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  13. As a mental math whiz, I've been trying to describe this problem to my parents for years. At 18 year old, I figured out this problem pretty quickly just by looking at my first tax stub. Btw, I'm 29 now; married, home, children etc. People wonder why I'm a minimalist in my personal habits; this is one of the primary reasons. Every DIME you can save now is a DOLLAR that won't be robbed from you in the future. Every cheap/healthy habit you can form NOW is going to be a lifestyle that affords you a good living in the economy that we are creating right now! For every dollar YOU put into Social Security that is matched by employer, you will receive 50 cents before you die. For the average American, that is a mathematical fact! Not only that, but we have a demographic crisis that is going to further bankrupt to ability to even pay for the current mandatory spending. Boomers and Gen X did NOT have enough children to pay for their retirement habits. You want to know why we're having labor shortages? It's not due to laziness, nor even unemployment insurance. The savings, the stimulus money, and the insurance money has been exhausted. There's a labor shortage because we don't have enough people to take over for retirees. Covid jump started this inevitability. Those 7 Millions men you keep hearing about in the news that are unemployed; they're not kids. They're 50-65 year old men that have retired early. Once you understand the financial and demographic disaster we are facing, the faster everything else starts to make sense. This is all about the numbers folks.
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  54. I am a stay at home dad living in the Midwest. After my wife and I agreed to marry; we settled down outside of the city to raise a family. I worked locally during 2020-2022 until my son was born last year. We've felt the strain of the economy like everyone else, but we are still doing rather well due to my wife's profession and she only has to work part time thankfully; three days a week. While I've been at home, I've applied for dozens of jobs in areas that I specialize. I called every Brewery in a 20 mile radius; that's 5 Breweries. Not a single one of them needed staffing for production. I called about 9 jobs requiring a CDL; 2 never called back, 2 weren't hiring, and 5 of them offered me a job ($19-21/hr). On top of that, the schedules were 6 days a week; 12-16 hours a day due to a local driving loophole in Federal regulations. Industry average at this time was around $24/hr. Absolutely ridiculous and no compromises! I left my job in 2020 due to moving out of the city, but that same company had cut my unpaid vacation from 13 to 8 days per year Mind you I was working 6 days a week; 66 hours on average. I took a job shortly after working for an excavation plumbing company that said they 'needed' a CDL. Promising me additional pay for the license and so forth. My first paycheck rolled around after my training week and I already calculated my check out; it was supposed to be $974.00. They hand me my check and the total comes out to $424.37; for 45 hours worth of work the previous week. I immediately tell the manager that I wasn't going to work that day unless it was corrected. So apparently, they put my rate at 2% of the contract instead of 4% and cut my day rates into 1/3. I walked off the job that day and never came back. There's something nefarious going on with the jobs data being released from the US Government (as well as foreign governments I would assume). The only jobs that seem to be available to the public are menial jobs that pay minimum wage to $14/hr. Then you had the jobs that pay less than industry average for 60-80 hours per week; no exceptions. What the hell is going on?
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  249. Unfortunately, in the United States at least, the online dating phenomenon was created because of rising anti-social issues. Personally, I began dating at 19 and found my wife at 24; she and I found each other online. I asked out 12 different women in those years and 4 of them turned into dates. The reason I went online was because there was a major problem with the social attitude of many girls that I spoke to. Many of them think its perfectly accessible to reel you along, insult you, be overtly sarcastic for no reason, or outright use you. I'm not sure if it was always this way, but it's certainly that way now. After a while, I realized I was just wasting my time by asking women out in person. It's a lot of effort for the reward of being insulted, belittled, or used. Many young women have no problem having you take them out on a string of dates (for free food). Just to tell you on the third or fourth date that they aren't interested in relationships. After you clearly tell them that your intentions are to eventually find a good wife and have children when you get to know each other. Dating online simply allows both men AND women to cut through all the drama and garbage and connect with people that want similar things. On a side note, I'm pretty sure the dating market was ironically destroyed by social media and the internet. Men obviously have their own string of problems that usually stem from immaturity, narcissism, or even Christian men that assume they are going to rule over their woman. I actually didn't know that was a thing until I met men that espoused those viewpoints. Women tend to be troubled by exaggerated egos and an irrational view of what it takes to build a life or family. Ultimately leading to pampered and entitled behavior towards family and strangers. Many of the younger women have fallen out of favor in my extended family (including my own sister) because of excessive attitude problems.
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  254. A good man/woman is somebody that wants the best for their companion. I was fortunate enough to find the love of my life and have a son. Nowadays, both of us look at the dating market in complete disbelief. I know it may be unfair to generalize entire generations, but I find people 18-25 to be almost intolerable; mind you I am 29. You can't trust men 18-25. They are completely self absorbed, porn addicted, and don't know anything, least of all anything that can make their lives better. You can't trust women either of the same age. They are married to their own narcissism, expect to be taken care of, but at the same time champion their TikTok/prostitute lifestyles as high status. Then they cry at 30 because their clock is ticking and can't find a good man. Yet they spit on them for 12 straight years as they walked by trying to catch your attention. My wife and I have to be creative in order to properly raise our son and hopefully future 'children'. We live in a neighborhood where the average home-owner is 50-80 years old and there are no children. At the same time, it feels impossible to relate to the younger/nihilistic types. I am the oldest (29) of the children in my family. The remainder range from 12-23 years old. If we go to a family gathering (Easter/Christmas/Thanksgiving) the younger people provide nothing, bake nothing, and give nothing. They arrive at our events as entitled little brats. They invite their skank friends (without our knowledge) that wear mini-skirts to family gatherings, then talk about their drinking and TikTok profiles in front of everyone. It's getting to the point where I want to stop inviting them. They were wonderful as children when I was growing up, but they are something else these days.
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  420. This is why the wife and I are moving to Montana from the eastern US. The economies, even in the Midwest are literally facing annihilation within a short time period. If you are working gig or contract, you're starting to feel the strain. Every month you're having to work an extra number of hours to make the same amount you made the prior month. Which is getting exponentially worse. If people are looking for places to avoid the Federal Government and turbulence in the wake of a war, then leaving the country is probably the worst option. Though I could be wrong, it all just depends. If this country falls into a Civil War, let alone a World War, assuming a financial collapse would have already happened; which is what usually happens. Do you really think you're going to be safe in a foreign country? The Caribbean - exports are primarily pharmaceutical equipment with virtually nothing that is self sustainable. If global supply chains fall apart, the people in St. Lucia are going to be eating each other. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines - these countries heavily rely on US military strength, Intelligence, and business partnerships in order to function. In the event that the US is rendered insolvent or defunct, these countries are a ticking time bomb. Chinese aggression would turn all of these into a war or occupational zone of influence. Australia already speaks for itself. Africa - a major Chinese investment Western Europe - tied to the same fate that the United States is and anything to the far east runs risk of falling into Russian or Chinese influence.
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  678. As someone who was diagnosed with ADHD during the "planned pharmaceutical phase" during the early 2000s. It irritates me to no end how easily the people that orchestrated this disaster skated away. The rate of ADHD diagnosing went from 2% to over 11% in the span of 5 years back in the early 2000s. Pharmaceutical companies made billions on any manner of crap they could shill out to the public with the FDA's approval. It truly damaged quite a large number of young boys specifically and there was never any justice done about it. The more frustrating part was that you had a majority of Gen X parents that completely went along with it; full confidence in an already broken and scandalous system. These same people repeated that mistake during Covid in 2020 and I have no patience for it any longer. If you haven't figured out by now how ridiculously corrupt the relationship between government and pharmaceutical companies are in this country; I'd say you'd deserve to end up as one of the one million cancer patients diagnosed each year due to their agenda; one in three hundred is NOT good odds folks. That's my judgmental side speaking. The more compassionate side of me hopes that more people will seek clarity on the subject. Girls do better in school and boys can't sit still. It has always been that way; what else could you hope for? Perhaps a generation or two of boys that were forced to sit still in class and swallow the bureaucratic crap that these psychopaths put into the curriculums? I won't have it; none of it. If you have no problem medicating your children without a second thought just so they can perform better in a system of insane consumerism. Then I'd say you have a different strain of mental illness all to yourself. Considering that we are in a time of great upheaval in the economy and government; don't be a blind fool and jump on the healthcare/pharma bandwagon. The fact that many people are still so blind to how much bureaucratic corruption has been taking place 'especially since Covid' is annoying to say the least. With a son on the way, I refuse to play along with these games anymore. A litany of pharmaceutical medications and shot, followed by a K-12 education that doesn't teach my child jack-crap. Imagine how much time your kid spends in all those years of schooling and how much they actually retain; maybe 5% at most I'd say! They are training your child to get ready for a full time job of meaningless work to feed a horrible system. The only thing I have left to say is this. Please, for the love of God, DO NOT put your child through what my parents did. I was a medicated drooling zombie for 6 straight years until I told me parents that I "refused" to medicate. Back then you could swap out multiple medications every few months. Thankfully new policy allows for only two medications before a review of the diagnosis, should they not work. If you do, your child may never forgive you and rightfully so.
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  765. Aside from social issues, the number one reason why conservatives lose (especially with young people) is due to the repetitive economic banter. "Get married, buy a home, work for 30+ years, pay into Social Security!" I am 29 years old and I am one of the last of my age group to be buying homes. People even a few years behind me can't afford it! I was fortunate enough to buy a home in Spring of 2020, get married, and have a child. However, for younger people this is almost impossible with how much the US Dollar has been devalued over the last 40 years. The repercussions of Covid were that the devaluation of our living standards sped up by almost a decade in a short period of time. Many young people saw their parent's marriages destroyed in the 2000s, they look at a $400k home as utterly impossible, and they KNOW they will never receive Social Security. All the while the interest sitting on their student loans will be nearly impossible to pay off should those loans resume. People can't even afford to pay their loans currently while we are sitting at dangerous inflationary levels. If one mishap were to take place in the stock market, the inflation would temporarily drop and then soar to 20%+ percent; it will make June inflation of 9.1% look like a cake walk. People are terrified of the economic repercussions we are up against. So when young people hear "work harder, get married, pull yourself up"; it just doesn't click with tens of millions of people. It truly feels like fighting against a tsunami sized tidal wave. I can't exactly empathize with their situation because the money I earned and the timing of my lifestyle were impeccable. However, I'm fully aware of what they say and how they think. The American Dream that Boomers and Gen X peddle to people doesn't exist anymore.
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  805. I've completely remained neutral on this entire conflict. Though when people that I know prompt me to choose a side; I say I'd side with Russia. People have an immensely short memory that they've forgotten this war began in 2014 after the Ukrainian Civil War; props to the Obama Administration. NATO along with the United States aided in overthrowing the sitting administration and installed a new government under Volodymyr Zelensky. You can listen to leaked tapes of US State Department officials conspiring on who they want to be installed in the succeeding Administration in Ukraine; all on tape and I'm surprised Youtube never took them down. Afterwards, the US sold them anti-tank and aircraft missiles to fight a border war against Russia in the east that we know as Donbass. At the same time the Zelensky Administration took measures to persecute ethnic Russians living in eastern Ukraine, which the media loves to hide. NATO set this all up so that the 'bear' would attack after it was poked with a stick repeatedly. They want Russia to be subjugated under their rule, seeing as it still continues to be the closest threat to Europe since the cold war. This is all a power play by the more recently elected left-wing governments of Europe and the United States; I don't blame Russia for invading, but they gave NATO exactly what they wanted. Another excuse to go to war for profit. Could you imagine if China overthrew the Mexican Government, made it a puppet, then sold them weapons to fight a border war against the United States?? Conflicts like this are extremely lucrative, especially if you are an official sitting on US foreign policy. You invest in commodities one day; then you enact sanctions on that same commodities the following. However, this also completely ignores the large amount of money laundering that takes place on the Congressional level. Hundreds of billions of dollars don't actually go to research 'frogs on cocaine' or 'transgenderism in Pakistan'; aid to Ukraine anyone? No, it's a medium to give tax-payer dollars to foreign governments and international terrorists in exchange for favors, pure and simple.
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  825. My wife and I are the ONLY Millennials between our families. We are chocked full of boomers, gen X, and zoomers. Our elders are all between 48-72 and our younger members are all between 12-23. My wife and I are both 30. I'm not sure what's going on with younger people, but our zoomers practically abandoned our family. They don't contribute, they don't cook, they don't clean up, they don't aid/help in any way, and they don't have reasoning skills. I've known most of them personally for the last decade or two. I'm aware of all the demons and problems that my older family members have, but it's not like these children are desperately attempting to leave an 'abusive' home or get away from psychopathic/narcissistic parents. These kids 'literally' do not give a flying - F*. They show up, take what people give them, eat their food, and then throw those people away like garbage. The problem is that most of the parents have enabled this behavior for many years. My own sister will text us and tell us how much she would love having us over. I largely found out that her agenda was actually to 'bring us over' so that we could entertain mom, so that she wouldn't have to engage with anybody; plus she's 21 years old. It's truly a state of excessive infantilization! They will lay on the couch with their phones when family arrives and basically ignore them. To this day, my sister tries to guilt trip my wife and I with the 'family' lingo. "Don't leave this family." - "You'll have to explain to your son one day why you don't come around as often." - "This is supposed to be a family vacation time." All of which are one of the reasons that our family fell apart. In my opinion, generation X is one of the largest narcissistic generations in recent American history. Generation Z was completely neglected, raised on smartphones, and they inherited all of the worst traits of their parents. While at the same time having virtually no life experience or ability to get anything done, because their parents used them as an 'apology' tour for Millennials kids. Part of the reason you're seeing everything fall apart is because Generation Z entered the workforce in 2018 (post college graduation).
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  854. I'm a 29 year old man with a home, wife, child, and dog. I am one of those "Great Resignation" followers and could care less about 'maintaining the system' for at least the sake of the modernized world. Of course there are drawbacks to that type of thinking and unintended consequences. I quit my job smack dab in the middle of Covid; June 2020. I was a truck driver making $70k a year; working 6 days a week, 12 hours a day. In January of that year, we were asked to sign a form acknowledging that we would accept 8 days of unpaid vacation per year, instead of 13. Which was initially 20. We had 120 guys at the time and an average of 20 call-offs per day. I bought a home and then quit my job 6 months later. I've since made a great living being a dad and working occasional gig/contract whenever I can find it. The wife also works part time in Healthcare. We are NOT struggling, despite the inflationary insanity. K-12, High School, College, 45 years of work, and then retire and be happy (realistically depressed)? Is that really the meaning of life? To miss out on life with the promise that it will pay off in the last stage? I saw this trap the moment I entered the work-force at 18, but I decided to do the ropes from immense pressure I got from friends and family. I avoided the University trap and worked for FedEx, later Werner Ent; all to my parent's dismay. They were extremely disappointed to learn that I was making a lot of money, living in an apartment, and dating my (now wife). They would have been more proud to have me gobble up 100K of debt and live at home until 40 being a loser. Which is want a substantial amount of Gen X parents do to their children. They live in a world of denial about the changing times and force their 1980s religion onto their kids and ruin their lives over it. The same thing has happened to my younger sister, who will be $130,000 deep in student debt over a Bachelor of Design, smh.
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  928. To be brutally honest, in your situation (online or at Wendys) and I don't mean anything by that. Those are statistically the best places you're going to get what you're looking for regardless of what kind of man you are. Trying to ask out people in person (these days) is more or less just for social rep or experience. They will probably all say no or lure your in for a free dinner. I'm 30, married, and have a son. Apparently I'm really good looking and have been in shape my entire life. You're wasting your time with college girls or trying to date in person. Women ignored me my entire life until I got married and had a child, then they got jealous; that's how it works. Women mate by charisma and resource and then character afterwards; looks and fitness then become bonuses. If you be yourself and show ambition for the future; you'll get really far with most women on that. The tricky part is that women in the modern age are lapsing 18-25 when it comes to serious dating. Culture and technology give them unrealistic standards and bad habits, then they reach 30 and start getting depression and having regrets. So naturally, you'll have a high turnover rate with college chicks. They may humor you at first, but they will assume that you are childish because you don't have a degree and that they will make more than you. Which is ironic, because they typically end up working at Starbucks for 10 years. Take your confidence and ambitions, then go looking for a female with family values. If you date non-maternal women; life will be rough going forward. Find a girl that's about average intelligence, isn't hopped up on pharmaceuticals, calm and steady, and family oriented. The rest should take care of itself
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  1145. Not an incel, but a 28 year old man that's married. Women always puzzled me, especially as a teen. I couldn't get a girlfriend to save my life, couldn't find a prom date, nothing. My first actual date was with a girl a year younger than me when I was 19 years old. Though she had some major anxiety and medical issues, so it didn't exactly work out. I've always been on the athletic side and maintained a 3.3 GPA by the time I graduated HS. Though that never swayed girls when I was younger. It wasn't until my first job at 18, working at a dinner theater did I realize that women took an interest in me; older women specifically 25 to 30. I was sexually assaulted probably 5 or 6 times by various women at my job. I had two grind their rear into my crotch unannounced, I was grabbed, had my rear smacked multiple times, was kiss multiple times, and was sat on too many times to count. All unwarranted. This really threw me off as a late teen because I never understood where this behavior came from until I got older. Mind you, I'm married to a Physician Assistant and I have an AAS that I don't use. Those making money has never been a struggle for me and I'm told I have good looks along with a great physique. On top of that; I cook, clean, sweep, do the laundry etc. It's how I was raised, because my dad and his brother were raised by a single mother. That is where the money is in a relationship. It doesn't matter how much money I ever made, even though I bought us our first house and pay all the bills. It all came down to being a homemaker, while paying bills, staying in shape, and communicating. I realized I was being sexually harassed at my first job because I ran my job as work the same way; with the utmost industriousness and competence. I think it mainly has something to do with birth control and the career orientation that young women are taught. Women realistically don't understand what they actually want until they get older. That's when all the ridiculous fantasies that women have (with men that despise them) fall away. It makes perfect sense. The other interesting find is that in quite a few research surveys. They found that women actively on birth control overwhelmingly prefer men that have significantly slimmer jawlines and builds. Which is typically a sign of genetic dispossession to male infertility, no offense to anyone. Though the same women that went off of birth control and retook the surveys found that they were far more attracted to wider jawed males. Interesting to say the least; it would seem there's a psychological connection at the least. I think a lot of it has to do with levels of testosterone in men and prescription medications in women to a large degree. No woman ever looked at me twice until I turned 18 and the attraction from females became unparalleled after I turned 25. I routinely get called honey, sweetie, love etc. I picked up an order from taco bell this week and the manager called me "eye candy". It's freaking ridiculous at this point. Regardless, I think there's a large correlation with the medications that women are on. As well as the socialization and testosterone that men are having problems with.
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  1202. I'm 29 and have worked in both freight and excavation plumbing. The idea that manufacturing or (blue collar) in general will return to the United States is delusional. Most of these prospects come from very hopeful Gen X and Boomers that have great optimism to see the rust belt and their personal layoffs redeemed is some sort of vicarious fashion. When I got initially got my CDL (which was 5 years ago); I had a class of 15 men. Three of which were from (New York, Ohio - Halliburton, and myself in FedEx). The other 12 members of the class were African green-card visas. The previous class was exclusively (African green-cards). American citizens are NOT attending these schools and they are not applying to these industries. One thing to consider that many people are not paying attention to are demographic problems. Baby Boomers are retiring and newer generations are not footing enough of the bill to maintain the Social Security program. Millennials are 27-43 and Generation Z (the smallest generation) is right behind them with 'zero' equity. Most of both generations have been plagued with ridiculous student loan bills at the direction of their parents. It can be very difficult to convince two generations of college students to entirely switch careers after giving so much prospect into white-collar. On top of that, due to a plethora of government and private sector incentives. A majority of young people are completely unaware that they can enter these fields with little to no overhead cost and begin making middle-class income in many instances. Third, manufacturing in the US is not what it used to be. Job security, benefits, and wages have major pitfalls. This country has places very little value on being a producer and almost ALL of incentives on being a 'service' economy. In most cases, non-necessity services; especially in tech and gig markets. I can't be sure that unionization or lack thereof will be the answer; on top of government regulation. However, I can say, as long as the incentives for (speculation, cheap debt, and service industry 'outsourcing') remain; wage value and equity will decline. The fact that someone earning an 'income' pays (on average) 22% +7.69% FICA, but someone speculating on the market pays 10-15% is insane.
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  1204. Can I ask what being an economist meant in reference to your comment? I'm extremely well versed in economics myself, but your statement was more about media anecdotes if anything. I mean, you claim a colleague of yours got assaults and mugged by an African; there's no a whole lot of information there or confidence in the wording. If what you say is true, then you have my condolences. However, it seemed like low-hanging fruit to loosely attach your self to someone who may or may not have been attacked by an immigrant. Unless you meant something else entirely. I think people are spending way too much time in the fantasy land of social media and less in real life. I've been all over the world and to about 37 states in the US. The problems are the same everywhere. Weak and complacent culture leads to an upheaval in politics and behavior. The worst people I've ever met have always been natural-born citizens without exception. I'm well aware that there are moral/ethical problems in numerous cultures like Somalis or Chinese that make it more difficult to have a positive experience on average. However, in most cases it seems to me that the locals of a given area are unwilling to change, the economic fundamentals start banging on the door, and then they start to complain. Here in America, a lot of culture has been lost. Not because of foreigners or DEI, but because they allowed it to die. They exchanged their friends and family for an iPad and they couldn't be happier doing so. I will never understand how people think they can profit from a global economic system, but get mad because people want to relocate.
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  1358. It's always amusing to listen to people (with no financial experience) talk about why this phenomenon exists. CEO payouts have about as much to do with wages, as cutting Congress salaries have to do with the Social Security deficit. Factors: 1. Artificially low interest rates stimulate profit growth 'margins'. This plays in to the neutral zone of interest rates (depending on how long they are implemented). It's very similar to how household budgets change when you keep interest rates high or low for long periods of time; levels of scarcity change (and with it, culture). Higher incentives for greed, avarice, etc. 2. Federal Funds rate bond yields and inflation; this also plays into low interest rates. Long term inflation produces more credit based profits. Credit based profits are (in a way) 'unrealized gains' as far as the banks are concerned, since the debts have to be paid back over time by the borrower. 3. Loss of Pensions and Benefits; companies have a decreased interest in retaining long term employees and many employees feel the same way. Hiring and pricing algorithms make it incredibly easy for businesses to find out (what they can pay, how long people will stay, and the demographics of their workers). The amount of consumer/employee data is insane. These international companies can usually precisely predict what you're willing to accept for a salary, how many hours you're willing to work, and how many years you will commit to. Granted there is not a black swan event like Covid obviously. 4. Technology and ease of access to the economy and workforce. For example, Door Dash drivers on average work for a period of 3-6 months. As long as there is a consistent flow of available labor pouring into the company; there is no need to raise wages of benefits.
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  1461. Maybe he's just making a neutral statement; I believe I slept about 5 hours in a 4 day time period all the same for my firstborn. What's your point? My wife loved being pregnant and is eager to have our second child. She wants to try another home birth. I mean no offense, but you are speaking from absolute ignorance that has been conjured by the media and healthcare companies that would love nothing more than to bill everybody $60k thru insurance providers for a birth. Doctors are pressured by insurance and administration to take measures that rapidly allow for delivery; regardless of the cost to the mother or the infant. The medical standard that we used to have in this country is a freaking joke. They treat it like an assembly line. Anybody that goes into healthcare either already knows this and leaves or stays long enough to not care. Go ask random healthcare providers if they are ready to leave their job in the next 6 months. The industry is on it's knees because it's a racket. Birth control pills are largely Pharmaceutical greed at it's finest. It's one of the biggest reasons that so many people are employed in healthcare to begin with; to be pill salesmen. Roughly a decade ago, they began trying to lower the age of giving birth control on the merit of reducing acne in teenagers. They could have easily changed their diet or used spironolactone. Birth control medication has a list of negative long term side affects, just to name a few; depression, suicide, high blood pressure, hormone disruption, as well as fertility damage. The number one problem being that it is much more difficult to get pregnant after you have taken birth control long term. In many cases, the women are infertile. The option to risk their health? That comes with the risk of having sex period; a litany of sexually transmitted diseases. Women nowadays are probably the most ignorant about their anatomy and psychology than they have ever been in history. They are not taught how to track their cycles, they are not taught how to use temperature as a method for fertility, they are not taught about periods of mucosa, nor are they taught about the highs/low of progesteron. It's all intentional and that's the way these pill companies want it. Gotta make money off the ignorance of the masses. Corporate lobbyists run this nation and it's amazing how most of the country still hasn't figured that out.
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  1516. I admire Chip and other representatives attempting to fight this issue, but believe me; there is nothing of God's green earth that is going to solve the debt crisis. Even if you taxed Americans at 100% (all income and all capital gains). It would take some 100 years to settle the debt and interest of all unfunded liabilities under the US Government. It's NEVER going to happen, period! It's not linear; it's exponential. Boomers didn't want to talk about Social Security 30 years ago and NOW we are going to pay for it! Not only with our livelihoods, but the livelihoods of our children, and our grandchildren. I truly think that some 99% of Americans are completely ignorant of the situation we are in. Demographics changed; you didn't have enough kids. Nobody apparently did (in all first world countries). Why is another question, but the repercussions are inevitable. We have a shrinking labor force and a growing number of retirees. So what is supposed to happen as demographics shift, Social Security liability goes UP, interest continues to grow, and wages continue to sink below the rate of inflation? That's a brilliant question! You know what happens? We all become dirt poor and can't afford anything. The refusal to talk about Social Security and other entitlements is going to inevitably get them taken away completely. You'll see a Government shutdown that will last YEARS and not even be able to fulfill Social Security auto-pilot payments. Even if they did, the annual inflation would eat it alive. There's a reason why corporations are moving all their assets and business overseas. Who on earth wants to have assets remaining in a continent experiencing a long term depression? America's future is a bunch of elderly people dying in the streets and only a handful of young people trying to scrape by to survive.
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  1521. I've been talking about this to friends and family for years and it all falls on deaf ears. It's not evidence enough that my son (born several months ago) is the first child in my entire family born in the last 9 years. In a family of roughly 75 close blood-line members; we have an infant, a 9 year old, an 11 year old, and a 17 year old. Everybody else is between 23 and 73. Btw, at the age of 29; I am the ONLY married person and the ONLY one with a child. My own parents continues to badger Generation Z for (not picking up the slack and working) to better the economy and the labor shortages. Newsflash, who retired from the largest positions of competence and prestige in the last 3 years during the Covid fiasco? Because it wasn't young people. Those 7 Millions Americans you see in the headlines "not working" as almost exclusively people between the ages of 45 and 60 that retired early or called it quits due to lockdowns, vaccines, work strain, or even a cultural wakeup call. The idea that a bunch of 20-25 year olds are the reason that the labor force is empty is foolish. Many of those people haven't even left school, let alone found their first job. Look at the age statistics for each industry! Even Drivers for Door-Dash have an average age of 49. The priority jobs in the economy: electrician, plumber, truck driver, Doctor, Nurse, Firefighter, Police officer, etc. Are all held by the competency of middle aged Americans. This problem was a LONG time coming and I find it quite embarrassing that Americans haven't realized that (not having any children) has resulted in a societal collapse.
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  1654. I really admire your efforts, but I think you are creating too big of a goal. This kind of behavior is deeply rooted in childhood development between 2-5. It's almost impossible to change, unless the child undergoes willful growth, self-reflection, and therapy to a certain extent. My sister (21 years old) is an absolute user and manipulator. This is because my mother was an NPD as we grew up and made her the golden-child, while everything was blamed on me. She learned that the only way to be loved is thru financial offerings. I have always budded heads with my mother, but my sister learned how to get want she wanted AND appease her at the same time. So now, she has become a full blown narcissist that uses people to get what she wants; then throws them in the trash. I spent YEARS trying to correct her behavior and become a beacon of positivity in her life and growth. It all went to waste when she began using me when I offered to spend time with her and help her with school and her endeavors. The moment I told her 'no' when she wanted something; she ghosted me. My wife and I cut back on Christmas this year due to inflation and my sister made a big fuss about it. Both my mom and sister jumped on the 'you don't care about family' train when we opted not to receive gifts or give them a few months ago. Win your battles when you can, but don't waste your life attempting the impossible. My dad wasted his entire life being married to my mother (abused and belittled) for everything he ever did. Thankfully, he's contemplating divorce so that he can finally live his life and not have my mom suck his pension dry. Unfortunately, as he falls out with mom; he's falling into my sister's trap now. She fully expects him to take care of her indefinitely thru college and pay off her bills. The moment he does; she'll ghost him out of her life as well.
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  1739. Unpopular opinion here, but if your politicians are getting worse; I'd bet your culture is too. In the Midwest, the political behavior in elected positions seems very reflective of the attitude that most people have. I get the door dropped in my face half the time, a significant amount of people don't even say "please" or "thank you", not to mention the driving has become erratic to say the least. People give each other dirty looks for pushing any direction even close to them at the grocery store. Many of them can't take a moments peace to put their phone away. People completely ignore customers at the front desk REGARDLESS of restaurant or fast food joint. Mind you, this is all of Ohio. It's also all of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and many metropolitan areas of the southern United States. We have a serious cultural problem in this country and I think it's time we acknowledge it in order to fix a much bigger problem. Prescription meds; whether they are Statins, Zoloft, or Xanax are getting thrown out like Halloween candy. People simply can't take it I presume; they walk out into traffic as if they wanted to die. I can't be the only person that has noticed such volatile behavior in the last 6 to 12 months. I mean, we have patients that walk into the office (that we know) and are genuinely nice people. Only to be screamed and cursed at when their surgery date has to be moved two days. Whether it's the fuel-grocery prices, vaccines, social media, or something else; there is seriously something wrong with people nowadays. It's like everybody is nice and gentle; until you inconvenience them for 5 seconds and they are ready to rip your throat out at a moments notice.
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  1800. I think this is much more of a (secular vs religion) kind of problem. Not globalism vs nationalism exactly. These people are conditioned as children to accept these RIDICULOUS beliefs in martyrdom and glory for the honor of Allah. Obviously Christians aren't as bad, but the methodology is similar. Sociopaths and gullible cult members train their children to believe they will face eternal hellfire if they don't accept Jesus Christ as the Lord and savior. Some churches are not strict about this, Catholics are much less strict, but many protestant churches are indeed. It distorts the child's ability to form empathy and grow to be a productive and critically thinking adult. Going through life like a drone and doing what is expected of you isn't a successfully raised child. Many people claim (I worked hard and I turned out fine). Yes, because these people largely operate under the thumb of a narcissists expectations and they are kept in line with that childhood conditioning. Thankfully Christian churches don't teach glory and martyrdom because we'd have idiots blowing themselves up here too. Organized religion in general needs to go away. I guarantee that if you labeled Christianity as "Christian mythology" in any textbook. The number of people that self-identify with the religion would drop 90% over the next 30 years alone. Islam needs to have the same thing done. Religion cannot co-exist with secular society and governments. As long as it does, it will always be attempting to regain control and subjugate the population to it's religious will.
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  2036. I've been waiting for someone to do a realistic take on this. People are completely out of touch if they think Trump is going to win in some landslide. I would humor the possibility of a Ross Perot situation with Robert F. Kennedy. However, people need to pay attention to the voter turnout and demographics. Democrats took the Ohio 2023 General Election by storm several months ago. Republicans were nowhere to be seen and rural voter turnout was in the garbage. Republicans made a huge mistake by campaigning on (anti-wokism, anti-trans, library books, and Disney). Nobody cares about these issues when they are struggling to pay the bills and worrying about escalating conflicts overseas. Personally, I am worried about wages, bills, and avoiding another war. What exactly have the Republicans offered to reassure voters like myself on these issues? They also continue to crush the Congressional attempts to raise the Child Tax Credit. They have offered to raise it, under the promise that Democrats will support a series of corporate tax deductions; primarily 'research and development'. Which is a major gateway to tax fraud and laundering anything under the sun off the books. Seeing as Trump appointed Jerome Powell and pressured the Federal Reserve to drop the interest rates into negative territory; he OWNS the inflationary mess that we're in, period! PPP loans were also a complete mess and instigated one of the largest frauds in American history as businesses stole their employee wages thru loopholes in the forgiveness program. Now those jobs are constantly being reposted to continue getting forgiveness while laid off/fired employees can't afford to take those jobs anymore.
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  2151. Average people assume that ridiculous prices must equate to a ridiculous bubble; therefore it must crash! Unfortunately, most people forget the rules of supply and demand when it matters most. Look at the M2-US Dollar supply; it's around 40% since since 2020. Which justifies the prices in the larger economy for food and energy. At the same time, it largely reflects the housing market in the same time period. If anything, real-estate is undervalued. The only reason why it's not still going up is due to high interest rates that force both seller and buyer to sit idle until the proper moment. For people that were hopeful, I'm sorry to burst your bubble; there's not going to be a housing market crash. At least not for the foreseeable 2-3 years. Foreclosures are at a 20 year low! It took foreclosures nearly 3 years in order for the housing bubble of 2008 to pop. What's going to end up happening is another real-estate boom in the 2024 markets. Government policy is going to end up causing a recession and/or market slide in Q2-Q4 of 2023. After that, unemployment will rise and the FEDs will be forced to lower interest rates again and begin quantitative easing in order to save the markets; it's mandated by law actually. This will send all commodities upwards again, as well as the housing market. People need to be looking out for a potential 'interest rate dip' before the end of the year. If you aren't planning to buy a house then; you will ultimately lose your chance. Housing prices are NOT coming back down and the market is NOT over-priced.
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  2162. I caution anyone; Healthcare professional or not to tread lightly when it comes to accepting information from the FDA or the AHA. Dig just a little and you will find that most of their approvals and recommendations are based on absolute garbage. The easiest example being saturated fat and cholesterol. Ask the average person and they will say cholesterol is bad. Ask the average Healthcare worker and they will say LDL cholesterol is bad. This is only feasible if you buy into the lipid theory, for which there is no sound scientific evidence for. Only poor correlations like everything else. Cholesterol is a lipoprotein that carries lipid around your bloodstream to be used as a source of energy. Your brain functions almost entirely on Keytones and your body produces a quarter of need cholesterol naturally. What you will find is that plaque in the arteries are deposits of calcium, caused by oxidized lipids in the bloodstream. This is only possible if your lipids are glycosylated or the fats you are ingesting have a naturally oxidizing effect on the arterial walls. This would be your poly and trans fats stemming from Omega 6 linoleic oils: all your vegetable and seed oils. Saturated fat is in the exact same boat, which Axel Keys began theorizing in the early 20th century. Only narcissism and pride produce such results. He theorized that saturated fat was the source of heart disease and he was intent on proving it, whether or not it was the truth was irrelevant. To this day, there is not a shred of credible evidence or clinical research data that proves saturated fat is causing any negative effects to human health. One you take the red pill you will go down the rabbit hole. It's a wild ride, but once you start to notice to inconsistencies, you can unplug yourself from the sick game that Pharmaceutical companies and Governments play.
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  2181. Ukraine has been the US Government money laundering capitol and Russia buffer since 2014. We helped orchestrate the overthrow of the sitting administration and replaced it during their civil war 9 years ago. The US Government doesn't want to lose this war because it would be devastating for several reasons. One, Russian influence and power grows and Ukraine is reestablished as a sovereign nation state with an elected Government. Two, we have fewer people to bully in order to escape the possibility of a debt default in the next 10 years. Three, US intelligence loses a significant source of it's international power. China is still the next big threat to the US Government. Politicians are simply buying 'time' in order to meander the narrative so that the US will side with their next moves. We already crippled their semi-conductor industry back in October. The Commerce Dept. wrote a re-licensure requirement for nearly all high-end SC products. So no more labor, imports, or exports for those items. The next step in China invading Taiwan. The US Government is INTENTIONALLY causing their problems in order to bully itself out of a currency crisis. The US public budget is at 8% interest; 71% is mandatory spending. What happens when it's 20% or 50%; every dollar you pay will have 50 cents going to pay interest on our printing 'bonds'. The world stage will NOT accept bonds at this rate and the Government knows it. Brewing economic catastrophes are always the cause military turmoil at this size.
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  2703. I am 29, married, own a home, have a child, and have an Associate's Degree that I never used. The educational system is attempting to keep up with the volume of students that are falling behind. Parent are not being much help either because of the large disconnect between parent and child these days; probably from digital media and screen time. So naturally, the standards are being dropped across the board. Which is why it appears that anybody can get a college degree these days. I've seen teacher and after teacher pass students that are absolutely flunking in their courses. My sister (bless her heart) is 20 years old and was accepted to an Interior Design program her second year at a University. Believe it or not, her reading, writing, and vocabulary are at a 7th grade level. She went through rigorous student aid and tutoring until around 2013 when school districts began to overhaul their grade and homework systems. All of a sudden (with no effort) she went from receiving Cs to receiving As and Bs in all her classes throughout high school. Her research papers were full of grammatical errors, sentence structure problems, and simply not following instructions. It got to the point where she stopped correcting herself and quit taking any of it seriously. She still turned in 3 of those research papers in the ladder years of High School and received an A and 2 B's for that work; research papers that would have earned me a D- at best when I was in school. She failed 3 of the 8 criteria for entering her Interior Design program. Being absent two prerequisite courses AND a late submission past their applicant due date. They told my parents that their program was intensely competitive. Yet, she was accepted at the last minute regardless with no questions asked (on the first try). It got to the point where my own father, as well as my wife became concerned that my sister was being accepted into an atmosphere and program that would be doing her a disservice due to her SAT scores. On one half, I'm happy that she's made it this far. However, on the other, I am paranoid that these teachers passing her along are doing her a major disservice. She might get to the finish line and part of the way through and be completely broken by the reality that awaits her in the job market.
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  3121.  @Dinosaursof  I'm not trying to demean your experience, but there are several glaring holes in your statements. Your mortgage went up $250 last year because of equity? That doesn't make any sense. It sounds like you have a 5/1 variable rate loan. Unless you mean your property taxes and insurance are escrowed into mortgage? If that was the case, you'd be making the claim that your insurance and property taxes went up roughly $4200 since 2023? Which means you probably live way above your means or in a very high demand area with high risk (like coastal Florida?) Second, what do you mean by (high risk pregnancy?) My wife and I have gone thru two ectopic pregnancies and a surgery to remove her fallopian tube. None of that require expensive visits to the hospital. Unless there is some kind of rare situation that required you seeing an OBGYN twice a week? What are they doing that warrants such cost or time? You can pay places like Ultrasona $125 to do a full ultrasound and MD review of your pregnancy without going into a hospital. That's how we found out she had a ectopic pregnancy at 6 weeks. The rest was done at the hospital in a day. I assume you meant, your dad lost 'his' house. So he defaulted on the mortgage? How did that happen in a sellers market since 2020 and why did you take on the responsibility of buying him a new home while you're about to be a father yourself? If it was from a disaster or fire; did insurance not cover it? Again, I'm not trying to rude, but your story just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
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  3260. The irony of your comment is a perfect example of what I just addressed. I'm not saying woke (bs) is acceptable, but people like you pulled your kid after watching a single segment of Fox News. Go take a look at the educational metrics/stats for homeschooled children in the US the last several years. A whopping majority of those kids are falling behind on basic mathematics, reading, and writing, period! That doesn't mean children in public schools are doing better. It means that the parents aren't actually doing what they're supposed to. Parents care more about getting politically irritated than actually caring about how it might potentially affect their children. In the last several years, we saw mobs of parents (that never attended a 'parent teacher conference', answered emails, or showed up at schooled to address failing grades in their entire adult lives. But low and behold, have Fox News throw up a few stories about indoctrination and these same parents show up at their local school with 'death threats' and political signs. You people are being played. Last time I checked; FOX News IS mainstream media. I can't tell you how many crazy conservative parents we having sending death threats and angry political ranting voicemails to educators in our district. All over something they saw on Fox News. They cherry pick looney teachers from all over the country and convince viewers that it's happening in their local school. Do any of you actually realize how ridiculous it sounds for teachers to be systemically indoctrinating your child? (making $40k a year - over-worked, underpaid, and dealing with assault and harassment on a daily basis?) People don't even realize that this is one of 'many' issues that will break the Republican Party.
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  3787. Women are probably the most consequential victims in the greater scheme of society and much of it was started with feminists. For the first time in human history, men have choice picks over women. A woman is most fertile at the age of 18 to 21 generally speaking, but this is not when women are having children. What women have actually been doing is foregoing the family unit to pursue their careers largely do to peer and parental pressure. By the time the woman is 30, her clock starts ticking and he brain screams "husband and children." Unfortunately, by that time it's far too late for many. A women will generally enter the dating market by starting to date men their own age and five years older. They soon realize that the only men still looking for a woman to bear children with largely don't exist. The family oriented men were married off almost a decade prior and the only men still circulating in the dating pool are largely men that want nothing to do with getting married and having kids. They just want a booty call when it's convenient, which could explain the astronomical divorce rate. I don't think women realize that they are not a part of a new, free, and fair system. If anything they are slaves to a pathological culture. I also have a high suspicion that the early feminists movements were not interested in freeing women, but more or less enslaving them. Look at who the founders were. Unmarried, unattractive, and childless females. Could it be that these women chose to manipulate other women into throwing out marriage and children, simply because they weren't able to do so themselves? Misery loves company...
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  4078. I don't think people realize how important 2020 was when considering these economic factors. Somewhere between 45-55% of all small business 'nationally' was permanently wiped out. PPP loans bailed out medium and large cap businesses primarily. With a heavy weight of employment being supported by larger tier businesses; this gives them extremely leverage to reshape hiring standard and wages. Especially when there is little competition on the small end. Wages and prices all depend on competition in order to maintain a healthy and balanced economy. Government being used by larger cap businesses as a service for gate-keeping makes it significantly worse. So now you have all of these price bubbles all over the market with older generations maintaining equity with low debt and people under 40 having excessive debt and no equity. The 2020 bailout was probably the worst thing that could have possibly happened in any economic scenario outside of hyperinflation. They have effectively created a feudal state where prices have no incentive to budget because 20% of the population maintains equity in these markets, while the other 80% are debt slaves. The worst part is, a recession would only further impoverish the bottom 80% and the top 20% wouldn't really be affected. So literally NOTHING can be done in order to alleviate people. Considering that high inflation is very likely within the near future, the desperation will only grow for Millennials and Gen X as they are price locked by the equities of Boomers.
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  4103. I've been a conservative and voted Republican a great majority of my life. That being said, Republican voters are growing massively complacent in politics these days. They think that inflation under Biden's presidency is going to undermine the Democrat's ability to maintain the Presidency or the Senate. Trump's support has been on the downturn ever since 2020 and Republican turnout is decreasing at the ballot boxes. We saw this during Midterms and the special elections of 2023. Republicans are not showing up. The uncomfortable truth is that Trump and Biden have played a massive role in inflation and economic downturn. Republicans need to remember that he appointed Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve and threatened Powell with his job if he didn't take interest rates as low as he did. This is the real reason for most of the inflation. That's what happens when you give everybody 1% mortgage rates and 0% auto loans; prices and demand run out of control. Everyone is tired of hearing about Donald Trump and they are tired of the volatility in politics. Whether or not it's the right thing for the nation is irrelevant. Republicans are deluding themselves with an overblown sense of support for MAGA politics; it just isn't there. Do not be surprised when Democrats control both houses and the presidency in 2024. I can almost guarantee you that they will win Texas as well in the electoral vote. You need to pay more attention to voter turnout numbers; it's going to be the death of Republicans for the foreseeable future. Millions of registered GOP voters are embarrassed by the last 3 years.
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  4257.  @halfnorfolk5310  Bud, I'm going to tell you right now. I've shot like 10,000 cops in GTA 5 and I'm perfectly normal. That was when I was a middle-teen. The problem with these kids is that their parents neglect them and don't raise them. Even the middle class kids are exhibiting anti-social behaviors. Probably from parental neglect and excessive screen time in early childhood development. From what I've gathered, iPad kids are very susceptible to having an under-developed neutral pathway for empathy and kindness. Clinical psychopathy also saw a large increase in younger generation samples. Turns out that when you ignore/yell at your child, have no relationship with them, and give them untethered access to technology since the age of 12 month. They tend to be rather dysfunctional. I never got to indulge in any kind of video games or phone until I was 14 years old. Believe me, I have a younger sister that got fully exposed to it at 8 years old and she exhibits anti-social behaviors. Overt narcissism, no empathy, and problematic social behaviors like telling people to 'shut up' or 'using her hands to animate her disapproval with people', not to mention stealing, and her disgust with little children; she's 21 btw. The kids that were exposed around 1-3 are on a whole different level of psychotic and dysfunctional. We have people in my own family (teenagers) that give me 'school-shooter' vibes due to inappropriate and bizarre behavior. It really scares me and my wife. This isn't about (education, learning, or even moral compass). These kids LITERALLY do not have the same brain-function that you and I do. The future is going to be rife with mental illness; it kind of already is.
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  4546. Well, all of this comes down to the tech industry, mixed with the USD as the reserve currency. US interests lie in Taiwan primarily for semi-conductors; Nvida, Taiwan Semi, Qualcomm, etc. Proxy wars have been raging between the Dept. of Commerce and China for quite some time. However, recently the US began banning high-end semi-conductor exports/imports between the Chinese and US. It's been crippling their industry since October 7th of 2022. So the Chinese will now become more reliant on Taiwan and the US to fund their tech advancements. This puts China at a major disadvantage to be a tech competitor and is most likely going to be looked back upon as the primary precursor to war. Similar to the US oil embargos placed on Japan before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. On top of that, all global nations know that the US cannot continue to guarantee it's public debts; the US included. So, at the same time, US officials are most likely going to use any military conflict to absorb their debt obligations and possibly make other nations pay for them. This is largely what is happening in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Ukraine is massively indebted to a series of long-term funding contracts between them and the United States; as are Germany, France, Poland, etc. The USD is at stake of being demounted and not replaced. All nations of the world know this! The US will eventually have to go into hyperinflation or a series of global/military involved agreements to alleviate the debt. It's all a game of "I'm getting desperate, so pay for my stuff!"
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  5045.  @justaguy6100  Actually, that's false. True that SS is supposedly it's own fund, but the proceeds are put into the general fund so they can be converted into t-bonds for interest collection. This is why people have endlessly complained that SS has been used for other means; though Congress and the CBO office have denied it. The SS liabilities are more or less their own designated appropriation and must be paid out. As far as widening the gap vs cutting it. I don't see any evidence (other than circumstantial) when it comes down to the parties. From a historical perspective, stocks and economies have done better under Democratic Presidents for the last 50 odd years; though that omits quite a lot of factors at the same time. People can say what they want about tax cuts, but no deficit resulted from them; if that's what you mean. In the case of Covid spending (roughly $6T) over 24 months. You had mass inflation in every area of the economy, including your auto-pilot programs. If Social Security, Medicare, and Pensions are going to be inflated at a rate higher than businesses can push up wages and generate tax revenue with it (then naturally this creates a higher deficit). This is particularly why those programs can't maintain a surplus of funds; they're dwindling. As far as the economy being robust. I don't see it. Our top exports are oil and tech/aerospace patents. Sure, there's a lot of ways to make money, but not in a domestic sense. Consumers rely so heavily on imports. Wait till Trump puts up his tariffs and people will realize how vulnerable the US economy is.
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  5300. Well, timing can be very deceiving for most people. If your life got better after going to church; people tend to correlate that to miracles and divine intervention. When in reality is was their own deeds and change in perception that transformed their ailments and string of seemingly bad luck. People do the same thing when Presidents are in office. My job and the economy were good under Trump; so he must have been good. My job and the economy sucked under Biden; so he must have been bad. Most people jump to these conclusions without digging deeper into why. The lag effect can truly distort people's perceptions of reality. For example, no matter what someone's opinion is. Some 75%+ of the inflationary spending that we are now experiencing in the economy; happened under the Trump administration. People can blame Biden for inflation all they want. It doesn't change the fact that most of those consequences had nothing to do with his policies or Presidency. In my life experience, Reaganomics works until it doesn't. The same economic fallout happens every single time it is implemented. If you have the FED performed gargantuan amounts of QE, mixed with lower taxes, and low interest loans. It stimulates productivity and business creation, but rarely is the train stopped when the productivity plateaus. This creates a bubble where loans continue to be taken by individuals and businesses while real-growth has stalled. This leads to the demand curve continuing to go up while the supply curve stagnates. Complications from Covid and PPP loans only made this worse. I also suspect that Trump had a deal with the Board of Governors to slash interest rates in Autumn 2019 (as he historically did) so that the markets would get pumped up before his re-election. This interest slash was crucial in what drove inflation to insanity 2021/2022.
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  5670.  @ko-Daegu  No, I take ibuprofen and expectorants etc. There's a huge difference between patented items like Lipitor and open source anti-inflammatory drugs. The key is reading the clinical research trials. Some 90% of them are crap with a 1% efficacy and/or negative risks. For example, Lipitor significantly raises your risk of coronary artery disease, stroke, and kidney failure. It is listed as a 37% efficacy, though it's absolute efficacy is 1.7% in it's clinical trial research. The company then takes that number and divides it against the initial control group to get a larger percentage. Almost all Pharmaceutical companies do this to get their product sold and FDA approved. Vioxx by Pfizer was approved by the FDA, then it ended up killing 27,000 people before they yanked it off the shelf and lost a civil lawsuit paying $1.1 Billion in damages. It's all about trends. Once these companies are exposed publicly, they'll eat each other and come out with a new product to right the wrongs. It's a giant circle jerk. The current trend is still (lower your cholesterol). They put people on Statins typically at age 45-50 and those people will most likely have a bypass by 60 and dead within a few years after. Artificially lowering your cholesterol can make you very suspectable to infection and vitamin D deficiency. Since they go hand in hand in your bio-chemistry. The morbid part, is that when those people end up in the hospital, they blame it on bad genetics. Our healthcare system is fucked up.
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  5989. Anti-Semitism in Russia is as old as the Russian people themselves. Fun fact, but one of the reasons that the Bolsheviks took over Russia was due to a large swathe of US and British bankers had enough of the pogroms (Jewish lynching's) in Russia. They withdrew all financial support for the Tsar and instigated civil unrest by funding radical organizations to overthrow the Romanovs. Jews in general tend to perform excessively well wherever they live; family, wealth, communal planning etc. Unknown to most people, but already proven in Charles Murray's book Bell Curve; Ashkenazi Jews tend to have an IQ that is a standard deviation higher than most other races. East Asians on par with Ashkenazi Jews as well. That doesn't means all Jews are smart. It simply means that (generally speaking) a building with 100 Jews is collectively smarter than a building with 100 random Caucasians, etc. Whenever economic upheaval takes places; anti-Semitism grows linear with it. This has always been the result and it breeds ignorant ideas like a Jewish conspiracy, Nazism, etc. Anti-Semitism being the result of the Israel-Hamas war or Ukrainian conflict is a misnomer. Anti-Semitism has been on a steep incline since 2020. Right on time with the next economic crisis! In older times, when a village fell ill or famine struck. Jewish families were able to largely persevere due to their cultural practices and planning with resources. When the villagers found out that everybody would be suffering except the Jewish families; it would breed contempt and conspiracies. To this day; nothing has changed.
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