Remember kids: if you study hard, get good grades, go to a good college, get a job, work hard, never take a sick day, live within your means and do what you're told ... then one day your boss might go to space
"what's the problem with young people today? just bootstrap up like i did"
1970 (in today's dollars)
Average college debt: $7,170
Average grad starting pay: $63,100
Now
Average college debt: $30,000
Average grad starting pay: $53,900
@JR_Dubs @TwoDogsFresh Right. But the CDC was insistent on doing the testing and never looked to making a cooperative partnership with private companies for help. They tried to just steamroll it themselves. Just like the war on drugs. They just tried to steamroll drugs. I believe that both backfired.
Purdue pleaded guilty to giving kickbacks to corrupt doctors to overprescribe OxyContin, helping kill 450,000 people
Its punishment:
*No jail time
*$8B corporate fine but it'll only pay "pennies on the dollar"
*Owner Sackler family fined 1.7% of net worth
https://t.co/uH63UJ7myZ
It's Thanksgiving so you should know that in the pandemic:
Billionaires have gotten $1 trillion richer and now have $4 trillion
The poorest half of Americans now have $2 trillion combined
https://t.co/vHx5p6Q8hn
Jeff Bezos could give $148,000 to each of his 500,000 warehouse workers and still be richer than he was before the pandemic.
The bonus they will receive is 0.2% of that.
We bailed out the banks with $700 billion
We bailed out the automakers with $80 billion
We bailed out the airlines with $50 billion
What we got:
*$1,200 in our own taxpayer money back
*0% ownership stake in banks, automakers and airlines in exchange for our tax money
“Abraham Lincoln over here is the most racist president we have ever had.” I’m not gonna argue if the president is or isn’t. But that is just straight up not true. For examples see Andrew Jackson, James Knox Polk, or Andrew Johnson to name a few.