@sp6runderrated Why not make the age 60 then! Or 55! Social security should be a safety net for people who are too old to work and are going to starve or end up on the street. Most people in their late 60s are perfectly capable of working. People can also fund their own retirement
@MattWalshBlog Matt. Reveal your math. And don't forget to include an implied investment rate of return on the capital paid in.
(Half truths go by another name -- lies.)
@marklevinshow I'm an American of Greek descent. I'm proud of my Greek heritage but I'm an American FIRST. I don't ask my politicians "what are you going to do for the Greek community?". Apparently muslims, and Somalis in particular, feel they are owed something more than the rest of us. 🤡Show
Been living in Florida now for 3 months-St Petersburg, downtown-Very much enjoy living here, weather is awesome, city is tremendously walkable with a great waterfront district and a very lively downtown scene.
However, they do have a homeless issue with quite a few hanging out in the downtown area- it’s nowhere near to West coast numbers but it’s still an issue.
I walk my dogs 3-4 times a day around the downtown and up to this point the homeless folks are largely benign but we do tend to give them a bit of a wide berth as some of them are clearly mentally ill.
Today while walking with my wife, who is strong but very petite a homeless guy approached us and was fairly aggressive in his demeanor. Now he was fairly scrawny and probably on drugs, mentally ill or likely a combo of both.
Given that I’m 6’5” around 250 lbs, strong as an ox and can fight-I’m not too worried- however scrapping with one of these folks can definitely expose you to certain diseases and there is really zero upside to doing so.
My wife will not walk around downtown at night by herself and I don’t blame her.
Last census shows about 1800 homeless people in the local county and many of them sleep on the streets downtown and I see them every morning when we take the dogs for their first morning walk around 6:30 am.
Back in the old days we used to have state run in-patient psychiatric facilities which were largely phased out by about the 1980s as the push was to put more people on anti psychotic drugs and to give them the least restrictive environment possible. The old insane asylums, as these facilities were often called, typically had low budgets, fed them cheap carb based diets and sometimes subjected them to cruel practices.
I’m not sure if anyone would be willing to do it, but I’d bet that at least some of these folks suffering from mental disease and drug addiction could actually be helped with a inpatient keto/carnivore style diet for a few months-there is already a decent amount of pilot data showing this to be effective. My guess is that feeding these folks ground beef and eggs for 3-6 months at a facility would actually end up being cheaper than dealing with the episodic acute care that many of them get when they regularly show up at the ERs.
It would be an interesting pilot study/program to try. What say you
@MayorKenWelch or @CharlieCrist