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$40B for Ukraine needs accountability... The bigger question
May 13, 2022, 6:03 PM
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is accountability on the $1,900B in the last Covid bill... $40B is like 'crumbs on the floor' in comparison.
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Pure money laundering scheme***
May 13, 2022, 7:52 PM
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Re: Pure money laundering scheme***
May 14, 2022, 4:20 PM
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You apparently don't know what money laundering is.
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Re: $40B for Ukraine needs accountability... The bigger question
May 13, 2022, 8:33 PM
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it is enough money to get every homeless person off the streets in the US, into a halfway house, and into mental health/ substances abuse treatment center. But like you say, just crumbs.
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Re: $40B for Ukraine needs accountability... The bigger question
May 13, 2022, 9:00 PM
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Your bonus could do that for a few. Get to spending.
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Fun math problem
May 13, 2022, 10:00 PM
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Couple ways to approach it. What’s the cost of sq ft to build? I have no idea, so I’m going to assume $200/ft^2
$40B would yield roughly 200M ft^2 of living space.
Let’s assume someone can live in 750 ft^2 of space. That’s ~270k homes.
So nope. Prolly not. Based on those assumptions.
I have no clue what the homeless populations at these days, but 270k feels light.
Now, if we tweaked those assumptions, might make the numbers work. But then add the pork, gotta add the pork. There I can’t help man.
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Re: Fun math problem
May 13, 2022, 10:33 PM
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They’re called “unhoused”, now.
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Average cost of a habitat house is $90k.
May 13, 2022, 10:37 PM
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Roughly 445,000 homes.
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Re: Fun math problem
May 13, 2022, 11:45 PM
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Well it works out to 80k a person, that would get every single homless man women and child off of the streets and into out patient treatment for a year. we spend 20x that annually on our military, as far as we know. A really smart person was once asked why we have homeless in the US, being the wealthiest nation on earth, his answer is because we choose to.
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Re: Fun math problem
May 14, 2022, 7:45 AM
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I absolutely agree that spending way more money for providing quality alcohol and drug rehab treatment would go a long way to help remove a lot of folks from the homeless roster. Many of these folks have substance abuse issues.
Additionally providing mental health coverage would be a help too and furthermore institutionalizing many of the 20%-25% of the severely mentally ill homeless population that roams our streets, placing themselves and the general public at risk, would likewise be a sensible move.
We pick up stray wandering dogs off the streets, yet allow obviously severely mentally ill humans to roam the streets and basically howl at the moon.
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enough money
May 14, 2022, 5:13 PM
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Helping homeless is more than throwing more $$ at them. $$ is now at an absurb level in California with no positive results.
I know something about this, not just political talking points. I bet I have met more than all here combined. I have no answer, but it aint $$.
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Believe I read that the Covid lockdown years represented
May 13, 2022, 10:08 PM
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The biggest bottom and middle to top transfer of wealth in the country’s history. It’s pretty easy to see where the $2T ended up.
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accountability, LOL***
May 13, 2022, 11:53 PM
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10% to the “Big Guy” ain’t nothing to sneeze at.***
May 14, 2022, 12:53 AM
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The $40B to Ukraine is a small potatoes compared to the
May 14, 2022, 4:09 AM
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grift that's probably going to happen with that $1.5 Trillion infrastructure bill that was signed into law in March.
I just drove through 4 States (NC, SC, GA, and FL) while on vacation using Interstates I-85, I-485, I-77, I-26, I-95, I-10, and I-75... With the exception of Florida (I-10 and I-75) all the rest of those Interstate roads were in varying degrees of sorry shape with South Carolina's roads being the absolute worst. Seriously - I've spent a lot of time in the third world and SC's roads are about on par with the third world - what an embarrassment for the State.
I hope I'm wrong but based on our history of wasteful Government spending, my gut tells me that in 5 years time most of these roads will be in just as bad or worse shape than they are today and that $1.5T in infrastructure funds will have just vanished into politically connected coffers...
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third world
May 14, 2022, 5:16 PM
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I live in SC and our roads are OK.
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I lived in SC from birth till graduation from Clemson and
May 15, 2022, 2:52 PM
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the roads were never as bad then as they are now. Currently I live just across the SC border in NC now. I regularly drive throughout SC visiting family and friends - there is no doubt that the SC roads are among the worst roads in all of the Southeast.
I have no idea what SC is doing with their gas tax dollars but the taxpayers of SC ain't getting their money's worth towards road maintenance/construction. Maybe it is all going into that one perpetual I-85 lane widening grift between Spartanburg and Gaffney. That 29 miles of road construction started back in 2017 and is still nowhere near done - Romans built roads faster with slaves, rocks and mallets than this.
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Re: I lived in SC from birth till graduation from Clemson and
May 15, 2022, 3:02 PM
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Contrariwise, drive through Kentucky sometime. If there's a pothole in all of Mitch's World, I have yet to see it.
Having the Senate Majority leader in your state - and then having his wife be Secretary of Transportation - seems to affect things some.
Lindsey seriously needs to pick up his game.
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should have just had the taliban
May 14, 2022, 9:54 AM
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Fork over the 40 billion in war machines that we gave them
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Re: should have just had the taliban
May 14, 2022, 1:31 PM
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Perfect 'reorientation' shot ... all those who _itch and moan about our spending on the military instead of for spending on the poor and homeless need to read your post.
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crumbs on the floor
May 14, 2022, 5:07 PM
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You are talking $$ from taxpayers. We can't afford crumbs.
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