Tariffs Catch-All

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waynecountywolf said:
No,that is your opinion. I dont see a problem with requiring those entering the US legally.
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That's great and all, but it has nothing to do with what you said. This is what you wrote:

"Hard to tell if he was just drunk or couldnt read (or just an illegal)."

That is extremely racist. Fact. You are assuming that his ethnicity was the reason for the crash.
 
superrific said:
This poster's affection runs to NCSU. All bets are off, really.
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I didn't have time to read the article, but when scrolling yesterday there was an article about the education system in the US. The premise was how do we fix an education system that has produced a national average of 3rd grade level reading. It must be a really broken system if the national average reading level is truly at a 3rd grade level.
 
UNCatTech said:
I didn't have time to read the article, but when scrolling yesterday there was an article about the education system in the US. The premise was how do we fix an education system that has produced a national average of 3rd grade level reading.
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You must have misinterpreted the article. The average American reads at a much higher level than 3rd grade. I mean, 40% of 18-24 year olds are enrolled in college, and according to this website, 60% of people go to college immediately after HS or GED.

www.bestcolleges.com

U.S. College Enrollment: Trends and Statistics | BestColleges

While college enrollment has declined in the recent past, new students and older learners have contributed to an uptick in enrollment this year.
www.bestcolleges.com www.bestcolleges.com
 
superrific said:
You must have misinterpreted the article. The average American reads at a much higher level than 3rd grade. I mean, 40% of 18-24 year olds are enrolled in college, and according to this website, 60% of people go to college immediately after HS or GED.

www.bestcolleges.com

U.S. College Enrollment: Trends and Statistics | BestColleges

While college enrollment has declined in the recent past, new students and older learners have contributed to an uptick in enrollment this year.
www.bestcolleges.com www.bestcolleges.com
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I could have. I really meant to go back and read the full article.
 
Does this help?


  • Average Reading Level:
  • The Literacy Project reports that the average American reads at a 7th to 8th-grade level.
  • This means that most people can understand and use language at the level expected of students in the 7th and 8th grades.
  • Variability:
  • It's important to note that the average reading level can differ depending on a person's age and educational background.

Literacy Levels Among American Adults​

  • Challenges Faced:
  • Over half of American adults (54%) read below a sixth-grade level.
  • Almost 1 in 5 adults reads below a third-grade level, showing significant gaps in reading ability.
  • Overall Literacy Rates:
  • 4 out of 5 adults in the US are considered literate.
  • However, more than 130 million adults have low literacy skills.
 
I remember reading in the ‘70’s that publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, and Time were written at an 8th grade level.
 
superrific said:
That's great and all, but it has nothing to do with what you said. This is what you wrote:

"Hard to tell if he was just drunk or couldnt read (or just an illegal)."

That is extremely racist. Fact. You are assuming that his ethnicity was the reason for the crash.
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OK he is just an illegal that couldnt drive (we will see).
cdllife.com

Driver in Colo. crash that killed one deported 16 times prior to wreck, ICE says

The truck driver arrested last week for a fatal crash involving multiple vehicles that left one person dead was under deportation orders at the time of
cdllife.com cdllife.com
"Cruz-Mendoza was hauling metal pipes and angle iron at the time of the wreck, and overturned the truck while going at least 65 mph through a 45 mph zone."
I guess he couldnt read numbers
How about this one?
www.foxnews.com

Bond set for illegal immigrant deported four times who allegedly killed mom, son in drunken driving crash

Jose Guadalupe Menjivar-Alas, who is facing charges in the deaths of Melissa Powell and her son Riordan in Colorado, has had his bond set by a judge.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
 
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Zoo_View said:
I remember reading in the ‘70’s that publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, and Time were written at an 8th grade level.
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That’s what I recall as well, and the Wall Street Journal was written at a 10th/11th grade level.

During my career, our marketing group used to write technical articles for auto mechanics and we tried to keep the writing at middle school level. Inexpensive video production has made much of this irrelevant as the marketing communications staff now just produces videos of the product managers making good quality how-to demonstrations of new products and posts them on the website.
 
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circlesky88 said:
Movies are next
www.hollywoodreporter.com

Trump Says He’s Instituting a “100% Tariff” on Films Produced Outside of the U.S. Because the “Movie Industry in America Is Dying”

The president posted that Hollywood and other areas are "being devastated" due to "a concerted effort by other Nations," which constitutes a "National Security threat."
www.hollywoodreporter.com www.hollywoodreporter.com
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Probably the start of his inept attempt to try and win over some in the entertainment industry, which will almost certainly fail.
 
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mpaer said:
Maybe next we should put a tariff on "foreign music", or books published abroad
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Oh, that's next on the agenda. Given the morons littering this administration, they'll probably start placing tariffs on cats and dogs with foreign names as if they've been imported. "You own a Shih Tzu? Have you paid a tariff on that thing yet?" This entire trade war is nothing but a primal scream of American isolationism, nativism, and xenophobia taken to their ultimate extremes.
 
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