You are right. Which sword should I fall on for corrupt lobbying by the ruling class when my grandparents were children?
The infrastructure that makes it impossible or dangerous to walk or ride a trolley into town to have dinner was built with lobbyist persuasion 50 years before I was born. Most of us cannot afford to buy into the narrow islands of places built for humans in north America.
Yes, and you can thank private equity for it.
Maybe perception on my end too but I feel like the quality of clothes at the fast fashion level has cratered in the last five years
Appreciate the clarification, I was not aware that some federal workers were outside of the social security system!
The clothes thing is interesting to me as an American living in Europe. I feel like our clothes are shapeless blobs made in china for fast fashion exclusively, while the clothes in Europe and UK seem to be much better in cut and quality. They are certainly more expensive in UK and western Europe though!
It means you contributed to a pension directly or indirectly as well as social security and now you don't get the social security that was part of the original deal. It's a little nibble away at the edges to soften retirees up for the next nibbles
I hate dish towels hanging on kitchen drawers. Do people just like picking up the towel every time you need a fork?
Regarding election of a minority, I think this country would elect an Arab American before a woman. Anecdotally, talking to right leaning voters who really had no great feeling for trump, the theme came up again and again "how can a woman go toe to toe with Putin or the Saudis?" "Will generals listen to her?".
Weekend of Sept 8-9 2001, went to a house party in long island NY with some friends from our then-town in upstate NY. Friends mom, our ride, ended up on a crack binge and the party house started getting, uhh sketchy. So four of us got out of there on foot walking down train tracks, pooled funds for a train to at least get back to NYC try to hop our train back up north somehow.
This was middle of the night Sunday the 9th, and we headed to the old liberty park after my friend in area didn't answer his door. Slept in the park one block from WTC and had my brother upstate wire us money for the train, which we took after WALKING from wall street to grand central (no money). We got back upstate Sept 10, and the following morning 9/11 happened. My friend and I were the type to have been helping people get out of the buildings, he is a firefighter now, one of the others is a nurse.