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#4 | Posted by eberly

Interstate how Eberly's mind landed on the Nazi number... Gotta wonder if that's happening deliberately or subconsciously through conditioning.

My dad did the weekend commute thing. He would leave Sunday afternoon and come back Friday night.

It... wasn't great for the family.

But, you take the job you can get, and you make it work.

At least, that's what he learned growing up in a cold water flat.

And it was a good job. He worked three decades for Uncle Sam at that job then retired.

This swamp that the Republicans built in D.C., well it's just the perfect centerpiece for America at 250.

I hope he's at peace
#4 | Posted by BellRinger

What do you mean, you "hope?"
There's other options?
What are the other options?

WhiteDevil was rightisright if I recall correctly.
#68 | Posted by LauraMohr
Ya, he was living in China, not Taiwan at the time.. He was a White Devil on both sides of the planet.
#69 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

^
Did he ever discover the "gay gene" so Chinese parents could selectively abort their unwanted gay fetuses?

Or was he really over there because the Age of Consent in China is fourteen years old?

Trump probably thought Herbert Hoover was some kind of genius after hearing Archie Bunker sing wistfully about him in the All In The Family theme song.

These lyrics are contemporary Republican politics to a tee. We hear this stuff daily from Republicans here and in the media:

Those Were The Days

Boy the way Glenn Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made,
Those were the days.

And you knew who you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men,
Mister we could use a man
Like Herbert Hoover again.

Didn't need no welfare state,
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days.

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/allinthefamilylyrics.html

Why isn't the DoJ all over this case
#3 | Posted by LampLighter

Same reason DOJ isn't investigating the Epstein Files.

You are aware the kidnap victim's daughter spilled the beans on Trump and Epstein, right? You should know that.

Needless to say, I did not accept that job, which would have doubled my salary.
#3 | Posted by LampLighter

After grad school I had two solid job prospects. One in San Diego, one in NYC.

They paid the same, so as a practical matter the one in San Diego paid twice as much.

It's a shame, I would love to live in NYC but it's not a thing I can afford. Well, I probably could afford it now, but then I wouldn't be able to afford spending 40% of my paycheck on 401(K) and ESPP.

"They can find $30-$50 a week in expenses they can do without."

That's not actually going to work, Eberly.

What you claim is the solution is actually the problem!

Terry Pratchett -- Boots Theory:

Occam's Razor says she was killed to send a message to the press after her daughter betrayed Trump.

Very "Old Testament" to go after someone's family, if you catch my drift.

"making $50K or so and paying rent, car, etc"

^
That person can't actually afford a car payment. They can only save up for a beater car and can only afford the statutory minimum insurance.

Your numbers are like when they ask Boomers how much they think a house costs these days.

Again, I'll tell any 24 year old who is a year or so out of school and making $50K or so and paying rent
#183 | Posted by eberly

You paid for your kids college, right?
So let's look at your advice for the same kid who also has student loan debt.
Your advice for those kids is:
"Going to college isn't within your means, because your parents are too poor."

I know a good number of smart people who didn't get the opportunities a college degree provides simply because their parents were poor and could not pay for them to go to college.

That's bad for America. You should be able to understand that. You should be able to understand you're whistling past the graveyard of the economic opportunities that you had, but today's poor kids don't.

Food stamps
Free meals and daycare for kids.
I support those things. I see politicians advocate for those things and strengthen those programs.
#171 | Posted by eberly

Which Republicans support that?

"They have to want to NOT be a minimum skilled worker."

^
This is such an ignorant thing to say.

"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."

"legal permanent resident of the United States"

Republicans are lying when they say people who are here legally don't need to worry about ICE.

Republicans enjoy lying when they say people who are here legally don't need to worry about ICE.

"who thinks Trump convinced me of anything"

Trump isn't the genesis of these ideas.
He didn't need to convince you.
You already agreed with him.

You all get demolished and you resort to calling me a rich kid who hates poor people
#166 | Posted by eberly

You don't hate poor people.

You don't acknowledge the humanity of poor people.

You pity poor people, like a slave master pities the slave he's whipping.

They're not your equals. You don't think of poor people as people; they're some kind of abstraction to you.

Hate is more than you are willing to invest.

"America's swelling debt pile bodes ill for the the US economy, Societe Generale said."

Sure seems like Republicans don't think this bodes ill for the US economy.

Sure seems like Republicans think this is just what poor people do, and it won't have any long term effects on the US economy, but rather the effects will be almost entirely limited to the poor.

Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson says he's "out" of the Republican Party moving forward, arguing the GOP no longer reflects his views.

^
Not enough Americans being sent to camps.
Not enough nuclear bombs being dropped on Iran.

I'm 56 and debt free.
#153 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Then you're doing it wrong.

You're supposed to borrow against your own assets to get that tax free income.

This is just one example of how the economy is structurally set up to extract wealth from the poor and middle class, and redistribute it to the wealthy class.

Someone upthread said something about a man in the 1950's being able to support a family on one income... Has anyone looked at the size of those houses they lived in?
#96 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Poor people used to deserve homes, but now they don't, is what you are saying here.

That's what the homebuilders and the regulators have decided: No more building homes that poor people can afford.

This is exactly what's described in "The Innovator's Dilemma" by the way. As a business scales, it requires higher margins to sustain growth.

And we are in an era of record corporate profits.

And corporate profits are paid for with wages that don't keep up with production: