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Federal DEI Employees Get Email Access Suspended And Are Put On Leave
Federal DEI employees will have their email access suspended and be placed on paid leave under the new Trump administration order.

That is a good start. Removing systemic racism from our government is noble. Those who perpetuate institutionalized racism through counting how much of this ethnicity or that immutable characteristic deserve to be left in history's dumpster.![]()
Federal DEI Employees Get Email Access Suspended And Are Put On Leave
Federal DEI employees will have their email access suspended and be placed on paid leave under the new Trump administration order.www.forbes.com
I am not attacking the validity of having Social Security. I am saying it has been mismanaged. I am also saying older generations getting a windfall because our representatives refuse to make needed changes (benefit level, age, contribution limits) it leaves current and future generations being negatively affected.Only really to Americans afraid of the fake Spector of socialism. To every other developed nation they take it as a responsibility to take care of their old and retired folks so they have systems in place to support it. The Scandinavian countries, where birth rates have been below or barely at replacement levels for decades, they have no problems with solvency of their versions of social security, and they have ensconced it into their framework of laws to protect it and make sure it is never a political bargaining chip. Hence they have among the best standard of living for retired people in the world. We could have had that but it has been a pawn in political games in America ever since it's inception and the rich have used their influence to go after it many times. Musk doesn't care if your grandma gets her retirement check, he has no grasp of what that even means, he just knows it stands in the way of the tax breaks he wants, so it has to go. And that's the problem with it in America where the only true deity is the dollar and the billionaires are the acolytes everyone worships and reveres.
The Scandinavian countries have a relatively small population with giant offshore oil fields to pay for social services.The Scandinavian countries, where birth rates have been below or barely at replacement levels for decades, they have no problems with solvency of their versions of social security, and they have ensconced it into their framework of laws to protect it and make sure it is never a political bargaining chip. Hence they have among the best standard of living for retired people in the world.
That is a good start. Removing systemic racism from our government is noble. Those who perpetuate institutionalized racism through counting how much of this ethnicity or that immutable characteristic deserve to be left in history's dumpster.
I agree it has been mismanaged, and why I think there are better forms of retirement security, as big government is great at fiscal mismanagement.It's not just the amount being put in, it's what they are doing with it. They have done a ****** job of managing the funds and shenanigans around corporate taxes over the decades have eroded what goes in. No major updates to the inputs in decades is a problem as well as it doesn't keep pace with inflation. It's way more complicated than just not enough heads to pay the next level up. One example is the wealth exemption where they only pay into social security up to a limit of like 180k of earnings so anyone making more don't pay on anything earned beyond that amount. There are a lot of ways this is eroded. The top-heavy boomer retirement is just the biggest and most looming threat but politicians have been playing games with social security for decades. Everyone looks at the single straw that breaks the camel's back and not the billion straws already there.
It's kind of funny to hear someone say that "too high of a benefit had been paid out" when social security had not been anything more than barely above poverty level income for decades, hence the attempts to make modifications to get people above the poverty line. No one in their right mind would think that SS pays out "too much". The issue has been that we have known for decades it needed reform but no politician has had the support to actually tackle the problem, hence your "kick the can" comment which is spot on. Now it's time to pay the piper really. Interestingly they could cut the military budget to pay for it and we would still spend more on national defense than the next 2 closest nations to us in defense spending. But really major reform is needed and pretty much right now. We have blueprints we could follow, in those other nations that have figured this out already, but lobbyists will ensure corporate taxes stay at all-time lows rather than do what needs to be done and raise taxes on corporations to help pay for it. I'm afraid it will get a lot worse before it gets any better.
Racism is bad. I also think it is ridiculous that you think Taylor Swift is a Nazi. You need to calm down.Tell me more about your vast knowledge of racism.
Racism is bad. I also think it is ridiculous that you think Taylor Swift is a Nazi. You need to calm down.
Does your brain ever switch gears? Are there any other topics besides ethnic origins that resonate with you?Sure sure. Rest your brain, boy.
That is the spirit. The nation has been too divided. Yesterday, the Senate confirmed Marco Rubio unanimously. AOC has dropped pronouns from her bio. The American public had the most ethnically diverse vote dispersal in our nations history. We're all people, and we voted in the candidate occupying the center of the political spectrum.Got give credit where it’s due. I believe this is where the country can heal and really come together guys.
Does your brain ever switch gears? Are there any other topics besides ethnic origins that resonate with you?
What are your three favorite female singers from the 1980's? I'm going with Gloria Estefan, Sade, and Kate Bush.
That is the spirit. The nation has been too divided. Yesterday, the Senate confirmed Marco Rubio unanimously. AOC has dropped pronouns from her bio. The American public had the most ethnically diverse vote dispersal in our nations history. We're all people, and we voted in the candidate occupying the center of the political spectrum.
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Fox News contributor Charles Hurt discusses Trump's transition approval rating and 'No Labels' taking legal action against Democrats.www.foxbusiness.com
When you see the ratings for the hate peddlers, they are cratering. People are done with the hatred. If you're ready to move past the hatred then I welcome you. If, as I suspect, you'll never give up the hatred and instead only feign a moderate view in sarcasm, then all I can say is that you lost. America has said enough with all the hate and division.
All of this is wrong. To start: slavery was a primary cause, as in it was a charitable undertaking, but was not the reason the civil war started. I take Abraham Lincoln at his word on that point, and he was unambiguous. The rest is what you wish was there to see.You don’t think slavery was a primary cause of the civil war, you shill for rapists and child molesters, and now for literal South American Neo Nazis. You have no principals, no integrity and you’re a passive aggressive liar. You think it’s funny. Well I think you’re lazy and weak in the mind.
The first sentence is nails, and the rest could well be correct depending on who you are referring to, but I stand by my claims that parents who coddle or even foster the delusion that a young male child can become a female child are bad parents. The outlook for transgender youth is a horror show. They kill themselves. They fail to get jobs. They fail to build a life. They have a massively higher rate of mental illness.But you’re a dick dude. I can’t be friends or cordial really with you because our morals and principals do not align. I will fight for you to be whatever you want to be. But what you’ve choosen I don’t like, because your views and actions actively hurt people I know and love.
All of this is wrong. To start: slavery was a primary cause, as in it was a charitable undertaking, but was not the reason the civil war started. I take Abraham Lincoln at his word on that point, and he was unambiguous. The rest is what you wish was there to see.
The first sentence is nails, and the rest could well be correct depending on who you are referring to, but I stand by my claims that parents who coddle or even foster the delusion that a young male child can become a female child are bad parents. The outlook for transgender youth is a horror show. They kill themselves. They fail to get jobs. They fail to build a life. They have a massively higher rate of mental illness.
There is nothing wrong with being gay. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING GAY. If not pushed off into hormone blockers, surgical interventions, and social conditioning, nearly all supposedly transgender kids would grow up to be functional gay adults. The research on that is crystal clear, and there is nothing wrong with that outcome. There is an old saying that goes “a stich in time saves nine”. When children are young is exactly the time when parents should be the most hawkish, the most hostile to unhealthy behaviors. In that, I am not kind. I am a parent and I have a responsibility.
If you have people you know and love who have elected to treat parenting different from how I approach parenting then it is fair to conclude our morals / principals do not align.
If as usual, you are off on some tangent involving ethnicity then you're spun off into the weeds.