Posted on 04/15/2015 4:38:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Criticizing people for being upset about 9/11: “I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist.”
http://thoughtcatalog.com/nico-lang/2013/09/45-hilariously-ridiculous-gwyneth-paltrow-quotes-that-will-make-you-want-to-punch-something/
I’m wondering why so much of it _here_ on FR, on this thread.
FWIW, sending _everyone_ in the USA $29/wk for food (answering part of the “guaranteed living income” argument) would cost about a half-billion dollars a year - way less than current food-oriented welfare.
Walmart has 10 pound bags of chicken for $5.
50 pounds of rice or bread flour are about $18 at Costco et al. (That’s enough calories to live on exclusively for over a month. Use the remaining $98/mo for nutrition.)
Mixed frozen veggies are $1/lb if you look (prices are, admittedly, going up). Mixed frozen fruits should be similar.
And, for my new favorite, http://Soylent.Me has a powdered meal-drink mix you can 100% live on for $2.80 per meal (recommended 4 per day). No, it’s not the “green” version.
Because she was trying to show how LITTLE you get for only $29, per week!
I don’t care that she is rich! But, I don’t need a woman who made $19 million on her last movie to be condescending to me because I don’t want to pay more in taxes! She has enough money stashed away that she alone could raise the personal income of 100 families by 100%, but thinks I (who can barely afford my own life) should give more money to people who one won’t appreciate it, and two demand that I give them more!
What utter BS. Of course, she's a capitalist. She's a multi millionaire who pays her agents to get every last dime for her "acting."
Then why is the Left outraged?
Your math is faulty, $29. a week is well OVER half of $194. a month, 29 x 52 = 1508/12=125.66/194=.64, nearly two thirds.
You really should check your math, you are so far off the mark it is not even funny.
I stand corrected, thank you.
Give them a place to stay, with meals supplied. Soylant, peanut butter and jelly, occasional bologna. A 10x10 room with bunk beds and toilet in the corner. They can leave whenever they want, like if they get a job.
Your plan has got my vote!!
For that matter, we could cut the cost of our Congress, if we did the same thing for them! Pay them the same pay as our military members (equivalent with their years of service, of course), and a barracks with a common head! Those with families, would get their own private barracks housing (like the condos in Okinawa). A standard, military-grade chow hall!
See how fast they fix things, or get out of the games of politics.
This would encourage people who actually want to go to Washington and FIX problems, not those in it for the money, fame, sex, parties, and, did I mention the MONEY?!
Exactly my sentiments. I’ll compromise on welfare: give anyone who asks 4 servings of Soylent a day, exactly what they need to survive in decent health indefinitely, trivial to make & eat. Exactly what they demand, exactly what they don’t want.
Sorry, typo. Half trillion a year. Still dirt cheap relative to current welfare.
Britney is allegedly a Republican. Certainly she’s not a bigtime lib f-tard like Madonna and Paltrow.
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