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Retired Lady Blasts The Denver City Council Meeting - ‘You ask how I am coping...’

CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill
@CarolJoy
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This is a post that Elon Musk put up, that offers the recorded video where one single well-informed citizen lets the local government understand how the liberal desire to house and feed 40,000 new immigrants is not even possible under the budget that is available.

She discusses her own personal struggle of trying to pay property taxes, car insurance, medication, etc. All from her income of 30K a year.

And now she gets her food from a food bank and clothes from thrift shops.

One of Musk's other posts is his simple texting to the effect that every single 100 days, the US adds another one trillion dollars to its monetary woes.

But also remember - Trump's wall to protect the border would have cost our society too much money!!

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  • kedavis@kedavis

    Well, it's Denver, so that must be a big part of it. I get by on a little over $21k after Medicare, including mortgage payments (for another 2.5 years) and property taxes etc. But I'm not in Denver...

  • CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill@CarolJoy
    ReplyingtoPaul Stinchfield

    Paul Stinchfield (View Comment):

    Not that many years of inflation will reduce a more comfortable annual income of $60K to what this lady is subsisting on.

    Yes that is exactly right.

    I already know plenty of people living on 60K right now who are dipping into retirement funds or into college funds just in order to handle necessities like clothes for the kids, new shoes for the family, and an occasional outing. (People need food for the soul as much as they need to pay for med bills and car insurance.)

    In Europe, people are taking to the streets. I wonder if that can happen here or not.

  • navyjag@navyjag

    Just an old accounting major. But trying to recall the cost of the border wall when Trump had so much trouble getting funds to build it and I believe had to take money out of the DOD budget. Good work. Was it $12 billion? $15? Probably a fraction of what our Democratic mayor pals are shoveling out for the 8 million illegals wanting free meals and hotels. Of course Governor Pandera going a step beyond. Free mortgages in California. Just build the damn wall. Then figure out how to move the criminals back to Venezuela. We have plenty of Air National Guard aircraft.

  • CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill@CarolJoy
    Replyingtokedavis

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Well, it’s Denver, so that must be a big part of it. I get by on a little over $21k after Medicare, including mortgage payments (for another 2.5 years) and property taxes etc. But I’m not in Denver…

    You most likely don't have to worry about health insurance payments, which eat up a lot of a senior citizen's income.

    Older comics joke that coming soon, our Social Security monies will just go directly off to United Health Care, but I'm not seeing the humor in those remarks. It is too close to the truth.

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