• baconsunday@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    How else are they going to say tariffs brought a ton of money unless they take it from somewhere and give it their own categorization of ‘Tariff funds’

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    11 months ago

    Here’s the thing. Paying for college or trade school actually helps the US better compete in a global market (since many other countries pay for those things - we are at a real economic disadvantage). For a country so into capitalism, we really aren’t leaning into it very well.

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      11 months ago

      America is not capitalist, it’s an oligarchy that masquerades under capitalisms flag. Capitalism would ensure a healthy system for people to profit, an oligarchy steals from the lessers to pay the Lord.

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      11 months ago

      Republican capitalism is just thinly veiled corporate socialism for industry leaders. Expecting it to make sense in a capitalist sense is to pretend they’re libertarians. Even the libertarian congressmen are not libertarians.

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        11 months ago

        Oh, I know. But we should at least call them on their bullshit from time to time. A real capitalist would pay for higher education.

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          No, a real capitalist owns slaves and extracts all their value for himself.

          Which is what they are now doing to us. The final squeeze.

          It’s sick and sad that they don’t understand what the endgame will actually look like.

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      11 months ago

      Trump making a terrible financial decision is pretty much his thing. He’s run multiple businesses including casinos into the ground. The country is circling the drain.

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        OMG the casino thing is bonkers! As a business leader, I’m shocked at the incompetence. The only thing more embarrassing would be to run a drug ring into the ground.

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      11 months ago

      If you work under the table there’s nothing for them to seize.

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    11 months ago

    I have been defaulted for several years. I sent in my expenses and income to the Dept of Ed in August and they were supposed to get back with me with a monthly rate I could start paying. I never heard back from them.

    The fuck do I do? I don’t want to get garnished, and all that happens when I call them and wait through 8 minutes of useless automated voice prompts they just tell me that I need to wait for them to respond by mail.

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      11 months ago

      Isn’t this because they flat-out canceled the income contingent repayment plans? I don’t believe this program exists anymore.

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    11 months ago

    Bankruptcy for me, not for thee.

    Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

    — Frank Wilhoit