@ronrule By the of 2025 the average American would have had about $120K in a private account under the Bush social security plan & $192K under the Paul Ryan plan. It would be even more with the YTD 2026 stock market growth & regular social security would be completely solvent.
It just punched me in the face that yesterday someone said in a comment that let her cry wasn’t a sad song. And I tried to find it but from the author. Hell yeah it’s a sad damn song
A few very obvious points on Mamdani's grocery stores:
1. The supply of the discounted groceries will run out on day 1, and every day there is a new shipment. This is basic econ 101.
2. This means only the people who are lucky enough or fast enough will get these discounted groceries. Expect to see the city ration these groceries in some other way. By income, or neighborhood or some lottery system.
3. Grocery margins are notoriously low as it is (like 2-3%). These stores will lose a bunch of money selling 30% below market, or they'll sell so little it will be insignificant.
4. There is absolutely zero chance that government bureaucrats can source these products from global supply chains as efficiently as Walmart, or Meier, or Whole Foods, whose survival depends on it. Their costs will be far higher (unless they use government bludgeon to force distributors to sell to them at lower prices).
5. It's actually an incredible triumph of capitalism that you can get a pound of bananas that were shipped to your neighborhood from Equador for like 60 cents, or fresh grapes from Chile in the dead of Midwestern winter for 2 bucks a pound, and Norwegian salmon to cook in Italian olive oil for $15 -20 bucks or so. Truly stop and think about that for a minute. It's a miracle.
The median full time hourly wage is around $31 dollars. For ONE HOUR of work, the median working American can get all of the groceries listed below, which is about 22,000 calories. They can feed themselves for 10 days (or a family of 4 for around 2 and a half days), with an hour of labor.
This is the stupidest industry for socialists to go after.
When you spent most of 2020 and a good chunk of 2021 obsessively researching Chinese wet markets and concluding they were an unlikely origin for Covid-19, and laying out the evidence suggesting a lab leak, and then you find that on January 26, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote in his diary:
"It now appears using epi data and genomic data that the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market. The infections spread among people weeks before the Chinese reported that they were dealing with a new infection... Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier."
The condescension towards the people who already pay a ton of property taxes to NYC. He thinks you're an immoral person and worthy of mockery if you have a second home. "when you're back in the five boroughs."
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California banned paper bags and started using plastic bags then California started charging for plastic bags then California banned plastic bags and now we are being charged for paper bags in California.
Yes that is how retarted our state is.