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@AlfieFujitani @cwebbonline Very few of them are any good. They keep coming out with new stuff and it keeps failing.

@cwebbonline He's a builder. He knows what he is doing. There are new processes that are not just "painting".

More waste… I’m not sure who told Donald Trump painting the Reflecting Pool was a good idea, because it will need to be recoated every few years. As a pool owner, I can tell you paint doesn’t last like hard surfaces. The existing granite lasted a lifetime and should have just been repaired as needed, not coated over.

@untone_t @ralfrpatterson @TONYxTWO Per capita often has a multiplier. For example, we don't measure crime "per capita" using murders per one person, we use 100k.

@ralfrpatterson @TONYxTWO Just read the post - it says per capita.... :) The box does says per 100 people. :))). You are right

Countries with the most civilian-held firearms per capita Wait until you see where the U.S. lands 🇺🇸🔥

@PootDibou Did they accept illegal votes or not? The answer is yes, they did. Audits don't change that.

The 2020 US election was audited on a massive scale. Researchers examined audit results from 856 jurisdictions across 27 states, covering over 71 million votes. The audits found the net error rate in counting presidential votes was 0.007%. The median shift in any county's vote count was zero.

@carsonight @ChrisMartzWX So exactly what happens in similar schemes every time lol.

Say you don't know what a Ponzi scheme is without saying... If my Social Security contributions had been invested in a money market fund, there would be more than sufficient interest to pay me the rest of my life. That money was "borrowed" and replaced with IOUs, based on the full faith and credit of the US government . Now there are those like you claiming the government should renege on those obligations.

Social Security is a government-run Ponzi scheme. It is fraud. This is a FACT, not my opinion. The money that retired seniors like you collect from Social Security comes directly out of the paychecks of currently working Americans. People like myself are bankrolling YOUR retirement, when most (not all, let me make that disclaimer clear) seniors are, on average, far wealthier than me. Retirees like you are not getting back money that you supposedly “paid into” it for 40+ years. That money has been spent by the government and is long gone. It isn’t kept in a secret lock box just for you. That is a MYTH. I know this is true because: 1⃣ If working class people suddenly stopped paying into Social Security, the money that retirees get would be stretched thin and eventually dry up. 2⃣ Once you die, neither your children nor grandchildren can collect the rest of the money that you supposedly “paid into” the system. If you died and never got back all of the money that you “paid into” Social Security while you were alive, then there should be money left over that could be passed down to your loved ones. The fact that there isn't proves that people like me are paying you to enjoy retirement with payroll taxes. Social Security absolutely is the very definition of a Ponzi scheme: It is a fraudulent investment scam that pays “returns” to earlier investors by using money contributed to it by newer investors. When FDR signed the Social Security Act of 1935 into law and set the retirement age to 65, the average life expectancy in the U.S. was 62. This, of course, meant that less than half of the population would live to be old enough to retire and collect Social Security. At the time, it was economically sustainable. But today, the retirement age has been raised slightly to 67 (for those born after 1960), but average life expectancy is much higher, at 79. What’s more, because people are having fewer kids, there are fewer workers available to support each retiree. In 1950, there ratio of workers to retirees was 16:1. Today, it’s near 2:1. The current Social Security system is a farce and it is one of the largest reasons why our debt is ballooning skyward past $40 trillion. Why? Because we have a bunch of boomers, the Social Security system now pays out more to seniors than it collects with payroll taxes, so the government must borrow to make up the difference, which directly adds to the national debt. It is currently nearly a quarter of our annual budget. And, what does the government do about that? Right, they print money to match the money supply to the debt, which causes inflation by decreasing the purchasing power of the U.S. Dollar. And, the result? Housing unaffordability. Sky-high grocery prices. The effect? Young people like me get screwed out of the American Dream. Although cultural decay and feminism play a role in such trends, this is a MAJOR reason why people are not getting married or having kids; they cannot afford it because WWII veterans decided to get frisky after the war ended, creating a population boom never seen before, and the federal government pandered to that generation with entitlement programs, which has economically screwed over this country. And, instead of trying to fix this crisis, politicians on BOTH sides of the aisle ignore the tidal wave that is building because it is politically unpopular to go after Social Security because their geriatric voting base wouldn't approve of it. The elderly want to collect every cent that they can (and I do not blame them at all for wanting their money back), but are leaving people my age and younger to deal with the consequences down the road. Of course, we should not leave the granny out on the street, especially elderly that are poor. That's selfish. But it is equally, if not more selfish for us to continue enabling an economically unstable and immoral system that is burdening the working class by forcing us to fund the retirement of a demographic of people, who are, on average, wealthier. Any good parent wants to build enough wealth so he or she can leave some to his or her kids and grandkids. It is most parents' goals to leave their kids better off than they themselves were. Social Security doesn't do that because your kids and grandkids cannot collect the money you “paid into it” once you kick the bucket. Retirement should be self-funded. You should be in charge of your own retirement fund. You would be far better off saving it in a savings account at the bank or cashing it out and saving it in a fire-proof safe in your house than paying into a fraudulent Ponzi scheme. You could then invest some of it in stocks or precious metals like gold and silver. And, by doing that, you can leave what's left over to your living descendants to ensure that they are better off than you were. And, if you mismanage it and spend it all (which a lot of people would probably do because they're stupid), then that is on them and they should be barred from being able to apply for welfare. Your poor life choices therefore wouldn't be my problem. We can't immediately abolish Social Security, but our elected officials need to be looking for a way out of it. I recommend allowing anyone under the age of 40 to opt out of payroll taxes. That wouldn't fix the debt right away (it might even make it worse), but it would work out in the long-term. The other sustainable alternative is to raise the retirement age such that you can be age-eligible to collect Social Security at 79. I am open to other ideas, but the status quo isn't going to work. Something systemic needs to change because Social Security is bankrupting our country, not to mention robbing future generations of economic freedom and achieving the American Dream. This is a harsh reality that boomers and some Gen Xers near retirement age don't like to hear. It is a harsh reality half of my own audience won't want to hear. But that is the reality.

@0xleegenz The wild inflation in living expectations that led to the idea that you need an income of $230k to raise 2 kids. I'm raising 3 on 60-80k with my own house and I'm more than comfortable.

The average salary for GenZ is $39,000 The average household income needed to live comfortably raising 2 kids is $230,000 What went wrong?

@AJGenX @financedystop The US Govt was elected by the previous generations who either refused to open their eyes to the fact that they were getting hoodwinked by their party or reluctant to go through the discomfort of correcting the problems, pushing it onto latter generations.

@financedystop What are older generations supposed to do? This is not the previous generations doing. This is the US government and every other elitist that manipulates the currency and economy’s fault. Blame the right entities.

Unless you work in tech, finance, or have help from your parents, you’re probably not buying a house. That’s a serious problem for younger people, and older generations completely ignore it.

@NikDavidYaron @financedystop Almost every 30 year old I know owns their own house or is just waiting to find one they like; They range from trades (including lawncare/pool service, pressure washing etc) to programmers. But I also don't live in a failed state that destroyed their economy, like CA or NY.

@financedystop I know dozens of people in their 30's with a home and family. They work in the trades. People in the tech bubble are oblivious to the rest of the world. Most young people refuse to work with their hands. They want to bang on a keyboard and sip coffee for $250K a year.

@bumbadum14 Not city people. A lot of us who live in rural areas still do.

Nobody actually knows what “high trust society” means. Once again a term popularized by the online right has been degraded into nothing. Useless, just means “thing I want” now.

@HomelessEconomy @ChrisPacia So does not jumping in the wood chipper.

@ChrisPacia Pushing the red button increases the likelihood of a mass die off up until you guys get to your mathematically impossible goal of 100%. Essentially you're trying to press the kill people button until enough blue people stop you

If you vote differently in these scenarios congrats you are irrational. Time to do some introspection and figure out why you respond emotionally to things rather than logically.

@ankoromochuu As a group, we tend to think Asians are some of the coolest looking people that can pull of just about anything and we have a fair amount of respect for their excellence and traditionalism. Even our racists tend to favor asians over other races.

私の複雑な気持ち😔 私は日本人としては尊敬をされる経験を、ありがたいことに何度もしてきた。 でも、アジア人としては、白人にも黒人にも見下された経験がある。 日本を尊敬、でも、アジア人を見下す。 これはどうしてなの？ やっぱりアジア人は見た目が小さいから、醜いの？

@FinancialPhys @babyblueice22 @mises @CatoInstitute @TheoVon How much gold could the guy in 1971 buy for a days wage?

@babyblueice22 That’s not how a gold STANDARD works I’ll put hard science math —fixed unit of monetary measurement— up against anyone Including @mises and @CatoInstitute —my offer still stands, including @TheoVon Everyone hates elemental science because it tells the truth nobody likes

Today, you need to earn $8600 a week to have the same spending power a full time, minimum wage, kid working at a car wash in July 1971 (your dollar is shit)

@WifeFinance The comments making it clear people didn't understand the point lol.

Why don’t more people just buy a home in cash and save the $719,000?

@MetamateDaz No it couldn't because it was illegal to purchase or hold gold. If you compare the actual goods that could be purchased in 1970 vs today, we are on top by a fair margin.

One hour of minimum wage work in 1970 ($1..60) could buy you 0.044 troy ounces of gold which today is worth over $200 so $66 is being very generous

@barneyxbt How is that a scam? That's the cost of using someone else's money to buy something you want but can't afford. I'm glad I was able to have access to such a thing.

a 30 year mortgage is the biggest scam nobody talks about 80% of your monthly payment isn’t even going toward the house. it’s going to interest, property taxes on a home you technically don’t own, insurance, and other useless shit that does nothing for you you pay $3000 a month and maybe $400 of it goes toward actually owning the house. the rest goes straight into the bank’s pocket for the privilege of borrowing money they created out of thin air and if you stop paying the property taxes on the house you “own” they take it from you. so you never really own it.. you’re just renting it from the government with extra steps by the time you pay it off in 30 years you’ve paid for the house almost 3 times over. a $300k house costs you $800k when it’s all said and done but yeah home ownership is the american dream lmfaoo for the banks maybe

@Tackylava @drew92360661 @shawnorchunter @MitchellReportX @harukaawake The GDP of Poland is 47 times higher than Botswanas...

@drew92360661 @shawnorchunter @MitchellReportX @harukaawake Look at Botswana. Look at equatorial guena. These are completely black countries with economic gdp that surpasses any country in eastern europe. Why is that?

🇯🇵 Recently, I see lots of anti-Japanese posts from Africans. This is Japan in the 1960s... only 20 years after World War II was over. We built this. You were never hit with any nuclear weapons and yet you built nothing. Why?

@IamThee1One1 @CalebEatsPie @genocidalgirl You had 9 mistakes in a 25 word post, and your followup post had an even higher mistake ratio. Not exactly what I would call "perfect"

@CalebEatsPie @genocidalgirl My English is perfect the fact that you imagine failures shows your a dead nig

Some are confused why he didn’t do anything but that’s because they don’t understand what a 70 IQ does behind the wheel and that it can’t make decisions or calculations. It just goes straight.

@VladTheInflator @grok @AndrewLBC1 Oops, I did. Thanks for the correction!

@Physocles @grok @AndrewLBC1 You read that wrong

At least during the great depression, people with jobs could afford homes.

@RebelPsych @frankbr10356022 @MoDOT So approximately 2-3 miles?

You can literally see in the video there are no warnings before the stopped obstacle itself. It may have lights on it, but so does a stopped semi. If a Semi Truck stopped in the middle of the road, you would have the same visual warning and the same amount of reaction time to stop.

Our TMAs were hit 50 times last year. Fifty. Distracted driving puts every life on the road at risk. Make the right choice behind the wheel—stay focused. Never drive distracted. 📵🚗

@sheepvengeance @StarSpangldPepe @scrowder @Rach4Patriarchy The God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament.

If that was in a state where I'm carrying, which can't happen in New York, I would k*ll him in broad daylight and I wouldn't miss lunch.

@skumWgmi Lol at me and my buddy then. He makes 55k and raises a family of 7 on a single income and owns his house. Until recently I did the same for a family of 5 on $65k If $130k feels like poverty you either don't know how to manage money or don't know what poverty is.

Nobody talks about the $130k salary that feels like poverty. Daycare: $2,800/mo Mortgage: $3,100/mo Student loans: $600/mo Health insurance: $800/mo That's $7,300 gone before you've bought a single meal. Comfortable is a word other people use.