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thebajarunner
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Nomadland??? (Golden Globe award)
Doug,
Did you start a new themepark and neglect to inform us?
Looking forward to seeing all about this new venture
Do Nomads get a discount???
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mtgoat666
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Nomadland, great movie!
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Ateo
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Really look forward to watching this tonight on Hulu. Need to sign up for a temporary memberships or introductory plan tho first.
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chuckie
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Iwatched it ....Thought it was a very depressing film...
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BajaBlanca
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Just watched the trailer and what outstanding landscape!
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BajaNomad
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Quote: Originally posted by thebajarunner  | Doug,
Did you start a new themepark and neglect to inform us?
Looking forward to seeing all about this new venture
Do Nomads get a discount??? |
Themepark... 
Baja California is a theme park. Just sayin'....  
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
– Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
We know we must go back if we live, and we don`t know why.
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BajaTed
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Quartzite is the biggest Geezer fest in the country.
I buy raw Geode's there and cut them.
Adult day care bars with good food.
Es Todo Bueno
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pacificobob
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homelessness [houselessness] is a symptom of the redistribution of wealth.
to blame it on an economic hiccup is only partially correct.
this is a growing demographic that will do so exponentially. i find resistance to the $15@hr min wage a conscious effort to make these changes. IMO
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JohnMcfrog
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When I saw the movie, I felt that it was completely removed from the documentary style of the book. The movie was a little slow and swallowed in the
morass of loss. Great material for a definitive movie, but not up to the wonderful scope of the book.
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Doug/Vamonos
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Saw it last night. Sorry, but it sucked. And what a crappy ending.
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del mar
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
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JZ
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When I was about 30, a realtor down in Sonora who was about 55, said to me, "Mexico is Disneyland for adults."
That always stuck with me.
[Edited on 4-26-2021 by JZ]
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Lee
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I like Frances McDormand starting with Blood Simple, Fargo, Almost Famous. I've RV'd for 20 years and know these people. They hang at military
bases, state parks, the desert. Sometimes strange and kooky a lot of times real and genuine. Gravitas.
Gotten compassion along the way for the privileges I've been given in life.
Big Coen Brothers fan. O Brother..., No Country..., Burn after Reading, Raising Arizona, Big Lebowski, the list goes on.
US Marines: providing enemies of America an opportunity to die for their country since 1775.
What I say before any important decision.
F*ck it.
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RFClark
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I worked with them (The Cohen Bros) a couple times! Tossing the body into the chipper in Fargo is them!
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John Harper
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So, you are in favor of a $15 minimum wage? This sentence is confusing, but it seems you are.
I agree. There are several vehicular "nomads" that park on my nearby public street. I don't bother them, so far they've been harmless. Not as
disrespectful as my own neighbors who leave their little bags of dog poop around for others (me) to pick up and put in the provided "dog poop
stations" that I pay for as part of my association fees. A $15 minimum wage will also put less pressure on Medicaid, SNAP, and Section 8 housing. As
it is, employers are "socializing" a lot of the costs of maintaining a healthy, productive, and reliable workforce. That needs to change.
At least if your filet mignon costs a couple bucks more you can decide to buy it or not. With taxes, we don’t have the luxury of a “free
market” decision to just eat elsewhere. I’m surprised some on the right don’t seem to realize who the “socialists” really are today.
John
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RFClark
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John,
If giving the “Nomads” free housing wont keep them off the street why would paying them $15 per hour to be a food tech in a FF joint get them
off the street?
Europe and the UK are the “Socialist Models” for the Left in the U.S. Both have several Nomadic populations, the Irish Travelers and the Romany,
who have lived in caravan parks and farm fields for generations. Both groups move locations from time to time preferring not to be tied to any one
place. For some it’s not about money, it’s about freedom!
I’ve lived in trailer parks in the U.S. several times between houses and find there to be several different populations. The majority short term
transients tend to be retirees or vacationers who are traveling. The longer term residents are retirees or those with disabilities who can't afford to
rent or buy a place to live. A different class of long term residents are skilled craftsmen who work construction projects in the area.They move as
the work moves. Some spend their professional lives this way.
Humans started out as Nomads, cities and towns are a result of agriculture and manufacturing. Some of us still are Nomads. Buying and selling houses
is similar to moving from place to place in a van. It’s just slower.
The point is generally it’s not about the $15/hr and $15 or even $20 won't stop much of it. The Nomads will move outward to the Moon, Mars and
beyond eventually!
The Farmers will inherit the Earth!
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John Harper
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RF,
You seem to think all homeless are just adult males with substance abuse or mental illness. Do you understand that these programs are set up to help
families and children facing catastrophic economic troubles?
Do you realize how many children are homeless, insecure, and hungry?
I’m not trying to save those who refuse help, no one can. Just provide some services for those caught in terrible circumstances too often not of
their own making. Those wanting out of their situation.
As usual, simplistic solutions to complex problems are rarely successful. Like “trickle down” tax theory. That dog just don’t hunt.
Let’s just round up all those problem homeless and exterminate them. There’s another simplistic solution to the problem. Or, do you have any
ideas? We are all “the government” so its our problem. I wish I had a great solution but I don’t.
John
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RFClark
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John,
How much time have you spent among the “homeless”?
I worked with Crack Babies back before they were a popular liberal cause! A long time ago when I attended college there was an urban legend of hunger
and malnutrition stalking the land. Since at the time I worked in the medical field with neonates and pediatrics as well as traveled the world I had
some knowledge of the situation on the ground as opposed to in the “better universities “!
The only case of rickets I ever encountered was not in the US but Japan in Nagano. I met a Japanese woman in her ‘90s who, in fact suffered from
rickets! None of the medical staffs in US hospitals that I dealt with had ever seen any cases in the US!
Were you to read what I wrote you might understand that in my opinion The “just raise the minimum wage” approach is the simplistic view to a very
old and complex problem!
The “round up and exterminate them” approach is how Liberal Europe has been dealing with the “nomad problem” for a very long time! The Nomads
are with them yet! My cousin is buried in the US cemetery in Luxembourg as a result of our attempt to end that extermination!
There are different populations of Nomads which have different economics and reasons for their existence, Those who require help, require different
sorts of complex help not a one sort fits all approach.
That said Nomadism per se is not a problem for government but a personal choice and allowances should be made for its existence. Those allowances are
a function of government as well as a failure of same!
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JZ
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Regarding the $15/hr min wage. You guys need to talk to some small business owners. They have very small profit margins. They will be forced to
work with less staff and/or pass the added costs on to customers. Which means what you can get for $15/hr is less.
Also remember, what makes sense for a min wage in CA, doesn't make sense every where else. This is a complex issue.
Btw, I pay our interns $20-$30/hr because it makes business sense for me.
[Edited on 4-26-2021 by JZ]
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: Originally posted by JZ | Regarding the $15/hr min wage. You guys need to talk to some small business owners. They have very small profit margins. They will be forced to
work with less staff and/or pass the added costs on to customers. Which means what you can get for $15/hr is less.
Also remember, what makes sense for a min wage in CA, doesn't make sense every where else. This is a complex issue.
Btw, I pay our interns $20-$30/hr because it makes business sense for me.
[Edited on 4-26-2021 by JZ] |
Large and small businesses can afford to pay low wages because they rely on government to provide their employees with food stamps, section 8 housing
and other welfare.
If a business can’t afford to pay living wage and relies on welfare programs for their employees to survive, then perhaps the business should not be
in business, eh?
Woke!
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will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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