• Furbag@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    How about some of that socialism for the rest of us, and not just for breeders and soybean farmers?

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      16 hours ago

      Yeah, I counted at least 50 stacks of $20 bills. Usually those stacks are 100 bills each, so over $100k in that pic.

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      Those stacks aren’t 100 dollars each that’s for sure… More like 1000… I count at least 47 stacks… So let’s round to 50…

      Yeah that’s 50k, which is definitely more than 5k

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    1 day ago

    $5,000 is a lot to those braindead morons who insist that “nobody wants to work” because they’re still living comfortably off of a few $1,400 checks from half a decade ago…

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    2 days ago

    Trade:

    • One person’s wages

    For:

    • Mortgage payments on a reasonably sized house
    • All bills
    • Food for two adults plus children
    • Entertainment

    Then you might see more babies.

    It was their greed that caused this.

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    This wouldn’t even cover the hospital bill for most people lol.

    And since hospitals know moms will be getting an extra 5k they will just add that into the cost somehow. /s

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    What are the odds this is just Clinton’s $5,000 Baby Bond, which was just giving them a fund at birth that they can cash out when they turn 18?

    Except this time there’s no guardrails and he can give it to all his cryptobro friends.

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    Daycare is free where I live. It has to be. You can’t expect people to pay for public services themselves; that’s done with taxes. Corporations can’t have customers or employees without people, and to get people to make more people, you have to make it easier for them. So what makes the most sense is cutting corporation porfits, which they don’t need past a limit if they aren’t investing in things that will benefit the public. So if a corporation isn’t doing anything good, raise their taxes, use them to pay for daycare.

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      16 hours ago

      60 years ago, wages were sufficient that one partner could be a homemaker even if the other only had a modest job, and they could afford a house and a car. We’ve only needed daycare as wages have stagnated against the cost of living.

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      17 hours ago

      I get your ribbing. But it’s sad if people think they saved anything.

      They literally mathematically added way more debt and cut gap.

      Yeah we don’t need govt workers…who contribute to tax base. Nah…

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      2 days ago

      I was surprised that bands of 20s could add up, but then I remember how you can fit a million dollars in a suitcase with 100s lol

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    So conservatives want smaller government and less taxes but they’re totally fine with their tax dollars being used to bribe women to give birth?

    So they’re stupid?

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    5000$ is a lot. In Germany you get only 250€

    well, that's

    per month until they’re 27 (as long as they’re still in school/university)
    plus free healthcare for mother and child
    plus free daycare (depending on the state)
    plus free schools and universities

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        I’m with you here, but we need to keep in mind that the nazis never “leave”. We’ll need to forever and continually keep these bastards from power.

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          This was the whole problem, they’ve been here all along.

          We thought we beat them in the civil war, they just hunkered down and changed the name of slavery to Jim crow.

          Now they think this is their moment.

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            Same thoughts here. Once they’re beaten, no “reconstruction” can be offered this time around. They’ll need to re-assimilate into our society.

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        If it’s like the civil war, we’ll kick them out and then build statues and name bases after them.

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          The paid variety. You stay at home for a certain time for being a mom (or dad!), and you employer respectively the state still pays for it. Horrible, this “communism”, isn’t it?

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            i understand the individual words you use, but when you put them in that order my blood starts getting all bubbly and full of nitrogen. i think i’ll take a nap

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      To add on, seems like the 5k (USD) is a one-time lump sum. Your price quote from Germany is already 3k (EUR) after a year. It only ever outscales the 5k.