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fishonjazz said:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his pro-austerity Department of Government Efficiency tried to access key systems responsible for paying out the federal government’s salaries and bills, pushing a high-ranking career civil servant to quit the Treasury Department.
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Elon Musk: "Hello government worker whose job it is to provide information the law has said is to be made available to the public, can I have access to the information?"

Government Worker: "No, and I quit."

Al-O-Meter: "Bye, Felicia"
 
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Al-O-Meter said:
Elon Musk: "Hello government worker whose job it is to provide information the law has said is to be made available to the public, can I have access to the information?"

Government Worker: "No, and I quit."

Al-O-Meter: "Bye, Felicia"
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"career civil servant" means he has been doing it for a long time. He didn't just decide "no." Musk probably wanted something that he didn't have access to or authority to access.
 
fishonjazz said:
Saw a post saying "a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy fired a bunch of people in FAA and somehow the crash is blamed on too much diversity"
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Maybe don't believe all posts? The pilot of the helicopter was a woman with 500 hours of flight time. ethnicity withheld. While technically true that it was a white guy overseeing the FAA staffing shortage, Pete Buttigieg is gay so he gets to use his 'persecuted minority' pass. Trump's new guy should be able to fix the mess left by Buttigieg, but he's obviously going to need more than 6 hours, which was how long he'd been in office when the plane crash happened.

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DOT OIG: FAA at Fault for Controller Staffing Shortages

NATCA Calls on Congress to Require FAA to Immediately Implement Updated Staffing Standard and Conduct Maximum Hiring WASHINGTON – The Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report on Friday, June 21, […]
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this is why Trump Administration supporters and MAGAt's don't like Biden or Obama, because they don't actually know what they do. Just what Trump tells them. Here is a quote from his inauguration, I believe.

"You know, they were gonna rename Pennsylvania..Yes they were gonna rename it to...Pennsylvania."
Here is your daily dose of idiotic president Trump, and the Stan Squad/Goon Squad/Neo-Nazi's/Conspiracist's/Rapists/a lot more around him.




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noahthejazz said:
Or hold them more accountable, as in taxing them based on their net worth and salary, and increasing bale on crime, investigations, etc. on people who have a certain salary/net worth. That would be in the bigger numbers. Chances are, theyve done some stupid **** to get there that is definitely illegal.
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There should be a new federal law enforcement agency and special courts and prosecutors that go after the criminal behavior of billionaires. Something along the lines of the "Untouchables" where the money and influence cannot hinder their investigations.

I agree that a person with over 1 billion dollars should receive special scrutiny because of their outsized ability to commit certain types of crimes and the feedback loop of money and power that encourages them to do it.

There are still people who do serious time for mere marijuana possession they are almost exclusively poor people and more often than not people of color. Yet Billionaires can run companies that literally kill people and they face nothing but a regulatory fine. Their solution? Fire the regulators.
 
noahthejazz said:
Or hold them more accountable, as in taxing them based on their net worth and salary, and increasing bale on crime, investigations, etc. on people who have a certain salary/net worth. That would be in the bigger numbers. Chances are, theyve done some stupid **** to get there that is definitely illegal.
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How?

One party is bound and determined to pass tax cuts on billionaires no matter the cost because billionaires are their top donors and the other political party has been neutered from so many rural (white) states that they haven’t had a filibuster proof majority in the Senate for nearly 20 years. Take into consideration that some of these richest men own the largest information distribution platforms and the question becomes real: How can a political party get its “tax the rich” message through? Especially to rural (white) states where voting for the party of billionaires has become entrenched with rural white identity?

And we haven’t even touched that the party owned by billionaires control the courts and have a fully financed network (Frderslist Society) to funnel law students into their think tanks and law practices.

People realize that we just barely had an election where the electorate chose tax cuts for the rich and tax increases on themselves, right? One didn’t have to be a genius to make this determination either. All they had to do was look at Donald’s past record. Or listen to what he said. Or listen to what Harris said. Or watched one of his rallies. Or took 5 mins to see that the biggest and richest d bags in the world were supporting him.
 
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You have Pete Hesgeth talking about military strikes on mexico
You have a bunch of tariffs starting up tomorrow (and tanking the markets)
You have a bunch of prosecutors being fired (ones who prosecuted the criminals who committed crimes on J6) by the DOJ (weaponization of the DOJ indeed)
You have government websites being taken off line.
The FBI is considering a mass purge of agents involved in investigations of Trump and the Capitol riot.

Its hard to keep up with the complete **** show of this admin.
 
Moscow Agent Grifting America

Make America (1930's) Germany Already

Make America Gilead ASAP
 
fishonjazz said:
You have Pete Hesgeth talking about military strikes on mexico
You have a bunch of tariffs starting up tomorrow (and tanking the markets)
You have a bunch of prosecutors being fired (ones who prosecuted the criminals who committed crimes on J6) by the DOJ (weaponization of the DOJ indeed)
You have government websites being taken off line.
The FBI is considering a mass purge of agents involved in investigations of Trump and the Capitol riot.

Its hard to keep up with the complete **** show of this admin.
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That's why the talk about this stuff from the other side so much, so their worshippers can say "well the Democrats did it first so it's only fair" while Trump rapes them.
 
My yearly egg spend is still under $100.

Do you all eat eggs every day?

I've got nothing against eggs, but I don't make them at home on a weekly basis.

At $4 per dozen that's a little less than $0.30 per egg.

Is an egg not worth $0.30?
 
Okay, so if you eat two eggs every day for a year you will pay $219 for eggs in a year (at $4 per dozen) and that will be a significant source of your nutrition.

Sounds like eggs have been underpriced for a long time.
 
Sardines said:
My yearly egg spend is still under $100.

Do you all eat eggs every day?

I've got nothing against eggs, but I don't make them at home on a weekly basis.

At $4 per dozen that's a little less than $0.30 per egg.

Is an egg not worth $0.30?
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I probably average about an egg a day.
And I think the price is fine currently.
I also think that paying under 3 dollars per gallon of gas is fine and don't really think it needs to be any lower.
 
Sardines said:
Okay, so if you eat two eggs every day for a year you will pay $219 for eggs in a year (at $4 per dozen) and that will be a significant source of your nutrition.

Sounds like eggs have been underpriced for a long time.
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It is weird people are so bent out of shape about egg prices. Prior to the bird flu outbreak breakfast at diners in my area were almost $18 (WA). Housing is high, and wages have not caught up. The across the board inflation is what is still causing a lot of people to struggle. Food prices have really gone up.

I signed up for Walmart+ in November of 2021 and have online receipts of prior purchases. I generally order the same staples from them (basically everything except fruits, meats Asian market stuff (I cook a lot of Thai food)). Comparing the same items over the last few years have resulting in my average bill resulting in about a 40% increase.

A few samples: In 2021 a 24 pack of coke (my vice) was $8.98 and now it is $13.98. Jam was $4.50. Now $6.00. Chocolate chips were $4.38 in 2022. Now $7.37. (I was shocked to see they are $11.50 at Safeway). Cereal, bread, canned goods have all seen increases but at a lower %.

I feel for graduates entering the workforce now. Affording a house with combined prices and interest rates is a tough hurdle for many. I am so grateful that I was able to buy and sell a few homes and build equity when prices were reasonable.
 
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