@mrjg57 Yeah, my mom told me to look into them for my kids. I told her that there's really little advantage to opening one because my kids are too old to get the $1,000.
A living wage. Guaranteed by whom? By forcing an employer to pay more than your work is worth, or forbidding him to hire you at all.
Guaranteed healthcare. Provided by whom? By conscripting doctors and seizing your neighbor's earnings to fund it.
The right to join a union. You already have it. What you mean is the power to force others to join, or fund it.
The right to vote. Real, and the one actual right on your list.
The right to choose your family. Also real, so long as you pay for your own choices.
The right to live free from gun violence. Secured how? By disarming the innocent and calling the helplessness safety.
"The foundations of real freedom." No, Mr. Reich. A "right" that requires seizing another man's life, labor, or property is not freedom. It is servitude with a bow on it. Real rights are freedoms to act, never claims on other men.
@mrjg57@jmthrivept I mean yeah, but kind of a dick move to cast stones and call someone wrong from the get-go rather than have a conversation and understand where they're coming from. Just my 2¢.
You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing.
That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens.
Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior.
A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.
It's crazy to me how Robin Hood is now popularized as "stealing from the rich to give to the poor"
(Socialist messaging)
In reality, Robin Hood stole back the taxes that a cruel leader unjustly levied against the population
(Anti-socialist messaging)
Things that are true at the same time imho:
—The shooting of Alex Pretti was an unjustified tragedy I don’t care what his politics are he is an American with constitutional rights
—Walz is a baffoon using his own citizens as pawns in a game of civil war to distract from fraud and other political problems
—Noem is incompetent and lied about the shooting to spin a false narrative and should be fired and replaced immediately
—ICE needs to level up the professionalism (process, marked uniforms/vehicles, lose the masks) or will lose credibility to do their job
—MN mobs following people around accusing them of being ICE, storming church’s and directly antagonizing ICE agents are wrong
—Trump admin needs to deescalate and chart a path to cooperation with local MN law enforcement the way they are in other states
—Biden admin let 10M+ illegal immigrants in without vetting and now we have a huge mess on our hands and deserve a ton of blame
Lawmakers should have to justify every dime they take from American citizens.
Instead, they see us as their bottomless piggy banks, a never ending source of replenishing cash.
They steal, waste, and fritter away our hard earned money like they’re entitled to it.
Billions defrauded here, hundreds of billions lost there, and still they keep spending.
They feel no responsibility, no accountability.
Welfare has turned into generational dependency.
SNAP has turned into a program of shameless gluttony.
Social security is anything but secure.
And NGOs get almost $4 trillion a year?
Why?
Why is taxpayer money going to non-government organizations?
Taxation without representation. That’s EXACTLY what is happening.
I am angry.
Waiting for more details, but it looks very bad.
He would still be alive if ICE wasn't there. ICE wouldn't be there if we didn't have millions of people streaming across our border without any verification. We wouldn't have millions of people pouring into our country without verification if we didn't have broken immigration laws and processes. We wouldn't have a broken immigration system if our politicians weren't corrupted and/or stupid.
We can play this game all day long of pointing fingers, trying to get to the root of the problem. None of that matters while we are currently under occupation from a militaristic force sent by the federal government. This is not how we should be enforcing our border. This is wrong.
Who's idea was it to put a bill in front of Congress that allows government and corporations to have a kill switch in your cars? And who told both sides of Congress to vote for it?
Two things I’ve yet to see in my lifetime:
1) A Sasquatch
And
2) The headline “Government program ends because it’s achieved its goals and solved the problem.”
I hold out hope I get to see a Sasquatch though.