is about priorities. My number one priority is the IMMEDIATE well-being of my wife and kids. So that we do not go astray... repeat that word, "IMMEDIATE". Not warm and fuzzy narratives, not something happening elsewhere. Getting worked up about Fauci is extraneous noise to my existence. Yes, wife and I were vaccinated and our two kids were not. Has anything bad happened? No. Has anyone in our limited social circle suffered ill effects from this? No. As for social media.. I only use it for news on immediate family, local restaurants/breweries, and rock bands. I keep my wall pretty wall apolitical. Should you do the same? I do not care in the least if you do or not. Had Covid in May 2020 and while it did suck.. what was far worse was what come next.. Shingles. By your logic.. one made the other happen. I do not believe this to be. Note... vaccine did not happen until May 2021. Shingles.. oh my that was rough.. would rather have covid for a year than endure that ordeal again.

exactly.. the instant that I pick up on a conspiracy theorist or worse.. doomsday theorist.. I can't respect what they say.

Definition: Microeconomics is the study of individuals, households and firms' behavior in decision making and allocation of resources. It generally applies to markets of goods and services and deals with individual and economic issues. Notice that word, "individual"... Hmm.. game, set, match. You lose.

There is no rent control in the places that I listed.. therefore your schpiel about rent control is for nothing. Unrelated. Come play again when you can post something related to the topic.

Today's musical flavor is Alter Bridge. Being that I will be seeing them in concert on Friday.. best to brush up on their stuff.

Lets make this clear.... I do not possess your passion on this topic. I know, someone says covid, and you are instantly fired up, foaming at the mouth, and ready for a fight. I shrug my shoulders and move on. I have an immediate and allergic response to hyperbole no matter who says it? Understood? Internet forum posters (which you seem to fit this pattern) always are claiming that the end is near... What this end is.. they can never say. Nothing just happens.. nahh.. They have to use words like revolution, slam, vicious, earth-shaking, revelation, conspiracy. The traffic light at xyz street failed... it can't be that simple. It is an omen of things to come.. or more likely, it is the xyz party or leader conspiring against those poor, unsuspecting souls who are simply working hard and are now being shat upon.

You apparently do not have the intellect to understand the full LEGAL ramifications of what you lay out. If someone one is homeless but not explicitly breaking a law... yes, this happens often, then the city, county, state has no authority to force them to work at a camp.

I guess its good that you have an outlet. My experience is that internet forum posters are far too biased/hyperbolic to be of any value to me when it comes to making a decision. Also, my experience is that life is never nearly as grand as what internet forum posters and the media make it out to be.

Feel free to do whatever. However, this is why I mostly do not engage with trolls. I occasionally slip up or do not sniff them out soon enough.

2. Hungarian is just an example. The point is that doing so would not affect any change either. At the last office, we had a bum that would pace up and down the parking lot. Upon anyone coming out of the office or the surrounding stores.. he would start yelling about how government workers are all scumbags and such. I equate a lot of internet forum participants to this guy.

You are free to do whatever you want.. is that clear? If you wanted to run outside naked and yell profanities in Hungarian.. have at it. Just making an observation, after years of doing this online forum game and in the past, getting quite worked up.. i had to stop and think. Is my impassioned diatribe going to actually affect any real change? Answer. No

I challenge you to say where you (or anyone) should do anything. I will not hold my breath.

It is fascinating how worked up folks get on these forums. very limited number of participants.. presumably none of which have any authority. Therefore all of their bluster is for nothing.

what do you think of this. one year out of date but I doubt that the national changed all that much in one year https://statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/canada-demographics.php#:~:text=Demographics of Canada&text=There are 0.39 million births,deaths in Canada in 2021.

interesting how I was "force-fed"... I was not aware of anyone putting a gun to my head forcing me to consume their content. Maybe there was a gun and this is just some episode of The Twilight zone and I could not see them.

So the population growth is 100% due to immigration. No one was born... if so, that's interesting

An urban voter is going to vote against anything that appears to be diminish the romanticized view of the untouched forest/outdoors. Here is an example. We have a proposed lithium mine in NW Nevada. As far as the US goes.... this is middle of nowhere. Vast, untouched high desert. Yet as soon as the project was to be approved by county commissioners.. the environmentalists came calling. Where were they from? San Francisco. What was their concern? Wildlife, water supplies. Hmmm... well before this project had you asked them about Thacker Canyon, Nevada they would have said, "huh... is that near Vegas". Answer not even close. Most leftists reflexively agree with them. Conservatives view this as a chance to get jobs and milk the land for something. Those who have ever driven this stretch of road know how empty and desolate it is. Hours of no one and nothing except fences, sagebrush, and dirt. What else are you going to do out here. There is no water and so ranching is tough (most operate in the red). Can't grow anything.. soil is alkaline, dry, and has no organic matter.

Explain how this plays out in Boise, Reno, Spokane, and las vegas where there are no rent controls? If you give me a bunch of subjective opinions... I am going to be done with you. Growing up poor gave me two insights that you obviously do not possess.. First, poor people live in the moment. You have money now.. you should spend it now. Second, they get locked into a rhythm of sorts. Whatever you did yesterday helped you survive to today so best just to keep going as is. Those are the two primary issues that are at the root of most poverty. The desperation that comes later almost always come from having no back up plan and nothing in reserve.

Microeconomics is mostly the study of how the individual allocates finite resources.. I can tell that you are an armchair expert and nothing more. Macro is where you look at the bigger pictures... companies, counties, cities, nations. etc. The second one has politics wrapped into it inevitably. Fiscal policy has an impact on the bigger picture.. Idaho is not a blue state and Reno is not die-hard Blue. It is more purple Now why Joe Blow buys the spicy chips and not the plain potato chips.. according to your types is purely a function of someone in the government conspiring against them (see.. I can make assumptions too).

Unrelated... I am talking about the urban core vs. the suburbs not poverty in general. I grew up poor... I have insight into this that you could only hope to have.