Took a long break from social media,
And recently decided that I probably should come back, but I’m not going to doom-scroll 24/7.
The way things are happening. It’s good to be in the know…
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd". - Voltaire
@JakeGreenham99@Rob83871601 You’d be surprised with the United States can do spirt when they set their mind to it, especially about helping other countries to get their stuff up to snuff…
Hey, go ahead and sell all that heavy crude oil to somebody else
@yang_Bang_pop@tommy3861 How much is the tariffs on Chinese steel entering in the United States?
Now ask yourself would it be cheaper and better for the Chinese to take it to Canada and then bring it into the United States? From Canada
@JakeGreenham99@Rob83871601 That is basically what Venezuela has and have you noticed something recently about Venezuela?
if you don’t think we couldn’t replace that 23-ish percent of oil with Venezuela
But you fight that good fight
@JakeGreenham99@Rob83871601 That 60% of that oil that is imported <—-from Canada that word is doing a lot of heavy lifting…
Is the total amount of oil that we use what percentage?
If you make less than $63 an hour right now, you’re technically earning less than minimum wage workers did in 1968 once you adjust for real purchasing power.
Minimum wage back then was $1.60.
Adjusted properly for inflation using actual cost of living, not the government’s preferred formula, that comes out to somewhere between $58 and $63 an hour today.
Most people reading this make nowhere close to that.
We didn’t get lazier as a country.
The floor just moved so far down that “minimum” stopped meaning anything close to what it used to guarantee.
@jeremyct lol,
If we use your numbers, that would be roughly 38x that’s not even in the realm of possibility it’s bad but not that bad
I guess common core math has infiltrated Africa
@tee_kae63561@jeremyct I’m gonna ask you a serious question I want you to think about this when I said I’ll take things that never happen for 200 Alex. What do you think I was referring to? I know you can do this. I have faith in you.