Kathy Mahon
331 posts


@WallStreetApes When talking about price increases, you must include wage increases. Minimum wage was $1.60 in 1970, now in Illinois it’s 15.5.
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Older American is asked how much she thinks it cost to fill up your gas tank
She guesses $20
Her mind is literally blown when she’s told how much the cost is today
- Since the Federal Reserve was created the US dollar has lost 98% of its value
- A dozen eggs that cost $1.00 in 1970 now average over $4.00–$6.00+
- The average new car in 1975 cost around $4,500. Today the average new car costs over $48,000
- A first-class postage stamp cost 15 cents in 1980. Today it costs 73 cents
- The median US home price in 1970 was about $23,000. Today it’s over $420,000 nationally (around $800,000 in California)
- A gallon of milk that cost roughly $1.10 in the early 1980s now costs $3.80–$4.50 on average
Our quality of life has been absolutely destroyed by the devaluing of our money
End the Fed
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@Real_Ames How the hell would the old lady not know if the car was stolen or left with a dead body inside. I’d called the police on it too.
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A woman threatened to sue an elderly lady on a fixed income over a car tow… demanding $500 and assuming the old woman had it removed for parking in front of her house.
Plot twist: the elderly woman didn’t have it towed. She simply called police after the car sat there for days, and THEY made the decision to tow it.
Imagine trying to intimidate a senior citizen over something she didn’t even do. Some people are way too comfortable bullying the elderly before they even know the facts.
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@Lunaria_40 It’s not the size of the rig but the heart that beats behind it.
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@atensnut I don’t understand why the airlines don’t announce that the rows will be let out systematically at the beginning of the exiting. Insure compliance by enacting a policy that those who do not comply will not beable to fly. They need to take control before people get hurt.
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This deranged woman said she would assassinate President Trump and claimed she would target members of the Trump family one by one. She also threatened Elon Musk and made alarming comments about the Pentagon.
She has multiple accounts across social media, including one with more than 30,000 followers.
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@Rainmaker1973 I don’t want a dog next to me on a plane. They should ask have to ask if it s ok. In a crash a dog could go flying when not strapped in. Like a child, make them buy a seat and have the dog strapped in.
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@Void_Concepts @cecegkh Bs. That’s an excuse. You don’t think middle or high income people aren’t tired at days end or have financial issues that leaves no time for the child ? The cycle stops with parent.
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This is why we aren’t having kids. We remember this.
It’s not racism. Bigotry. Or any other despicable moral stance. It’s poverty. It’s being poor. The least you can do is stop the cycle. No one is trying to raise a kid knowing full well you gonna be that parent. Slaving away to make ends meet. While you have no left over time for your kid.
It is what it is. Sad but this is the reality people (continually) voted for. Smile at least.
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It’s that time of year again, and like clockwork, they descend on the school in droves—parents who have been ghosts all year, suddenly outraged that their child is failing.
They storm in during the final week, demanding answers, meetings, and miracles, as if the report card is some cruel surprise.
Never mind the 10, 15, or even 20+ notices we sent home. Never mind the repeated phone calls, the emails, the texts begging for a parent conference. We reached out relentlessly, but radio silence was the only reply… until now.
As teachers, we’ve learned the hard way to protect ourselves and our sanity. I keep meticulous records of every single contact attempt—every note sent, every call made, every voicemail left, every email and text.
Each student has their own folder in my binder, a complete paper trail of our good-faith efforts. Because this end-of-year ambush is so predictable, our school sets aside a full day just for these parents. We line up tables in the gym like a tribunal of truth.
Parents file in one by one. They give us the child’s name, and we calmly retrieve that thick folder. Then, as the complaints and accusations start flying—“You never told me!” “This isn’t fair!”—we begin the quiet, powerful ritual.
One by one, we pull out each piece of documentation and lay it on the table in front of them. Dated. Detailed. Undeniable.
The yelling fades. The bluster dies. The finger-pointing stops cold as the evidence stacks up right before their eyes.
Why not get involved with your child’s education?
We have proven data that children whose parents are engaged with the teachers and involved with the school are more successful.
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@HistorianUSA1 @FlagAndFire Short term disability is usually offered through your employer. Not all companies offer it. You also may need to use your sick time for a period of time before it will kick in or take that loss before it kicks in after your out for a period of time.
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“I’m about to lose everything.”
This American woman is sobbing in her living room, in agonizing daily pain, needing surgery she can’t get — because her doctors refuse to process her short-term disability paperwork despite weeks of calls, voicemails, and escalations. She’s broke, about to lose her house, and says if she does she’ll lose her insurance too. “The healthcare system is broken and costing Americans their lives.”
This is Obamacare’s bureaucratic nightmare in action: endless red tape, taxpayer funded mandates, and delays that crush citizens trying to get care.
Meanwhile, illegal immigration overwhelms the system — hospitals forced to provide free ER care to millions of non-citizens, draining billions in taxpayer resources that should go to Americans like her.
Prioritize Americans FIRST.
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@Luna_Jones79 Problem being that good American born people have been vilified and in the past over many minor
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@janninereid1 @FlagAndFire In my school we couldn’t wear pants until around 19771-72.
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@RJ77Hawks @iris_seraphina As a oncology nurse, I’ve seen this a few times.
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@iris_seraphina Wow, that’s pretty special! This happened bc of the Governor or Director of prisons. They don’t normally do stuff like this. Unless he is low level inmate or not a lot of time left. Good for them, could you imagine not getting to see your pops before he died. Would be horrible.
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@AbhimanyuManjh5 @SUBRATA30016572 Makes you wonder if he actually was knew something.
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@SUBRATA30016572 ❤️👍
🇺🇸|| Jimmy Kimmel said “
Mrs. Trump… you have a glow like an expectant widow!” just days before the shooting at the actual dinner.
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@0riettaRose Got great advice from MIL, a 1st grade teacher, just worry about developing good study skills. Kids come to school at all different abilities. Learning good study habits is an equalizer.
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@alpha_the_dev @elonmusk The Irish were bought to America as slaves well before the blacks. Learn history.
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If you criticize Jews, you are anti-Semitic. If you criticize Muslims, you are Islamophobic. If you criticize Blacks, you are racist. What does these three groups have in common? What these three groups have in common is that at a particular point in their history, they were discriminated against, they were persecuted.
For instance, if you look at the Jews, they have a long history of persecution. If you look at the Muslims, they have been stereotyped, especially from 9/11, and since the whole issue with Islam and the whole issue with the Middle East. If you look at Blacks, Blacks have been the victim of one of the most brutal slave trade that happened on the history of planet Earth. So when you were a white man, try to impute yourself in the equation or in the conversation or in the discussion. At what point in time were you the subject of discrimination and humiliation and destruction and slavery? At what particular point in time? Even if you were the victim of slavery, it must have been almost a thousand years ago. You start talking about barbaric slave trade, which obviously happened more than 1,000 years ago.
You guys, you make 8%, I believe 8% of the world population, and you have up to, you have up to, I believe, more than 50% of the resources. You own more than 50% of the resources in the world. 8% of the population, more than 50% of the resources. So on what basis have you been, were you, were you victims of chattel slavery? Were you expelled from countries? Were you stereotyped as terrorists and arsonists and fanatics and fundamentalists?
So I don't really get the whole issue of trying to impute yourself and be part of the, and be part of the victim when you are actually not a victim, when you are actually the victimizer. Because at every point in time, who, who expelled the Jews from Germany? Who expelled the Jews from Spain? Who expelled the Jews from England? Europeans. Who stereotyped Muslims and who stereotyped Islamists? Europeans. Who discriminated and who persecuted and who engaged in slave trade? Europeans. So how exactly did you people want to put yourself into a kind of game of victimhood? Make it make sense to me.
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This guy responded to a call where the customer stated he had a small tree to be cut down for $200 and if hauled sway, $250.
When the man showed up he didn’t think $250 was enough for the job. The tree wasn’t as small as was made out to be.
How much money would you pay to have this “small” tree cut down and hauled off? Some are saying $2,000? 😳 Does that sound right?
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@TheEXECUTlONER_ Sorry. Its ugly. If there are city codes against this, I don’t blame the neighbor.
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This woman’s neighbors reported her yard.
This is her front yard where she has all kinds of things growing in her gardens, or, they were growing we should say.
The neighbors say her yard is unsightly and looks like junk.
She says she has a beautiful garden when everything is growing. There is no HOA so any reports would have to go to the city.
Unless you live out in the country, don’t most people grow their gardens in the backyard?
What do you think? Leave her alone and let her have her gardens, it’s a free country? Or, if you were her neighbor, would you complain because she is making the neighborhood look trashy?
👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈@TheEXECUTlONER_
This man lives in an HOA community. He was fined $1,400 dollars for parking his $90K pickup truck in his driveway. There is an HOA rule in that community that does not allow you to park your truck in the driveway. You have to park it in the garage. You can park any car in the driveway but not a truck. So, he paid his $1,400 dollar fine in coins which he delivered to the HOA’s President, in buckets. I guess you should really look at the rules before you buy a house in an HOA community. Have you ever heard of an HOA having a rule of not being able to park your pickup truck in your own driveway? What would you do?
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