Half of US adults can’t read at an 8th grade level
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If educators politically groomed their students Donald Trump would never have been elected or even W.
I didn’t get into politics much in the classroom but a lot of personal finance was being a smart consumer and recognizing how banks and big companies get you to make bad decisions. Things most repubs would think are admirable about corporations maximizing profits. 🙄
But yet Granturd wants to blame Biden for gas prices... really ?
Nobody accused the 'new guys' of being quick on the uptake.
I've said it a million times - The problems with our educational system is a social problem, not a educational problem. There are too many kids growing up in unstable environments with little or no parental involvement, guidance, support, and teaching of morals, respect, and discipline.
I blame the demise of the two parent household.
I blame the demise of the two parent household.
Easier to blame schools and teachers.
Especially if that's all your alt-right whackjob media feeds you.
Low information voters.
Banks and Big companies don't get people to make bad decisions....being ignorant and believing the hard sale is 100% on the consumer. Let the Buyer Beware!!
Then blame the left.....Social Programs and Govt Checks are directly responsible for the Demise of the Two parent household. Of course Hollywood and the MSM champion the single woman raising a child as the Height of Sainthood and demean and degrade fathers as often as possible.
Absolutely, LBJ's Great Society welfare program was a factor to the demise of two parent homes, esp in the black community where nearly 70% of children are born to single mothers compare to about 25% in 1960. .
You'll get no argument here that right now any able body person not working for a paycheck should not be receiving gov assistance for more than a short period of time. I don't mind some of my tax $$ going to the needy, but any system as large as our gov welfare system is going to be abused.
I do wish we would crack down on the fraudulent abuse of all our gov free cash programs.
You'll get no argument here that right now any able body person not working for a paycheck should not be receiving gov assistance for more than a short period of time. I don't mind some of my tax $$ going to the needy, but any system as large as our gov welfare system is going to be abused.
I do wish we would crack down on the fraudulent abuse of all our gov free cash programs.
Those programs allowed many women and kids to survive and get out of abusive relationships/marriages. I would be more than happy to look at the biggest chunk of waste in the budget, the bloated Pentagon budget. Corporate welfare would be the second place I’d go.
Absolutely toots!!! Our defense budget is a huge money pit and a pet peeve of mine. Corporate welfare is second place.
A lot of the issues is that the budget for these Social Programs are mandated and can't even be touched or voted upon!
I don't know if it has changed but back when I worked for the system we had one Welfare Fraud investigator for Greene and Webster County both!!! He did his best and was a great guy.
You might not know but the Drug trade and Even Corporate Grocery Stores are arse deep in Welfare fraud.......FS/EBT cards are govt promised and backed Money!!! Think about that. And EBT cards are traded like Cash Cards for whatever you might need or want WINK WINK!!
LOL do you live in reality or just believe all the BS from Lifetime network movies of the week.
First off in general women who are in abusive relationships tend to gravitate back to another abusive relationship even if they leave the first one, they are often abusive relationship recidivists. They have a personality make up that thrives on secondary/tertiary gain and emotional fractionation. They often subconsciously seek out the emotional rollercoaster and turmoil of the abuse do to underlying issues of low self esteem and feelings of self loathing and then in the aftermath of abusive happenings bask in the response from Friends, relatives and professionals ie....attention, assistance, support, etc.
Make no mistake I'm not blaming the Victim for the abuse at all because this psychological process is happening below the surface and not on a conscious level, and is often fostered do to various factors.
The abuse is 95% upon the abuser and their Psychological make up. The 5% is sometimes on the person being abused because in some cases the desire for the after math process actually pushes them to force and instigate situations by extreme measures even becoming abusers themselves. OF course the abuser has the option of removing them selves from the situation as well. But often there is a symbiotic relationship and cycle between abuser and the abused.
My point is that the troupe about why people stay with abuser's being Financial is not usually valid in most cases.
And while the Domestic Abuse business and make no doubt while it is non-profit on the surface it is lucrative to many.....like to tout up that women don't leave because of financial reasons which is in all but the most extreme cases rather bogus and easily debunked, but it does make for a easy and simple reason that the public buys for why women keep falling into the same situations or don't leave.
If the focus was on fixing the mental make up of the abused and the abuser as opposed to the focus being elsewhere we might actually fix a lot of the issues. But instead we Provide shelter, monetary resources, superficial emotional support that doesn't address the issues and then everyone is shocked the patterns of behavior remain the same and in most cases nothing changes.
Is it a money Pit? We have the most technologically advanced Armed Services on the Planet and we have a all Volunteer Military that has the best Services, Amenities and Benefits possible. That is a huge chunk of the budget in itself.
The Military is tasked with being able to do multiple things and missions at once...Strong Nuclear deterrent, protect American soil from Missile attacks, Air Craft attacks, Terrorist Attacks. Plus being able to fight a two front war against China and Russian if necessary in conventional combat. The Armed services have the most ambitious slate of goals America has ever faced.
During the 60's our Military budget was 9% of the GDP, in the 70's it was 8% and declined to 5%, 80's it ramped back up to 6%, 90's it started at 5% and lowered to 3% of the GDP, in the early OO's it was up to 4% and then back to 3% in the Obama years and Trump years.
Now if you want a line item audit and review of some of the waste and redundancy of services, equipment etc. I'm down with that. I'm sure is some places the budget neglects area's of need and over spends on area's that need to be eliminated.
The fact is that everyone in America Benefits directly from our Military Might! Having the most dreaded Fighting force on the planet has allowed American Citizens to benefit from the availability of plentiful resources from around the globe to fill our lauders and Coffers with ease not to mention we receive a whole host of other economic advantages that other countries can only dream of.
The Budgets of the Welfare state we have created are mostly excessive waste to equalize and redistribute wealth to those who have no interest or desire to contribute to their own well being or care. The instead pursue their own self gratification and desires and expect others to pay for their basic needs out of their sweat and hard work.
And While Corporate Breaks do put a bur under my saddle I also realize that those breaks often benefit the average worker, consumer and citizen long term.
I'm much more forgiving of those who actually contribute than to those who only grift and steal.
Not all farms are Corps...we are not and I can name many others as well. But yes in reality most are now some form of Corporate entity. And that is for the simple reason that to feed America and put food on the table like we desire at cheap prices the efficient and factory based Farm became a necessity.
Now of course I know you are going to go all hater on the Rich Urban people who invest and benefit monetarily from these farms in Various ways.
And I don't disagree with your premise that it is frustrating that Corporate investors make money off of farming and get subsidy payments and such as well.
But with that said Logically I understand that it allows America to benefit from Cheap and plentiful food.
We spend about 6% of our income on food...other industrialized countries spend more than us like the UK 8%, Canada 9%,Swizterland 9%, Ireland, Australia, & Austria 10%. And these countries are at the low end world wide.
How would you like to be from Nigeria and Spend 50% of your income on FOOD! Kenya 47%, Cameroon 46%, jeez most countries Spend around at least 40% of their income a year on just feeding themselves.
I'll take our Corporate Farms and some Subsidy's any day over paying out near half my income for just feeding myself.
American's literally spends the smallest Portion of our Income on Food! I'll take that any day and not complain to often.
It is astounding to think that we spend $800,000,000,000 a year on defense - more than the next 13 countries spend combined. That blows me away no matter how you try to justify it.
It's logical to me...we give our Military Personal Top Notch Pay and Benefits is around a quarter of the budget....add in the size of our Military and the tech we have and it isn't hard to figure out at all.
