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How Does Dismantling LBJ's Great Society Make America Great Again? (Ans. It doesn't.)
- By Belk
- American Politics
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I agree with most of your post. We need much better non violent prisoner reform and reintegration. The one part I disagree with is the idea you don't go too prison for smoking weed. According to the Marijuana policy project there are millions of prisoners behind bars for weed. Some even in states where it is now legal ironically enough.
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Hakeem Jeffries politicizes on and on for over eight hours
- By Belk
- American Politics
- 114 Replies
Sanctuary Cities, Border Crisis Costs, and a Rude Awakening for the Left
Record numbers of illegal immigrants are entering the country illegally and spreading throughout the interior of United States—and it’s playing out in a sadly predictable way. Sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C., New York City and Chicago are sagging under the weight of the cost required to...www.heritage.org
"Last year, a special committee found that taxpayers in Tennessee spend an extra $3.9 million per year to educate unaccompanied alien children in public schools and another $240,000 to provide them with state-funded health care.
Florida, too, has raised concerns over the cost of illegal immigration. Even before the Biden-inspired surge across the border, the state was paying $2 billion per year to provide health care and education for the nearly 800,000 illegal aliens living there.
Other services drain public purses, as well. Last year in New York, a $2.1 billion state fund paying unemployment and stimulus benefits to illegal aliens was exhausted in just three months
Last year, Philadelphia elected to budget $300,000 to publicly fund immigration attorneys for aliens facing deportation. The New York City Council budgeted $16.6 million the same year for the same purpose. Local taxpayers there should expect actual costs to exceed those budgets, as the numbers of illegal aliens, cases and appeals continue to rise.
Certainly, that’s been the case in Chicago, a city that continually increases its funding for its Legal Protection Fund and refuses to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to police databases and information.
And then there are the costs associated with crime. Crimes committed by illegal aliens had been declining for years before Biden opened the borders. Since then, those numbers have skyrocketed in virtually every category of crime, from homicide and manslaughter to robbery and theft, from trafficking in drugs and weapons to sexual offenses.
Southern border governors are now bussing some illegal immigrants to New York City, Washington and Chicago, giving the mayors of those unashamedly pro-open borders and sanctuary cities a taste of what they’ve had to deal with for years.
And the mayors don’t like it a bit. New York City’s Eric Adams calls the situation there “horrific.”
“We need help,” pleads D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
This is typical of many on the left. They push for a supposedly compassionate, globalist utopia. Then, when reality sets in and their pie in the sky agenda comes crashing down, they cry for help and bailouts."
This is just one listing , if you really cared you could find plenty yourself. You are not interested in facts, just liberal propaganda.
You do realize this does not support your contention, correct? This does nothing to compare expenditures between immigrants and homeless veterans. One begins to believe your claims were spurious and your personal attacks are attempts to distract from this lack of data.
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How Does Dismantling LBJ's Great Society Make America Great Again? (Ans. It doesn't.)
- By Fantine
- American Politics
- 52 Replies
I have heard that many times about Europe, and of course they also have medical care and better educational benefits, "real" pensions, etc.
When AI gains a stronger foothold, there will be less work to go around, and we will either have massive unemployment and a larger underclass than we have today, or we will have full employment with shorter workweeks.
So what are Republicans trying to do? Raise the retirement age to 70. Deport immigrants to decrease the numbers of workers and make more jobs available.
They "want" things but they don't give good incentives. I'll bet, Larniavc, that knowing you and your wife had ample leave to care for your infant was a good incentive for you to have a child, and perhaps another in the future.
Average child care costs in the US:
So in 2022, infant care for one is about $350 a week. Mothers have no paid leave (and perhaps 12 weeks of unpaid leave IF the employer has 50 or more employees?) and so they have to go back to work with very little pay to show for it. If they have one infant and one shool age child that's about $450 a week in 2022 dollars.
I was a lucky mom/
I guess. I never "worked" till my children were in school, although I dabbled in different income producing activities, mostly writing articles, teaching piano, and playing music at churches, fashion shows, etc. Lots of volunteering. Most mothers are not that fortunate, and some mothers have job skills that have to remain current. If they take 6 years off no one wants to hire them. TBT, that's one reason why I always kept my hand in part-time things to keep my resume current.
When AI gains a stronger foothold, there will be less work to go around, and we will either have massive unemployment and a larger underclass than we have today, or we will have full employment with shorter workweeks.
So what are Republicans trying to do? Raise the retirement age to 70. Deport immigrants to decrease the numbers of workers and make more jobs available.
They "want" things but they don't give good incentives. I'll bet, Larniavc, that knowing you and your wife had ample leave to care for your infant was a good incentive for you to have a child, and perhaps another in the future.
Average child care costs in the US:
A brief drawing of available data across 47 states show child care prices for a single child ranged from $4,810 a year for school-age home-based care in small counties to $15,417 for infant center-based care in vengry large counties. When adjusted for inflation, this equals between $5,357 and $17,171 in 2022 dollars. These price ranges were equivalent to between 8% and 19.3% of median family income per child in paid care.
Estimated Revenue for Child Day Care Services Climbed as Child Care Options Declined in 2021
Census Bureau data show that estimated revenue for Child Day Care Services increased all but one year from 2014 to 2021.www.census.gov
So in 2022, infant care for one is about $350 a week. Mothers have no paid leave (and perhaps 12 weeks of unpaid leave IF the employer has 50 or more employees?) and so they have to go back to work with very little pay to show for it. If they have one infant and one shool age child that's about $450 a week in 2022 dollars.
I was a lucky mom/
I guess. I never "worked" till my children were in school, although I dabbled in different income producing activities, mostly writing articles, teaching piano, and playing music at churches, fashion shows, etc. Lots of volunteering. Most mothers are not that fortunate, and some mothers have job skills that have to remain current. If they take 6 years off no one wants to hire them. TBT, that's one reason why I always kept my hand in part-time things to keep my resume current.
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