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  8. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Gepetto said:

    I say let them feel normal. Cigarettes and Alcohol I consider a different category than pop and candy. I say allow it, so they can get a package of M&Ms and Coke Zero (or whatever) if they want to and it makes them just a little bit happier. Although, not ideal, a full size Snickers bar could be just what they need to get through a rough day. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but that's my current opinion.

    It just hit me, the title of this thread.

    People disagreeing and having a conversation like @Gepetto and I are doing is not some stupid MAGA vs MAHA WAR!@#!   It's adults having a conversation and figuring things out.  That's what Congress and the Senate whom are elected Representatives are supposed to do,  unfortunately they act like the original poster of this thread and seek nothing but division and low IQ nonsense.

     

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  9. Posted

    No there will not be riots. 

    I really hate how these stories divide people, but at the same time I get it....the media reports stories differently based on DEI which of course people take issue.  The whole thing stinks.  I do not know the whole story but a dude at a HS track meet stabbing a guy to death doesn't sound good.  Hopefully the Justice System prevails.  :dunno:

  12. Posted

    1 hour ago, Gepetto said:

    I don't see why they can't purchase pop and candy like 60% (soda pop) and 98% (candy) of the population does.

    This is not high on my give a shiot list.  But SNAP is a government funded safety net program to help the poor feed themselves, right?  Is that not the safety net purpose?  

    Beer, Cigs, Mountain Dew, and Skittles don't fit into the root purpose of the program to me.  Also they are crazy bad for your health which then the poor who are more than likely on Medicaid continue with poor choices. 

    I am 100% for freedom of choice, but when you accept government monies you waive that right to just do what you want with those monies. No?  

  14. Posted

    I know very little about SNAP or food stamps.  However I believe it to be a government paid safety net to help the less fortunate get basic food to feed themselves and/or their family. I am assuming you cannot purchase alcohol and cigarettes with the cards.  If so I see no reason to add Sodas and Candy to the list.  None of those have nutritional value.  

    What am I missing?

  15. Posted

    On 3/25/2025 at 6:52 PM, Cdub100 said:

    No it does not. The dod is the biggest government welfare program in the US. Stopping kids drinking a Pepsi will have effectively no change.

    I don't understand this tangent you went on.  RFK is the Secretary of Health and Human Services.  He has no jurisdiction over the Department of Defense.  

  18. Posted

    Disclaimer:  I am not a global macro-economic professional unlike all of you.

    The US has the largest Trade Deficit in all of the world mainly because manufacturing left America and went abroad (cheap labor, probably inhumane in certain places like Vietnam and China to be fair).  If reciprocal tariffs have a short term pain (stock market) but a long term gain (less trade deficit, manufacturing coming back to America, middle class jobs) then I'm for it.  Makes common sense to me.

    I just wish Trump would have staggered these tariff's over time instead of just ripping off the band aid.  I think it would've lessened the market reaction.  But that's not Trumps style: So be it.  

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  25. Posted

    7 minutes ago, MDC said:

    You know Musk didn’t create Tesla or do anything but become CEO by buying in, right?

    1. This thread is about Space X.

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    In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX and became its CEO and chief engineer. The company has since led innovations in reusable rockets and commercial spaceflight.

    2. You are correct that Elon didn't "create" Tesla, but he bought into the start up as the majority owner before they ever created their first vehicle.  

    3. Lives were saved today. Sometimes you either say something nice or nothing at all.  My Mama taught me that, I was raised right.

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