Julie Slama
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@SenatorSlama
Living the dream as an Attorney, Mom, and Former State Senator in rural Southeast Nebraska. 🇺🇸
Breaking: NASCAR icon Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup Series champion, has died at the age of 41, the racing series announced Thursday.
I have a different twist on this whole lunchgate/savingsgate/Boomer money thing: **Moving to cashless has really messed with people.** Dave Ramsey has talked about the psychology of paying with cash: you actually feel it when it leaves your wallet. And if you have, say, $40 in cash for the week and you blow $20 the first day, you then tell yourself...well, crap, I gotta do the value meal tomorrow...or...hmm, maybe I'll have to pack lunch. It's SO easy, now, to just...use the card and try to keep track on your digital wallet. AND it's easy to say, too, "well, I'll watch it." But if you can ping money from one account to another, or just put it on a credit card that you think you'll pay back at the end of the month — but you won't — then...it gets easier to just spend. @AndToddsaid raises a good point on affordability, and of course there are ways to save and scrimp, but moving away from paper makes it easier to put it on a card of some sort — debit, credit, whatever you've attached to your phone — and you're on your way. But if you don't feel it, you don't...feel it.
Oh yeah, somebody spending $20.00 on food a day while making $70,000.00 a year is the reason they are poor and not the fact that the average price of a new car is $50,000.00 and the average house is going for $436,000.00.
Tornado Emergency continues for Pawnee City NE and Du Bois NE until 5:30 PM CDT
Nebraska’s “Blue Dot” gets flooded with millions in outside cash, and it exposes exactly why our unicameral is broken. Billionaire networks (hello, Hansjörg Wyss & pass-through nonprofits) pouring foreign-tainted money into ballot measures and primaries to push their agenda. Time to follow the money, demand full donor disclosure, and fix the system that rewards dark money theatre. The rest of Nebraska is tired of being drowned out.
