Re: “Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Shield Expected To Cost $500 Billion”

On 5/24/25 13:43, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 5/24/2025 2:58 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

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On 5/24/25 12:16, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 5/22/2025 4:47 PM, James Nicoll wrote:

In article <SwLXP.1070635$C51b.70661@fx17.iad>,
Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 5/22/2025 11:09 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

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Social Security and Medicare will not die until the financial apocalypse
of the United States.  Pray that it does not happen.

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You are not paying attention.  The just passed big ugly bill cuts
a half-trillion dollars from  medicare.  Not to mention the gutting
of medicaid, which will cause many rural hospitals to close outright.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5312712-house-gop-bill-medicare- cuts/

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Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

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We are not China where the families sell their young teens to the factories for $5,000.  At least, not yet.
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Lynn
        No we send our young teens to work in poultry packing plants

and in other dangerous and unhealthy jobs.  In case you had not heard
Southern states particularly are repealing Child Labor laws, after all what
is there to do with all that learning after the 8th Grade?
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     bliss

 Somebody has to work those poultry plant jobs.  At least they are paid $16/hour and get to go home at night.  Or the morning if they are working the graveyard shift, been there, done that driving home 35 miles east into the rising Sun at 730am.
 Lynn

When you worded at the  poultry plant were you 12 years old Lynn?
Kids belong in school even if they do not think so.  Someone was working
at the poultry packing plants but ICE carried them away to rot in San Salvador.
I was working in my family's restaurant peeling potatoes and washing dishes, pots
and pans but that was in the 1940s and 1950s.  But that was in the summer and
after school if some of what I was good at needed doing.
bliss