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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 17,071
    gotthebottle said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    I'm pretty sure this is the first time I have seen anything connected to Trump that didn't piss me off, and maybe could even be good, which has me suspicious, lol. I don't know much about this stuff in the US, and obviously have dubious feelings about anything the freak does, so am not sure if I'm missing any major downsides. If anyone with insight can comment, that would be cool. If this is actually a positive thing, colour me shocked, but I am happy to give credit where it's due. 




    Do the research.. BIDEN passed this on 2022 to be implemented now. All fuckhead is doing is starting a site where you can SEARCH OPTIONS FOR RETIREMENT SAVINGS. 

    Just like his stupid trumpRX it really doesn't give you anything
    I gotta say, someone asked a question regarding this and this is how you decide to answer?  Relax.
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 23,507
    edited May 1
    PJ_Soul said:
    I'm pretty sure this is the first time I have seen anything connected to Trump that didn't piss me off, and maybe could even be good, which has me suspicious, lol. I don't know much about this stuff in the US, and obviously have dubious feelings about anything the freak does, so am not sure if I'm missing any major downsides. If anyone with insight can comment, that would be cool. If this is actually a positive thing, colour me shocked, but I am happy to give credit where it's due. 




    Some earners who open an account will qualify for the federal Saver’s Match, which was passed by Congress during the Biden administration and goes into effect next year.

    This is the best part of the plan...thanks Joe!

    Seems like trump is once again taking credit for something done by Biden

    From my chair this is good but it's not enough. People at those income levels don't have money to save even if a match is involved.

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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 10,985
    It’s a good thing. It sucks how he’s selling it, but it’s a net benefit for Americans, so whatever. 
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 26,042
    Tim Simmons said:
    It’s a good thing. It sucks how he’s selling it, but it’s a net benefit for Americans, so whatever. 
    i'll bet most of the companies you can invest in are defense companies, oil companies, or tied to his sons somehow. so even when things are bad, they still make most of the money.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,684
    edited May 1
    I think most of you are misjudging or having a crazy reaction to my post, lol. I don't have any "faith" in Trump, not a smidgen of trust whatsoever, and despise him with a fervor beyond the beyond. I was just asking those who might know whether or not there is a specific downside to something, or if it wasn't horrible, lol. My post should not have disturbed anyone. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,400
    PJ_Soul said:
    I think most of you are misjudging or having a crazy reaction to my post, lol. I don't have any "faith" in Trump, not a smidgen of trust whatsoever, and despise him with a fervor beyond the beyond. I was just asking those who might know whether or not there is a specific downside to something, or if it wasn't horrible, lol. My post should not have disturbed anyone. 

    My reaction to Trump signing an executive order to expand worker's access to retirement plan does, indeed, sounds like something positive.  But I don't know much about retirement plans (the only one I ever had was in the 80s through the state of Calif. at a college and I spent it all going back to school in '89 when I quite the job that offered it), and I don't trust Trump any further than I can throw him.  But who knows, maybe he actually did a good thing.
    But I didn't take your post as meaning you support the man.  Not at all.  By now, everyone here should know how you feel about the man.  Yes, it's is a stretch to think he could do something positive, but I wouldn't say it's impossible. 
    So anyway, I too would be interested in hearing more about this from anyone here who is more familiar with retirement plans and his decision.  What exactly is under that rock? 
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  • mickeyrat
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    mace1229 said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    mace1229 said:
    josevolution said:
    mace1229 said:
    Gern Blansten said:


    Hilarious....

    I love seeing magats argue about gas prices and saying "when prices were high under Biden you said the pres didn't have anything to do with gas prices"....the exception being the case when the pres is stupid enough to attack Iran
    He was probably thinking of summer of 2022, so he was off by a year. And I think it was $5, not 6. But still was a record high that year, higher than the average today, which was his point.

    But I still agree this war is pointless and has caused gas to go up by $1.50 in 2 months. 
    I’ve never seen gas prices up above or nearing 6$ even in 2022 at least not here in NY 
    Today the national average is $4.30. The California average is $6.01
    https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA

    In June of 2022, it was  well above that in California. 
    and, pray tell, why was it that high back then?
    Most likely due to the resurgence of people coming out of Covid creating a high demand.
    and Biden ordered a release from the federal oil reserves to mitagate that innoart. 
    Fuckstick cant because neither replenished to the degree necessary



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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 26,042
    why can't he just give everyone stimmy checks again? it would help his polling and it would help people during this affordability crisis.

    what happened to the doge checks?
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 12,037
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    why can't he just give everyone stimmy checks again? it would help his polling and it would help people during this affordability crisis.

    what happened to the doge checks?
    2 weeks 
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 46,765
    edited May 2
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    why can't he just give everyone stimmy checks again? it would help his polling and it would help people during this affordability crisis.

    what happened to the doge checks?

    read something where it said that the GDP is now underwater to the debt


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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,400
    It's in the mail!  

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  • mickeyrat
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    “Two hundred and fifty years into the American experiment, it turns out that it takes a King to tell us how to run our Republic,” Susan B. Glasser writes. “On Tuesday, His Majesty King Charles III, the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of George III, the British monarch who lost the Revolutionary War to a bunch of impertinent colonists enamored of Enlightenment ideas about the natural rights of man, spoke to the U.S. Congress. With dry wit and a sense of irony that was surely lost on the host he so subtly trolled, Charles extolled the virtues of American-style liberal democracy now under threat by America’s own leader. What does it say about our current politics that polite British-accented clichés about the benefits of the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and the strengths that flow from ‘vibrant, diverse, and free societies’ could end up sounding downright subversive?” Read her reflections on King Charles’s state visit and the state of American politics: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/8M--Ls
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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 10,985
    mickeyrat said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    why can't he just give everyone stimmy checks again? it would help his polling and it would help people during this affordability crisis.

    what happened to the doge checks?

    read something where it said that the GDP is now underwater to the debt


    Don’t worry. They’ll want to address it when a Democrat is president. Thats when it becomes an issue. 
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 26,042
    mickeyrat said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    why can't he just give everyone stimmy checks again? it would help his polling and it would help people during this affordability crisis.

    what happened to the doge checks?

    read something where it said that the GDP is now underwater to the debt


    this is how they do economics in bizarroworld.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 44,294

    *The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

    Went to the White House website to look at the official announcement of the retirement accounts seeking additional information on how they’ll work, etc. and before I could access it, I got this with a request to sign up. Thanks, but no.















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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,400
    edited May 2
    Halifax2TheMax said:

    *The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

    Went to the White House website to look at the official announcement of the retirement accounts seeking additional information on how they’ll work, etc. and before I could access it, I got this with a request to sign up. Thanks, but no.
















    But... but... free gold coins with every sign up!

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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 26,042
    edited May 2
    Halifax2TheMax said:

    *The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

    Went to the White House website to look at the official announcement of the retirement accounts seeking additional information on how they’ll work, etc. and before I could access it, I got this with a request to sign up. Thanks, but no.















    they could at least give you a free bowl of soup or something.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,400
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    Halifax2TheMax said:

    *The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

    Went to the White House website to look at the official announcement of the retirement accounts seeking additional information on how they’ll work, etc. and before I could access it, I got this with a request to sign up. Thanks, but no.















    they could at least give you a free bowl of soup or something.

    I will settle for nothing less than a secret decoder ring.  
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 46,765
    wasn't certain where this belonged.

    it is VERY difficult to sympathize with foljs who vote against their own interests. repeatedly....


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    ALTNATPARKSERVICE adbook post 

    The Trump administration has taken over full control of what appears on National Park Service websites. For decades, park staff managed their own sites, working closely with local communities and tribal nations to tell the stories of the places they know best. That’s over now.

    Since February, a group of Trump administration Interior Department officials have been screening every new submission before it can go live, checking that content aligns with Trump’s 2025 directive to frame American history in a more flattering light. Historic sites, battlefields, natural wonders all of it now runs through this “approval process” before the public sees a word.

    For example, a tribal group submitted an article for the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail website. By the time it was approved and posted, any mention of Thomas Jefferson fathering children with an enslaved young woman had been deleted.

    This is a gut punch. NPS staff have long been the stewards of their sites’ stories, building relationships with communities and tribes over years to get the history right. That collaborative tradition has been replaced by a centralized vetting process run out of Washington designed not to ensure accuracy, but to ensure compliance.
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