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LOL, are you serious? I read the rest of that post, but it was so much drivel and lock stepped with all of the other whiners who deflect and complain that they can't get what others have because of someone/something else. Lazy is the problem with todays youth pure and simple. They want now (without working for it) what others have taken years to accumulate. Couple that with social programs that reward laziness to keep the lazy voting for those who want to keep it that way and you have the real reasons for our problems.
Great to see Damar Hamlin up and healthy after 9 minutes of CPR and critical brain injury
Yep, growing up, we (my family) bounced around homes in Louisville and other parts of Kentucky because we did not have enough money to keep the current one we were in. My mother and stepfather both worked and wound up with nothing. I on the other hand with my wife (who still works) worked for years and have done better than my parents. Standards of living have vastly improved since I was born too. The biggest problem we have today is rewarding those who are lazy by taking from those who are trying to get ahead. Dim leadership and socialistic/Marxist thinking is the primary reason for this.
Muscle mass, bone density, lung development. You can identify as a woman, that does not make you a woman. And, we know that for many people, dysphoria is not an innate condition of having the body of one sex and the brain of another. For some, it is an environmentally caused confusion and for others a psychological illness.
Outside of visiting other peoples homes and watching (on occasion playing) a video game, I never owned any. Now, my daughter plays computer games and my wife and her brother will play with her too, I still have not. Not interested in those things. At 65 years old, I still play (at it) softball in the city leagues, go fishing when the weather is good for it, exercise 6 days a week, teach Karate 2 times a week, and work around the house. In my younger years I use to also play a lot of basketball in the city leagues.
I think a couple of the factors that will be impacting future economic growth and standard of living is the insane cost of a college degree coupled with the huge debt incurred.
That mixed with higher interest rates is really going to make it tough for that younger generation to purchase their own homes. That is why so many rental communities are popping up across America. Home ownership is one of the main creators of individual wealth historically. Tough to buy a house when you're drowning in debt.
How is it even possible that it is that close between Trump and Biden. It is also well within the range of corruption and ballot harvesting.
Considering the fact that the 2 shooters are both Asian men. How disappointed must democrats be that they weren't 2 white guys so that they could start yelling MAGA Trump supporters, Maga Trump supporters. The fact that people died in these 2 shootings means absolutely nothing to them if they can't try to blame it on Trump supporters.
ONly thing actually happening here is ruining millions of lives for profit and geopolitical gain, death and destruction with complete fools trying to make this into politically advantageous domestic issue, a smokescreen fro mthe total chitshow that is these corrupt and incompetent morons running the show.
Russia - Ukraine WAR Warning: Political Discussions
When somebody attacks your family you don't start discussing everything that is wrong with your family that was attacked. Same for your country. Our troops are forward across Europe now to contain Putin, I believe it is wrong to provide aid and comfort to Putin by peddling in Russian propaganda...kentucky.forums.rivals.com
You don't have to drown in debt if you go to work and not get a degree in areas that will not help you anyway. Yes, knowledge is good but not in the liberal arts or other useless degrees. Technical institutes and vocational schools are better for many. Education beyond the 12th grade is not a right, it is a wish/want. If you choose an education in areas that will get you a good job, you can pay off that debt and get ahead. Although I do agree that the cost beyond the 12th grade could and should be lower and affordable, you can easily put the blame on the same people who are pushing for the government to pay for it, (Dims)
We wouldn't have these high interest rates if this idiotic regime that's in the white house hadn't spent money like a drunken sailor
Fair point.
But something is awry. Dion thinks we have housing for tens of millions of illegal immigrants. There are, after all, lots of empty fields. You and he need to get this sorted out pronto.
Only took years, but the blind squirrel found a nut.
There’s a reason the political establishment wants to continue driving up the cost of college and promoting valueless degrees, always dangling the promise of forgiving all debt as opposed to actually addressing the structural issues that needlessly drive up the cost of higher “education” to begin with.
As Klauss Schwab and his employees like to say, you’ll own nothing and like it.
Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy (with the same standards as other debt) and the problem would begin to solve itself overnight.
This story raises a question for my friends what love abortion: how can this “Lexington man” be charged with fetal homicide if a fetus isn’t a human being?
https://www.wkyt.com/2023/01/21/lex...tal-homicide-after-woman-suffers-miscarriage/
https://www.wkyt.com/2023/01/21/lex...tal-homicide-after-woman-suffers-miscarriage/
All degrees aren't valueless. I would hope that doctors, dentists, lawyers, and engineers received the training in college they require in order to do their jobs correctly.
Those just aren't... "get out of high school and start working" careers.
You've inadvertently stumbled upon the truth again without realizing it. Those degrees are necessary; therefore, market forces support them.
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Keep wondering when this House of Cards which is the Stock Market is going to collapse.... Saw that Pelosi sold a bunch of stock recently and took losses. Makes you wonder what she knows or if she just needed the losses for her taxes.
Sorry honey but life is unfair. Nothing about it is fair from the microbe up to the top of the food chain. The strongest survive *Darwin* Science. Is this another example of why you guys hate science? Girls are boys, the weak are strong. Life is fair. You are living in the wrong utopia.
It’s the cost of houses more than interest rates that’s making it hard for home buyers. rates are still below 7% for thirty year mortgage. when i bought my home the rate was 9.125%. Wife and i both worked and had to save for over three years for the 20% down payment for a $64k house, which is now valued at +- $300k. acquiring things you need and want takes time and work. i remember all those overtime hours i put in to pay for my kid’s uk education.
Also, many of the young people i’ve known in recent years don’t want to start out with a modest home, then work up to something better. they want a new $400k house, which is also fine if you can live with the payment.
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No shit. I have a wall full of degrees and professional certifications that prove very valuable on the market as evidence of my skill set.
I didn’t say all degrees were valueless, I said the political establishment was promoting valueless degrees. If the entire population knew about personal finance, corporate finance, tax (and the difference between GAAP and tax accounting), constitutional law, etc. no one in Washington would have a job.
If Marxists understood economics, they wouldn't be Marxist, either.
Neither if leftists weren't degenerates, they wouldn't celebrate and encourage this like they do with their reimagining of biology.
Everyone is not suited for college . There was a time when we had good paying manufacturing jobs. People need to work. It makes them feel better about themselves to earn something.
This is a key point. The vast majority of AMerican college students don't belong there.
Everyone should be very skeptical of people whose business model is to profit off of you getting sick and continuing an endless supply of masking things with pills. Hell, Purdue Pharma single-handedly created the opioid crisis.
But the way the government acted with this mRNA garbage was the biggest tell. The propaganda and response levied at the public were insane and so obviously disproportionate to reality. The first thing to question is the government pretending to give a single shit about your well-being. They don't. They care about power and money. That's it.
Second, they let their little foot soldiers riot throughout the country after telling you to stay inside your house, closed gyms, took off basketball rims, filled skate parks with sand, locked down beaches, etc. They shut your business down and your kids' school and tried to divide your family and friends with masking BS while they ate at fancy restaurants and got salon treatment. They tried to bribe people with cheeseburgers, donuts, and lotteries.
It took absolutely no time to be proven correct that their narrative and their shot were a lie. But COVID was the greatest social experiment ever done on this country. You found out where people's lines were, how quickly they could turn on someone, how they would gladly bend the knee to bureaucrats they had never even met, and so much more.
You had people getting the shot so they could go on a cruise (LOL) or go on a date or because HR sent some "scary" letter saying they had to. That's how little it took for people to gladly eat shit and then freak out and mock those who actually had the courage and conviction to withstand this nonsense.
So many view COVID as a religion. The rituals, the false comfort of using masks as a safety blanket (LOL), waiting to be told by the high priest if it's okay to live their life. You still see these lunatics out in public and it's so pathetic.
Yeah, people have periods. Women people.
Wow, a lot of onion to unpeel here.
I am sometimes awed by your knowledge of history. Your knowledge of paragraphing? Not so much.
You don't find Marxism extreme?
Keeping to the theme of oversimplification, whatever form of government we experience will result in haves and have nots. The fact of the matter is while "having not" is regretful, in our system, there is an opportunity, with a modicum of intelligence and, sometimes, great effort for our citizen to become a "have" or, at least, a "have more."
While we agree that the middle class is under attack, it is doubtful that in your preferred system of government, the middle class even exists. I suppose that there would be a level of government functionaries that might be considered middle class, but to paraphrase a common theme of the times, "most would own nothing and like it."
Much of what you say is true. I'm talking about how when I went to college in the mid 80s my tuition and housing together was about 1200 dollars a semester. My dad was a teacher in Jeff County making about 45k per year. That was about 2.6 percent of his yearly salary to help me.
When my son was at UK I was making about 55k a year while his tuition and housing was about 22k per year. That was close to 50 percent of my salary.
That is why these kids are getting out of college saddled with boatloads of debt.
The costs are outrageous.
haha...in front of the Capitol
Corndog ain't missing. Corndog is just where the sun can't shine on it.
Newsome is the kind of fascist/communist that real communists would love to get their hands on and rip em to shreds. He should put his constituents' money where his mouth is and play Russian roulette with a mostly full revolver.
And the vast majority of colleges have degree programs that are virtually worthless in the real world.
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