2020 Election
#1516
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Joined: Dec 2015
Location: california
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Re: 2020 Election
......And many, many people have the good fortune to be born to wealthy families and become trust fund babies. They spend their life after getting (ahem) "Gentlemen's C's" from the Ivy League college their father's checkbooks bought them into, going from dinner party to beach party, never having to worry if they can pay the costs of ordinary living or of a sudden serious illness. They don't work hard and they don't sacrifice.
Others don't become rich and remain poor, not because they are not willing to work hard or sacrifice (Many, maybe most, are working 65+ work weeks) but because they don't have a chance to break out of their circumstances. You can only "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" if you have bootstraps; if you are shoe-less you work to just to be able to live day-to-day.
Others don't become rich and remain poor, not because they are not willing to work hard or sacrifice (Many, maybe most, are working 65+ work weeks) but because they don't have a chance to break out of their circumstances. You can only "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" if you have bootstraps; if you are shoe-less you work to just to be able to live day-to-day.
There is an actual shortage in such trades as welders, carpenters, bricklayers, roofers the manual trades that pay pretty well Young people these days after graduating from college prefer the more academic professions
Many junior colleges offer courses in the manual trades. The opportunities are there still. It just needs the will to make the effort
Last edited by dc koop; Dec 11th 2019 at 6:06 am.
#1517
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Joined: Dec 2015
Location: california
Posts: 6,035
Re: 2020 Election
I'll give an older homeless person money but not some strapping young guy who looks as if he could do an honest days work. Donating to St Jude's hospital for kids with cancer to me is more rewarding
#1518
Re: 2020 Election
......And many, many people have the good fortune to be born to wealthy families and become trust fund babies. They spend their life after getting (ahem) "Gentlemen's C's" from the Ivy League college their father's checkbooks bought them into, going from dinner party to beach party, never having to worry if they can pay the costs of ordinary living or of a sudden serious illness. They don't work hard and they don't sacrifice.
Others don't become rich and remain poor, not because they are not willing to work hard or sacrifice (Many, maybe most, are working 65+ work weeks) but because they don't have a chance to break out of their circumstances. You can only "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" if you have bootstraps; if you are shoe-less you work to just to be able to live day-to-day.
Others don't become rich and remain poor, not because they are not willing to work hard or sacrifice (Many, maybe most, are working 65+ work weeks) but because they don't have a chance to break out of their circumstances. You can only "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" if you have bootstraps; if you are shoe-less you work to just to be able to live day-to-day.
#1519
Re: 2020 Election
It seems Christopher Steele has even more info that has yet to be released.
https://dailysoundandfury.com/steele...m_campaign=tti
https://dailysoundandfury.com/steele...m_campaign=tti
#1520
Re: 2020 Election
M4A will cover dental and vision as well, so it would be better coverage than she already gets.
#1522
Re: 2020 Election
It seems Christopher Steele has even more info that has yet to be released.
https://dailysoundandfury.com/steele...m_campaign=tti
https://dailysoundandfury.com/steele...m_campaign=tti
#1526
Re: 2020 Election
#1527
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Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 2
Re: 2020 Election
Well the average US retiree household has an income of about $48,000, so if we assume 2 that is a benefit of about 50%, they already of course pay taxes so not sure how much extra could be raised.
#1528
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Joined: Jan 2006
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 12,865
Re: 2020 Election
What happens to the current Medicare trust fund?
#1529
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Re: 2020 Election