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Elliott

@epillifant

Alaskan, dad, carpenter

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calendar_today28-11-2019 00:11:21

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Alaska Education Statistics -Worst student outcomes in the nation for decades -Highest per-student education spend in the nation for decades -If you remove the largest districts, the outcomes are even worse in rural areas -Alaska charter school students and Alaska homeschool

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A major problem we’re confronted with in Alaska and across the U.S. is the climate myopia that operates under the assumption we still use 70 year-old technology to cut/drill/mine/mitigate impacts, as well as the total blinders to the reality that when we don’t utilize domestic

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When you realize that a self-sufficient Alaska is the exact opposite of what these people want, the state of things here make a lot more sense.

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JAMIE DIMON: “I call it blue tape. Republicans generally don't like red tape … But most Democrats, they love it. They want more of it and they want to make it so confusing you can't even meet the rules, so you get punished and fined afterwards.”

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“Incompetence as opposed to malice” doesn’t properly weight how vast, relative, and comprehensive the spectrum of incompetence is, with malicious lack of competence essentially being the end of that spectrum.

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Good intentions don’t feed the kids, pay the bills, or meet the required energy & raw material throughput of a nation.

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The number of people whose salaries are paid entirely from the U.S. Treasury via a private business (typically a government vendor/contractor) or a nonprofit, is 3.5 - 5 times the the total number of on-payroll federal civilian employees. On the military side,

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We’ve reached, and likely far exceeded, the limits of management at scale. It has failed completely. Drastically reduce administrative scope and scale. Allow local stakeholders and market forces to allocate capital and solve these litany compounding issues at a

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John Ekdahl The “16% mortgage rate” argument is a textbook example of historical distortion through omission. Let’s break the illusion: Yes, rates were 16% in 1981 - for a few quarters. But the median home price was $70K. And median income was about $21K. That’s a 3.3x price-to-income

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At this point, we see so much of this so clearly. Much more clearly than they realize. So clearly, in fact, that we simply use common sense and their own publicly available information, quotes, and documents, to prove any multitude of long-held “conspiratorial” conclusions beyond

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Shop local. Eat local. Spend local. Enjoy local. Support the local businesses who support the area where you live, work, and play.

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“What we are really talking about here, all this attempt to control, we’re talking about western attitudes that are 500 years old. They began at the time when Florence, Italy was the most important city in the world. The basic idea of science - that there was a new way to look at