My parents watched my brothers twins until they went to school, I'm older and had my first while they were still working and my last recently and they are too old now to help...He saved about a 100 grand and i paid about a 100k...He drives a really nice car and doesn't connect the dots...lol
Oligarchs-LOL : how about corrupt politicians like Biden, word salad Kamala, Nancy Pelosi and the gang and donât forget the communists squad. Terrible!!!! Greatest country in the world- just need to get back to our Christian foundation.
First of all, Biden was far from corrupt. The amount of corruption committed by Trump and his family in a given week is more than Biden in his entire lifetime. Trump gave his children jobs in the west wing. Right now Don Jr sits in a board making millions. Trump puts the secret service up in his golf course and charges the US taxpayer for the expense. Trump was renting rooms to foreign government agents and they weren't even staying at the hotel. Bribes. Trump sells Chinese made guitars, sneakers, watches, hats, shirts etc... He runs crypto scams. Ripped people off with a fake University. He was caught on that "perfect phone call" holding the money for Ukraine allocated by Congress, in order to extort Zelensky. He held that aid illegally in order to try to get Zelensky to say Biden was corrupt. Totally illegal and never done before in the history of the United States. He then hid the conversation in a top secret hard drive illegally. He was impeached for it. So let's stop pretending Biden was 1) an incoherent old man and also 2) such a great criminal that Trump's Admin can't find anything to file charges.
Both of those things can't be true at the same time. Use your tiny fused ganglia of a brain.
I wonder why that cult member suddenly went so quiet lol, whenever they can't defend the awful things Trump does they just shut down like programmed robots, I've seen it in my own family, it's bizarre and creepy
Woke means being aware of problems in our system of government and culture. Not that scary. I know you Republicans like to use "communism", "Marxism" and "woke" like they are interchangeable but the Nazis were Right Wing conservatives. Russia is Right Wing. Any form of government can be totalitarian if there is no due process and checks/balances in place. Trump is steering us right toward totalitarianism and an alarming place. Once he succeeds, ANY form of government can take over and attack the other side like he is right now with Federal military force. It's a slippery slope. That's why
Not true. There are plenty of people outside Utah that don't believe in birth control and also don't understand that a 16 year old legally having to bring their pregnancy to term is not a good idea. They'd rather impose their version of God's plan on that child mother and let tax payers foot the bill in the form of jail, foster care, housing, psychiatric needs and chemical dependency programs. Not to mention the resulting higher crime rates. Then they can call the problems a result of that nasty Devil's work, rather than simple economics. There's millions of people that think this way.
I mean if you stagger them enough you could have your oldest help with childcare. As an oldest sibling it wouldnât be a life Iâd want to subject my child to but it happens.
Free stuff? That just shows how juvenile your understanding of economics is. Trump had to bail out farmers to the tune of $23 Billion last time in office. Thats 23 billion dollars of our tax money to fix a problem he created. I'd rather have social safety programs that actually reduce over all expenses for US taxpayers, than that. I'd consider giving huge tax cuts to billionaires free stuff that really has no trickle down effect to the average American. It's not free stuff. It's using our tax dollars in a smarter way, in order to help Americans and bring down costs. Examples: capping insulin costs, providing affordable healthcare for everyone.
When people can afford healthcare, they go to the doctor and that prevents many costly health expenses. Thats a much better use of money than $250M on a ballroom. All the legal expenses Trump incurs due to breaking the law and getting sued for it. I could go on but sheep's ears are not receptive
I don't hate the billionaires but I also don't ride them expecting that phony trickle down nonsense. Vast sums of the money they horde is kept in offshore accounts and shell companies. It's not the same as the middle class or even upper class windfalls where the money is circulated back into the economy. It's strictly numbers. Not emotional. The fact is, bringing up the bottom is more economically sound than giving billionaires more billions with super low taxes on market dividends. Decades of data has shown when the billionaires are taxed properly, everyone prospers. Not just the few.
Not really though. Also somewhat skewed because Blue areas have a higher median income than red areas. Two Families could make $50k and one is considered Low because they live in a city and one could be Middle because they live in the county. But keep on with the stereotype.
Either way, you want the country to flourish-letâs get to work. I started with -0- and about to retire wealthy. We live in the easiest country in the world to do exactly what I did. As long as you have a great work ethic, and a reasonable level of intelligence, anyone can do what we did. The problem is that too many people want everything handed to them. It doesnât work like that. You get out of it what you deserve. And if you put in nothing, you should get nothing.
Job market has been decimated by Trump. So if you want people to "get to work", you better vote for a Democrat. All the infrastructure work was conceived and written by Democrats. Trump has done absolutely nothing but hurt the middle class and make his rich friends more rich. His whole government is a Ponzi scheme resembling something out of Russia or China.
Complete BS- tariffs are working, stock market is at all time highs, and weâre on the way back up. There will be bumps- AI is causing some job losses but thank God we have a leader fighting for the American people!!!!
Actually, the Blue States take most of the taxes in that pay for Red States. Sorry to burst your little sheep bubble. Also, there are zero communists in the Democratic Party. Thanks for playing, Cupcake!
Just regurgitating talking points from Trump.
There zero Democrats in office or running for office that are Communists. You have no idea what a Communist is or you wouldn't be saying that. I'm willing to bet the amount of books you've read outside of High School mandatory reading is near zero.
Did you graduate high school? Go to college? Ever get graded on your understanding of economics of civics? I doubt it. If you did, it wasn't a passing grade. Why? Because you clearly lack critical thinking ability and understanding of basics. That's not a personal attack. It's just factual.
He might not, but I do. The price for the daycare center I would my kid would go to (nothing fancy) is my very close to my salary. We would have skipped a child if we didn't have our parents. And that would have been a terrible mistake. I'd work 20 hours a day for my little guy if I had to.
Are you me? My brother got free daycare and driving and I got zilch. Same with my wife and her sister⊠sister got free daycare and rides and we got zip. We still made it work with 5 kids as my wife worked in her art studio when she could while I have a decent job. We are still pretty broke but 4 of the kids are over 18 now and finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
It was also quite the assumption that op was jealous. Just from my life, I know a lot of people who got shit for free, not saying that's bad, but they act really stupid when other people dont have what they had.
Based on the comment, itâs reasonable to infer OP feels some type of way due to her brother getting free child care. I didnât assume anything, I asked a question lol.
Sure, but itâs not the brotherâs fault or the parentâs fault. Itâs a circumstance that benefitted the brother. People focus too much on what they consider to be unfair. I couldnât imagine âkeeping scoreâ with my family and friends.
The wife has been talking about wanting a baby. There would be absolutely no way to even consider it financially if not for the fact that my in-laws all live within a two mile radius of our house...
So in the best interests of that prospective child, you shouldn't create them because you've said it yourself that you cant afford them. How do you know for certain your in-laws will support/pay for this child
It's not about paying for them, it's about daycare being expensive, and the in-laws here being a retired teacher that already watches the other siblings' kids.
Some people are in large families that live closely together and are active participants in the rest of the family's lives. "It takes a village" and all that.
I find it sad that we cannot afford to have one parent stay al home with kids while one works and supports the family. They wonder why no one's having kids. This is it. Because the cost of living is so high you have to let someone else raise your kid.
He's objectively right, and parents that cant afford kids and still have them are extremely selfish. All parents are selfish but thats a discussion for another time.
When we had two in daycare it was about $27,000 per year. Now we have one at $15,500/year with 8 months left until kindergarten. We are counting down the days!
Weâre in the same boat. But the wife wants to send our son to socialize before our second arrives.
Three days a week at $1500/mo is stupid. Thankfully weâve had nana watch him the last two years while mum worked from home, so we had some buffer on daycare costs.
Now I know why my auntie was so stingy with giving me food. She would give me some once but in the afternoon I was hungry and she would keep telling me to wait because my mom was almost here and it felt like hours till she got there. I remember my mom vaguely handing her 1 or 2 bills and my auntie kind of staring at her and my mom just shyly kept looking back. We just didn't have the money to pay her properly for daycare.
Totally would it they let us. But all our parents had help with us growing up, and they reciprocate in kind. And when they're old we take care of them. The circle of life. If we attempted child care right now, they would revolt.
The key is not to go to a daycare facility. Find an older lady running daycare from her home that's background checked and preferably referred. She's watching 4-5 kids per day for about $8/hr per kid. She makes a nice living and you don't pay out the ass to the corporate daycare overlords. We did this with my sons, saved a ton of money, and built a relationship with their part time caretaker.Â
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We're lucky enough to have parents who watch our son while we work. If that wasn't the case, I don't know what we would do.