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The Undercurrent retweeted
If a healthcare provider received confidential information from a patient in law enforcement and passed it to their spouse so they could profit from stock trades, they could face criminal prosecution and lose their professional license.
And yet we’re still debating whether members of Congress and their spouses should be allowed to trade individual stocks while in office.
Why should everyday Americans be held to stricter ethical standards than the people writing our laws?
Well, well, well
Rep. Ro Khanna sold $NVDA right before Nvidia's CEO admitted to having a Chinese spy side piece
He's a member of the following:
- Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party Committee
- Taiwan Caucus
- High Tech Caucus
Apparently, federal agents informed some lawmakers last year that Jensen Huang might be the target of a foreign intelligence operation
He avoided a ~26% dip
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One of the reasons I don’t like socialism is public bathrooms.
A public bathroom is about as basic a shared resource as you can get. Everyone gets to use it, and everyone is expected to show a little consideration for the next person. The rules aren’t particularly complicated.
And yet, a shocking number of adults can’t even manage to throw their paper towels in the trash. Some will pee all over a toilet seat and leave it for the next person. And the next person, who didn’t make the mess, certainly isn’t going to clean it up either.
Now imagine trusting these same people to collectively manage an entire economy.
We can’t even get everyone to agree that cleaning up their own pee is a personal responsibility, but somehow we’re supposed to believe everyone will become hardworking, responsible, and considerate when we’re sharing the fruits of each other’s labor.
Now, compare your average public restroom to a Buc-ee’s bathroom.
Buc-ee’s figured something out. Clean bathrooms attract customers. Customers spend money. So the company has a financial incentive to keep those bathrooms spotless. They hire people to maintain them, hold employees accountable, and compete for your business.
And people will literally plan their road trips around stopping there.
That’s capitalism. Someone recognized a problem, found a way to solve it, and made money because people valued the result.
Of course, not everyone contributes equally to society. Some people work harder, make better decisions, and take more responsibility. Others seem perfectly content making life more difficult for everyone around them.
I believe people should have the freedom to live however they choose. I also believe in helping people who genuinely need it.
But I have a hard time accepting an economic philosophy that expects me to trust everyone to act in the collective interest when some people can’t be bothered to clean up after themselves.
Buc-ee’s figured out how to get people to willingly pay for a better experience.
Socialism wants me to believe the people leaving paper towels on the floor will suddenly become responsible stewards of everyone else’s resources.
I’m going with the beaver.
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Now ask who is funding representatives in the United States government to do the very same thing.
China's not only planting spies, they are buying senators, and the entire Epstein class media obsessives are completely silent about all of it
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Palestinians will teach their kids to hate for a Muslim agenda. It's who they are, but we'll never see this side on MSM. Very sad to see parents promoting this.
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My mother likes her AOL account and she is also an expert at using AI to enhance photographs and she has a ton of friends and her family loves her and she votes Republican. No need to be a condescending asshole to older Americans.
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You'd be surprised how many ppl cant make the connection between their behavior and its consequences on their lives. Ex. Littering- living in a dump. They wont stoplittering but they'll resent and envy ppl who live in clean areas as if they just lucked into living in a nice place
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.@VDHanson is a national treasure.
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The things that are most unaffordable for young Americans are health care, housing, and school - which are exactly the sectors w/ the most gov't involvement and regulation; meanwhile, sectors w/ little to no gov't involvement have seen massive price drops:
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Apparently letting gangs terrorize civilians is the more humanitarian option.
The worry, if President Nayib Bukele’s ambitions in Haiti turn out to be large, is of a scorched-earth strategy that kills a lot of civilians economist.com/the-americas/2…
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One of the few times we actually got to see where the money went in a government assistance program was the USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program. And the numbers are pretty incredible.
About 43,000 people received roughly $2 billion. Here’s the kicker. Nearly 20,000 of them weren’t even farmers. They received checks ranging from $3,500 to $6,000 because they said they wanted to farm but believed discrimination had prevented them from doing so. In some states, more than half the people getting checks had never farmed.
And taxpayers paid contractors around $180 million just to help run the program.
This is exactly why I keep asking what happens AFTER the government hands out our money. Did anyone’s situation actually improve? Did people become self-sufficient? Did we accomplish anything remotely close to what the program was supposed to do?
I’d love to know when taxpayers started being unreasonable for asking whether the billions we’re spending actually accomplish anything.
Having spent my entire career working in human services and mental health, I genuinely believe that if everyday Americans saw what actually goes on inside our entitlement system, they’d be furious.
Every time someone questions these programs, we’re immediately shown the saddest child or most desperate single mother they can find. We hear their heartbreaking stories, how difficult their lives are, and how desperately they need help.
And those people absolutely exist. They deserve help.
But have you ever noticed what we DON’T see?
The outcome.
We never seem to get the follow-up showing how our tax dollars actually helped these people become financially independent. How many got off assistance? How many are doing better five years later? Where are those stories?
Instead, we’ve built a system that can actually discourage people from improving their circumstances.
Think about a single mother receiving food stamps and subsidized daycare. She gets a raise, takes on more hours, or finds a better-paying job. Sounds great, right?
Except now she risks losing benefits that are worth more than her increase in pay.
So she’s working harder and potentially ending up worse off financially.
What exactly is her incentive to get ahead?
And that’s just one part of the problem nobody wants to discuss.
There are people who’ve practically turned gaming government benefits into a career. They know the rules, the loopholes, and exactly how to maximize what they can collect. And they’re perfectly content to keep doing it.
The Somali fraud allegations exposed by Nick Shirley shocked people. But I don’t think most Americans realize how much abuse and dysfunction exists in these programs right here among American citizens.
Then there’s the bureaucracy itself.
I’ve encountered government employees who’ve held their positions for 15 or 20 years, who are apathetic on their best days and downright rude and incompetent on their worst. People who seem to face no accountability and somehow manage to fail upward.
And what is government’s answer to all of this?
More money. Always more money.
More programs. More employees. Bigger budgets.
Meanwhile, we’re still being shown the same heartbreaking stories, year after year, without anyone bothering to explain why all the money we’ve already spent hasn’t solved the problems.
I’ve spent my career working with people who need help. I absolutely believe in a safety net.
But I also believe the goal should be to help people reach a point where they no longer need it.
We should be measuring success by how many people become self-sufficient, not how many people remain enrolled in government programs.
And I think taxpayers have every right to ask why we aren’t.
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Just a reminder that Democrats called a massive climate spending and healthcare subsidy bill the “Inflation Reduction Act.”
Spoiler alert: It didn’t deliver the inflation reduction.
But “Inflation Reduction” sure sounded better than “hundreds of billions in climate incentives and healthcare spending.”
So when politicians start promising to make life more affordable, read the fine print.
I know I will. We’ve seen this trick before.
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Having spent my entire career working in human services and mental health, I genuinely believe that if everyday Americans saw what actually goes on inside our entitlement system, they’d be furious.
Every time someone questions these programs, we’re immediately shown the saddest child or most desperate single mother they can find. We hear their heartbreaking stories, how difficult their lives are, and how desperately they need help.
And those people absolutely exist. They deserve help.
But have you ever noticed what we DON’T see?
The outcome.
We never seem to get the follow-up showing how our tax dollars actually helped these people become financially independent. How many got off assistance? How many are doing better five years later? Where are those stories?
Instead, we’ve built a system that can actually discourage people from improving their circumstances.
Think about a single mother receiving food stamps and subsidized daycare. She gets a raise, takes on more hours, or finds a better-paying job. Sounds great, right?
Except now she risks losing benefits that are worth more than her increase in pay.
So she’s working harder and potentially ending up worse off financially.
What exactly is her incentive to get ahead?
And that’s just one part of the problem nobody wants to discuss.
There are people who’ve practically turned gaming government benefits into a career. They know the rules, the loopholes, and exactly how to maximize what they can collect. And they’re perfectly content to keep doing it.
The Somali fraud allegations exposed by Nick Shirley shocked people. But I don’t think most Americans realize how much abuse and dysfunction exists in these programs right here among American citizens.
Then there’s the bureaucracy itself.
I’ve encountered government employees who’ve held their positions for 15 or 20 years, who are apathetic on their best days and downright rude and incompetent on their worst. People who seem to face no accountability and somehow manage to fail upward.
And what is government’s answer to all of this?
More money. Always more money.
More programs. More employees. Bigger budgets.
Meanwhile, we’re still being shown the same heartbreaking stories, year after year, without anyone bothering to explain why all the money we’ve already spent hasn’t solved the problems.
I’ve spent my career working with people who need help. I absolutely believe in a safety net.
But I also believe the goal should be to help people reach a point where they no longer need it.
We should be measuring success by how many people become self-sufficient, not how many people remain enrolled in government programs.
And I think taxpayers have every right to ask why we aren’t.
The Undercurrent retweeted
There are no incentives to get people off welfare, only to keep them on.
Incentives drive behavior.
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I can verify these things happening after working in HUD subsidized housing.
I saw many young women who were afraid to cut the apron strings even though they really wanted to get out of the violent neighborhood.
They grew up this way with a parent and grandparent. Some would start a good job but when they saw that the income reduced their subsidy they'd quit the job.
I also audited 300 residents and found $1/4 million in fraud. One resident was making over $50k but only paying $38 rent. I was instructed to set up repayment plans for the fraudsters. I believe the worst offenders should've been evicted because there was a years long waiting list of people who truly qualified.
It's a very sad situation and a generational problem.
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Real Georgia College Rs statement (as distinct from the incel groyper losers):
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This disgusting post against Harmeet Dhillon is NOT by the legitimate Georgia Association of College Republicans.
It is by a group of racists that could not get elected in the real organization so they formed a splinter group.
One of their leaders is Brad Barnes, a 43-year-old anti-Semite and perpetual college “student”.
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The thing that disgusts me about the "We lost because of Iran, MAGA is over, tear it all down" crowd is that I cannot find a single one of them who acknowledges that stopping a nuclear Iran might be more important than any midterm election.
Have the decency to acknowledge these facts:
1. Iran declared war on the USA in 1979.
2. We have been dealing with this reality fecklessly since that time.
3. The Iranian mullahs are not rational actors. They want nukes so they can USE THEM to precipitate Armageddon and bring forth the Twelfth Imam who will miraculously arise from a well in Qom and forcibly unite what is left of humanity under Shia Islam.
4. Trump may have had intel that said he needed to act before it was too late, midterms be damned.
I ACKNOWLEDGE that the Iran War likely cost us the election.
Why can't YOU acknowledge that Trump may have had no choice and acted bravely for the greater good of humanity?
WHY DO YOU REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS POSSIBILITY?