my sister used to say 'boys are easier to raise than girls' and after her 17 year old son was admitted to a psych hospital, i realised the assumption of treating boys like they need less guidance through life is such a disservice to their mental and emotional health.
Senate votes:
78-17 for a $10 billion bailout to Jeff Bezos
90-5 for a $125 billion corporate tax break
87-6 for $53 billion to corporate outsourcers
88-11 for $780 billion to war profiteers
58-42 against a $15 minimum wage
Welcome to the United States of Oligarchy.
Trump corporate tax cuts: $1.9 Trillion.
Total current student debt: $1.75 Trillion.
Total current medical debt: $195 Billion.
There is plenty of money to go around we just constantly give it all to the people and companies who need it the least.
McDonald's Worker
Denmark: $22/hour, 6-week paid vacation, pension
US: Less than $10/hour, no paid vacation, no pension
Price of Big Mac as of January 2022
Denmark: $4.82
US: $5.81
% of Private Sector Workers in Unions
Denmark: Well over 67%
US: 6.1%
Every worker needs a union
Elon Musk: I need $1.5 billion or SpaceX will go broke
Feds: Approved
Lloyd Blankfein: I need $824 billion for Goldman Sachs
Feds: Approved
Charles Koch: I need a $1.4 billion tax break
Feds: Approved
Average Joe: My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicare?
Feds: We're bankrupt
Friendly reminder that Elon Musk told the UN that if they gave him a budgeted breakdown of how $6Bil could end world hunger, he would do it. They gave him the budget and then he decided not to do it, and instead decided he would buy Twitter for $45Bil.
Child tax credit
Cost $100 billion a year, cut child poverty 25%, poor people spent 90% of it on necessities, didn't lead people to quit jobs
Tax cuts for rich
Cost $1.9 trillion, wages didn't go up, prices went up anyway
One is called a "handout" and the other is a "stimulus"
I can promise you that amazon banning these words/phrases from their company chat app just radicalized a bunch of workers who were on the fence about needing a union lmao