Gee Grenouille

Jail is like Vietnam. Only the poor people have to go.

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When my husband started taking a statin, his memory and cognitive function started to slip.

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I went full retard. Couldn’t finish sentences. Brain fog.

If the 2013 "Gang of Eight" immigration bill (Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act) had passed, it would have provided a 13-year pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, significantly increased border security, mandated E-Verify for all employers, and overhauled legal immigration to be more merit-based.Key Outcomes of the Proposed Legislation:Pathway to Citizenship: Undocumented immigrants residing in the U.S. before Dec. 31, 2011, could gain Registered Provisional Immigrant (RPI) status, eventually leading to permanent residency and citizenship after fines, back taxes, and background checks.Border Security "Triggers": Citizenship pathways would only start after stringent border security, including 700 miles of fencing and doubling border patrol agents to roughly 40,000, were fully implemented.Mandatory E-Verify: The bill would have required all employers to use the E-Verify system to confirm employment authorization for new hires, aimed at reducing the hiring of undocumented workers.Legal Immigration Overhaul: The bill would have shifted toward a "merit-based" system, increasing H-1B visas for high-skilled workers, creating a new W-visa for lower-skilled workers, and eliminating the Diversity Visa Lottery.Economic & Fiscal Impact: The Congressional Budget Office estimated the bill would have reduced the federal deficit by \(\$197\) billion over 10 years, while the Social Security Administration estimated a \(\$276\) billion boost in revenue.Projected Criticisms and Challenges:Opponents argued the bill would have authorized "amnesty" for lawbreakers, overwhelmed administrative capacity, and potentially allowed for bureaucratic failure in securing the border, leading some to refer to it as an "immigration Obamacare".

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A plumber is the second most revered figure on this board and quickly gaining ground on Jesus! A plumber is the second most revered figure on this board and quickly gaining ground on Jesus!

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My son signed up for a program at a Cc today. They take 16 students a year and about 6 actually finish the course. I foresee a boom for these guys for the next 20 years.

Reporter “is there any music you wouldn’t let your kids listen to”

Zappa”yeah, we are the world”

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I love these threads where the boomers post about retirement to dab on the millennials that will never be able to retire

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Gee, 45, $1.25 million in retirement. Will be around $3 million when I hang it up at 60. 26th downvote. GFY

That shite has destroyed every neighborhood that the middle class has ever built. It’s like a cancer. I understand we need cheaper housing but put those shite apartment complexes outside of town, stand up a Walmart neighborhood market next to it, and quit destroying our towns and cities.

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Might not have deserved being shot to death, but when I saw the news and recognized the location, I just nodded

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That cop giving the news conference was the least surprised person I’ve ever seen.

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Imagine being a citizen in Los Angeles that works downtown. You drive or walk past hundreds of drug addicts that are shitting in the streets. People are getting robbed and assaulted in high end areas that would’ve been unthinkable 15 years ago. “We’ve got to elect another Democrat to keep this up!”

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It’s almost like it would take cheating to win

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Any type of entrepreneurship, honestly. Nobody's getting rich by working for someone else.

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I’m what Dave Ramsey refers to as an every day millionaire via my 401k and pension. I started out with nothing and passed that mark at 43. I couldn’t have done that without working for the man.

But I plan to get into some entrepreneurship. I just couldn’t do it on debt when I was a young man.

I know a lot of folks are gonna say all the trades, but the one I don’t hear anyone talking about is being a brick mason. Laying brick is a shite ton of work. It’s hard, always in the weather, and no one does it. But it seems like to me if a fella really got good at it he’d have all the work he could stand.

What yall got?