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Old 12-21-2021, 07:58 AM
 
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I think I'm gonna send mine back "return to sender".

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...vid-tests.html
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Old 12-21-2021, 08:54 AM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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At this point, it's not our tax dollars anymore. It's our children's and grandchildren's tax dollars.
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Old 12-21-2021, 08:59 AM
 
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Finally starting to catch up with the UK on this? They've been able to get free lateral flow of PCR tests at home for some time now.
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Old 12-21-2021, 09:00 AM
 
Location: Cape Cod
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If I get a test kit I will keep it as a souvenir from the time that America lost its sanity. If there is anything left of the country in 50 years the kit might be a collectors item.



It is really crazy how hard Biden is hammering on this Covid threat. He is doing it because it really is the only thing he might be able to hold up as a success for the midterms and beyond..
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Old 12-21-2021, 09:00 AM
 
Location: Boston, MA
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At this point, it's not our tax dollars anymore. It's our children's and grandchildren's tax dollars.
Been that way for a long time. Sad, really.
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Old 12-21-2021, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Tyler, TX
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"The government is buying 500 million home tests kits to be provided free to the public"

Where, exactly, does "the government" get its money to "buy" things which will be "provided free to the public"?

It's exactly like people going out and buying them for themselves, except we've added a very thick, expensive layer of bureaucratic red tape to the process!

Government efficiency!
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Old 12-21-2021, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Tyler, TX
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I think I'm gonna send mine back "return to sender".

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...vid-tests.html
If I post a video of me using it for target practice, will I get a visit from the KG... er... Secret Service?
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Old 12-21-2021, 10:30 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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I think I'm gonna send mine back "return to sender".

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...vid-tests.html
Indiana borders my own state. The Governor requested a National Guard deployment to assist hospitals that are overwhelmed.

I believe both Dakotas asked for and received an assist from Airforce nursing during the worst of it, last year.

My state relied on the 101st Irborn out of Ky to inject 60,000 vaccine doses per day at the United Center earlier this year.

Out tax $ don’t cover mandatory spends and interest on debt. It’s borrowed and nothing new.

Budgets are frameworks. The real action happens in Congress Appropriations. Once appropriated, Congress seems to forget and then fights over raising the debt ceiling. Cutting Social Security and Medicare will not go over well.

The US has been debt free one year- 1845.

Every POTUS inherits debt, adds to it and kicks the can. Debt is non partisan.
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Old 12-21-2021, 10:32 AM
 
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Other countries have been providing free regular ongoing at home testing.

US is just getting 500 million or roughly enough for 1.5 per person. Which is ridiculously low and that’s too much?

Testing/tracing is clearly “providing for the common defense”.
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Old 12-21-2021, 10:33 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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if i post a video of me using it for target practice, will i get a visit from the kg... Er... Secret service?
pull !!
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