Just clarifying for my understanding; you voted for someone with no plan whose plan was to eventually make a plan?
Grocery cost question
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Oh no, they had a plan you are just being obtuse.
The plan was DOGE all along. Department of Government Efficiency. The plan was to be lead by Elon and Vivek and yes, that is 100% absolutely what i voted for and i could not be happier with the results thus far.
Democrats and Repubicans are to blame, but Democrats have been in charge for 12 of the last 16 years and our countries finances are in shambles. Inflation is on the climb again at the same time as the 10yr yield is climbing. The stock market is healthy (so far) but the economy is not. We must change the economy, and quickly, if we want the market to remain healthy.
Fat Piggy Global trading is predicting elevated levels of volatility due to the uncertainties around DOGE. Major changes will be coming. Hundreds of thousands of government employees will be laid off. Over 400 federal departments will be whittled and merged down to 100.
All of this may cause temporary discomfort and even may cause downward pressure on the market. However, we believe these changes are absolutely necessary for the long term health and growth of the country. Just as a forest fire damages at first, what returns in it's place is beautiful and better.
The good news is that DOGE will not be measured in terms of days or weeks, but rather years. We will see how it goes in 4 years and then We The People can decide if we like the direction or not. We spoke loud and clear we weren't going down the path where Democrats were taking us. A landslide and mandate were delivered by the American people to Trump and DOGE. Now all you have to do is sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.
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JOE LONSDALE: I’m most excited about Elon, Vivek and the DOGE effort because this is something I've wanted to see for forever. I'm probably like one of the only guys in tech that's done a lot in policy on the right, on the small government side for the last 10-20 years, and it's like the world just shifted this way—like the vibe shift is exactly in line with stuff I've been thinking and talking about for a decade. I'm so excited about this.
SHAWN RYAN: How fast do you think they're going to start cleaning this stuff up?
JOE LONSDALE: They're already doing it, man. They can't really officially do it yet, but they're already making all the plans. There's people working hard there. There's guys picking me, 'Joe, we need another engineer for this,' 'We're trying to map this out,' 'We need more lawyers for this. They're going right now as hard as they can and getting ready. It's going to be really bold.
I think the way Elon works in general is just like, "What can we do right now, and then what can we do next? Let's just focus on what we can do right now." So they have what's called their 'Day One priorities,' and they're just focusing and sprinting on everything they could do day one. I think they're going to have a lot of stuff ready for day one.
They're bringing in at least well over 100 people for the DOGE effort, and they're going to put a few of them directly into each agency. A lot of the transition team itself is hiring people to put into these jobs. There's these policy placements that are all working with DOGE and being liaisons with DOGE. They're going to come out of the gate with a bunch of general things—removing certain people, removing certain regulations. I can't go into the details exactly of what they're going to be doing, but it's going to be really aggressive right from the start."
Meanwhile, Lonsdale stressed the need to rebuild America's manufacturing base.
"I'm concerned in general that we don't have an advanced manufacturing base that's nearly as big as it needs to be. I think from a geopolitical perspective it's extremely dangerous and if we want to be ready—so in World War II it wasn't that we had like a bunch of big defense contractors that we had a bunch of big industrial manufacturers and powers that were able to be shifted to do things for the war."
Yes yes, its the poor people who make very little, its THEIR FAULT.
.... and how is replacing non documented workers, who work for very little compared to citizens, going to lower grocery store prices?
So again, we are supposed to just trust that the guy who brought us "Repeal and Replace" and then had no plan, and then said 8 years later that he now had concepts of a plan, will have a plan this time?
#magasuckers
#magasuckers
I'm all for a faster paths to legal immigration but that has nothing to do with what I said. I said that 15-19 year olds are spoiled making stupid high wages because they don't want to work in the first place. That's a big part of inflation of our food prices.
Question for you:
What jobs did you work in high school or college? What years was that? How much did you make per hour?
Thanks in advance.
I'll start: In the year 2000.
I was working in the cafeteria on campus, mopping floors, washing dishes. Making 8.25 an hour.
In 2024 money that is 15.42 cents. Should I not have been paid 8.25 in the year 2000 for my labor? I also worked another job at the same time off campus making 8.50 as a broil cook at a restaurant, that was 15.89 in todays money.
This is probably my most frustrating problem with Democrat leadership. They don't realize that Americans are, for the most part, ****ing idiots who read at a 6th grade level. They don't want to be told HOW xyz problem is going to be solved, they just want to be told it will be solved. It's why Trump's messaging works so well - it appeals to idiots.
threads like these illustrate that perfectly.
no real analysis being done here by the brain trust, just wild accusations and thoughts and feelings. Where's the formulaic process of these economic geniuses?
I said all through the last election, I don't necessarily like many of the Democrats plans, but at least they had plans.
MAGAs have gripes,but zero actual plans. When challenged they just state that they trust, against all history or reason n, Donald Trump to figure it out.
I just want someone not an asshole, who can be moderate and have actual plans.
MAGAs have gripes,but zero actual plans. When challenged they just state that they trust, against all history or reason n, Donald Trump to figure it out.
I just want someone not an asshole, who can be moderate and have actual plans.
How are grocery prices/home prices going to get back under control?
"Well, Vivek and Elon are going to point out gov't overspending and get rid of it. Also, we'll be mass deporting undocumented immigrants who mainly work in agriculture and construction which will give more Americans jobs."
Okay, ignoring the financial cost of actually rounding up and expelling millions of people, how will losing the majority of the labor arm of the agriculture and construction industries help lower food and building costs?
"It's going to Make America Great Again by allowing Americans to take these construction and agriculture jobs (at higher salaries) and that will drive prices down."
I haven't seen a single explanation for how these moves are going to help drive food/construction costs down, and that was the #1 concern of citizens at the voting booth this year. They don't have plans, or at least, have explanations for how their ideas will help improve their lives because they all just got caught up in the slogans and the "IT'S GOING TO WORK, DON'T WORRY ABOUT HOW" feedback loop they live in.
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When you start from the false assumption that the leader is the smartest guy in the room and the only one with the answers, you have the beginning of a cult.
When you start from the false assumption that the leader is the smartest guy in the room and the only one with the answers, you have the beginning of a cult.
Workers today produce more than they ever have. Yet, somehow, the working class is earning less than their parents. While the concentration of wealth is funneled to the elite.
Yet we are here talking about how deporting illegals is going to make things cost less..... because things costing more is the problem, not what people earn.....
But we can't fix what things cost, because, Americans don't bother to understand how any of this works and thus cannot hold their government accountable. So the corporations will continue to funnel the money out of the working class, and into their own pockets.
It's like no one here remembers who got rich off of the 2008 crash. Or who got rich off the 1933 market crash for that matter. It's the corporations. Workers always lose.
Question for you:
What jobs did you work in high school or college? What years was that? How much did you make per hour?
Thanks in advance.
I'll start: In the year 2000.
I was working in the cafeteria on campus, mopping floors, washing dishes. Making 8.25 an hour.
In 2024 money that is 15.42 cents. Should I not have been paid 8.25 in the year 2000 for my labor? I also worked another job at the same time off campus making 8.50 as a broil cook at a restaurant, that was 15.89 in todays money.
This is thread worthy.
Year: 1994ish
Job: Warehouse worker - manual labor (unairconditioned)
pay: $4.25 / hr
Thats 9.17 an hour in today's money.
The real question here is: Were you fork lift certified?
I worked in a couple warehouses as well. In 1999 I worked a summer in spartanburg running a chemical packing line. I think that was 8 an hour, or 15.36 in todays dollars.
11.42 in todays money. man I must have been a good negotiator.
I remember my first job was selling newspapers over the phone and calling people about polls. That was 4.25 an hour in 1994.
Highschool:
Early 2000s
BBQ Buffet busser/dish washer. Worked Thursday-Sat 4-10, Sunday 11-9
$6.50ish/hour
No tips
Moved up to waiting after a year or two
$4/hr + tips. Made about $60/day since fat southerners don't tip for shit.
College:
Bartended at Backstreets and 356
Made about $100-$150/night on weekends
Early 2000s
BBQ Buffet busser/dish washer. Worked Thursday-Sat 4-10, Sunday 11-9
$6.50ish/hour
No tips
Moved up to waiting after a year or two
$4/hr + tips. Made about $60/day since fat southerners don't tip for shit.
College:
Bartended at Backstreets and 356
Made about $100-$150/night on weekends
1997 started at $5.15 per hour like all working 15/16 year olds at the time. I was happy to work and make my own wages because my parents didn't give me everything I wanted. 15.42 is a ridiculous amount to pay some snot nosed kid. You want to make more, work hard, stay employed, climb the ladder.Question for you:
What jobs did you work in high school or college? What years was that? How much did you make per hour?
Thanks in advance.
I'll start: In the year 2000.
I was working in the cafeteria on campus, mopping floors, washing dishes. Making 8.25 an hour.
In 2024 money that is 15.42 cents. Should I not have been paid 8.25 in the year 2000 for my labor? I also worked another job at the same time off campus making 8.50 as a broil cook at a restaurant, that was 15.89 in todays money.
Those jobs are probably why we are successful.
I drove a forklift, but i certainly wasn't certified. It was a family company and so i guess they just skipped that part.
That I completely agree with. I learned a ton working my ass off in kitchens.
I would also say that I've had to change some of my views, frankly I shouldn't have gone to work sick as many times as I did, but we didn't call out sick, it was a badge of honor in food service.
The result of my vote has lead to a DOGE commission lead by Vivek and Elon. They also have added Thomas Massie and some other politicians that i happen to agree with. Massie has been on the debt and budget for a long time, he is the one that made his own deficit counter and wears it on his coat every day. So, yes. I am happy with the result of the commission and the ideas they have put forth. I hope we are also happy with the results at the end of 4 years. If so, Republicans will be a shoe in for another 4 years. Most likely Vivek would be the next president in that scenario.
Did the same in 1998 at a chemical textile plant that was family run. Made 7.25 an hour there.
lol I was not a child, I was 18-20 years old doing work a child couldn't.
In 97 i was making 5.15, the minimum wage, while doing sous chef work, as well as washing dishes at a restaurant in Spartanburg. Which in today's dollars is: 10.21
So now you know, you made more than minimum wage workers today do.
