LOL Funny it seems most gas stations along interstate highways are owned by them!
Where do they get the cash to get the franchise ?

…. I don’t know… taxpayer money or something?

… hey OW I’d love to stay and chat but have to get up early and go to work tomorrow in order to finance all this BS lol

… luv ya partner!

Same here partner!

The Cheats will not make the playoffs this year again!
But the Bengals will this year!
Might even take it all!


LMAO!

American tax payer money financing . Low interest

Here's the catch .....payments are based on profit ....so essentially no risk

Stays in the family forever

Same way Muslims have gotten a foothold here!
Whole families lived in the same house , until each could get their own place.
As much as 3-4 families in the same house.

Many Afghani, Pakistani and Burmese owned gas stations launder money from illegal opium sales. Pakistan has been filling the hole in the opium market left by the destruction of many opium fields in Afghanistan. They report fake high profits, pay taxes on them and send the money back to their home countries.

Keith

Very good chance it will end in a nuclear conflagration.
None of the three parties involved are humble enough to back down.

[quote=KeithC]Many Afghani, Pakistani and Burmese owned gas stations launder money from illegal opium sales. Pakistan has been filling the hole in the opium market left by the destruction of many opium fields in Afghanistan. They report fake high profits, pay taxes on them and send the money back to their home countries.

Keith[/quote

Please explain how they can do that.
Not doubting you, but I have questions, as a neighbor from China had a business , that was doing well, then had to stay in business after it was a losing project.
And still had more money than the neighbors around them?
Moved to a higher rent area, and had no problems moving?

Lots of small and some pretty big businesses are set up to launder money. Businesses that take in large amounts of cash are especially useful for money launderers. Did you ever watch Breaking Bad, Weeds or Ozark?

Most illegal drugs are bought with cash. The government gets suspicious when large amounts of money are just stuck into a bank account, or transferred overseas, when there is no apparent legal source. Shipping large amounts of cash is risky because it can be found and confiscated or even stolen..

Drug dealers invest in businesses that take in lots of cash like gas stations, convenience stores, tobacco shops, barber shops and restaurants. They just add the illegal cash drug revenue to any legitimate sales from the business. Once the taxes are paid on that money, by the business, it can be transferred and used for legitimate purposes.

It sounds like your Chinese neighbor was likely laundering money.

Keith

Quite possible !
I know they used illegals ( suspected anyway ) to run the store for a few years.
Housed them even after the business couldn't keep them working.

Believe it or not!
It depends on who you dislike, or trust .



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I guess it is to obvious a solution. Maybe the military industrial complex Eisenhower warned us of don't want it. There's no money in it for them.

It takes awhile for a single ship to traverse the panama canal. It exists because the only other option is a trip around the horn. Straight of Hormuz is big. Wide enough for a lot of traffic. A canal is a bad idea. Probably more ships going through the strait right now than there would be through a canal.

Boy, there’s some global “experts” posting, and a lot of regular people just stating their opinions.
The experts don’t know the difference between the UN & NATO, fail to see the communist threat, mixing up religions and countries…….
Entertaining thread for sure.
Eventually the middle east will be turned to glass, and will drag everyone down with it, but I just hope the gas prices drop by summertime……
Open the straight!!!…….lol

Actually, Spjones is onto something with the insurance companies bit.
It’s amazing how our forestry budget exponentially increases for ROW clearing when people can’t insure their $10M cottages due to fire threat near unmaintained ROWs.

I was just down in Belize fishing with AP from cenovus

It was a hot topic at the dinner table,,,

Fun fact: the keystone xl pipeline is fully completed to the boarder,,,, primed with nitrogen,,,, ready to go

It’s going to come into play shortly

I can't read 5 pages on here this morning but did T-man solve the problem with the strait? Fuel prices are killing me.