hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
I think you’re significantly overrating thé knowledgeability of low information voters. To them, thé President can totally helicopter out cash.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Robot welding has been used for a while in detroit, hasn’t it? It’s clearly a mature technology that they just hadn’t figured out how to deploy to this particular application.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
To be completely fair, Bush redirected a lot of federal domestic spending towards republican supporters.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
I remember trump bux during Covid- this is nothing new. Government helicopter money does not go back into the helicopter, ever. Trump specifically trying to bribe voters is also nothing new.
I mean I’m going to take my $5k. My act of resistance won’t stop inflation. I’ll probably put it in silver.
We get it, you don’t like what the Republican Party has become. That’s fair, they’re not what I would pick. But we’re stuck with two rising tides of fiscal irresponsibility, one of which wants multiple new spending programs on the scale of social security, and the other one wants to chum the water with stimmy checks to win elections. We will never have a balanced budget again, not unless we manage to outgrow government spending.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
For middle class people this is true. But if you qualify for this program you also qualified for government funded childcare.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Convincing blacks to marry instead of living in sin would do wonders for reducing what we spend on their dysfunction. It's a win-win. Yeah, some of the somalis will get the money, but they already were through daycare fraud, this is just a slightly different set of paperwork for them to fill out when they defraud the government out of the same amount of money.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Poor but physically fit 20somethings who are often the only men with full time incomes in their social class and place, and who get spiffy uniforms and come with a house to live in where your parents don't...
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
IME homeschooling is fairly middle class- the poorer people trying it tend to be pushed into the public school system or charters as a cheaper alternative, while the wealthy tend to bail out by paying lots of money for private schools that fit their particular educational philosophy. And make no mistake- the vast majority of homeschoolers are not doing this out of a commitment to 'education freedom' or 'children's rights' or even really opposition to systems.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Of course the government has been running a program to use welfare policy design to destroy the american family for a long time. Insofar as this policy pushes to reverse that, it's a good thing. I don't find it particularly well designed but it's an improvement- and possibly the best Trump can do.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Stay at home moms do something valuable, they're worth encouraging, and this policy is terribly designed. But it's also just not enough to push very many people out of the workforce. Full time employment at minimum wage pays a lot more than this program does, and 90% of workers make more than double the minimum wage.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
For the class that actually becomes single mothers, there are simply not eligible men to marry. And that's with a supremely reasonable definition of eligible(like non substance addicted, full time employed, not currently engaged in the criminal justice system- simply not happening below the income cutoff for this program).
I suspect that this will be used by, like, grad students, or families with the husband on disability, and stuff like that.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
This is almost certainly not driving anyone out of the workforce- the amount is simply too low.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
I suspect the median recipient is a nonvoter.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
The most likely effect is shifting some of the money to families with one non-working parent- probably the father in most cases, because everything about the underclass is horribly dysfunctional. Even the underclass isn't replacing waged income with $9k/yr.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
They also just didn't think teenaged girls running off with older guys was a matter for, like, broader society to care about, and wrote these cases off as 'oh, boyfriend promises he'll give fewer beatings than daddy' #9000. My grandfather with the abusive stepfather had multiple (half)sisters run off with older guys instead of finishing high school during the time period in question, for the same reason a bunch of his (half)brothers joined the military as soon as they'd take 'em. Nobody thought they were making a decision which was either a) ideal or b) anything they had a say in. Some of these marriages even turned out OK(and in the 70's you could reasonably expect a marriage out of the deal, with the caveat that fitting into your dress might not be happening...).
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
True crime's audience is super duper female. Red tribe men watch bodycam footage or cop shows(including reality) on broadcast TV/streaming, very different things. The fixation with innocent virgins being raped and murdered is totally aimed at a female audience; that's not what Cops is about(which is meth heads getting arrested in their underwear), or a frequent theme of non-porn male oriented entertainment.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
IIRC if you remove names from the assignments boys and girls get the same grades…
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Thé provided food is disliked, but that just incentivizes soldiers to marry(and in the army, there is someone who wants to marry you).
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Hell, trailers are still affordable, and it’s better than 95% of the planet. They’re just stigmatized. America making housing affordable wont solve the status competition thats thé real economic block for childbearing, because that’s fundamentally impossible.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
It’s limited to parents earning 2/3 of the state’s median income or less. Of course i’d rather the money go to poor housewives than to daycare operators, but none of us will benefit from it.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Date rape and statutory were not seen as serious crimes in the seventies.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
It is probably true that the median teenaged girl who went no contact with her parents with no explanation or warning ran off with a boyfriend(probably one they didn’t like very much) and most of those will likely return when this proves to be a terrible idea. And that the police are mostly not there to stop individuals from making poor life decisions. But it is also true that that is a type of person and these girls are certainly portrayed as not that type.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Anabaptists find the tribute paid to Mexican drug cartels quite reasonable- and given that the drug cartels literally recruit Mexican army personnel by promising higher quality food, this is almost to be expected; they have a lot of use for farmers, and no reason to pressgang drug mules(they offer thé equivalent of a year’s salary and have volunteers waiting around the block from the normal pool of poor young men who do dangerous things for money). This is an ongoing, present day thing and not a hypothetical future, Amish and Mennonite colonies in Mexico don’t regard cartel administration as worse than the legitimate governments they have to deal with.
The biggest anabaptist presence in Latin America is in Bolivia, however. Very large numbers of mennonites taking advantage of depopulating rural areas.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I didn’t say they were economically literate! But they grasp the concept of wanting the people you take shit from around- not enough to keep from killing thé goose that lays the golden egg, but enough not to outright expel them.
He did pass out shit to the Republican base. Faith based charities, tax cuts that favor breadwinner families, Medicare part D… all favors thé Republican base.
It may include things that there are good reasons to do, but they do favor individual republicans.
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