”Ukrainians,” not “Ukrainian’s.”
Posted on 12/31/2024 3:28:29 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin seemingly took a page out of President Biden’s book and is offering to write off debts for new recruits enlisting in the country’s military for one year.
In November, Putin signed a law allowing anyone who joined the Russian military after Dec. 1, 2024, to have debs of up to 10 million rubles, or about $96,000, written off.
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The move appears to be similar to one from Biden’s own playbook, though the latter does not connect loan handouts to military recruitment.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced $4.28 billion in student loan handouts as Biden and Vice President Harris prepare to vacate the White House.
The massive handout will give 54,900 public workers loan forgiveness but also brings the total loan forgiveness approved by Biden to nearly $180 billion for nearly 5 million borrowers.
The Biden-Harris administration touted the program for creating an "incentive" for public servants to "pursue and remain" in their careers
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Russia is making do with what the little that it has — we’re the ones with the recruitment problem. Putin pays the debts of his recruits. For ours, we pay for sex changes and woke re-education, and we get guys like Bowie Bergdahl.
Did you know that he took the day off when Trump won the election in November, and didn't celebrate with the rest of us?
When he returned on Wednesday, he only used Trump's victory as a bludgeon on the Ukraine-Russia war.
Just another prop in his State Department troll kit.
”Ukrainians,” not “Ukrainian’s.”
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As usual ridiculous claim with nothing to back it up
What is? That you’re a warmongering foreign weirdo that doesn’t give a rat’s patootie about Americans, even though you claim to be one?
As of December 2024, the average US price for a dozen large eggs is $3.65.
My local Walmart (eastern PA) sells a dozen large white eggs for $4.00.
The nearby upscale Giant Foods sells them for about $5.70.
There are no shortages I've heard of.
In 2019 US eggs averaged around $1.40 per dozen.
In Moscow, eggs averaged about $1.00 per dozen in 2021.
In Moscow today eggs average about $1.40 per dozen.
If that sounds relatively cheap, then remember that the average (median) American earns 12 times more ($71,000/year) than the average Russian ($5,500/yr).
In the affluent Moscow region, the median income is nearly $7,000/yr.
So, relative to median incomes, Moscow eggs cost the equivalent of $17 ($1.40 X 12) per dozen today, and there are many reports of shortages, plus special packaging to prevent food staples from being stolen.
“If that sounds relatively cheap, then remember that the average (median) American earns 12 times more ($71,000/year) than the average Russian ($5,500/yr).”
Might help if you stop using 1990 numbers for Russia.
Is this kindergarten?
Supporting Ukraine against Russian invasion is not anti-American or weird, but go ahead and make your baseless allegations.
So typical of the usuals
The latest numbers I can find -- here, here and here -- are from February 2023.
They show Russian median income of ~₽42,000 (rubles) per month.
In February 2023, the ruble was worth about 70 per dollar, making a median salary of ₽42,000 per month about $600, or $7,200 per year.
Today the ruble has fallen to 110 per dollar, making that same ₽42,000/month worth only $380 or about $4,600 per year.
Today we can expect most Russians make somewhat more rubles than they did in 2023, which is where my estimate of $5,500 median annual income came from.
In the Moscow region, median wages were around ₽50,000 per month in 2023, which at 110 rubles/dollar is $450 or $5,500 per year.
My figure of $7,000/yr. for Moscow income is not median but rather average household income, which includes people like Vladimir Putin who make much more and thus increase the average, but not the median.
Median means half earn more, half earn less.
Map of Russian median incomes as of 2019:
Darker colors are higher incomes.
Note Moscow is the darkest -- highest income -- in the country:
Interesting - if you Google Per Capita Income by Country, you get $15k per year for Russia from Wikipedia, for 2024.
As usual, you’re The BroJoke.
I reported live. You shat out your mouth.
No, that’s right, nothing weird about supporting Ukraine, but you distort what I said. YOU are the weirdo, and I didn’t say YOU were anti-American. You’re a proud Ukrainian nationalist that puts his country first. Like I put the USA first. That just means you don’t care what happens to America as long as your country prospers. You should be able to figure that out.
What is? That you’re a warmongering foreign weirdo that doesn’t give a rat’s patootie about Americans, even though you claim to be one
Your whole comment is demented
I am an American veteran with almost 40 years service. I can support my country and support Ukraine in their struggle against a vile invader
Weird, wasn’t that the term democrats loved to use 😎
Sure, Jan.
Right -- per capita is an average income, where Vladimir Putin and other oligarch billionaires are averaged in with factory workers and waitresses.
By contrast, median income is: half make more, half make less, and so it's not changed by how wealthy the wealthiest Russians are.
Remember, the original question was -- the cost of a dozen eggs, which in the US averages $3.65 and in Russia $1.40.
But, when we compare even Russia's nominal GDP per capita of $14,953 to the US $86,601, the US is 5.8 times more, which makes the US equivalent to Russia's $1.40 about $8.10 per dozen.
But GDP per capita is not the best measure -- median income certainly is, and by median income comparisons, Russia's $1.40 eggs would cost $17 in the US.
Nominal GDP per capita
The US ranks #6 after Luxembourg, Switzerland, Ireland, Norway and Singapore.
Russia ranks #65:
You reported nonsense.
I reported facts.
As usual.
“Right — per capita is an average income, where Vladimir Putin and other oligarch billionaires are averaged in with factory workers and waitresses.”
So you CHOOSE to discount the data because it’s ‘inconvenient’. Typical of you guys, going back DECADES to perpetuate your lies.
By the way, glad the US doesn’t have rich people to distort our data...
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