By February 1st of this year, one of three things was supposed to happen regarding the Industrial Park agreement between the City and Martin’s Rod & Custom:
#1 – Martin’s purchase the land for $165,000 – in preparation for “Phase II” of their “agreement.” This included such fantasies as a microbrewery, distillery, barber shop and “other entrepreneurial possibilities.”
#2 – Martin’s was supposed to renegotiate the agreement because they weren’t ready to buy yet. This option seemed most likely to me from the very beginning.
#3 – Martin’s was supposed to provide a detailed “Phase II” plan wherein they explained in detail their plans for the “microbrewery” and “food trucks” and re-negotiate the original deal (i.e. City council would let them off the hook once again).
But according to the City secretary, NONE of these events had transpired as of the deadline passing. In their words, “there are no responsive documents.“
According to City documents [page 28], Stacey Ybarra herself met with Brant Martin on February 9th “regarding the Industrial Park.” What was the meeting about? That’s a secret for now. Last I checked, however, February 9th comes AFTER February 1st – which was the deadline for some action.
Will anything happen, now that the agreement has not only been violated repeatedly by Martin’s Rod but they have also missed the Feb 1st deadline for action? I’m guessing not. Hopefully we get an answer soon.
But as Warren Buffet says: when the tide goes out, you’ll find out who’s swimming naked. Well, the tide of money is now receding and tough decisions will have to be made.
LOL. Just kidding. Organizations like the City government and government-run schools NEVER have to tighten their belts. They just bleat on Facebook about how the taxpayer needs to cough up more dough…even as they do stupid shit like spend $2 million dollars on a new track and pay their superintendent $177,000$188,000 per year to teach zero kids.
Donna Clark – School Nurse – $73,129 $75,459 (my goodness! Putting Band-Aids on boo boos pays better than being an ICU nurse working 12 hour shifts!)
[Notice anything about the $802,000 in salaries above for eight people? None of them are actually teachers! Let’s look at some more…]
Christine Byrd – Counselor – $72,750$75,319
Christy Wiley – Teacher – $68,215 $70,816 (her husband once whined on Facebook that his wife “only makes $4 an hour when you add up all the hours she spends.” Which is utter nonsense, of course. Right Mike?)
Beverly Sue Spencer – Transportation – $75,280 $77,687
Kerri Holcomb – Librarian – $65,345 (are you kidding me?)No data available for 2023…fired?
Cathy Kuehne – Art teacher – $67,915 $71,015 (current City council member who “put herself at risk every day” during the Covid scamdemic)
Michael Kuehne – Teacher – $60,835 $63,335 (BLM supporter and pizza lover)
Anyways, you get the picture.
I have no beef with GOOD teachers who teach IMPORTANT subjects (math, science, reading) being paid well.
What I DO have a problem with is the bloated and ever-increasing mass of “administrators” and bullshit artists like Kathy Staruska getting automatic raises and growing larger every year.
I have talked about this in the past, but here it is in graphical representation AGAIN:
The number of “administrators” (paper pushers and Nerf job clowns) has increased FOUR TIMES FASTER than the student population. This is absolutely outrageous considering this number should have SHRUNK with the advent of computers, the Internet and other productivity-enhancing inventions.
[If you are good at math, you will realize immediately that “administrators” needs to be cut by roughly 75% to get it back in line. Think of that money THAT would save!!]
The teacher population has grown TWICE as fast as well. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, every single one of my classes had about 30 kids in it. Now it’s more like 20. Ergo, teachers are being paid more to deal with 33% LESS kids. So I can’t exactly cry a river there either, but at least they are in the classroom imparting knowledge – unlike these other clown horns.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) analyzes the skill requirements of different jobs, assigning each a pay grade based on the federal government’s General Schedule (GS). At the lowest skill levels—a GS-6 on the federal scale—teachers earn salaries about 26 percent higher than similar white-collar workers.
The average public school teaching position rated an 8.8 on the federal GS scale. After adjustment to reflect the time that teachers work outside the formal school day, the BLS data show that public school teachers on average receive salaries about 8 percent above similar private-sector jobs.
Contrary to myth, teachers are generally not foregoing higher salaries by staying in the classroom. Data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation show that teachers who change to non-teaching jobs take an average salary cut of about 3 percent. Studies using administrative records in Florida, Missouri, Georgia, and Montana showed similar results; the Georgia study found “strong evidence that very few of those who leave teaching take jobs that pay more than their salary as teachers.” [This data is from 2018 – the disparity is no doubt far larger now after the huge raises in recent years]
As the New York Timesreported, public-employee retirement and health benefits are bleeding dry state and local budgets. Neither the public nor teachers fully appreciates the costs of these programs. We forget the value of benefits when considering how teacher pay compares with private-sector work. And research suggests that teachers value deferred compensation less than upfront salary.
Like Peter denying Jesus at the house of Annas, so does local moron land whale Bruce Haywood deny he is a rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth lefty nutter:
According to Bruce, he was a dyed-in-the-wool Reagan Republican back in the day. But then they started taking away all his welfare. So the party left him – he didn’t leave the party. Could have fooled me, Bruce! You don’t pay property taxes or file for federal taxes, according to your own admissions previously. So pardon me if I don’t buy the “I lost all my welfare” schtick you are pushing…
Regardless, you sure do a very good imitation of a far left commie loon these days. I’m not even talking a Carter democrat. I’m talking part of the new socialist rabble (Clayton Tucker, Greg Casar, Robert O’Rourke, etc) pushing for open borders, destruction of the energy sector, etc. Let’s take a look at some of your more unhinged posts, shall we??
Ok Bruce! Keep telling us you’re “not a liberal.”
Bruce has taken ZERO military-aged Chinese or African illegal males into his own home.
The GOOD news is that at age 60, double vaxxed and boosted and looking like THIS….
…Bruce likely won’t be around much longer. The Social Security actuarial tables put the chances of a normal 60-year-old male dying this year at 1.35% or 73-1. But Bruce is anything but “normal” as you can see in the photo. I’d guess it’s more like 40-1 right about now. Still a long shot, but something I can look forward to…
Lots of butter and huge portions! Bruce loves that!
When you have no job, pay no taxes, and get welfare from everyone else, you can stay up until 3am eating greaseburgers.
One of these nights around 3am, he’ll bite into his last greasy Whattaburger, see Trump on CNN still walking around free 18 months after he was “caught selling nuclear secrets to the Russians” (yes, Bruce actually believes that) and have a massive myocardial infarction.
His wife will find him in his greasy recliner with shit and piss all over himself – and at first that won’t seem out of the ordinary to her. But when he doesn’t get up at his normal 1pm feeding time, she’ll have to call the ambulance. The big one. The one they use to transport sea lions from one aquarium to another.
And THAT will be the end of Bruce. One less fat sack of IRS-loving, libshit in the world. Praise the Lord!
Bruce literally salivating over the IRS destroying people’s lives. The very people Bruce depends on for his government welfare checks.
The LEDC shells out thousands upon thousands of dollars to join some group or attend some conference and then….nothing happens.
If you have read here for any appreciable amount of time, you HAVE heard it before. In fact, I once painstakingly compiled a list of conferences, conventions, workshops, webinars, clinics, summits, groups and retreats that the LEDC has paid good (taxpayer) money to attend/join. Feel free to refresh your memory re-reading my awesome post:
Cost? A bargain at $4,200. Which seems to be a very common ballpark amount of money to ask for, when it comes to these groups. Some worm must have done a study about the maximum number that idiot politicians and City employees will say “YES” to without putting up much of a fight.
Like your teen kid asking for money. If he asks for $40, you are likely to hand it over, no questions. If he’s dumb enough to ask for $400, you are going to ask a LOT of questions.
Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.
Speaking of pigs, here is Rosa Rios Valdez. She is the president of the Grand Central Texas Economic Development group.
You’d have a shit-eating grin like that too if you were paid $182,000 to ‘work’ 12 hours a week [page 7, section VII, line 5] at some horseshit non-profit like this scamming the gullible rubes in the “economic development” groups of smaller cities like Lampasas.
I tell ya, those of us in the private sector are the true morons. Ybarra, deGraffenreid, Ward, Wright – they are the smart ones. Sitting around sipping on chilled government tit milk and taking 4 or 6 weeks of vacation per year while getting health insurance at 75% off. Must be nice to make that kind of cheddar when you’d barely be qualified to work the counter at 7-Eleven in the real world.
But I digress.
What does the City get for their $4,200 ‘investment’ (which I assume is an annually-administered titty twist and not a one-time fee)? Let’s see [page 3]…
They get “website/swag/conferences” for starters! WOW. Swag!
They also get “visibility/resources” – nice and vague…and unquantifiable.
Finally, they get “targeted industries” – whatever that means.
Sounds like a deal! I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that the same geniuses who squandered $7.2 million to build a park that sits empty after 20 years will DEFINITELY puke up $4,200 for the extremely unlikely chance that Rosa Rios Valdez will find them a prom date for the Big Dance.
Our net zero lesson of the day is from the U.K. but it applies universally. It’s increasingly difficult for Biden and the EU to hide the true costs of net zero mandates.
Britain Boiler Tax Scandal
In the latest green fiasco, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak created a quota system that would require manufacturers to sell more heat pumps to households.
Instead of meekly complying with the regulation as happens with Biden administration EPA announcements, manufacturers let consumers know they would have to pay up whether they installed the heat pumps or not.
Manufacturers correctly dubbed the scheme a “boiler tax” and consumer outrage killed the regulation.
Most English households use natural gas to fuel the cabinet-sized boilers that provide central heating and hot water, and forcing them to adopt electric heat pumps (ultimately powered by renewable energy) is part of the government’s net-zero agenda.
An earlier proposal to ban gas-boiler sales after 2035 proved politically toxic as households balked at the cost of replacing their reliable natural-gas boilers with more expensive, untested heat pumps. So politicians resorted to subterfuge, imposing a sales quota on manufacturers. Starting in April, heat pumps would have to replace 4% of annual boiler sales or companies would pay a £3,000 fine for each “excess” natural-gas boiler they sold.
Worcester Bosch, Britain’s leading manufacturer, warned last year that the proposed quota would add up to £300 ($376) to the cost of natural-gas boilers, which retail for £1,000 and up.
A novelty is that industry fought back against the mandate. Manufacturers were transparent about passing the cost of the heat-pump fines to consumers, calling it a “boiler tax.” Mr. Sunak’s government tried to blame the companies for anticompetitive behavior. But when voters realized they’d be stuck paying for heat pumps even if they didn’t buy them, it was game over for the rule.
Biden’s Wind Tax
In the US, manufacturers have yet to stand up to idiotic Biden regulations, mostly because they have received tax incentives that hide the true costs.
But the actual costs are difficult to hide now that subsidies won’t hide the true cost. So Biden’s schemes are unraveling.
When President Joe Biden in 2021 laid out a target of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity during the next nine years, the plan was deemed bold and ambitious. Best of all, many saw it as within reach.
Two years later, the industry has another word for it: impossible.
After a cascading series of setbacks, from sobering cost revisions to billions in possible impairment charges, the US offshore wind industry’s 2030 generation goal now looks further away than ever.
The Biden administration is facing increasing pressure to take action to bolster the offshore wind industry after a major project was canceled in New Jersey on Tuesday, although options appear limited to ease financial hurdles facing developers.
Developers are taking billion-dollar losses due to the industry’s exploding costs and the dropping value of assets. Two companies in Massachusetts walked away from deals that they said did not cover costs. New York regulators rebuffed attempts to renegotiate contracts with wind companies for higher prices, casting uncertainty over the future of several wind farms off the state’s coast. Meanwhile, the supply chain of businesses to support offshore wind construction has expanded too slowly to meet the needs of proposals.
But the starkest sign of a troubled sector came Tuesday, when Ørsted, the largest offshore wind developer in the U.S. market, said it will abandon its Ocean Wind project. The two-phased wind array off the Jersey coast was one of just five major offshore wind projects approved in the U.S. — all by the Biden administration. Along with creating more uncertainty for the industry, the cancellation is raising speculation over whether other projects will follow.
Defending the administration’s record, White House spokesperson Michael Kikukawa said Biden has “used every available tool to advance the growing American offshore wind industry.”
Outright Lies Are Biden’s Biggest Tool
Without a doubt, Biden has “used every available tool to advance the growing American offshore wind industry.”
His biggest tool is a pack of lies starting with a claim that these projects are cheaper and will pay for themselves.
Downgrades and Write Offs
Fitch Ratings downgraded Eversource Energy and its NSTAR Electric utility subsidiary from stable to negative, partly on the grounds that the company may struggle to unload three offshore wind projects it had wanted to sell.
Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath, BP’s head of gas and low-carbon energy, told attendees at a London conference that the U.S. offshore wind sector was “fundamentally broken” and in need of a reset.
BP has taken a pretax impairment charge — a devaluing of an asset — of $540 million due to its New York offshore wind projects.
Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor said last month it was taking a $300 million impairment in its U.S. offshore wind portfolio. Ørsted could take a $5 billion hit.
Even with massive subsidies, these projects are not economical. All they do is replace one form of energy with another at increasing costs that must be born by someone.
Let’s accurately label this fiasco for what it really is: A mandate to use wind, then a wind tax to support it.
On Feb. 1, 2023, the DOE issued its original proposal which was set to take effect in 2027 and impact a staggering 50% of current gas stove models. The DOE argued it is required to put forth such regulations under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act which mandates energy efficiency rules while not harming consumer choice.
In response, Republicans and consumer advocacy organizations blasted the Biden administration for curbing consumer choice and pushing a regulatory regime that would lead to higher prices. They also criticized the DOE for attempting to force Americans to electrify their homes in an effort to reduce emissions and fight global warming.
“President Biden is committed to using all the tools at the Administration’s disposal to lower costs for American families and deliver healthier communities — including energy efficiency measures like the one announced today,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement [after the administration backed off the proposal].
Gas Stove Tax
Let’s label the Biden administration proposal for what it really is, a tax on gas stoves.
Biden then had the audacity to brag about lowering costs when he backed off the proposal.
Tax This, Tax That, Tax Everything
Up and down the line, we need to label the green regulations and mandates from this administration for what they really are: Across the board tax hikes.
And since these these taxes apply to everyone, not just the wealthy, they are very regressive in nature.
We have wind taxes, heat pump taxes, gasoline taxes, stove taxes, air conditioner taxes, internal combustion engine taxes, etc., all of which are mislabeled in ways to sound like they are positive things.
Cap-and-trade is nothing but a giant tax scheme in which manufacturers have to pass on the costs.
Industry is fighting back in the UK and farmers are fighting back in the EU. Republicans need to carry the regressive tax hike message into the upcoming US election.
Inflation Pressures Everywhere
Please note that all of these mandates purposely increase costs. They are all inflationary.
Nearly everything this administration does is inflationary. The same applies to every regulation in California.
Don’t think for one second that these wage hike only hit wealthy franchise owners. For starters, many franchise owners are deep in debt to buy that franchise.
In addition, how are Joe and Susie going to get help at $16 when McDonalds is paying $20?
The answer is they won’t. Effectively, $20 is the new minimum wage in California, and not just restaurants.
Big Explosion of Government and Social Assistance Jobs
President Biden is bragging about job growth in 2023. But he doesn’t say where those jobs are.
A surge in immigration led to a surge in need for government and social assistance jobs at taxpayer expense. City and local governments are under financial strain.
Under Bidenomics policy, we have created hundreds of thousands of jobs that are of net negative benefit to US taxpayers. That’s what Biden is really bragging about.
Fed Chairman Tells 60 Minutes US Fiscal Path is Unsustainable
Fed Chair Jerome Powell tells 60 Minutes that it’s “urgent” the US address its “Unsustainable Fiscal Path”
The Fed normally does not comment on fiscal policy, but Powell did. “Debt is growing faster than the economy. So, it is unsustainable. … You could say that it was urgent,” said Powell.
Biden is bragging inflation is coming down. Economists have fully embraced the softest of softy landing. And Powell told 60 Minutes he thinks inflation is transitory.
I keep asking: Is inflation transitoryor is this recent decline in the rate of inflation what’s transitory?
I think my new hobby is basically doing deep dives into bullshit non-profits and exposing them for being utter jokes despite their airs of authority. I would have made a GREAT insurance claims investigator for fraudulent workman’s comp claims. I absolutely detest grifters and I’m good at patiently digging down and putting clues together from lots of social media garbage posts.
Our local socialist cockroach, of course, has his fingers in many grifter pies. This latest is no different.
Then the reality of THIS: random street urchins grabbing the microphone to whine about how Daddy didn’t buy them a pony…
The first thing I think when I see a post like this is: Clayton Tucker is not qualified to speak about ANYTHING, let alone farming – so how did this happen? Who did he trick?
Can you imagine how his ‘speech’ would go?
“Hi, I’m Clayton Tucker! I founded a ranch seven weeks ago and I sold FOUR goats last year! I live with my mom. Derp derp!!”
Next speaker.
So then I have to assume the people running this must be grifters or morons or grifter morons. And I’m always right.
This time is no different.
The event is hosted by Food Tank. Get it?? Instead of “Think Tank” it is a “Food Tank“! Its goal is to “highlight environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity and poverty,” according to Wikipedia.
Now you may ask how hunger/poverty and obesity exist in the same mission statement – because you are a smart and logical person. But those kinds of logical points will escape this crowd. Because they are ALL about the buzzwords and the grift. Throw in “equity” this and a dash of “sustainability” that and then put your grubby hands out for government grants. I’m just surprised that “gender” didn’t appear anywhere in the bylines.
The first way we know this is a massive grift, is that it is run by three clowns who are not farmers. They are idiot activists. Also, strangely, they are all Jews, which is weird as shit all by itself. Jews make up about 2.5% of the U.S. population, but seem to be behind a LOT of grifts and schemes to fuck this country up more.
Bernie (Hey! Just like Bernie Sanders! Another grifter Jewish man who has never worked a real day in his life!) has likely never gotten dirt under his well-manicured fingernails in his life. He was an AFL-CIO douchebag for most of his career.
According to his LinkedIn:He is an expert at non-profit, political, and union campaigning, public relations, and strategy. He spent more than ten years organizing state and national campaigns for the National AFL-CIO that resulted in the election of dozens major pro-worker candidates and laws in three dozen states. He developed communication programs for union organizing, referendums, and elections all over the U.S. and worked extensively with media reporting on workers’ issues.
Yeah. I doubt he’s ever so much as grown a tomato in his entire grifter life.
Next up is Danielle Nierenberg – she is an “activist, journalist and author,” but also not a farmer. In fairness, according to her Wiki, she DID join the Peace Corps and went to the Dominican Republic where she “worked with farmers and urban school kids.” Of course, that is hard, thankless work, so she got her ass back into college as fast as possible after that then joined a string of non-profits so she could grift in air-conditioned comfort, no doubt.
Finally we have Ellen Gustafson. She is a “businessperson” and also a “social entrepreneur,” whatever the fuck THAT means. Her main claim to fame seems to be starting ANOTHER grifter non-profit called FEED with Lauren Bush.
Gee, I wonder if she has any connections to free government shit and ‘environmental’ scams? I guess we’ll never know. I’m sure Lauren, the fashion model and designer, does a LOT of farming on the side, too. Probably loves spreading turkey shit on all the crops she grows.
This is the life that Comrade Clayton DREAMS of – going around lying about being a farmer, but getting PAID for it. Right now, he only has the first part down cold. But by god, he is working his hardest to kiss the right asses so he can get PAID to lie about his farming expertise!
Talbert: [24 minute mark] “It has come to my attention that the City is blessed with a significant amount of money in the American recovery funds to the tune of 1.978 million dollars, I believe….and the water/wastewater portion of this project will run $971,000 and the funds can be used for this project...I’m quite certain there’s not another project you can put these funds into that….are gonna bring you the potential ROI that thisproject is gonna bring you…“
ROI? Less than two years ago, former concilman Mike White admitted THIS about the goat pasture business park project: “I don’t love it, just from a return on investment standpoint, it’s never…never going to be anywhere close…” [5/26/20 Council meeting at the 10:08 and 19:30 minute mark].
LEDC President Misti Talbert got her way and nearly a million bucks was handed over by the City for Talbert’s ill-fated corpse repository.
But you’d never know two years had passed from looking at the Business Pork project out there on 183. It looks exactly the same as it did 24 months ago: empty.
I’m sure a big business will move in any minute now and offer $30/hr wages to dozens and dozens of people! Any minute now.
Even for socialist serial liar Clayton Tucker (SDEC-24 TX), his latest fabrications and proclamations are a huge stretch of logic, reason and facts. For instance, did you know that the RX Ranch, which has been around for generations, was ACTUALLY founded by Comrade Clayton – who wasn’t technically born until 1991?? Yep, it’s true!
You see, Clayton Tucker FINALLY filed the paperwork to formally create the “RX Ranch.” The “certificate of formation” was filed on December 21, 2023, according to Open Corporates.
He is now quick to state on his new Substack, that he is the FOUNDER of the RX Ranch! Sounds impressive, no?
Would you look at that! Been a “rancher” for all of six weeks, has two beginner classes under his belt, and he is ready to “fight for a JUST and SUSTAINABLE food system.”
LOL!!
Of course, the United States has been filled with farmers feeding themselves and the nation for nearly 220 years before Comrade Clayton’s mom shat him out into the world in 1991. A system that’s been going strong for 250 years sounds pretty “sustainable” to me – but here comes the 33-year-old manboy with zero experience to show us how it’s done so we don’t all starve to death like morons!
Thank goodness!!
So the guy who filled out some papers and filed them with the state is the “founder” of RX Ranch. Never mind the four generations of Tuckers that preceded him! You know, the guys who bought the land and named it and paid for all the fencing and equipment and stuff. They guys who spent the money and did the actual work…
Good old Bob and Ree have been ’round these here parts since the 70s! We know this because Comrade Clayton told us himself when he tried to pull the “good old boys” card right before he got taken to the woodshed by Zac Morris about three years ago in his City council race – which was yet ANOTHER time he forgot he was a rancher in the candidate filing forms and instead put “political organizer”…
So if Good Old Bob and Ree are the ones who bought the place, lived there since the 1970s and named it – then how did Comrade Clayton (born in 1991) FOUND the damn thing? He would have to somehow go back in time to the 1960s and beat grandpa to the punch. LOL.
Not to mention, he told the Lampasas Dispatch Record on 6/2/17 that he had lived in the city of Lampasas “about one year” when he was trying to weasel his way into an open City council seat. Pretty tough to “found a ranch” that has been here for four generations when you only moved to Lampasas in 2016. You complete and utter moron.
I’ve covered all of Comrade Clayton’s lies and bullshit extensively – such as HERE, HERE and HERE.
There is one other possible explanation for his misuse of the word ‘founder.’ It occurred to me as I was bench pressing 480 pounds this morning that the word “founder” has many meanings….
Collapse, sink and fail! Now THOSE look like the kinds of words that should be associated with a Comrade Clayton-run goat enterprise! As in: “I have little doubt that Comrade Clayton’s goat operation will FOUNDER on the rocky shores of his laziness, incompetence and general mental retardation.“
Poor Comrade Clayton. He’s told so many tall tales over the last 6 years, he can’t make a single statement without it contradicting 5 others.
If America-hating socialist Clayton Tucker (SDEC-24 TX) knows who even ONE of those two guys are in the picture, I’ll eat a bowl of my own shit:
Socialist, America-hating nerds like Clayton Tucker should stay away from NFL memes. I guarantee you Clayton Tucker was not watching the greatest Superbowl ever played last night. He was not screaming at his TV set over red-zone fumbles. He was not cashing 10-1 prop bets on overtime or cheering for Purdy to throw one more fucking pass to hit the over 30.5 attempts or doubling down on KC -3 at halftime.
He was doing none of those things.
He was “manning” a socialist propaganda booth at a Texas Democratic Women’s Convention – which might be one of the gayest things I’ve ever heard of. Better add it to The List:
I’d almost admire this move, if I thought he was going to this convention and only acting like a soy boy just to try and bang some chicks. Kristi Lara even has a little Sarah Palin thing going on there – that is, if Sarah Palin ate a few dozen boxes of Girl Scout cookies, got 6 Covid booster shots and then got hit in the face with a frying pan.
The other chicks aren’t really anything to write home about, though…
But sadly, Comrade Clayton is there because he is a hardcore commie termite and actually BELIEVES all of this shit.
Jesus Christ. They’re actually CELEBRATING mentally ill men dressing up as women and beating the shit out of REAL women in all sporting events. These people are deranged.
Oh man! Look at what a hack journalist says at the Washington Compost!
With 60% receiving some form of welfare. Oh.. he forgot to mention that part?
Wow SEVEN TRILLION! That’s a lot! Granted, those numbers are for ten years from now, but WOW!
So why is every city overrun with illegals complaining about the billions it is costing them? Why are they not raving about the billions of extra tax revenue?
Wait a second – I know. Something is missing in that equation. GDP and revenue…..ohhhh, that’s right. He doesn’t say a peep about EXPENDITURES or DEFICITS or DEBT over the next ten years! How convenient!
The economy may be $7 trillion bigger in ten years but the debt will be around $20 trillion larger – or THREE TIMES bigger than GDP growth. That is because we are running $2 trillion deficits every year – SPENDING far more than we take in. If you are spending $2.50 you don’t have for every $1 in GDP growth, you are not doing well. You are digging a deeper hole.
Since we learned in 2nd grade that there TANSTAAFL, how does this situation resolve itself? By weakening the purchasing power of those extra dollars floating around – also known as INFLATION. Which we have clearly seen in spades the last three years.
Here is another CBO chart for you. According to the latest forecast from the Congressional Budget Office, the federal deficit will grow from 4.2 percent of GDP in 2022 to 13 percent of GDP by 2051:
Collect $1 in taxes then spend $2.50! It’s magic!!
According to retards like Jeff Stein and Clayton Tucker, if an illegal invader pays $1 in taxes but then takes $3 in welfare in return, they are a benefit to society! All you have to do is ignore that $3 cost and paint a rosy picture!
Furthermore, the European Union has ALREADY run this experiment: these people will use much more in services than they pay in. In the EU one invader over a lifetime costs the tax payer roughly 725k.
Whether we are talking about wind power, illegal invaders or government run schools – Comrade Clayton NEVER mentions costs when he touts the supposed benefits of any fucked-up government program. That is because a 33-year-old who lives with his mom doesn’t worry about the cost of anything. Mom pays for it all. So his worldview is permanently distorted and incorrect on everything.
Comrade Clayton is like that fat, 28-year-old white trash brood sow who has 5 kids with 3 different guys. She “pays taxes” on her meager 7-Eleven salary and then takes out 5x that amount in food stamps, WIC, Section 8 housing, child tax ‘refunds’ and other welfare. Yet in her tiny pea brain, she “pays taxes” because she doesn’t count the thousands and thousands she gets in welfare.
The FAIR study, released in March last year, documented the financial toll of illegal immigration on the U.S., taking into account factors like emergency medical care, incarcerating illegal aliens in local jails, and federal budgets that pay out billions in welfare every year, pegging the net annual cost at $150.7 billion.
To contextualize the number, the $150.7 billion spent on illegal immigration last year is more than the total gross domestic product (GDP) of Mississippi ($146.7 billion in 2023), New Mexico ($131.5 billion), Idaho ($119.8 billion), and is more than the GDP’s Wyoming and Vermont combined, at $50.74 billion and $43.38 billion, respectively.
With illegal immigration now costing $150.7 billion annually, the burden inevitably trickles down to the taxpayer. Individually, the FAIR study found that each illegal alien or their U.S.-born child costs the U.S. $8,776 annually.
Of the $8,776, each American taxpayer is paying roughly $1,156 per year, FAIR found, or about $957 eachafter factoring in the taxes paid by illegal aliens.
Jeff Stein – another 32-year-old nerd (history major) who has never worked in the real world or run a business – explaining how more deadbeats is good for the economy.
