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Sounds like there's no details and it's a refutation of the entire concept.

The initiative has immediately drawn objections from European officials, who insist that the continent’s security arrangements are already established and cannot be renegotiated over their heads.

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  • [–] 5 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

    The campaign platforms of winning (or leading) candidates in red and purple states demonstrate a clear pattern: concrete economic issues of working and rural people were central.

    In Kansas, Adam Hamilton’s “prairie populism” railed against the crushing costs of farming inputs, something Iowa’s Josh Turek also stressed. In Mississippi, Scott Colom emphasized the loss of labor and delivery departments in rural communities. Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and James Talarico both spoke out for rural schools against defunding and voucher programs. Keisha Lance Bottoms spoke openly about the rural-urban divide and her own roots in the Georgia countryside.

    In South Carolina, Annie Andrews focused on kitchen table economics, rural healthcare and farmland preservation.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    In the grand scheme of things, not that much. It's just a building really, just with extra security. I'm not opposed to a conference room but it had to be done as the people's house through Congress. But I think the whole notion is poisoned for a good while.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Exhibit A of resisting explanation. And no you're not agreeing. Bonds are paid off. Not just the coupon. The whole bond. Period. And no, they don't have to be paid off by issuing new bonds (which still isn't what you said). They can just be paid. Ok I shouldn't take the bait but I do try to educate. Cheers.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

    Many things here. First they can just pay off the bond. This happens. Second, they can issue a new bond. Third, doing that literally IS paying off the old bond. Fourth you can ditch the bonds and raise taxes. Ok this could go on all day with possibilities. What they do all depends on the situation at the time. What you said that they don't pay off bonds is wrong on all accounts. Sorry to say you've picked up edgy phraseology and are resisting all attempts at explanation, so I'm gonna peace out.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago* (4 children)

    Well not exactly. You can pay off the existing bond by issuing a new bond to someone else who is willing to buy it. You don't get to arbitrarily change the terms of an existing bond. And that is considered repaying the bond, so your phrase "they don't repay the bond" is sorry to say very wrong.

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