BREAKING: Marco Rubio just said the quiet part out loud.
Americans work 40+ years…
Pay taxes.
Follow the rules.
Build the country.
Then retire on $800, $900, maybe $1,000 a month.
Meanwhile, new arrivals can allegedly receive more support from the same system they never paid into.
Read that again.
The people who built America are being pushed to the back of the line.
This is not compassion.
This is a government priority problem.
America First was never just a slogan.
It was a warning.
Who comes first?
The taxpayer… or the system?
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING
IDK who this guy is, but he nailed it.
He told the council that if this tax passes, it's permanent and likely the lowest it will ever be. Before asking taxpayers for another $50 million, he argued the city should first take a hard look at its own spending.
He questioned why MILLIONS are being spent on landscaping contracts instead of exploring lower-cost alternatives like inmate labor. He criticized spending on the city's DEI office, argued taxpayers are already subsidizing bike lanes, walking trails, bus routes, and road projects, and asked why drivers should now pay even more.
He also pointed to Marion County's reported audit issues involving missing federal funds, saying the county should demonstrate it can properly manage existing money before asking residents for additional tax dollars.
His closing point summed up his argument: instead of pushing what he described as roughly an 80% increase in vehicle-related taxes, the city should go through the budget line by line, cut unnecessary spending, and prove it has exhausted every other option before reaching deeper into taxpayers' pockets.
He caught her mother recording her while she played with her child and didn't think much of it. But her mother had a video of them doing the exact same thing decades ago, when she was still little🥹
Monroe Township, NJ on March 11 at a council meeting this woman from Monroe didn’t come to play. She stood up and delivered a straight-up verbal masterclass on the council. NO filter, all facts, zero chill. She ATE. If you think local government gets a free pass… watch this. Residents are DONE staying quiet. "No one came to ur door and said, "Run for office! You're NOT LEADERS" Get it girl!🔥🔥
HR: We lost the new hire today.
CEO: What happened?
HR: He resigned after his first week.
CEO: That makes no sense. We doubled his previous salary.
HR: Yes, but salary was not the issue.
CEO: Then what was?
HR: You asked him why he left at exactly 5:00 p.m. And why he left the office before you did.
CEO: I was just trying to understand his mindset.
HR: He understood it clearly. He felt the company was not paying for his work, but for control over his time.
CEO: But commitment matters.
HR: So do boundaries. He finished his work, met expectations, and left on time. But instead of that being seen as professionalism, it was treated like a lack of loyalty.
CEO: People should not rush out of the office.
HR: He was not rushing out. He was simply leaving when the workday ended.
CEO: Still, it did not look right.
HR: That is exactly why he left. He realized very quickly that even with better pay, the culture expected presenteeism over performance.
CEO: That is unfortunate.
HR: Yes. We offered him double the salary, but also gave him a preview of a workplace where leaving on time becomes a character issue.
CEO: So what are you saying?
HR: If employees are judged for having boundaries, then no amount of money will make them stay.
A higher salary can attract people. But if respect for time is missing, it will not keep them.
“I’m not asking for a handout. I just want a fair shot at life."
An American worker explains how every paycheck DISAPPEARS into rent, bills, and debt — before there’s even room to breathe.
“I don’t want to "survive" my whole life — I want a future.”
I worked 10 years in my uncle’s company.
I started at 20.
Today I’m 30.
Overtime.
Weekends.
Zero vacations.
“You’re family,” he would tell me. “One day this will all be yours.”
I turned down offers.
Relationships.
Opportunities.
One day he announced he was retiring.
He gathered everyone.
“I’ve decided to sell the company.”
I froze.
Then he came over to me.
“It’s not personal. It’s business.”
That night I didn’t sleep.
The next day I handed in my resignation.
Two months later I opened my own company.
Small.
Modest.
Mine.
Today we compete.
And several of his former clients are with me.
They say I was disloyal.
I say loyalty without respect…
is just exploitation in disguise.
Credit: @/VargasKevi23363
Ana Kasparian exposes where the money that California is spending on homelessness is actually going:
It’s being funneled into NGOs & executives are making $500k a year each.
“We spent $13 billion in Los Angeles alone last year to combat homelessness. You wanna know where that money went? That money went to these trash nonprofits who have a bunch of executives making half a million a year."
The Head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power l quit her $750,000 per year job and flees to Puerto Rico
The court found the utility company liable in fire ‘dereliction of duty’ for the Pacific Palisades fire
Spencer Pratt “Well, well, well, Janisse Quinones, the despised head of the LADWP, the incompetent dunce responsible for draining the Palisades-San Yanez Reservoir before the fire. She has resigned.
Why you asked, did she resign because she let us burn without water during the Palisades fire? Jo. Or maybe because she never shut off the power during the fire causing additional spot fires throughout my neighborhood. Nope. Maybe she resigned because she had to drain 100 million gallons of water out of the San Yanez Reservoir again this year, running a rubber pipe through six miles of flammable brush as a backup.
Is that why she stepped down? Nope. None of these horrific failures prompted her to resign.
It wasn't until the judge in our Palisades fire lawsuit overruled the city's attempt to throw out our suit against Karen Basura and the LADWP giving our lawyers the green light to full discovery. That means we get to see all of Janice's emails, text messages, all of her missteps.
Now she resigns and she's bailing for Puerto Rico.”
When I learned that minimum wage would have to be $66/hr to afford us the opportunities baby boomers had to purchase a home and save for retirement, I literally screamed.
minimum wage was raised to $5.85 in 2007, $6.55 in 2008, and $7.25 in 2009. Then:
CONGRESS STOPPED INCREASING IT FOR 16 CONSECUTIVE YEARS TO DATE.