The Nation's Financial Condition

[youthathletics]

AOC got one right....well done: https://news.yahoo.com/ocasio-cortez-on ... 45811.html

[PizzaSnake]

AOC got one right....well done: https://news.yahoo.com/ocasio-cortez-on ... 45811.html

Well, there's hope for all of the blind squirrels. Keep looking.

[Brooklyn]

33.8m jobs - 16 years of Clinton, Obama

10.5m jobs - 22 months of Biden

1.9m jobs - 16 years of Bush, Bush and Trump

Biden's 10 jobs is 5 times as many jobs as were created in the 16 years of the last 3 Republican Presidencies, combined.



https://www.ndn.org/biden-more-jobs-than-GOP



Such a shame that the anti-USA right wingers hate America as much as they do. Democrats always create far more jobs because they are smarter, more patriotic, and adhere to the principles of our Founding Fathers unlike the cultish Repukeblicons.

[youthathletics]

Brooklyn, I love you man, but that is such a BS stat without an asterisk. Everything is settling back to the mean.

Maybe you have been eating too much butter...from your comments on the food thread.

[Typical Lax Dad]

Brooklyn, I love you man, but that is such a BS stat without an asterisk. Everything is settling back to the mean.

Maybe you have been eating too much butter...from your comments on the food thread.

[cradleandshoot]

I enjoyed reading Rand Pauls Festivus report for 2022. I think 20 billion to encourage tourism in Tunisia is money well spent. Do they have all inclusive resorts there?

475 billion dollars just in interest on the debt. Don't worry, be happy.

[Typical Lax Dad]

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/nickel-a ... d/summary/

Good book. A few years old but still worth the read.

[Andersen]

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/nickel-a ... d/summary/

Good book. A few years old but still worth the read.

Yes, indeed, it's insightful. If you get a chance, watch Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days on Minimum Wage", changed my perception about a couple of things, e.g. tipping at a coffee shop and the value of thrift stores to the working poor.

[Typical Lax Dad]

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/nickel-a ... d/summary/

Good book. A few years old but still worth the read.

Yes, indeed, it's insightful. If you get a chance, watch Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days on Minimum Wage", changed my perception about a couple of things, e.g. tipping at a coffee shop and the value of thrift stores to the working poor.

Thanks. Will look for it. Saw a news piece today that 24% of military families are food insecure. Also, most food pantry recipients work.

[a fan]

Saw a news piece today that 24% of military families are food insecure.

F'ing awesome news. We're doing a great job. Hey---who's up for another tax cut?! Hooray!!

[Typical Lax Dad]

Saw a news piece today that 24% of military families are food insecure.

F'ing awesome news. We're doing a great job. Hey---who's up for another tax cut?! Hooray!!

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-b ... nger-facts

"For many active-duty military members, hunger is a reality. As many as 24% of active-duty service members and their families experience food insecurity in the United States.

That group includes people like Sgt. Edgar, who returned from a yearlong deployment in the Army. He couldn’t afford a holiday meal for his family, so he visited a food pantry near his home in Virginia."'

The money hasn't trickled down yet.... more has to trickle up first.

[Typical Lax Dad]

Bye terrible unions….a worker doesn’t need a union to tell them what to think. Self determination!

[PizzaSnake]

Saw a news piece today that 24% of military families are food insecure.

F'ing awesome news. We're doing a great job. Hey---who's up for another tax cut?! Hooray!!

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-b ... nger-facts

"For many active-duty military members, hunger is a reality. As many as 24% of active-duty service members and their families experience food insecurity in the United States.

That group includes people like Sgt. Edgar, who returned from a yearlong deployment in the Army. He couldn’t afford a holiday meal for his family, so he visited a food pantry near his home in Virginia."'

The money hasn't trickled down yet.... more has to trickle up first.

[NattyBohChamps04]

Saw a news piece today that 24% of military families are food insecure.

F'ing awesome news. We're doing a great job. Hey---who's up for another tax cut?! Hooray!!

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-b ... nger-facts

"For many active-duty military members, hunger is a reality. As many as 24% of active-duty service members and their families experience food insecurity in the United States.

That group includes people like Sgt. Edgar, who returned from a yearlong deployment in the Army. He couldn’t afford a holiday meal for his family, so he visited a food pantry near his home in Virginia."'

The money hasn't trickled down yet.... more has to trickle up first.

Our civic league adopts a few military families each Thanksgiving and Christmas who need help. Most live on base. It's wild.

[Typical Lax Dad]

Saw a news piece today that 24% of military families are food insecure.

F'ing awesome news. We're doing a great job. Hey---who's up for another tax cut?! Hooray!!

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-b ... nger-facts

"For many active-duty military members, hunger is a reality. As many as 24% of active-duty service members and their families experience food insecurity in the United States.

That group includes people like Sgt. Edgar, who returned from a yearlong deployment in the Army. He couldn’t afford a holiday meal for his family, so he visited a food pantry near his home in Virginia."'

The money hasn't trickled down yet.... more has to trickle up first.

Our civic league adopts a few military families each Thanksgiving and Christmas who need help. Most live on base. It's wild.

We support a local pantry. It’s amazing who utilizes a pantry….these are people that go to work everyday.

[a fan]

Saw a news piece today that 24% of military families are food insecure.

F'ing awesome news. We're doing a great job. Hey---who's up for another tax cut?! Hooray!!

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-b ... nger-facts

"For many active-duty military members, hunger is a reality. As many as 24% of active-duty service members and their families experience food insecurity in the United States.

That group includes people like Sgt. Edgar, who returned from a yearlong deployment in the Army. He couldn’t afford a holiday meal for his family, so he visited a food pantry near his home in Virginia."'

The money hasn't trickled down yet.... more has to trickle up first.

Our civic league adopts a few military families each Thanksgiving and Christmas who need help. Most live on base. It's wild.

We support a local pantry. It’s amazing who utilizes a pantry….these are people that go to work everyday.

How the F can you show up every day in Congress, and pretend you don't know this is happening?

How far we have fallen that we can't feed our own )#*$#ing soldiers? And it ain't because we don't have the money. Anyone see the bill that was just passed? Maybe, oh, I don't know, we need to move all soldiers salaries up to get them in line with the cost of living?

We're a nation run by sociopaths. Best soldiers in the world, and we're INTENTIONALLY paying them so little that they can't freaking feed their own families? Gee, how come enlistment is down?

Awesome. Way to go, team. F the military families, right? After all, they can't make donations to these politicians, right? So F them, and the horse they can't afford, let alone ride in on......

[Typical Lax Dad]

Saw a news piece today that 24% of military families are food insecure.

F'ing awesome news. We're doing a great job. Hey---who's up for another tax cut?! Hooray!!

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-b ... nger-facts

"For many active-duty military members, hunger is a reality. As many as 24% of active-duty service members and their families experience food insecurity in the United States.

That group includes people like Sgt. Edgar, who returned from a yearlong deployment in the Army. He couldn’t afford a holiday meal for his family, so he visited a food pantry near his home in Virginia."'

The money hasn't trickled down yet.... more has to trickle up first.

Our civic league adopts a few military families each Thanksgiving and Christmas who need help. Most live on base. It's wild.

We support a local pantry. It’s amazing who utilizes a pantry….these are people that go to work everyday.

How the F can you show up every day in Congress, and pretend you don't know this is happening?

How far we have fallen that we can't feed our own )#*$#ing soldiers? And it ain't because we don't have the money. Anyone see the bill that was just passed? Maybe, oh, I don't know, we need to move all soldiers salaries up to get them in line with the cost of living?

We're a nation run by sociopaths. Best soldiers in the world, and we're INTENTIONALLY paying them so little that they can't freaking feed their own families? Gee, how come enlistment is down?

Awesome. Way to go, team. F the military families, right? After all, they can't make donations to these politicians, right? So F them, and the horse they can't afford, let alone ride in on......

It’s incredibly sad. My wife’s cousin was a government contractor. She was commissioned to study suicides in the military. Devastating for the families left behind. We can do better.

[cradleandshoot]

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/nickel-a ... d/summary/

Good book. A few years old but still worth the read.

Yes, indeed, it's insightful. If you get a chance, watch Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days on Minimum Wage", changed my perception about a couple of things, e.g. tipping at a coffee shop and the value of thrift stores to the working poor.

Thanks. Will look for it. Saw a news piece today that 24% of military families are food insecure. Also, most food pantry recipients work.

Maybe if our nation wasn't paying 475 billion this year in interest on the debt we could afford a sizeable pay raise for the military. There is no minimum wage if your a low ranking enlisted man/woman. I hope more people read Rand Pauls Festivus report. Maybe that will soak in and some of you will better understand why some service members struggle to buy food. We as a nation can't afford a respectable wage for the people that serve our country because we are whizzing billions of dollars on stupid chit. I hope all of you understand that 475 billion in interest payments alone is damn near half of the defense budget for next year. It might even be possible that even my fellow forum members understand 475 billion dollars spent on interest ain't exactly pocket change?

[cradleandshoot]

Saw a news piece today that 24% of military families are food insecure.

F'ing awesome news. We're doing a great job. Hey---who's up for another tax cut?! Hooray!!

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-b ... nger-facts

"For many active-duty military members, hunger is a reality. As many as 24% of active-duty service members and their families experience food insecurity in the United States.

That group includes people like Sgt. Edgar, who returned from a yearlong deployment in the Army. He couldn’t afford a holiday meal for his family, so he visited a food pantry near his home in Virginia."'

The money hasn't trickled down yet.... more has to trickle up first.

Our civic league adopts a few military families each Thanksgiving and Christmas who need help. Most live on base. It's wild.

We support a local pantry. It’s amazing who utilizes a pantry….these are people that go to work everyday.

How the F can you show up every day in Congress, and pretend you don't know this is happening?

How far we have fallen that we can't feed our own )#*$#ing soldiers? And it ain't because we don't have the money. Anyone see the bill that was just passed? Maybe, oh, I don't know, we need to move all soldiers salaries up to get them in line with the cost of living?

We're a nation run by sociopaths. Best soldiers in the world, and we're INTENTIONALLY paying them so little that they can't freaking feed their own families? Gee, how come enlistment is down?

Awesome. Way to go, team. F the military families, right? After all, they can't make donations to these politicians, right? So F them, and the horse they can't afford, let alone ride in on......

To continue my rant a Fan... If we weren't paying 475 billion a year in interest on our debt there could be more money to pay our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines a respectable wage. Our nation will spend around 840 billion this year on a defense budget that doesn't have enough money to raise enlisted folks out of poverty. What is wrong with that picture?

[MDlaxfan76]

Saw a news piece today that 24% of military families are food insecure.

F'ing awesome news. We're doing a great job. Hey---who's up for another tax cut?! Hooray!!

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-b ... nger-facts

"For many active-duty military members, hunger is a reality. As many as 24% of active-duty service members and their families experience food insecurity in the United States.

That group includes people like Sgt. Edgar, who returned from a yearlong deployment in the Army. He couldn’t afford a holiday meal for his family, so he visited a food pantry near his home in Virginia."'

The money hasn't trickled down yet.... more has to trickle up first.

Our civic league adopts a few military families each Thanksgiving and Christmas who need help. Most live on base. It's wild.

We support a local pantry. It’s amazing who utilizes a pantry….these are people that go to work everyday.

How the F can you show up every day in Congress, and pretend you don't know this is happening?

How far we have fallen that we can't feed our own )#*$#ing soldiers? And it ain't because we don't have the money. Anyone see the bill that was just passed? Maybe, oh, I don't know, we need to move all soldiers salaries up to get them in line with the cost of living?

We're a nation run by sociopaths. Best soldiers in the world, and we're INTENTIONALLY paying them so little that they can't freaking feed their own families? Gee, how come enlistment is down?

Awesome. Way to go, team. F the military families, right? After all, they can't make donations to these politicians, right? So F them, and the horse they can't afford, let alone ride in on......

To continue my rant a Fan... If we weren't paying 475 billion a year in interest on our debt there could be more money to pay our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines a respectable wage. Our nation will spend around 840 billion this year on a defense budget that doesn't have enough money to raise enlisted folks out of poverty. What is wrong with that picture?

We have 1.4 million active military personnel.

A $10,000 raise for each would $14,000,000,000. $14 billion.
A raise of $20,000 for each would be $28 billion.

Could we do that? You betcha.
Could we do that progressively, more at the lower levels, less for the generals? Yup.
Could we do that for less with food allowances for families? singles needing less? yup
Has little to nothing to do with the prior incurred debt, just our willingness to tax ourselves, putting people first.