I think you mean first to suggest it. Although I doubt that, it was guessed right away. But it's still far from a fact that's what happened.
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Miggs
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I just ran some numbers. Let’s say we spend 5 trillion on this stimulus. At $250,000 per house, you could build 20 million homes with that money. The average cost for a house in this country is about $226,000. There are only 14 million African-American families in the country. So in theory, every African-American family could have a brand new $357,000 house. Since many African-American families already own homes, and since that average cost is far above average, it wouldn’t cost near 5 trillion to do that.
Not sure what my thoughts are on that but it sort of makes you wonder how doing something like that would help poverty (we spend 1 trillion on welfare every year), economic equality, racism, education, and so forth. An interesting question to ponder. Are we spending money the wisest way possible?
Not sure what my thoughts are on that but it sort of makes you wonder how doing something like that would help poverty (we spend 1 trillion on welfare every year), economic equality, racism, education, and so forth. An interesting question to ponder. Are we spending money the wisest way possible?
Miggs
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And yes I’m well aware that a stimulus is independent of how I’m spitballing spending money.
But it seems as if the country could probably spend $300,000 on brand new homes for 10 million African-American families, give them $100,000 more each, and save x amount in welfare each year in doing so.
But it seems as if the country could probably spend $300,000 on brand new homes for 10 million African-American families, give them $100,000 more each, and save x amount in welfare each year in doing so.
My opinion of Mercola has nothing to do with his reputation and everything to do with what I’ve seen directly from him over the years. My exposure to him over the years has been him/his arguments directly and very rarely am I hearing anything about him outside of that.
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Definitely not a cult...
Except, the virus is not manufactured and shows no signs of being manufactured.
Than again, you think Mercola is credible.
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True, but it seems more suggestions are coming out and a French Nobel Prize winner just came out in support of this. The question is though was it actually intentional.
candrew
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Now it's readily obvious this assertion will age poorly in a way that even your run-of-the-mill ding dong will be able to comprehend.
In the meantime, to add some context to this claim as of today, here's an article from that liberal rag The National Review....
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020...-in-one-month-than-the-flu-kills-in-one-year/
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While it will age poorly, and while I’m not staking a claim on when numbers peak and how we’re listing COVID-19 deaths as over the course of 6 weeks rather than a year, it’s also important to note that when we say flu kills x amount per year, what we really mean is flu season, which consists of about 5 months, but is specified within a calendar year. I’m not arguing that this to suggest it is changing those comparisons by orders of magnitude, but if the narrative isn’t exact, those facts then serve as distractions to factual comparison in future analyses.