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Also, most people would spend the whole amount as soon as they could touch it.

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Make it so the money can’t be touched until 65. Put a payment plan in place once the account goes live. Or if people want to spend it all, be my guest. Not the government’s fault if you go broke.

I’ve always felt that the only way to curb government spending is to completely overhaul Social Security (healthcare too but that’s another conversation). Inspired by the Trump baby bond idea, I used Grok to run some numbers.

First assumption - the average monthly Social Security payment is ~$2,000. If I want to cover 25 years of Social Security (ages 65-90), I would need ~$750k at the age of 65, assuming a 4% rate of return. I think this is a pretty safe estimate considering most people don’t make it 90. But even if they do, most people have supplemental retirement income (401ks) and family members to help take care past the age of 90. So in other words, the government needs to get $750k in your hands at the age of 65 to equal the benefits of Social Security.

If we take a conservative rate of return of 4%, you would need $60,000 at birth to have $750,000 65 years later. There are roughly 3.6 million births in the US per year. $60,000 times 3.6 million equals $216 billion per year.

In contrast, the government pays $1.5 trillion per year in Social Security. A baby bond program would be 15% of the cost while matching the benefits. Now obviously there would be a transition period where we’d be paying both programs. But a temporary addition of $216 billion to our budget isn’t going to put us under. In fact, it might be the only way for us to solve our spending problem.

Why aren’t more conservatives touting baby bonds as a replacement to Social Security? How can Rand Paul seriously suggest raising the SS age as a solution instead of this? It’s time we bring this idea to the mainstream.

Germany, France, and the UK are just mad that they have zero influence anymore. I honestly don’t know how far back in history you have to go for none of those countries to be a major player on the global stage.

But that’s the reality now and it’s hilarious to watch. The fact that the US has to mediate a war on their own continent is emasculating.

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Put any other name in place of Alabama and pretend with a straight face that they'd be in a serious discussion about being in with 3 losses compared to two teams with 2

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that’s an unfair comparison. why does bama get punished for making it to the conference championship? why not just decline the invite and keep your record at 2 losses then?

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Nice propaganda piece to get us involved in regime change

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has it ever occurred to you that the Chavez/Maduro regime might actually want to undermine America? why do you immediately assume it’s all a conspiracy? it’s really not far-fetched at all - in fact, it makes perfect sense.

But since it’s Trump, you’re forced to do some mental gymnastics.

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That would mean our military has committed murder

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Oh my god the horror! The military killed people?!

I can’t believe this is even a controversy. So we killed 11 cartel members, instead of 9. I don’t give a shite about your war crimes. You’re acting like we lined up POW’s firing squad style.

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We love our drug traffickers, don’t we folks?

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Let’s be honest, neither of us know all of the facts. But I’m more likely to believe Trump and his advisors than the Biden DOJ. Hernandez said he was set up by the cartel - crazier things have happened.

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Pretty big issue I’d say. Trump taking the Vivek position should have been expected I guess.

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It’s certainly an issue, but it’s important we put it into perspective. The US issues 85,000 new H1b visas every year. Not exactly tipping the scale.

I think Trump is being soft on the issue, but he’s pretty fixated on the semiconductor chip training. It’s not like he’s openly supporting Indian software engineers.

Either way, not a big enough issue to draw a line in the sand and stop supporting the President.

TL;DR - the attacks on Trump from the right undermine the administration and ignore all of the positive trends.

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We all know how Trump 45 was slowed down by the left and the Deep State. Between Russia Gate and the special counsel, two impeachments, swamp creatures impeding his efforts, and Covid, the Deep State prevented Trump from fully delivering his agenda.

Trump 47 started out with all the momentum in the world. Trump knew he had to take advantage of it, and I think it’s safe to say, he did. We’re now about 11 months in, and the roadblocks are starting to pile up. Between activist judges, the Schumer shutdown, and now a faction of the right turning on Trump.

For what? Well in the words of Nick Fuentes, the leader of this faction, it’s because Trump is controlled by the Israeli lobby, supports H1b visas, and is starting new wars. While the H1b visa issue is legitimate, the other two are laughable accusations. This idea that we’re at war with Iran and Venezuela is a bizarre distortion of reality and anyone who thinks Trump can be controlled must live in a different universe. In addition, the critics like to downplay or ignore the progress. Sounds a lot like the Dem playbook. I won’t list out all of the accomplishments since I’ve done that in a previous thread.

If we fall victim to this line of thinking, we’re gonna throw the midterms to the Dems and all of the progress being made will come to a halt. The roadblocks will get worse and they’ll try to get all of America to sour on Trump just like 2020. Time to unite, accept that we won’t get 100% of the things on our wish list, but we will get most of the things and that’s worth fighting for.

I don’t like how people are anointing JD this early. He’s been saying all the right things for the past couple years, but it’s hard to look past his 2016 views and the fact that he’s VERY opportunistic.

Maybe he’s the real deal, but he should have to duke it out.