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To: ransomnote

Prayers up for the people of Hong Kong who are risking their lives and imprisonment in their fight for freedom.
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what courage. Yes, joining you in praying for them.


482 posted on 11/17/2019 7:50:27 PM PST by A virtuous woman (I'm praying for my country.)
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To: A virtuous woman

AMEN! Re prayer for Hong Kongers. Sigh.


501 posted on 11/17/2019 8:10:36 PM PST by joseburr (Jose Garcia frijoles burrito-toot--aaargh!--gotta get more sour cream with those hot tamales!)
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From the forum:

New York Times Accuses FedEx Of Not Paying Taxes. FedEx’s Response Is Priceless.
Daily Wire ^ | November 18th, 2019 <-- They must time travel since it is still the 17th | Ryan Saavedra

Posted on 11/17/2019, 8:32:08 PM by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

The New York Times accused FedEx on Sunday of essentially having lobbied President Donald Trump to sign tax cuts into law with the promise of businesses using the saved money to reinvest in and further grow their companies, and then failing to invest the billions of dollars that it reportedly saved as a result of the tax cuts.

“In the 2017 fiscal year, FedEx owed more than $1.5 billion in taxes. The next year, it owed nothing. What changed was the Trump administration’s tax cut – for which the company had lobbied hard,” The New York Times reported on Sunday...

FedEx CEO Frederick Smith responded...

“The New York Times published a distorted and factually incorrect story on the front page of the Sunday, November 17 edition concerning FedEx and our billions of dollars of tax payments and billions of dollars of investments in the U.S. economy,” Smith wrote. “Pertinent to this outrageous distortion of the truth is the fact that unlike FedEx, the New York Times paid zero federal income tax in 2017 on earnings of $111 million, and only $30 million in 2018 – 18% of their pretax book income. Also in 2018 the New York Times cut their capital investments nearly in half to $57 million, which equates to a rounding error when compared to the $6 billion of capital that FedEx invested in the U.S. economy during that same year.”

“I hereby challenge A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times and the business section editor to a public debate in Washington, DC with me and the FedEx corporate vice president of tax,”...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...

518 posted on 11/17/2019 8:41:51 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: A virtuous woman

what courage. Yes, joining you in praying for them.

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Some are risking their lives and others are shills sent in to riot to “justify” harming/imprisoning those risking their lives (antifa types). I am humbled by the courage of those who fight, those with the Tienanmen Square spirit!


519 posted on 11/17/2019 8:43:25 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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