Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

HHS Poverty Guidelines for 2025

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 The current average Social Security check is $1,999.97, minus $185 for the Medicare premium, equals $1,814.97 monthly, times 12 equals $21,...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Real Clear Politics puts up a discussion between two billionaires 43% of whose business is government contracts demanding that government bureaucrats be prosecuted for fraud

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The chutzpah of these parasites is really something, but Real Clear should be ashamed for promoting it. The billionaires complain that expen...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Speaking of the dearth of proportional thinking, today is April 15th, when the tax code obscures the fact that the cost of government is about 24%

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It shouldn't be this hard, or this costly, to pay taxes. My TurboTax bill this year came to $278, and my time came to about nine hours c...
Monday, April 7, 2025

Trump's biggest tariff, 50%, was on tiny landlocked poverty-stricken Lesotho inside South Africa, over a minuscule trade imbalance of $234.5 MILLION in 2024, which is under a treaty for godsakes

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  Lesotho's exports to the US in 2024 were valued at $237.3 MILLION lol. Trump now wants 50% of that. King George III, who also was nuts...
Friday, February 7, 2025

USAID was not just great in the opinion of the old Marco Rubio, both Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump thought so too, deploying millions of its dollars for their pet projects under Trump I lololol

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  A bunch of phony baloney plastic banana good time rock 'n rollas, but I repeat myself.   Melania and Ivanka's close ties to USAID ...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

I thought he loved the poorly educated

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  Trump administration demands lists of low-performing federal workers    
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

One nutball era ends, another begins, Wednesday edition

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  Trump says U.S. will ‘take over’ Gaza to develop it, and Palestinians should leave   ‘Deranged’ and ‘problematic’: Bipartisan lawmakers ba...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Like Pete Hegseth, the early Americans were strong boozers

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  "ED: What’s one thing you wish everyone knew about American history? "SY:  I first came across W. J. Rorabaugh’s  Alcoholic ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Kamala Harris is going to spread joy and poverty like Barack Obama spread happiness and poverty

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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

NeverTrump J. D. Vance in 2016 was a small sea of confusion whose options were his dog, Hillary, and Evan McMuffinhead lol

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  VANCE: My current plan is to vote either third party or, as I joked to my wife, I might write in my dog because that's about as good ...

J. D. Vance is the kinder, gentler version of National Review's Kevin Williamson about the hopelessness of his own people

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                                            The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economi...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

The tyranny keeping half the people poor decade upon decade: Don't spend the extra inflation-adjusted $30 all in one place kiddos

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

As much as I sympathize with this guy's tale of Obamacare woe, his timeline is pure fantasy

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 The story is here : My insurance was $185/month with a $1,000 deductible. That was for a family of 5. So I voted for Obama-Biden in 2008 b...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Those poor, poor people

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  Palestinians Describe Beatings, Stress Positions, Other Abuses in Israeli Detention...  
Friday, November 10, 2023

The poor dears: Survey of millionaires says a third feel only middle class

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  Same as it ever was.             From the story : Even among millionaires, only 8% would characterize themselves as wealthy these days. R...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Tenure track Economics professor shocked to find out that corrupt college administrators have been improving poor grades FOR DECADES without telling the professors

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  But for an administrator to then change those final grades—behind my back—simply to appease them? How could that possibly be justified? ...
Monday, October 2, 2023

Congressional Black Caucasians most hurt

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Newsom selects EMILY'S LIST leader to fill Feinstein Senate seat...       The Congressional Black Caucus had   urged   Newsom to appoint...
Friday, May 5, 2023

World Health Organization declares global public health emergency over today, a week ahead of the US

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WHO declares end to Covid-19 global public health emergency The spread of Covid-19 is no longer a global public health emergency, the World ...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Now your garden is evil: Privileged Swedish communists from Uppsala University say elites' use of water must be altered and redistributed to the poor

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  What a shock, right? From the story "From swimming pools to gardening, the rich’s privileged lifestyles are driving urban water cris...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

The poor retailers

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  Shrinking food stamp benefits for families mean yet another challenge for retailers