BigJim

I see what you are saying, but you are confusing SS with a retirement plan. SS is really a "poverty insurance" plan. It's meant to keep people out of poverty as they age.

So if you die early, the only concern is how your surviving spouse (or kids if you die real young) are taken care of.

It's more than that, but that's the core of its original purpose.

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And Louisiana is #4 right above #5 Texas! Who would have thought?! I think Louisiana tried what Mississippi did or some version of it, so it must be working. Hard to believe, though.

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Wait. Are these demographic-adjusted scores or absolute scores?

:lol:

To be fair, qualifying just ended last week.

Here are the 5th (north Louisiana) and 6th (Baton Rouge) congressional candidates:

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Wow
That incredible.
How do they get by with that?

EBR has about 450K people. It’s easy, 10 districts each should be sbout 45K, right?

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Unlike legislative seats that are representative (state and Congress) and thus need to have equal population, judicial seats are not representative in nature and thus do not need to be reapportioned. It's been years since most judicial districts have been reapportioned for most districts. That leads to way more judges per capita in rural, mostly north Louisiana. And it is also the reason it is politically difficult to change.

Sort of.

This is from the Journal "Signs," a journal of "Women in Culture and Society."

NOT a physics journal. Or any other kind of science.

That's for a country that has a population of 1.2 million.

The US is a republic with 50 states plus territories and the states have the constitutional authority to run elections.

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At any time you can visit that office, and in the lobby are binders with everyone who is registered to vote in that area.

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Registration roles are public. In Louisiana you can download them online.

A national ID makes some sense, but it has been rejected multiple times in the past due to privacy and federal overreach concerns going back to at least WWII.

Nice work!

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I dealt with a lot of these NDAs during negotiations with Google, Meta, Digital Realty, similar.

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And you work for the public sector? Because no one cares about private sector NDAs.

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It is a common practice for large corporations to negotiate in secrecy when committing to large investments in infrastructure. NDAs are very common among involved parties, especially pre-announcement.

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They have become very common, particularly in Louisiana. That doesn't mean it's a good idea. And what about post-announcement? Can we find out how much these deals were subsidized?

To be clear, the Meta deal is probably game-changing for Louisiana. But we really don't know. That doesn't bug you are all?

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They don’t want competitors or terrorists knowing specifically where their assets are located.

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Huh? No one cares about security details. Or proprietary information. Those are already protected by law, at least in Louisiana.

Where their assets are? You mean like floor plans? I can see that. But it's going to be pretty public where they bill a giant data center.

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This is a terrible spin on the statistics. According to that graphic, the low income ivy league post graduates go 70% democrat, whereas those making the bigger dollars go 65%-66% democrat. So the low-income jealously can only be accounting for 4% to 5% of that one tiny cohort.

And that’s only if it accounts for 100% of the differences between the income cohorts of ivy league post graduates. It doesn’t. Some of that is accounted for by the fact that low income people tend to vote democrat (probably because free shite).

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But he isn't trying to explain the difference between Democrats and Republicans; he is trying to explain the difference between mainstream Dems and far-left socialists.

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Doesn’t she have to win an election?

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No, not to serve as an interim Senator. She just needs to be appointed by the governor of the state.