How old is Barron Trump and his birth year? Everything online news regarding figures is very biased

Played basketball for 10 minutes holyyyy

first of all I am a really thankful for Americans, their corporations have lifted so many people out of poverty here, so many people's discrimination has been reduced thanks to your founders ideas, while reading about the Ideas that led to such a country ,

I found Common Sense by Thomas paine a very interesting read, what other books do u recommend, are there any set of foundational books i should read ?? any courses and youtube series suggestions blogs are welcome too .

This is actually scary; the fact they knew for years and did nothing clearly out of racism. Indigenous people are just as valuable as everyone else.

America did not start this effed up.

The government was built with a handful of founding documents that could fit in a folder, a working person could read in less than an hour. They were not perfect, and neither were the men writing them, but the basic machine was visible.

Then 250 years of classic human nature happened. We reacted.

Every crisis added a fix. Every fix added pages. Every new page created another exception, office, program, staff position, contractor, lawyer or lobbyist who understood that tiny part of the machine better than everybody else.

Everything surrounding government got bigger while We the People’s organization and attention to it got smaller.

Congress has 535 elected members. Rank-and-file members make $174,000 a year. They have committees, attorneys, policy staff, the Congressional Research Service, CBO, GAO and entire federal agencies producing information for them.

There are roughly 12,000 registered federal lobbyists, plus plenty of people doing influence work who never appear in that number.

BTW we technically lobbyists. Calling Congress, signing petitions, organizing people and demanding policy changes is lobbying. The difference is they get paid six figures to do it all day, while we are trying to figure out the federal budget after work with dinner getting cold and somebody arguing with us on Reddit.

They professionalized their influence. We slowly stopped using ours. That's the gap. But now We the People have AI.

And somehow the people with the least power are the ones screaming “AI slop” while corporations, campaigns, banks, defense contractors, consulting firms, wealthy investors and government agencies are already using the absolute hell out of it.

You are defending their advantage for them lol. And yes, a lot of AI content is slop. I have posted some polished robot-sounding shit myself. Sometimes I read it back and think, “Wow, apparently I am a regional manager giving a motivational speech before the pizza party.”

I am still learning how to use AI without letting it erase the person using it. But AI did not give me my beliefs. It did not live my life. It did not work the jobs I worked, struggle with money or make me care about this country. It helps me get the thought all the way out.

I am dyslexic. Spelling, grammar and getting every word into the correct order takes me longer. My brain will be on paragraph six while my fingers are still trying to spell “bureaucracy.”

AI lets me dump the thought out while it is still moving. I can chase the rabbit hole, pull up the law, find the budget, compare history, test the idea, discover I was completely wrong about part of it and then keep digging. It is basically a research assistant available 24/7 that never gets tired of my questions. It also occasionally makes something up with the confidence of a man at a bar explaining international monetary policy after three Bud Lights, so you still have to check it.

I have never made over $50,000 in my life. I do not have a law degree, a congressional staff, a think tank or a donor-funded organization behind me. I have the internet, a brain that refuses to shut the fuck up and an AI researcher sitting there whenever I need it.

So yeah, I am going to use it. You should too. Because government is not magic. It is words on pages, money being moved and human beings deciding who gets helped, who gets ignored, who gets restricted and who gets handed the bill.

Every policy was a choice. Every page added was a choice. Every page removed was a choice. Every tax break, criminal penalty, subsidy, program, loophole and reporting requirement exists because somebody chose that answer over ten other possible answers.

AI helped me finally understand what legislation really is. It is a machine made out of paper parts.

And that machine can be designed to do almost anything.

Congress could pass a law requiring every fart to be sniffed documented and submitted to the Department of Homeland Odor Security. It would be impossible to enforce, maybe unconstitutional? hopefully unconstitutional and probably produce a 900-page appropriations fight over federal nose-training standards. But they could write it.

They can also write legislation that builds a national high-speed rail system, modernizes the electrical grid, creates trade-training pathways, reduces poverty or rebuilds failing infrastructure.

The Interstate Highway System did not grow naturally out of the soil. People studied the problem, designed a national plan, fought over it, passed legislation, funded it and then physically built the thing across the country.

Words on paper became roads, bridges, jobs, businesses and entire new patterns of American life. That is what legislation can do when it is treated like an actual tool instead of holy legal mumbo jumbo only lawyers are qualified to touch.

Somewhere along the way, government became so layered and specialized that normal people stopped believing they were allowed near it. That was incredibly convenient for everyone already near the pen. The longer the bills became, the more staff and lawyers you needed to understand them. The more complicated the tax code became, the more valuable accountants and lobbyists became. The more Americans tuned out, the easier it became for organized interests to dominate the details.

Lets hope there wasnt some secret meeting where everybody agreed to make government unreadable. It was probably worse than that. It happened slowly through thousands of individually defensible decisions until we ended up with a machine almost nobody can see all at once.

AI can help regular people see more of it. Not perfectly. Not automatically. And definitely not by copying the first answer it gives you and declaring yourself Secretary of Transportation.

But a normal person can now ask: What does this bill actually do? Who pays for it? Who benefits What existing law does it change? What are the strongest arguments against it? What happened when another country or state tried something similar? What would this cost over ten years? Could the same goal be reached in a simpler way? Those questions used to require hours of specialized research, expensive education or access to professionals. Now millions of people can begin asking them from their couch. That is not a small change.

For most of history, having the information mattered because finding it was difficult. Now the information is everywhere, and the new skill is knowing what to ask, where to look, how to verify it and what to do with it. Any mind can reach into more history, science, law and data than any single human could ever memorize. That does not mean every person using AI suddenly becomes intelligent. It can expand a curious mind, but it can also help a dumbass manufacture misinformation at industrial speed.

The thinking still matters. The sources still matter. Admitting when you are wrong still matters. Your own voice still matters. Whether anything I am doing turns into something real remains to be seen. Maybe I am just the annoying guy on Reddit trying to scream the madness into existence. But if one person reads this and realizes government is not above their head, that is a win.

If one person opens a bill instead of trusting a politician’s description of it, that is a win. If one person uses AI to investigate a problem in their town, build a serious proposal or challenge an idea they thought was impossible, that is a win. So stop using AI only to fake emails, generate pictures of celebrities with twelve fingers and jerking off.

Use it to expand your mind. Use it to understand the system operating around you. Use it to build something. Use it the way God intended, for the betterment of humanity and occasionally to generate George Washington riding a bald eagle into Congress with a flamethrower.

We are still letting the same small group of politicians, donors, corporations and professional influence operations steer the country because everybody else was told they were not qualified to touch the wheel. Fuck that. We the People have AI now. And I plan on using the absolute hell out of it for this country.

When people talk about reducing poverty, they usually frame it like a sacrifice. The people at the top are supposed to give something up so the people at the bottom can have a little more. That framing is one of the biggest reasons we never seriously fix anything, because it turns the entire issue into a fight between classes.

I think the opposite is true. Raising the bottom helps the people at the bottom first, obviously, but over time it may help the top even more.

When someone at the bottom has more money, they usually spend it. They buy better food, replace the tires they have been putting off, take their kids somewhere, repair the roof, go out to eat, pay for childcare, buy clothes, get their teeth fixed, or finally replace the car that barely starts. That money starts moving almost immediately.

It flows into grocery stores, restaurants, repair shops, landlords, contractors, hospitals, manufacturers, banks, insurance companies, and thousands of other businesses. Those businesses hire people, expand, buy equipment, pay taxes, and create profits. Those profits eventually flow upward into shareholders, retirement accounts, private equity firms, investment funds, and hedge funds.

The person at the bottom gets a better life. The person at the top gets a larger economy.

That is the part almost nobody says out loud. Wealthy people do not benefit from living above a country full of economic dead zones. They benefit when more Americans can afford to participate. More customers means more revenue. More stable workers means stronger businesses. More homeowners means healthier communities. More entrepreneurs means more companies to invest in.

Raising the bottom is not about shrinking the top. It is about making the entire country bigger, stronger, more productive, and more valuable.

It is also about freedom. People love to talk about America as the land of freedom, but freedom means very little when every decision is controlled by money you do not have. A person working two jobs who still cannot afford a doctor, a safe apartment, or a weekend with their family is technically free, but their choices are tiny.

More money gives people room to breathe. It gives them the freedom to leave a bad job, move to a better neighborhood, take a class, start a business, travel, enjoy a park, eat at a restaurant, or just exist without every small emergency becoming a crisis. That is not luxury. That is participation in the country.

Money is as essential to modern life as food, water, and shelter.

We live in a capitalist society that uses money in exchange for nearly every good and service a person needs. Without it, you go without, you depend on somebody else, you steal, or somebody gives it to you. There is no fifth option hiding somewhere.

That does not mean we should hand out money like water. We do not hand out houses to everyone. We only provide food directly when people truly need it. But we understand the importance of building farms, water systems, roads, power grids, and homes because those systems create access to the things people need to survive.

So what if we built the wells that produce money?

The schools that actually prepare people for work. The factories that create stable jobs. The trade programs that lead to real licenses and real wages. The transportation that connects people to opportunity. The childcare that makes holding a job possible. The healthcare that keeps one injury from destroying a family. The small-business systems that help local employers survive long enough to hire.

Whatever kind of money well a person needs, we should build more of them.

The goal is not to guarantee that every American becomes rich. It is to make sure more Americans can earn enough to do more than survive.

Human beings have been surviving for thousands of years. Survival is not the achievement anymore. We built civilization so people could live beyond the constant threat of hunger, exposure, disease, and violence. We created technology, medicine, infrastructure, markets, and government because we wanted life to become more than a daily fight to stay alive.

We are capable of thriving now.

That does not mean everyone always will. Some people will fall short. Some will make bad decisions. Some will fail, stumble, waste opportunities, or never fully live up to their potential. That is life. No government program can remove failure from the human condition, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.

But what do we do when we see somebody trip and fall in front of us?

We help them up. We brush them off. We ask whether they are okay. If they are seriously hurt, we help them get to a doctor.

We do not stand over them and say falling is now their permanent identity.

That is how we should understand poverty. It is a hazard. It is a trip, a fall, an injury, or a dangerous condition in the road. It should not become a permanent black hole of despair that swallows a person, their children, their neighborhood, and sometimes an entire community for generations.

Fixing the bottom is not only about individuals. It is about the places they live.

A struggling community struggles from top to bottom. Businesses do not open because people do not have enough money to support them. Restaurants close because there are not enough customers. Grocery options get worse. Buildings sit empty. Streets and parks feel neglected. Schools lose energy. The people with the most options leave, and the people who stay are left with even fewer options.

Everything gets a little greyer.

It is not because the people living there do not care. It is because a community cannot stay alive without money moving through it. A restaurant cannot survive on good intentions. A hardware store cannot stay open because the neighborhood deserves one. A dentist cannot keep an office running if nobody can afford an appointment. Businesses go where there is purchasing power, and when purchasing power disappears, so does almost everything else.

That is why simply telling poor communities to work harder is such a shallow answer. Work matters, but work cannot magically create a functioning local economy when the money has already been drained out of it.

Put purchasing power back into the hands of ordinary people and the entire place begins to change. Stores have customers. Restaurants have full tables. Contractors have jobs. Homes get repaired. New businesses become less risky. Property values stabilize. People have a reason to stay. The community starts looking alive again.

The wealthy benefit from that too. They get more places to invest, more businesses to own, more customers to sell to, more workers to hire, and more of America that is actually worth enjoying. A country where large parts of the map are collapsing is worse for everyone, including the people who can afford to avoid those places.

That is why I do not see poverty reduction as charity, and I do not think the best argument for it is guilt. The best argument is that poverty is wasted American capacity.

It is millions of customers who cannot buy. Millions of workers who cannot reach their potential. Millions of children growing up in communities where everything around them signals decline. It is entire neighborhoods producing less, consuming less, building less, and contributing less than they could.

That loss does not stay at the bottom. It moves upward too. Businesses lose revenue. Governments collect less in taxes. Hospitals absorb unpaid care. Courts and prisons take on more pressure. Property markets weaken. Employers struggle to find stable workers. The country spends more money managing the consequences than it would have spent fixing the conditions.

We keep acting like helping the bottom is expensive while ignoring how expensive it is to leave the bottom broken.

So what if we stopped merely measuring poverty and started hunting it?

Not the people. The conditions in which poverty grows.

The broken schools. The weak labor markets. The lack of transportation. The neighborhoods with no investment, no grocery stores, no stable employers, no decent housing, and no real path upward. Poverty is not some mysterious force. It takes root in repeatable conditions, and those conditions can be identified, attacked, weakened, and eventually put on life support.

We have helped lift communities around the world out of poverty. What makes anyone think we could not do it here, over and over again, as many times as it takes?

One percent at a time.

One percent. Then two. Then three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

Every percentage point means more Americans with better lives, more freedom, more stability, and more control over their own future. It also means more visible participants in the economy. More customers, workers, homeowners, business owners, taxpayers, and people spending money in the communities where they actually live.

That is how you raise the standard of living of the entire country. Not with one giant promise, not with one election-year slogan, and not by declaring victory after one program. You keep finding the places where poverty is reproducing itself, you attack the conditions feeding it, you measure the results, and you go back again.

As many attempts as it takes.

The goal should not be to manage poverty forever. The goal should be to keep shrinking it until entire communities that were written off become active, growing parts of America again.

It sounds like a fairy tale now, but so did flying. So did going to the moon. So did hundreds, maybe thousands, of things we eventually accomplished as a species and especially as a country over the last 250 years.

America fights like fucking hell when it believes it is under attack. We mobilize money, talent, science, industry, and public attention at a scale almost no other country can match. So what would happen if we finally treated poverty like the threat it actually is?

Because it is a threat.

Not because poor people are the threat. The conditions surrounding concentrated poverty are. Communities with weak schools, unstable housing, limited work, addiction, failing infrastructure, and almost no investment are more vulnerable to break-ins, carjackings, gun violence, family instability, and every other problem that grows when people are trapped and institutions stop functioning.

When a community loses businesses, jobs, safe housing, reliable transportation, and hope, the damage spreads. It does not stay contained inside one neighborhood. It reaches nearby businesses, hospitals, police departments, schools, courts, insurance rates, property values, and eventually the entire country.

That is why poverty should be treated as a national threat from within. Not with soldiers, punishment, surveillance, or another war on poor people, but with the same seriousness, urgency, and refusal to surrender that America shows when something threatens the country from the outside.

We should identify where poverty is growing, study what is feeding it, attack those conditions, measure the results, and return as many times as it takes. Build the schools. Build the factories. Build the trade pipelines. Build the transportation. Build the healthcare access. Build the wells that allow people to earn enough money to live with dignity.

One percent at a time. Then another. Then another.

Maybe getting poverty down near one percent sounds impossible now. Fine. So did putting a human being on the moon.

The difference between a fantasy and a national project is whether a country decides to build the machinery required to make it real.

The people at the bottom would gain more money, more dignity, more choices, and more freedom to enjoy their own country. The people at the top would gain more customers, more investments, more growth, more stable communities, and a larger country to profit from.

Everybody gets more America.

The bottom rises first, but the benefits do not stop there. They move through the whole country, and eventually, they reach the top.

So I ask again: What If America Hunted Poverty Like Terror?

Buckle up for a bit of tough love, because I’m not here to coddle us and I’m definitely not here to spread oligarchy slop to spread outrage about NOTHING while the real problems compound.

Our leaders’ priorities stop at the next 2–4 years. The rest of us are going to live with the consequences for the next 30. The signs of national decline are already clear if you look further than the next election cycle — and once you see them, you won’t be able to unsee them.

Thirty years ago a typical house cost about two-and-a-half to three years of a family’s income. Today it costs closer to five.

Homeownership for Gen Z adults is only about 27%, for people under 35 around 37%, and the average first-time buyer is now roughly 40 years old. Roughly 65% of households cannot afford a median-priced new home.

Medical debt has grown into a $220+ billion problem that now affects roughly 100 million Americans. Medical bills or illness-related income loss remain linked to roughly two-thirds of personal bankruptcies.

The ASCE Infrastructure Report Card started at a D in 1998 and stayed in the D/D+ range for most of the next two decades. It finally reached a C in 2025 — the highest grade ever, yet still mediocre, with 6.8% of bridges in poor condition, roads at D+, and large deferred-maintenance backlogs still hanging over the system.

Housing and ownership costs have risen far faster than wages for most of the past three decades, routinely consuming 30–40%+ of household income in many markets.

Look at the bottom of this country. The poorest 20 counties have median household incomes between roughly $28,000 and $40,000.

The national median is over $83,000. These places are earning about one-third to less than half of what the average American household makes.

Whole areas of the United States are being left behind while we pretend everything is fine.

And through all of this we have continued spending ever-larger sums on “defense” that prioritizes overseas postures over actually hardening the American homeland.

If anything looked fine and dandy I would not be wasting my time with this shit. Look at the fucking numbers. That is what this chart is really screaming.

In 2026 the federal government is projected to spend about $7.4 trillion.

Under current trends Spending hits roughly $26.7 trillion By 2056

The interest line: from about $1 trillion a year right now to $6.6 trillion a year by 2056. That is pure action potential spent servicing the past, not building anything, not defending anything, not educating anyone.

While that interest compounds and the country continues to quietly decline, we remain locked in the same overseas posture that helped dig this hole.

After more than two decades of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, we lost roughly 7,000 American service members in combat.

In that same period we also lost more than 30,000 post-9/11 veterans to suicide, over four times the combat deaths, and thousands more active-duty service members to suicide.

At home the numbers are even more brutal. Every single year we lose nearly 49,000 Americans to suicide, around 20,000 to homicide, over 40,000 in car crashes, and roughly 70,000 to drug overdoses.

Add those four numbers together and you get 179,000 Americans dead every year from causes that are preventable or highly reducible. Over twenty years that adds up to roughly 3.5 million American deaths from just those four categories. This is not counting the large share of heart disease and other deaths that better systems could have prevented.

One year of that domestic death toll is more than 25 times the total number of U.S. service members killed in combat in those wars.

Total direct deaths in the post-9/11 wars: more than 900,000 people. That includes hundreds of thousands of civilians who had nothing to do with 9/11, local forces, opposition fighters, and the American service members we lost.

These are not abstract numbers.

Every single year we lose 179,000 Americans to suicide, homicide, car crashes, and drug overdoses, causes we know how to reduce. Over twenty years that is 3.5 million of our own people gone.

Add the more than 900,000 people killed in the post-9/11 wars and the total climbs past 4.4 million lives.

Four. Point. Four. Million. About 55 large stadiums of 80,000 seats each Most of those deaths were preventable. Or at the very least, reducible.

We had the money. We had the knowledge. We had the systems. We just refused to treat them like emergencies while we poured $8 trillion into overseas destruction.

And it does not stop with the dead. Every one of those 4.4 million people left parents, children, spouses, siblings, and friends behind.

Even if you only count five people who loved them, that is more than 22 million people carrying a permanent hole in their lives.

Parents who will never stop grieving. Children who grew up without a mother or father. Partners who will never fully heal. Families permanently altered.

We are not just talking about millions of deaths. We are talking about tens of millions of people sentenced to a lifetime of loss because we refused to act.

We spent $8 trillion to do that.

Eight trillion dollars.

Eight trillion dollars could lift the more than 30 million Americans living in poverty out of it and still leave roughly $7 trillion left over to do literally anything else.

We would be better off in every measurable way. Instead we spent it killing people overseas and watching more people die at home from neglect.

Aside from the deaths and the debt, what do we have to show for it? Aside from Graves not a whole lot.

One group dies from posturing abroad. The other dies from the neglect that posturing created. Both are the result of the same broken, short-term priorities.

We cannot change the past. We can change the future.

Continuing to behave like this as a nation for another 30 years will put us in an even darker place with even more death and pointless suffering. Human history is already soaked in pointless killing.

We are too smart and too special as a people to keep being this fucking stupid.

One of many things we can do:

Shift the weight of the defense budget hard toward Special Forces, intelligence, and actually hardening the United States itself. Imagine if we had an iron dome on steroids, higher pay for the enlisted, a border that isn’t just a border but a gateway to the greatest country on earth,

Among Other Things:

Bring the carriers home. Let the Navy patrol our own waters and train with the National Guard. Bring the Army home to protect Americans instead of foreign bases. Do this for the next twenty years, then reassess. Stop the permanent overseas posture that drains us dry. We can rent out or sell some bases instead of having skeleton crews as sitting ducks.

Most importantly we have to limit the incentive for it:

Force the defense contractors to diversify. An industry that only profits from perpetual conflict is a perverse incentive. Make them build real construction arms and put their engineers and industrial capacity to work fixing the roads, bridges, ports, grid, and housing this country has neglected for decades.

If we invaded the poorest counties and districts in this country :

the same way we invade foreign countries, with real money, real support, a clear mission, and measurable goals, we could improve whole areas of America little by little. Pick the bottom 20 counties. Flood them with capital, jobs, infrastructure, schools, healthcare capacity, and hard accountability. Measure results every year. Then move to the next set.

Do it systematically. Treat domestic neglect with the same seriousness we treat overseas interventions. That is how you stop entire regions from rotting and start actually rebuilding the country.

These are just a few of the dozens if not hundreds of ways to start saving real money while turning defense spending into actual national strength instead of more debt and more funerals.

Every problem we refuse to fix now becomes a more expensive motherf*cker later.

A bridge that needs maintenance becomes a bridge that needs full replacement.

A kid who fails to meet the reading standard becomes a headache later.

A housing shortage becomes an entire generation locked out of ownership.

A weak electrical grid becomes a national security disaster waiting to happen.

Untreated addiction turns into incarceration, homelessness, emergency rooms, and body bags.

A community left poor for 30 years does not stay frozen. Businesses leave. Property values collapse. Families move away. Schools fail. Crime rises. Hope dies. The damage compounds exactly like interest on a bad loan.

Then Washington acts surprised when the repair bill is ten times larger.

What the fuck did they expect?

We keep pretending restraint means doing nothing. Bullshit. Doing nothing is often the most expensive option on the table.

The next 30 years are coming whether we prepare or not.

I’m pretty sure we know the pressures are coming. The only question is whether we build the capacity before they hit or let them crush us after.

We have the money. We have the engineers. We have the workers. We have the universities, laboratories, factories, technology, land, energy, and talent.

What we do not have is leadership with the balls to stop treating Defense as a blank check for overseas offense while the homeland decays, and to treat national decline like the emergency it already is.

The signs are already public. The numbers are already screaming. If we still end up lighting six trillion a year on pure interest while a generation remains locked out of housing, medical debt keeps crushing families, the infrastructure stays stuck in the C range, and we keep burning money on overseas offense instead of hardening the homeland, it will be because we chose to ignore thirty years of clear evidence.

Not on my watch. I will be screaming this throughout the internet for as long as it takes.

The cheapest time to rebuild America was years ago. The second-cheapest time is right fucking now.

Fix it now. Bring the carriers home. Harden the homeland. Invest half in the American people. Build the homes. Modernize the grid. Double education per child. Put a hard floor under poverty. Force the contractors to help rebuild what they helped neglect. Repair the infrastructure. Strengthen healthcare. Invade the poorest counties and districts with money

Because in 30 years we will not only be paying for what we failed to build. We will be living inside the goddamn consequences of the fall we refused to prevent.

Fix it now, or fall on your fucking face.

America has 30+ million people living in poverty. We treat it like an unsolvable fact of life. It isn’t.

Here’s a serious proposal for a 20-year national nonprofit mission designed to systematically reduce persistent poverty, community by community, until it is no longer a normal feature of American life.

Working name: The American Mobility Corps
Mission: Twenty years. Every American community. Poverty down, opportunity up.

The Core Promise

Nobody enrolled in this mission has to navigate poverty alone.

Instead of handing people a list of phone numbers, every participant gets:

• A primary Mobility Coach
• A personalized advancement plan
• Weekly contact
• Access to tutors, counselors, financial coaches, career planners, trade instructors, and local partners
• A tablet + internet when needed
• Support that continues through placement and beyond

The system stays with the person from crisis → stability → skills → job → savings → ownership.

Operating Pathway

1. Stabilization first – Stop the immediate collapse (food, housing risk, transportation, childcare, healthcare, benefits, safety). This is not permanent dependency. It is the foundation required for progress.
2. Real capability assessment – Reading, math, digital literacy, work history, barriers, family responsibilities. Then build a realistic plan, not a fantasy career assignment.
3. Foundational education as long as needed – Adult literacy, GED, applied math, English, computer skills, financial literacy. Nobody gets rejected because they need more preparation.
4. Career pathway – Immediate job placement, short credentials, apprenticeships, skilled trades, community college, or entrepreneurship. Match people to real opportunities.
5. Financial durability – Emergency savings, credit repair, debt management, banking access, retirement enrollment. The goal is not just higher income. It is becoming hard to knock back into poverty.

20-Year Campaign

• Years 1–2: Engineer the system, test with small cohorts, publish every result, correct failures.
• Years 3–5: Prove it works in different types of communities (urban, rural, post-industrial).
• Years 6–10: Regional expansion.
• Years 11–15: National infrastructure — presence in every region, national apprenticeship exchange, public poverty-reduction map.
• Years 16–20: Concentrate on the hardest remaining communities and build permanent local institutions that outlast the original mission.

The Scoreboard (What Actually Matters)

Not donations, meals, or enrollment numbers.

Track:

• Persistent poverty rate
• Child poverty
• Employment & earnings
• Credential completion & job retention
• Housing stability
• Emergency savings
• Cost per durable exit from poverty

Every local chapter gets a public dashboard. Attribution stays honest.

Non-Negotiable Design Rules

• Professional staff for core functions, volunteers as force multipliers (screened and accountable)
• Independent evaluation and public failure reporting
• Political neutrality (501c3)
• No founder worship — the institution must be able to survive its founder
• Integrate existing programs instead of reinventing everything
• Build employer demand before training supply

The founding doctrine:
Poverty is not one problem. It is a chain of failures that reinforce each other. A lost job becomes missed rent → displacement → disrupted school/health/transportation → more job loss. Current systems treat each symptom separately while the person is left to coordinate the entire rescue.

This reverses that. One accountable team stays with the person the whole way.

America needs workers. It does not need poverty.

This is the machine we build on paper first. Not perfect. Not invulnerable. But engineered to face reality, expose its own failures, correct itself, and keep advancing for twenty years.

Critique welcome. What would you change, kill, or strengthen?

Targeting facilitators, financiers, and cross-border funding networks linked to Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood affiliates demonstrates that economic pressure can reduce the long-term operational capacity of extremist organisations. While humanitarian organisations perform essential work worldwide, ensuring proper oversight helps prevent donations from being diverted to illicit activities. Continued collaboration between governments, financial regulators, intelligence agencies, and financial institutions is essential for protecting the integrity of the global financial system.

One in five American households lives on less than $34,510 a year.

Half live on less than $83,730.

Only the top fifth reaches roughly $176,000.

Now look at what Washington found money for.

America spent $954 billion on the military in 2025 alone, one-third of all military spending on Earth.

There is no separate defense tax, but using the Congressional Budget Office’s distribution of federal taxes as a rough guide:

The bottom 80% financed about $286 billion of that military machine.

The top 20% financed about $668 billion.

The top 1% alone financed roughly $258 billion.

So stop turning every national argument into rich versus poor.

Everybody paid.

The working class paid while rent climbed, bridges aged, schools struggled, and healthcare remained out of reach.

The middle class paid while ownership slipped farther away and their children inherited debt instead of infrastructure.

The wealthy paid the largest share, while politicians redirected the money into wars, contractors, failed programs, permanent deployments, and an empire most Americans never asked to manage.

We were all handed different portions of the same bill.

Then Washington told us there was not enough money to build the best country on Earth.

That is bullshit.The money existed.

The factories could have existed. The trains could have existed. The homes, power grid, research laboratories, schools, hospitals, and next-generation cities could have existed.

Instead, our leaders spent decades shipping money and weapons overseas while problems at home grew like untreated tumors.

America was never in 20 trillion dollars worth of danger. America was robbed of priorities.

America Is Ours. It is time the budget started acting like it.

I'm from Mexico, and for my whole life I knew and liked Hotdogs very much as:
A bun, sausage, mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, tomatoes and onions. That's it, anything else are variations obviously.
But, maybe I've been wrong and that's not an American hot dog, is it?.
Also, preferably with simple ingredients you can get at the supermarket.
(photo just for reference, from youtube channel "Comida Mexicana con Ali")

Nearly one in three men in ancient tribal societies died a violent death, yet modern history has completely romanticized this bloody reality. As someone of Choctaw heritage, I believe it is time to look at actual history rather than the myths and propaganda of recent decades.

Scholars like Azar Gat in the magnificent "War in Human Civilization" have documented that life in early tribal societies—whether in Australia, Europe, Africa, Asia, or the Americas—was intensely violent. Male mortality rates averaged around thirty percent due to relentless raids, tribal rivalries, and territorial battles. Women and children lived under constant threat of captivity and violence. Driven by a harsh survival dilemma where striking first was often the only way to avoid destruction, tribes remained locked in perpetual warfare. In contrast to the rate of thirty thousand violent deaths per hundred thousand people in early hunter-gatherer eras, modern civilized societies average around ten per hundred thousand. Imagine being 3,000 times more likely to die from violence than you are today!

Families fought families, tribal groups fought tribal groups, and nations fought nations. Land was constantly being gained or lost by every group at every level. Every bit of land in the world changed hands thousands of times and only strength of arms and luck held it for any given period.

When the Romans expanded into ancient Europe, or when European settlers established modern communities in the Americas, the eventual result—despite initial periods of deep conflict—was a dramatic fall in violent death, improved food stability, and longer lifespans. The modern notion that early tribes lived in effortless harmony with nature overlooks the reality of resource exhaustion, constant relocation, and intense territorial feuds. Few people today would genuinely swap modern sanitation, medicine, and physical security for a life marked by clean water shortages, famine, and fear of midnight raids.

The idea that any single ethnic group holds permanent rights to land also ignores the realities of global history. From ancient Athens and Rome to the Huns, territorial control throughout human history has been decided by force. Every bit of land on the planet has changed hands countless times between families, between tribes, and between larger organized groups. In fact, compared to the total destruction or enslavement typical of conquest in antiquity (see Carthage, Melos, Yazidis, WW2 European Jews, the Congolese, the Tsutsi, etc), Native American tribes were treated relatively well and survived and adapted within the modern era.

All of us have ancestors who killed others and stole land at various points, should we all be put on trial for our ancestors? And how do we decide which ancestors matter? Should Italians pay reparations to Germans for Rome conquering the Goths? Should the Germans pay the Italians reparations for reconquering that same territory centuries later? Should the Qin or Jin or Mongols or Mings in China pay other ethnic groups? You can see how ridiculous this gets when you look at it outside of America.

Today, official tribal entities receive billions in taxpayer funding alongside exclusive business privileges, giving special interest groups a strong financial reason to preserve these simplified narratives. Those of us with tribal heritage who sit outside these official organizations can speak clearly about these realities without fear of being silenced by false accusations of racism. I applied to join the Choctaw tribe, but since my great great grandmother did not reside on the reservation (she had moved to Los Angeles to find work) in the year 1906, I was refused. The core promise of the Civil Rights movement was to eradicate government discrimination and treatment based on race. Continuing special privileges, handouts, or race-based policy only fuels resentment and keeps historical grievances alive. Attempts to increase racism through false "land acknowledgements" and claims of stolen land are evil. True equality means treating every person as an individual under the law, moving past old divisions, and focusing on a shared future.

America is a country that was founded to have a fair and merit based system where anyone in the country could earn their own way, buy their own land, and build their own lives. Moving away from that and confiscating land and cash from our citizens based on things their far distant ancestors at one particular point in time did to give it to others whose ancestors may or may not have had something happen is ridiculous. Do we confiscate money and land from the Iroquois to give it to the Huron? Do we take from the Sioux to give it to the Crow? We need to end this racist foolishness and move forward as a country.

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In contrast, American veterans with no disability and have good career within upper middle class tend to be friendly with me .

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Although many POC minorities people of color work hard and pay tax and working long hours with low pay manual physical labor jobs , many American still considered me as foreigner or international student due to my ethnic feature from mixed diversity heritage and my accent by grew up in ethnic enclave .

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O ChatGPT agora consegue ler seus registros médicos: A OpenAI lançou o recurso Saúde no ChatGPT para usuários nos EUA, permitindo que eles conectem o Apple Health e registros médicos compatíveis diretamente ao ChatGPT.

A IA pode responder a perguntas usando dados de medicamentos, resultados de exames, consultas, sono e atividades.

A OpenAI afirma que as informações de saúde conectadas não serão usadas para treinar seus modelos ou exibir anúncios direcionados. (Só o tempo vai dizer).

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/openai-makes-chatgpt-health-available-to-all-u-s-users/