@RyanPaganetti I did some digging and I had it backwards, Andrew Hawkins got traded TO the Patriots and realized his old coaches were just working on a wing and a prayer
A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.
Donald Trump wonโt let it open.
Here is why.
The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.
Weeks later they met with Trumpโs Commerce Secretary.
He called Trump.
Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.
Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.
Canada paid for the entire bridge.
Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.
This is corruption in plain sight.
A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.
Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
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@MattBarnaby3636 It was all started by a hot head goaltender that was upset he was getting lit up in a charity game. The referee was defending himself while trying to leave the ice.
@1ssve They didnt "lose" anything. Thay sold a product that demand went down on, it happens to business all the time. Maybe they could have adapted or maybe they dont care at all but people need to stop framing these things as "losing money". Forecasts and budgets aren't guarantees
@mcclusk Don't mean to hate but Sundin was a "non winning" stain on that organization when he played but fans were brainwashed into thinking he was a franchise player. He didnt help then, he will be even less help now IMO
@canada_spends The mandate/law/contract that required them to provide door service to every household in canada eventually flipped the script. Many more homes were built and volume went way down so the wages they were paying ate everything up. This is grade 5 level obviousness
@BagelPolling@abcde807978 STFU you loser! If you live in atlantic canada and cant handle 80 km for a "day trip" you should have your card pulled. (I assume you dont even know what card and that proves my point) FFS I would take my dog hiking every weekend and drive more km than that. This has to be fake
Let me get this straight:
Beers before a 10am flight? Typical sight.
Mimosas at brunch? Accepted.
Power-hour martinis at 1pm? No problem.
Pitchers at happy hour? Standard.
Delicious Cab with your steak? Classy.
Drinking by the pool all day? Encouraged.
But a little cannabis in the quiet of the night makes you a f@cking degenerate?
Get real.
@atlanticpuck If the Maritimes followed Quebecs formula there would be 2, maybe 3 teams total in the 3 provinces. The league is too watered down to help the best rise up. Coaching is the first thing that needs to be addressed after cutting A LOT of teams first
Chris Cuomo asked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez how we pay for Medicare for All, tuition free college, and the green new deal. It gives people sticker shock. Her answer:
โPeople talk about the sticker shock of Medicare for All, but they do not talk about the sticker shock of our existing system. In a Koch brothers funded study, it shows that Medicare for All is actually much cheaper than the current system.
Let's not forget that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act because they ruled that each of these monthly payments that everyday Americans make is a tax. We pay it every single month. (Or we pay at tax season if we don't buy plans off of the exchange.)
Americans have the sticker shock of healthcare as it is. Why aren't we incorporating the cost of funeral expenses of those who die because they can't afford access to healthcare? That is part of the cost of our system. Or the cost of reduced productivity because of people who need to go on disability or are not able to participate in our economy because they don't have access to the healthcare that they need?
At the end of the day, we see that this is not a pipe dream. Every other developed nation in the world has this. Why can't America? And that is the question we need to ask.
We write blank checks for war. We just wrote a $2 trillion check for the GOP tax cut. And nobody asks how are we going to pay for it.
So my question is why are our pockets only empty when it comes to education and healthcare for our kids? Why are our pockets only empty when we talk about 100% renewable energy that is going to save this planet and allow our children to thrive?
We only have empty pockets when it comes to the morally right things to do. But when it comes to tax cuts for billionaires or unlimited war, we seem to be able to invent that money very easily. To me it belies a lack of moral priorities that people have right now, especially the Republican Party.โ