“50% (post tax I presume) spent on housing? that seems obscene”
Housing and necessities includes food clothing medicine, etc.
With the price of housing and food alone, few people can do it with just 50% of their income with the way things are since Brandon and friends screwed the country.
I work for NY State in a maintenance position. I will tell you that this has been going on for years. We are required to buy from minority and woman owned businesses. White guys need not apply.
So how it works is: big companies make spin offs that they have “owned” by a minority. Then they funnel the purchases through the spin off. At a 20% or more increase in price.
The other scam is a woman or minority sets up a business to supply materials, services, or other supplies. That business is nothing but a letterhead and a phone. They get awarded the business, and then they in turn hire the white owned business to provide the materials or service. The minority of course gets their 20% or more for simply acting as a middle man.
The whole thing is a giant scam, and in any other state the people responsible would go to jail.
To give you an example: we wanted a parking lot repaved. Local white owned business bid the job for somewhere around 55,000 dollars. We were forced to use an “Approved Vendor” at well over 100,000 Dollars.
I do wish they would stop referring to the covid shot as a “vaccine”. It apparently was no such thing. Vaccines actually work and don’t typically kill you. And they aren’t made to mess with your DNA.
This covid scam has given real vaccination a bad name.
Because she ran off. Left the car and ran off and got away. It happens. This did NOT happen in Ithaca, it happened in a very red area. We don’t put up with crap here, as evidenced by the fact the leos were on a shoplifting crack down mission when this all happened.
You can put your phone in an RF proof envelope or even RF shielded cloth bag. They make them and they are cheap.
No need to interfere with everyone else around you just because you are paranoid.
It has been illegal to jam or cause interference to legitimate radio signals for decades and decades. If you don’t want someone to hear YOUR signal, or locate you from YOUR signal, turn off whatever device YOU are transmitting from.
You have no right to deny MY use of the radio spectrum just because YOU don’t want to use it and are too damned lazy to turn off your own devices.