Technically, there were no losers in WWII. All countries came out stronger than they had been.
#17 | Posted by madbomber

I appreciate how you're intellectually priming yourself to support WW3.

"This isn't Capitalism, it's Crony Capitalism."

There's no difference.

Capitalism lets you buy and sell people.

"$100 million"

Chump change when you spent $44B to swing an election.

"The Trump Admin has abruptly canceled an $11M contract with Catholic Charities"

The GOP is a Death Cult.

"Israel is 1000 times worse than Hamas"

Is it true?
Has Israel really killed 1000 civilians, for every civilian Hamas killed?
I thought it was more like Israel has only killed a measly one hundred civilians, for every civilian Hamas killed.

USDA Cyclospora Research Projects Shelved Amid Funding Cuts

This is what I voted for.
--Boaz

Laura Loomer.

Is she the one who made her face look like one of those blow-up sex dolls?

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Trump is doing 9/11 stuff now, to distract from the Epstein Files.

The grand jurors wrote a hit piece too!

"We conclude that these funds were misappropriated as part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities"

"Biden"

Drink!

This is retroactive for all the slaves, right?

"A statement from Rodrguez said the deal involves the development of 17 fields with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels. It said the agreement could draw $100 billion in investment into Venezuela's oil industry and yield over $209 billion in taxes for Caracas."

So, no actual benefit to the American people.

This is Trump, stealing back the oil Venezuela stole from its rightful owners: industrialized western multinational corporations.

From terrorist act, to tourist event.

Our response to 9/11 is mid.

Dropping the bunker busters? Are you comfortable with Iran getting nuclear weapons?
#144 | Posted by BillJohnson

We dropped those, over a year ago. Did we fail?
We must have, or why are we bombimg them again.

We had another black poster, but he was racially profiled and his account was deleted. It's what I've come to expect from liberals.
#29 | Posted by lfthndthrds

TonyRoma?

I guess there won't be any LftHndThrds in this thread.

There was nothing for boomers to "figure out." Wages were livable, education cheap and readily available, housing cheap and available, unions and labor protections strong, retirement was a real thing, the US was respected and loved globally...
#64 | Posted by jpw

And all that started coming undone right around 1975:
"Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households."

"Compound interest over time"

Compound interest on what? Compound interest at 2% does not even keep up with inflation.

Now I suppose it's true that mom could be dead before her $4K checks stack up to more than her max $1.5k contributions.

But she's been taking Social Security for roughly twenty years now. So she might have already passed that point. Unlike, say, the average black man, who gets pennies for every dollar paid in, since they tend to die in their early 70s.

" Let's say mom's check is $4k every month.
How much did she "buy" in bonds?"
Roughly the equivalent of 8k a month in income.

But mom (plus her employer) only paid like $1.5k a month, tops, into Social Security. Because her salary maxed out around $150k.

So mom is getting a lot more than she paid for, by your math. Like 5x more.

In truth she gets dad's social security, which is a bit more than hers. I think hers was ~$3800 and his was ~$4200 until he aged out of eligibility.

But that's not really enough to move the needle on the fact that she's getting a $4K check after paying at most $1.5K a month including the employer's contribution.

Am I missing something?

"SS works out to the equivalent of a 2% Bond with a 25yr average maturity."

I don't really understand how to math that.
Let's say mom's check is $4k every month.
How much did she "buy" in bonds?

Remember when Republicans promised to release the Epstein Files?

Republicans don't.

"SS works out to the equivalent of a 2% Bond with a 25yr average maturity."

You're talking about some kind of average.

I'm talking about a specific cohort.

"driven by specific corporate policies and systemic political changes, not the consensus of ordinary citizens."

These things happened in the 80s and 90s. Driven by Boomer corporate practices, the consensus of rich corporate Boomers, and Boomer politicians on both sides of the aisle.

For example:
Boomers have taken more out of Social Security than they paid in.