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Farmers have been fucked over for so long in this country that they can’t exactly pick and choose who they’re gonna make money from. Plus a few farmers might be empathetic due to a lack of migrant farm workers this year for
Some strange reason....

 

Same for me now. That much could support two kids and a spouse who isn’t working full time.

Where I grew up, that means you’ll rent, not buy.

 

This country can easily afford an even more generous Social Security system at current age levels. This would, however, require rich and upper middle class people and corporations to pay higher taxes. This proposal is overwhelmingly popular when it is polled, and is the ultimate taboo of the political class, elected and unelected. Guess which socioeconomic category they're in.

 

Raising the SS cap seems so obvious, and it can even be done incredibly gradually. Cap is currently $127,500. Say something like income over . . .

$127.5K-$200K pay 1% FICA
$200K-$400K pay 2% FICA
$400K-$750K pay 3% FICA
$750K-$1M pay 4% FICA
$1M+ pay 6% FICA.

 

People choose and get educated in fields that they think they'll like and will be able to make a good living at. The problem with that is the the downside to some jobs are not evident on the front end. I see "Jobs in demand in the future" type articles all the time saying that the Baby Boomers are aging and that there will be demand in all sorts of nursing and health related professions. What they don't tell you is that many such jobs are in their own way as hard on your body as working construction. You just do it in a clean, climate controlled environment.

Patients need to be gotten in and out of bed, or helped to transfer to/from a wheelchair, or moved to a gurney and then onto an examination table. Many such are in a state of physical debility, and people do not have convenient grab handles. I've had many a land whale on the x-ray table who were all but unable to roll from their back to their side without the rails of a hospital bed to pull on. You wind up pulling on them, or letting them pull on you. If you are lucky there is someone available to help you, but as in all other businesses, labor force is kept at a minimum, so sometimes not.

Nurses and similar positions wind up with bad low backs from wrestling patients over the years, and they don't tell you that going in, but it's hell from your mid-fifties on.

 

I’ve unfortunately been in hospitals with family members the last year or so.

For the waves of people who may be going into nursing, I saw so many people who seemed absolutely miserable to be doing it.

 

Also tariffs.

Kim Reynolds, GOP leaders worried about escalating trade war, say it threatens fragile ag economy

 

The Best People.

Ex-Trump adviser tells black Fox News guest he's out of his 'cotton-picking mind'

It is possible that he simply used the phrase with no conscious thought of the implications, but I can't blame a black man who hears it used on him for being upset about it.

 

It’s never been easier — online, on-demand, etc.

People who have their default setting on “no” will always find an easy way to not accomplish something. I always just have to think of that casino break room.

 

Farmers are in a pickle over this, especially soybean farmers in the Midwest.

However... the years and years of ethanol subsidies meant that corn farmers could easily retire by 50 for a long time.

 

Just from personal experience, I've seen nurses catch my vomit in a bucket, pull out a catheter that had been wedged in my dickhole, shave my balls, and hold me down while I've had various bones popped back into their sockets. I can't imagine a worse job other than high school teacher.

 

And even if all these people get management degrees, you expect them to get jobs doing what exactly? There are still basic forces of supply-and-demand at play. Not everyone can have a management job, even if they all get degrees.