President Donald Trump - J.D. Vance Administration

[appvol]

SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will significantly impair recession response | Brookings

Lauren Bauer and Diane Schanzenbach analyze how SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will affect the program’s response to recessions.

www.brookings.edu

Senate Republicans Block Democratic Effort to Fund SNAP During the Shutdown

Federal food aid for more than 30 million Americans is set to lapse at the end of the week.

www.notus.org

SNAP in Texas: Trump administration ordered to fund benefits

It’s not clear how soon assistance could reach people and the rulings could be appealed, The Associated Press reported.

www.texastribune.org

Democrats Americans are leverage.

 

[hog88]

I do have some disagreement with how government spends money. On the local level I know of one system that pays a high school math teacher around $40,000/year it's football coach North of $100,000. Some high school coaches make much more than that.

The majority of the $100K that football coach is being paid is coming from the boosters and not out of the school budget.

 

[hjeagle1vol]

I do have some disagreement with how government spends money. On the local level I know of one system that pays a high school math teacher around $40,000/year it's football coach North of $100,000. Some high school coaches make much more than that.

Pay raises all around for Luther and his pals I say!!

 

[hog88]

My wife make $90,000 in TN teaching

Dang, where?

I know a UPS PE in CT that left the company to teach, it shocked me when she said it was more money.

 

[McDad]

I do have some disagreement with how government spends money. On the local level I know of one system that pays a high school math teacher around $40,000/year it's football coach North of $100,000. Some high school coaches make much more than that.

That's fair. Governments aren't all good or all bad. They are a mix.

If the government was good as a decider of teacher pay, why would the teacher's need a union?

 

[DinkinFlicka]

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Wearin it today for Dinkataintflicka’s mom
Shout out to my machine elves brethren…

And a dead head.

You check all the scrambled egg brain boxes.

 

[swampfoxfan]

That's fair. Governments aren't all good or all bad. They are a mix.

If the government was good as a decider of teacher pay, why would the teacher's need a union?

Same reasons pipe fitters need a union, negotiate more pay,benefits,working environment. I don't think government is so good.

 

[McDad]

Same reasons pipe fitters need a union, negotiate more pay,benefits,working environment. I don't think government is so good.

do you generally think the government is not so good but private sector is worse?

 

[LSU-SIU]

Same reasons pipe fitters need a union, negotiate more pay,benefits,working environment. I don't think government is so good.

Sounds good, let's get rid of more of it.



(Let's start in DC because that is where we have common interest and let's be honest, a good portion of all that is waste and/or corruption)

- Get rid of like 50% of the military budget over say 20 years, close most of the overseas bases and installation.
- Large battle groups are now basically dinosaurs or soon will be with current tech
- Get out of NATO
- Get out of UN
- Stop all this foreign corruption AID
- Greatly reduce the CIA
- Stop funding unnecessary and worthless wars
- Get rid of DOE
- etc

If you want to really cut expenses and budgets, and government just go after the medical industry under anti-trust and RICO. Of course, this brings about all kinds of other problems that people don't want to address.

There simply isn't any magic.

 

[appvol]

Dang, where?

I know a UPS PE in CT that left the company to teach, it shocked me when she said it was more money.

Now she does have a masters and doctorate

 

[swampfoxfan]

do you generally think the government is not so good but private sector is worse?

Sorry, I really don't understand your question, are we talking about school teacher salary?

 

[hjeagle1vol]

And a dead head.

You check all the scrambled egg brain boxes.

Yet I retired at 53 very comfortable all up in here next to my bacon and toast. Good luck with your life choices

 

[McDad]

Sorry, I really don't understand your question, are we talking about school teacher salary?

apologies for the confusion. I broadened the discussion a bit from the topic of teacher salary to a more general opinion of government versus private sector.

so if government is not good, is the private sector worse as an option for solutions?

 

[BeardedVol]

So, we're invading Venezuela, Nigeria, and we're going into Mexico now as well?

Trump's secret plan to deploy US troops to Mexico revealed

Donald Trump is planning to send US troops to Mexico in the latest escalation against drug cartels.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Man this 'no new wars/not our problem' foreign policy seems to be a sure fire path to the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[FLVOL_79]

Well, the problem is you don't really offer any type of alternative. So, what is your solution?

First you want illegals in so that it depresses wages, now you want wages to be higher. Teacher wages would be tied directly to your taxes.

If you want teachers to be paid more, not my problem as that is mostly a state/local thing. As far as I am concerned, the people with kids should be paying for them, but as I said that is more a local political question. I certainly don't need more property taxes.

You appear to be trying to solve the world's problems without actually providing a solution. Sky screaming isn't a solution. I would say you are evidence that teachers are paid way too much.

One word. Slavery. It's proven to work real swell.

 

[FLVOL_79]

So, we're invading Venezuela, Nigeria, and we're going into Mexico now as well?

Trump's secret plan to deploy US troops to Mexico revealed

Donald Trump is planning to send US troops to Mexico in the latest escalation against drug cartels.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Man this 'no new wars/not our problem' foreign policy seems to be a sure fire path to the Nobel Peace Prize.

F$%k..did rare earth metals get discovered there? Another Biden laptop maybe??

 

[FLVOL_79]

I do have some disagreement with how government spends money. On the local level I know of one system that pays a high school math teacher around $40,000/year it's football coach North of $100,000. Some high school coaches make much more than that.

Is that math teacher selling tickets to the mathball game?

 

[LouderVol]

I don't doubt yours went up. You said "all of us" so I'll ask again, do you have something that supports what you're saying?

You understand why you have to control for inflation, right? This is non-negotiable for comparison. You understand that we have to measure everything and not just 2014-2017, right?

except that is purposefully misleading info to include the entire time span. you/the article are relying on averages to hide the truth of what happened.

the individual mandates were a huge driver of cost.

your source notes a larger spike from 2014-2017. those were the mandated years. they had a higher than inflation spike.

for the AVERAGE to align with inflation now means that cost increases from 2017-2025 were actually less than inflation. which actually matches the pre-ACA price increases in health insurance. costs were going up but below inflation rates.

:not actually doing the math here just showing how it could work:

3% average inflation.

looking at 2014 to 2025 we could have something like this for health insurance prices

2014: 7% increase
2015: 7% increase
2016: 7% increase
2017: 7% increase
2018: 2%
2019: 2%
2020: 2%
2021: 2%
2022: 2%
2023: 2%
2024: 2%
2025: 2%

without the individual years broken out, trying to average out the costs is just lying. especially if the non-mandate years are actually below inflation.

 

[swampfoxfan]

apologies for the confusion. I broadened the discussion a bit from the topic of teacher salary to a more general opinion of government versus private sector.

so if government is not good, is the private sector worse as an option for solutions?

Wish I had a good answer. I think the government, under either party,is giving the average everyday Joe a big one up the rear with no lube.

Schools pay teachers with what taxes they collect, Clinton tn teachers are paid about $20,000 less than Oak Ridge,tn teachers. Both in the same county. Neither close to $90,000.

 

[hog88]

Wish I had a good answer. I think the government, under either party,is giving the average everyday Joe a big one up the rear with no lube.

Schools pay teachers with what taxes they collect, Clinton tn teachers are paid about $20,000 less than Oak Ridge,tn teachers. Both in the same county. Neither close to $90,000.

Part of Oak Ridge is in Roane County and part is in Anderson County, Clinton is entirely in Anderson County so that may be an explanation of the pay differences.

 

[swampfoxfan]

Part of Oak Ridge is in Roane County and part is in Anderson County, Clinton is entirely in Anderson County so that may be an explanation of the pay differences.

The part in Roane County is a big part of OR, the part of OR that makes the money is entirely within Anderson county

 

[hog88]

The part in Roane County is a big part of OR, the part of OR that makes the money is entirely within Anderson county

Are the schools in Oak Ridge in Anderson County?

Several years back there was a bill in the TN legislature to standardize teacher pay across the entire state of TN, I though that to one of the dumbest proposals ever.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Are the schools in Oak Ridge in Anderson County?

Several years back there was a bill in the TN legislature to standardize teacher pay across the entire state of TN, I though that to one of the dumbest proposals ever.

Equal outcome, not equal opportunity. A basic tenet of the socialist left

 

[swampfoxfan]

Are the schools in Oak Ridge in Anderson County?

Several years back there was a bill in the TN legislature to standardize teacher pay across the entire state of TN, I though that to one of the dumbest proposals ever.

Yes the schools are in Anderson County.

There is some merit to the second part. In Anderson County, Oak Ridge get the best and brightest educators.

 

[swampfoxfan]

Equal outcome, not equal opportunity. A basic tenet of the socialist left

Keeping the poor at a disadvantage. A basic tenet of the totalitarian right.