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“That why you can say “Omg there was A MILLION people there” because you aren’t deceiving anyone, everyone knows that slang for “a lot of people” and no one ACTUALLY thinks there WAS a million people there.”
UNLESS you are the lying, delusional Donald Trump making claims of how many were at his inauguration……….
@Ben Levi
You are making false accusations
I have never voted to raise taxes on other people as you claim.
Saying I am willing to pay higher taxes is not the same thing.
I do not live in a town where tax rate is subject to a plebiscite (although that is the system less than 3 miles from my home),@AviK
Please show me where I am being generous with someone else’s money as you state.
I said I’d be willing to pay an income tax rate of 50%.
I don’t set tax rates or impose them, I have one vote at the ballot box. I am no longer an elected official and when I was I was not one who set tax rates.Someone has to pay for the roads we drive on, the military, schools, libraries, plowing the snow, etc and that takes money (tax revenue).
Please keep in mind that the top tax rate is not on every dollar, the rate rises as income rises. After a certain amount of income, needs are more than adequately met and more can be paid in tax for the greater good.
Believe me, I don’t need 73% of every dollar earned in excess of 600K (includes spouse). I could live just fine keeping 50% of earnings above 600K and think most would say the same.@anonymousjew
NY 2018 State income tax top rate 8.82%
PLUS there are city or county income tax in some places such as NYC and Yonkers, NYC is almost 4%CT State income tops out at under 7%, no state or county income tax.
Very few people leave CT because of the income tax rate, more because of the stagnant economy, and local property tax rates and northern weatherI have many clients who now have Florida residency for tax purposes and still own homes an businesses in CT. They moved, but are still here.
I have not done my 2018 taxes yet, but will be paying at least 30K more than 2017 tax year due to changes in the IRS code pushed through by Trump. B”H I can afford it, but many of my neighbors cannot. It doesn’t take much of a house and income to exceed the 10K deductible limit now in force.
Be careful with your accusations. I did not smear any class of people. Uncle Ben specifically asked me about those people with trusts/inherited wealth I’ve met. I gave my observations about them,
My largest Trust that I administer has a current value of more than $30 Million US. It is now paying out to the 5th generation. Under my management it has sustained a return in excess of 8% for more than 34 years. The great grandparents who established the family Trusts were landlords dating back to the early 1900s. They never sold a building and never raised rent once a tenant was in place. The current 40-50 year old generation has this same philosophy about holding onto assets and keeping tenants long term. For the past 30 years it has been money making money through financial instrument investments. 80% of the return is paid out to family members and 10 percent is given to charities, 10 percent is for overhead.
Trusts don’t pay income taxes, the beneficiaries do, This is why almost all the beneficiaries live in Florida (no state income tax).@2scents
Those who inherit their money are also subject to inheritance tax, as well as income tax. Your inventor is not.
I’d like to tax all estates starting at 5 million dollars. There was no reason it jumped to 11 million in 2018 to benefit trump’s cronies.
And yes my estate would have to pay taxes@UncleBen
#1 self made people of wealth are NOT the same socio-economic strata as old money. They are the noveau riche. The groups do not generally mix. The self made are often trying to show their wealth by aquisitions and trappings. Old money is understated.
#2 The 3rd and 4th generation beneficiaries of the family trusts have learned to be wary of gold diggers and learned to live according to the rules et forth or suffer the consequences of their actions.About 5 years a go I was holding a premarital conference with a 4th generation trust daughter and her fiancee. The young man asked how much money the girl would be ‘kicking’ in to buy and furnish their starter home. The man expected an equal contribution to the money he’d earned and would be spending. The girl replied, oh your type buys it, we inherit it. She then asked me what properties were in the family portfolio that would be suitable homes any tenant in place in the chosen home be given a notice of non-renewal of lease. She also suggested a tour of the storage building on grandfather’s estate to choose furniture, artwork, china, crystal and silver. No need to touch capital to outfit a home,
I have seen the trust fund babies go through their sense of entitlement in their teen years, but once they start receiving a regular trust income as an adult they fall in line. Many work hard to preserve the trust to insure the future of their offspring.
It is also my observation that the trust families are far more charitable than the self mades who are all about me@2scents
Your premise is faulty. Many of the rich did not figure out how to make money, their parents or grandparents did.I have trust clients who receive annual incomes in the millions because great grandfather made a fortune. The current recipient(s) have never worked and would have no way to amass a new fortune.
As my father Z”L used to say every April as he wrote a large check to the government: You have to make it to pay it, and thank G-d I made it.
I remember income tax rates of 70% and now believe 33% is too low on those with large incomes.
I would have no problem with 50% top Federal income tax rate…provided not one cent is spent on the useless southern border wall.DISCLOSURE: as a senior citizen, I have no deductions for children and my home’s mortgage was paid off years ago. The Trump changes already reduced my deduction for state taxes (property and income) to 10K which is less than 1/3 of what I pay. STILL, I am willing to pay more so those who truly need government help will get it.
I’m a child of the 1950s not the 80s.
Television went off the air at 11:30 after the newscast. There weren’t 24 hour video diversions and personal computers to distract you and keep you up late.
Since my teen years I go to sleep at 1am (meaning turn off the light after I may have been reading in bed) and I wake automatically at 5am. I don’t use an alarm clock, I have an internal clock.
There are no electric or electronic devices ion my bedroom to disturb sleep. This means nothing is plugged in which has colored lights showing it is charged, charging, synced to wifi, etc. My cell phone is on my desk in my home office, it does not come to the bedroom. The days of a baby monitor are gone. no noises to wake us during the night. I let the dogs out at midnight and again at 5:10.I also drink coffee top relax at night, the caffeine does not keep me up, Mrc. CTL cannot drink caffeine after 3PM if she wants a good night sleep.
When the grandchildren are here for the summer we have set sleep times. Under 5, 7:30pm, 5-8, 8:30 pm, 8-13, 9pm, Teenagers 10:30pm and everyone up by 7:30, 8am minyan in the house, 8:45 breakfast.
@Uncle Ben
Mrs. CTL is mostly retired (due to medical reasons) but was a realtor/designer/builder. Her office is in an outbuilding on our property. If she has a construction project going on the grandchildren (as our kids) love to be on the building site helping and learning. Last summer our eldest grandson learned to drive small excavators and pickup trucks at a senior housing development we were doing.
I own my law firm, my children and some spouses are associates and taking over much of the workload as I near retirement. I have an office in the home as well. Unless I have to be in court, I can work remotely and take off lots of time in the summer.
Not only are all our grandchildren here for the summer, but many of my siblings grandchildren are also in the compound for the summer. Mrs. CTL’s sisters live within a block distance and tend to be here most days.
It’s almost like having our own bungalow colony without having to drive to the country.Mrs. CTL and I made this decision many decades ago, to keep adding on to the house and amenities to keep the family together. We don’t go away on vacations, the kids and grandchildren are not shipped off to camp and we don’t pay dues to a swim or beach club. In all it has been much cheaper and we feel the children have been much safer than if in the care of strangers.
@Uncle Ben
In the morning the older boys/girls learn with the younger ones for a while. We have a built in swimming pool, tennis and basketball court and baseball/soccer layout for sports. We do arts and crafts, Mrs. CTL has taught most of them to play piano and I play and can teach clarinet and saxophone. We take them to area parks and attractions and sailing on Long Island Sound. The kids spend time learning to cook and I teach home repair skills.
They each are given a small patch in our vegetable gardens to plant and care for. They go for hikes and bike rides on our 4 town trail.
Mostly they use their imagination to keep busy with each other, they don’t need the over-programming of school and camp. Nothing wrong with hanging out under a tree and reading a book, jumping rope, playing with a toy or doll, shooting baskets, playing with the dogs and just being a kid.That was one incorrect comment. Henry Ford did not invent the automobile.
1886 is regarded as the birth year of the modern car when German inventor Karl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Cars became widely available in the early 20th century. One of the first cars that were accessible to the masses was the 1908 Model T, an American car manufactured by the Ford
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It is not just Yeshivos who have added breaks and cut instructional time.
When I went to college, semesters were 15 weeks plus exams.
My oldest had 14 weeks including exams
Many college semesters are now 12 weeks.Cutting instructional time allows institutions to cut expenses while still raising tuition. Shutting down in winter also saves on heating costs.
If the cost of running the schools was not so high and income so low, we would not be seeing all these days off
Uncle Ben,
This thread is just a little Pre-Purim levity.
It is obvious that Joseph is not my son..My sons live and work in CT None of my children live in NYC.
BTW, love your rice
Uncle Ben
In the past 40+ years I’ve known more than a dozen Orthodox Jewish Lawyers who have held elected positions in suburban CT. This includes towns/cities such as West Hartford, Bloomfield, Stamford, Norwalk, Westport, Fairfield and others I shall not name.
Most of these elected positions are part time on Boards and Commissions or the town legislature. They are without pay, In addition I knew such people serving in cities such as New Haven, Waterbury, Norwich, New London, Bridgeport. Not all of these have an orthodox community anymore. Some such as Bridgeport are cities in their own right, but also commuting suburbs of New York@Joseph
Tatte is going to have to give you a potch in tuchkes.
How many times have I told you not to touch my business phone?
I have nothing to hide, but you could have violated atty/client privilege
It’s a good thing that I make all my clients sign a form allowing any of my employees at the CTL firm to see all info.
Why do you think I give you your allowance with a company check? and file taxes for you every year? and pay the taxes?
It’s not that I think a 40 year old shouldn’t be earning a living, but to protect myself from lawsuits, because you refuse to grow upOrder delivery,
Leave payment with company receptionist@DY
Thank .you for asking
B”H Mrs. CTL is improving slowly and is at home. We are trying to get her strength up, as she must have major surgery next month to bypass the problem organs.@Whitecar,
Make sure you open and install it, not a handyman. There’s an envelope inside for the two of youWhitecar………………..
Did you get the nice mailbox I sent as a wedding gift?Four generations of my family lived in NYC from 1868 until my parents decided to make a 75 mile move OOT in the early 1950s. They chose a city with a yeshiva, day school, mikveh, many shuls, kosher bakeries, butchers, delis and restaurants. My mother did remark that there was only one appetizing store. My older siblings were born in NYC, but I was born OOT.
My parents found that NYC outer boroughs were becoming ghetto like with the settling of the remnants of frum European Jewry. Growing up they had lived in mixed ethnic neighborhoods and buildings and they wanted their children raised in a mixed American community. This was important as we were expected to be professionals who made our living from the populace as a whole. The family was proof that we could live the American dream, live outside an exclusively Jewish enclave and remain frum.
My grandchildren (and my siblings’ grandchildren) are now 7th generation frum Jewish Americans. Our localities no longer have the plethora of shopping and dining choices as the Euro-Traditional Jews who supported them have died out and their non-Frum children no longer kept kosher out of habit (as opposed to belief) as their parents and grandparents did.
All of our children and neices/nephews spent some time in Yeshiva or seminary in NYC. None wanted to settle there.
Personally, I would not want to live in a high rise apartment of 5 or 6 rooms or a city house that is only 12 feet from my next door neighbor’s wall.
I like being close enough to go into the city to shop or attend cultural events, but not have the hassle of living in a city of 8 million people.
When I read the complaints in the CR about the school buses parking streets, or neighbors who have illegal curb cuts, fake garage doors, etc. I say who needs the hassle. If I never rode a subway again, I would not miss it.
OOT we have a true feeling of community, all Jews make an effort to get along and respect each other’s differences.
As a young married, I belonged to a shul that was composed of two shuls established in the late 1880s who merged in the 1950s. One was a Litvak misnagid shul, the other Lubavitch, but not chasidim (they were families who came from that town in Russia and davened Nusach HaAri. The shul put the Litvak name first and used the Lubavitch siddur and followed their calendar.
I started attending minyan each morning and the shammos started asking me to daven for the amud. I explained that I did not daven that nusach. He said to me: I’ve watched and see you daven from a Tikun Meir nusach Ashkenaz…that’s frum. Go to the amud and daven from your siddur, no one will object. I refused the honor and said I’d check with my father and Zaideh. They both told me, in your own seat use your own siddur, but for the harmony of the kahal, from the amud daven with the shul’s siddur. You will not be betraying your minhag, but honoring the shul’s.OOT is not for everyone. My children’s spouses are all OOTers. I don’t know if a potential spouse who was dependent on picking up prepared food at will, and being a short walk to most of his/her relatives and friends would have wanted to make the change. I know that my children did not want to make their lives and raise their families in NYC.
@takes3
I’ve been rather busy this week with Mrs CTL and a myriad of medical appointments, but your comment about Tikun Olam not being an orthodox concept irked me,
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The last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson had this to say about Tikun Olam:
“Tikkun Olam (Repair of the World)If you see what needs to be repaired and how to repair it, then you have found a piece of the world that G-d has left for you to complete. But if you only see what is wrong and what is ugly in the world, then it is you yourself that needs repair”
Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
Although I come from a long line of Misnagdim, I contend that the Rebbe and his teaching/preaching met the definition of Orthodox Judaism. I had the honor to meet and speak with the Rebbe several times back in the 1970s. He was quite inspiring
@Joseph
I am the youngest child in my family, my parents were the youngest in their families as well.
I have no first cousins left alive at this point
There are a few second cousins surviving, the youngest of whom is more than 20 years older than I am and we were never close due to the age gap. I am close with some of their children.
I have about a dozen third cousins on my paternal side who are within 5 years of my age and all live within a 90 minute drive. We are very close, talk every week and see each other many times each year.I am closer with my third cousins than first or second cousins
Our grandchildren are all close with their first cousins because they spend the entire summer and almost every yuntif at our home…Camp CTLI hope not.
He must not be a two term President, he has done enough destruction already. Putin’s Puppet needs to goI think this sounds like an interesting evening.
I haven’t smoked a cigar since 1982 when my doctor determined I was allergic to tobacco juice (i would bite off the end of a hand rolled cigar before lighting it).
I come from a long line of cigar smokers, but it ended with me.
My maternal great great Grandfather was brought to this country from Germany in 1868 to run a handmade cigar factory in NY. If you have never seen cigars being rolled/made by hand it is quite an artisanal skill.I do think there are other more Jewishly appropriate skills that could be highlighted at a Yeshiva fundraiser. I’d love to watch a good calligrapher/sofer craft Ketubot, or a silversmith craft kiddush cups or candle sticks.
@AviK
I prefaced my remarks about voting laws/procedures being jurisdictional
If someone attempted to write in a name not registered with the Secretary of the State as a ‘write-in’ candidate, the computerized tabulation reader/scanner would not recognize it or count it as a vote having been cast for that office.I do believe in school choice. Choose to send your children to public schools and all taxpayers share in the cost of the cost of the kids’ education. Choose to send your children to non-public school, then pay for it your self (or myself for 5 children).
Competition has not forced public schools to get better. In our area they have opened many Charter Schools. They don’t take any special needs kids, and as soon as a child becomes a behavior problem, the kid is dumped back in the public schools. The public schools get stuck with the lowest achievers and those needing the most extra and expensive services.
I have a deaf nephew. The local yeshiva day school refused to accept him (and he would not have been a scholarship kid). He went to public schools and the taxpayers paid for his additional services then on to university. He speaks, hears with hearing aids and can sign if need be. He is a public school principal in his mid 40s.
In NYC there are yeshivas who accept some special needs kids, but out of town, it’s public schools that fill tyhe need. Way back in 1960, my late mother offered to teach special ed late afternoons at the local day school. She taught special ed in the public schools. The Principal refused, he didn’t want any of those children in is school, it would scare away parents of full tuition students.@Joseph
I challenge what you wrote as the report of Pew Research.
I would expect that Pew Research said that of those American citizens who Identify as Muslim and register to vote….66% are registered with the Democratic Party, 13% are registered with the Republican Party and 20% are unaffiliated.
Here is CT, Independent is the name of a political party that has elected candidates, thus use of the word ‘unaffiliated is important’There are many Muslims, Jews and Christians in the USA who are not registered for vote.
PEW Research is extrapolated from a sample. It’s reliability in this case is questionable, as your voter registration can not ask your religion. Many respondents to telephone polls lie when answering.
@klugeryid
No problem.
I retired as an elected official in 2017
I don’t know any current Frum elected politicians in my state and have no connection to NY Politics. The last ‘frum” NY politician who caught my attention is the now disgraced and convict Sheldon Silver.Pandering to ‘Frum’ Jews in CT would be a waste of time and resources for any politician. there aren’t of us to swing an election.
@NevilleChaimBerlin
I don’t see much difference from when the Republicans ran a Mormon (Romney).
It is all about the candidate’s qualifications and abilities to execute the office of POTUS.We have had Presidents who were Protestant (of assorted denominations) Roman Catholic and Quaker who have done the job without letting personal religious beliefs interfere with performance of the job,
I am a Democrat and am happy to support a number of yeshivas…by writing checks from my OWN funds.
I would strongly oppose any funding for them from taxpayer dollars. I know many Republicans who feel the same way.@Avram in Maryland
Re: Party Name
It gets confusing some time with Democrat/Democratic Party
Our State Party is the Connecticut Democratic Party, members are those who registered to those and affiliated as Democrats.
I am an officer in our local Democratic Town Committee. Our Charter and Rules, which date back more than 50 years give the name of the organization as the XXXXXXX Democrat Town Committee. Thus many local old timers refer to the Democrat Party (not as a derogatory term as used by some). We recently adopted revised Rules which will go into effect in March, 2019 and the Town Committee name will change to Democratic to be consistent with the current State Party name. We shall have to print new stationary and checks,Mrs. CTL is resting comfortably B”H and is now scheduled for major surgery in about 6 weeks. I”H she will not require any additional emergency procedures, hospital stays and life support.
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I called the OP a troll and gave ‘1’ a single response stating I’d not reply to him/her further in this thread. That is my new policy, if I think a post is a troll, I’ll not engage in multiple responses. If any CR readers were offended by my response, I apologize and ask mechila.
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@AviK
Civics lesson time:
Voting rules vary by jurisdiction. I functioned as Asst Registrar of Voters in the 2018 elections. Here in CT a voter may only write in the name of a candidate who registered with the Secretary of the State as a ‘write in candidate’ one who failed to get a party nomination or enough signatures to petition his/her way onto the ballot with a name printed position.
Voters may not cast a vote for anyone else, including dead, non-citizen Stalin. This saves countless hours in tabulating votes at the end of the evening for non-legitimate names such as Mickey Mouse. It allowed out town to complete counts by 10:30 PM when it used to take until 2 or 3 am. Our rules require that all totals be read aloud in each polling place to the public and press before ballots and machines/tabulators can be transported to the Town Clerk’s office. Before this rule change, I remember an election where a group of 200 high school seniors all wrote in nonsense names for 20 positions. We were at the polling place until 4am,Sorry, I don’t have time for this narishkeit today. Mrs. CTL had unexpected surgery and I have been at hospital all day. I will try to respond to a few posts when I have time. Her attention is more important than this diversion
I don’t know what could have been more straight than my only reply to the OP
“There were no primaries in the USSR, there was one party.I would vote against any candidate for public office in a non-theocracy who promised yeshiva funding, or Catholic school funding or any other money for religious education at taxpayers expense, and YES, I oppose school vouchers.”
The OP posed a physical impossibility To vote for a dead non-US citizen who was also a non-member of the Democrat Party in a primary. I pointed out the physical impossibility and clarified that I’d vote against politicians wanting to use public funds for religious education.
@NevilleChaimBerlin
I have no commercial connection with YWN. In fact, I am an old school lawyer who does not advertise or have a website. I am winding down towards retirement and it children want to grow the firm it will be their decision.
Yes I received an email from a Modrator a couple of years ago seeking assistance for someone in a CT hospital. It went to a blind e-mail address that does not have my real name attached to it and by the time I saw it the patient was no longer in CT
@RebYidd23
Social Security is a tax on most working people: Rich, Poor, White and non-White
The difference is that most who reach the wage point where Social Security has met the maximum deduction for a given year are white.Not all working people are covered by or subject to Social Security Tax. Public School Teachers here in CT are not part of the system and pay into their own retirement scheme. My late mother collected her CT Teachers Retirement Board check for 31 years in retirement. Actyion by the Reagan regime made her ineligible to collect a spousal benefit on my father’s Social Security. Had she been a housewife she would have rec’d more than a quarter million dollars in Social Security Benefits in retirement.
@Mangoes
“Tikkun olam is a non orthodox concept. There is no such concept in the Torah. Well, at least not how you mean it”
Sorry, Chesed is a Torah concept, you don’t like the appellation I attached.
The Republican party currently benefits the extremely rich and hurts the rest.Stripping the guts out of the Affordable Care Act is not Chesed.
Threatening to Cut Social Security and Medicare is not Chesed
Separating children from parents and incarcerating them in camps is not chesed (ask any shoah survivor).
Doing away with or loosening clean water regulations so that we can’t eat domestic lettuce farmed with filthy water doesn’t help the populace.Forcing people to have back alley abortions doesn’t help anyone. Better not to abort, but if it is done it should be done ion a safe and clean medical center. As the parent of an adopted child I am not pro-abortion, but would not put my religious beliefs into secular law.
There is a big difference between enabling legislation than forcing someone to do something by law.
The fact that abortion and same sex marriage is legal doesn’t mean anyone in the CR will partake; which is why I don’t see these things as a threat.
I am more likely to suffer a gunshot than be affected by a legal abortion, so I support gun controls.@lakewhut
The NY politicians you mentioned are an issue only for NY residents until they choose to run for a nationwide office.
We must separate local parties and their platforms from national parties and their platforms,
I live in a Town that has been run by Republicans for many decades, I was a minority elected local official. About 10 years ago a dozen members of the local Republican Party got fed up with the mean spirited way their local party was running the town and jumped ship to the Democrats. They are observant Catholics, pro-life, conservative etc. That said, in order to have a say in the way the town was run they had to join the opposition party and run for office as Dems. They don’t have to support the state or national platform. They receive no campaign financing from those entities.
The USA is not a Parliamentary system country. We don’t vote for party lists, Americans are not card carrying members of political parties, don’t day party dues and don’t read party affiliated newspapers@MDG
If you have read my many posts over the years you will find that Mrs. CTL and I do not come from privilege, but the middle class.
My parents afforded themselves of the free excellent college education offered by City and Hunter Colleges in the 1930s and bettered their lives. Yes, I went to an Ivy League University and Law School and paid for my education by working full time while in college.
We bought a 200 year old fixer upper and continually remodeled and added on, doing most of the labor ourselves. I built a successful private law practice, but still cut my own lawn, take out the trash, paint and do hone repairs and do virtually all the cooking and laundry (Mrs. CTL has been ill for a number of years).
The money we make is used for both tzedaka and ensuring our family is with us. All of our grandchildren are here for the summer, not away at expensive camps, as well as Pesach and all the Yomin Tovom, The amenities of the compound (as we call it, as MIL lived in the house adjoining us, and SIl a few doors down, and not married daughter and family there) cost far less than than camp and expensive vacations.
I drive a car that I bought new 15 years ago, My suits are made to measure, I’m not an off the rack size, but I am as likely to wear a suit made 12 years ago as this year. Good is good, buy the best you can afford and nothing that is a fad and it will last, sage words from my OMA.
To put it simply, we don’t waste or squander money. Mrs CTL and I having started and sold a number of successful businesses (and we had a few failures as well) has enabled us to contribute to Jewish and secular institutions for the betterment of the community.
As for being a Democrat, I find that political party is far more in accord with the concept of Tikun Olam than the Republicans. I vote candidate, not party. This past November I voted for 4 Republican candidates as well as 9 Democrats when I filled out my ballot.@Anon
To quote you from this morning:
“it’s called sarcasm.”If you (or anyone else) don’t like your elected officials, get involved in politics. Join your Town Party Committee, attend Board and Commission meetings, run for elected office. Become a delegate top state and/or national conventions and have a vote on the platform.
You may win or lose, but this is the only way to effect change when you are not happy with the local politics.
Democracy (even a republican model) is a participatory form of government.I have done all of the above for more than 45 years.
I am far from elitist, my social circles cross economic and ethnic divides.
I have had townspeople call me elitist because my children attended ‘private schools’. I dare say most CR readers/posters who raised children in the USA also did not send them to public schools., but that does not make us elitist.
Mrs. CTL and I worked hard for what we have amassed, it was not inherited. The compound grew with the sweat of our brows. Don’t ask how many nails I hammered, how many sheets of dry wall we both hung, etc.That said I’d gladly pay higher taxes to provide for the greater good in our society. America welcomed my forebears when they escaped the anti-semitism in mid 19th century Germany and Russia, and I believe in giving back and extending opportunities to newcomers.
I know what sarcasm is. #1 is but a right wing troll looking to stir the pot and I give him one response per thread at this point.
If he doesn’t like the Dems in control in the northeast move to the flyover zone. I ‘m sure he’ll find the red necks very tolerant of his ilk.
@AviK
You may interpret #1 the trolls post as you wish, but he did not ask the question you state. He was specific about 3 people, totally inaccurate about a dead Soviet and asked about acceptable levels of radical leftists. He NEVER mentioned anti-semitism. That is not acceptable from left or the right including Republicans inclusing Nixox (as long as were posting names of dead leaders).@Cessna172
Flights FROM Israel to USA on Thursday are not a big problem. The clock is with you as you fly west.
El AL leaves Ben Gurion Airport at 12:30 AM and Arrives non-stop JFK 5:25 AM EST. Even a 10 hour delay would not affect Shabbos if you were not making a connecting flight but staying in Metro NY.My 30 Year old just flew in from business in Shanghai. With the time changes, she left Shanghai Monday Jan 7 at 8:20PM C(china)ST and landed JFK after 14 hours in the air Monday Jan 7 at 9:30PM EST.
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There were no primaries in the USSR, there was one party.I would vote against any candidate for public office in a non-theocracy who promised yeshiva funding, or Catholic school funding or any other money for religious education at taxpayers expense, and YES, I oppose school vouchers.
Neither Omar or Ocasio-Cortez ran in my district or state, so I did not have to choose to acceot or reject them. BTW, get Congresswoman’s Ocasio-Cortez’s name correct, otherwise I’ll start referring to you as One-Half.
What you may consider radical others might not. Since you are not a registered Democrat it is none of your business who the members of that party choose to run for office, you only get to vote for or not for the candidate on the ballot.
I would not have voted for either one. I am fine with Congressman Jim Himes, reelected in the Connecticut 4th district.
Here in New England there is not a single Republican representing our 6 states in the House of Representatives. No one will call most New Englanders radical we are far too traditional for that,.I suggest you troll somewhere else. This is you one response in this new thread
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Winnie,
The cleaner is an employee because you set the terms and conditions of employment and give direction.
You tell the cleaner that you will work Wednesdays from 9-1. Y, clean bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen. On alternate weeks clean inside of refrigerator or oven, etc. You supply the cleaning products you want used.The plumber responds to your call about the leaking toilet and says I can be there on Tuesday between 11 and 4. he brings his own tools and supplies.
Why would performing basic life duties be offensive?
I mow the lawn, shovel snow, do painting and home repairs.That said, Mrs. CTL is not well enough to do housework. She has been in ICU since Friday and has had 10 surgeries in the past year.
Until three years ago and the onset of ill health she cleaned our house.
I do the kUndry and cookMust be nice to live in an area where cleaning help is only $15 per hour. In our area the going rate is $30 per hour with a three hour minimum visit. Homeowner supplies all cleaning supplies and equipment
@Chatzer
“Which would you rather fly with.
A licensed pilot who flies small planes who only learned in a real plane, or a pilot who is flying a plane for the very first time, who only trained on a very realistic computer game?”Your scenario is false…………………….
The licensed pilot who flies the small plane is likely the only pilot (unlike the TWO pilots on the Citation X I flew back and forth to Boca Raton Airport yesterday).The licensed pilot flying the first time with passengers in that B787 is not in the captain’s seat. In the captain’s seat doing the training is a licensed pilot with many thousands of hours in large commercial jets. To be perfectly honest, I’d rather fly with that 55 year old captain with 20,000+ hours commercial jet experience and 10 years military flying than someone with your limited hours.
Joseph has claimed to work for the NYC Public Schools. It’s winter vacation so he has lots of time on his hands