the808bass

Yes. Water is wet.

We had a good basketball season until March. We finished the season about the 40th-50th best team.

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then drug prices will sky rocket by 3000% and people will be bitching about it

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Lolololololol

It’s mostly hilarious news.

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Came here for a large number of benefits including those loans for a food truck that would have been unachievable in their home country.

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If a rural Guatemalan came to the States and somehow remembered to send money back home (not all of them do), $1000/mo to a family would make them upper middle class in almost any area not in Guatemala City.

ETA: this incentivizes groups to help people start their illegal immigration journey. I’ll be driving past a comparatively palatial church in the middle of a rural Guatemalan province next week. The first time we drove past many years ago, I asked my local driver how they afforded the building. He said they encouraged and assisted people in coming to America with the understanding that you route some portion of your US earning back to the church.

Right. You’re comparing the trough after 2008 to today.

Worst has come and gone here. Lost my fence and some siding.

We will rebuild.

Here’s some data. Tell me what the median is

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3,000,000,000

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Says most parents.....but having to pay twice as much for a house as compared to 14 years ago is absurd.

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The CPI adjusted median price in 2006 (the peak before the crash) was around $340k. Now it’s around $420k.

You and I both know that free healthcare doesn’t mean anything.

In Mexico, it just means that the hospital you go to doesn’t charge you. They also don’t treat you. Nor do they keep medical records (oftentimes). But hey! It’s free!