Peach trees last at most 15 years on commercial farms and are often replaced after only 10 years. The peak production years are from 5 to 10 years and I doubt any trees being cut down under this program are in that stage.
We want to have a strong Iran, but with a friendly and peaceful leadership. We could easily take out Iran’s oil infrastructure, but it’s important for that to survive for the next generation of Iran.
It seems crazy that Iran is still loading oil and selling it right now, but the goal is not to destroy Iran. A revolution is needed and hopefully it will come soon.
Yeah, but surely you can see that this is completely the wrong way to accomplish that. Attacking a country is more likely to unite people behind its leadership. The US has tried this kind of regime change-though-bombing before, and it never works. The only case where it sort-of worked was Iraq, and that was only after a decade of chaos, destablising the entire world, and the creation of ISIS.
You left out what would happen after we so easily took out their oil infrastructure. Iran would in turn hit all the other oil infrastructure in the region that they could reach. It would be an unmitigated disaster for the global economy.
It's no different than suggesting that we could easily take out the major military installations of a nuclear power in a first strike. Sure, but what happens next?
Some divorce laws seem to have the goal of being fair on average no matter what happens in many cases. Other laws seem to desire fairness in a few cases while causing unfairness in many more.
In California now, If you don’t understand why there are so many false claims of domestic violence at the beginning of a custody battle you may be in for a world of hurt.
In the case of someone I know, the wife’s notes from a meeting with a prospective attorney included “DVRO=$”
DVRO is Domestic Violence Restraining Order.
For 10 months he only saw his kids with 3rd party supervised visitation costing $100 per hour.
If he was intentionally reading the notes his wife took of attorney meetings regarding their divorce, you may want to consider the possibility that the DVRO was genuinely sought.
This is only a half-response, but I think one beneficial policy to increase food-access would be to remove regressive sales taxes from grocery purchases. Replace lost revenue with a progressive tax.
Several states tax a considerable amount on even basic foodstuffs (e.g. Tennessee).
Just like police departments use asset forfeiture to get money to buy their “toys” while innocent people lose their cash and cars because carrying cash is suspicious.
From what I saw, a "massive" amount of the left had no problem with FBI agents repeatedly lying to the FISA court to get warrants to spy on the opposing parties presidential campaign. Everyone on both sides knows the other side is full of criminals so anything against them is OK. There is no good ending to this situation.
Social Security is a a scam. If individuals were allowed to keep their contributions and invest them in the stock market—for example, in index funds like VOO and chill then nearly every American could retire as a millionaire, making traditional 401k unnecessary.
Okay, tell that to the 65+ demographic who were offered pensions and promises of a new deal from their parents. Stocks werent what they were back then before we surrendered our riches to billionaires. A pension was probably way safer than investing unless you already worked in the economic sector.
I'm a millenial and was raised early expecting social security to run out by the time I retire. Not the first time society pulled the ladder up on me.
It was the new deal democrats who stole riches from Americans to put in Fort Knox and foisted this scam on America. It has become a slush fund for the government with hundreds of crooks hands in the cookie jar.
It needs to be dissolved, and those who will be worse off by investments will continue to get paid and those who would do better would have it privatized in a staged approach to its dissolution.
Removing the parasites in DC by reducing most of the federal government and reducing military spending will help with allocating funds to assist with it's dissolution.
A great example is the city of Chicago selling its parking meters for 1.15 billion dollars. Now considered one of the biggest financial mistakes the city ever made
Having sold a fairly sophisticated and expensive financial product with nasty downside risks to lots of states and cities, Wall Street then went on to rig the underlying number: https://www.reuters.com/legal/ten-big-banks-settle-us-intere... (although market conditions since the financial crisis would have caused the buyers to lose money anyway)
