Wait, their what? Is that real? That’s gotta be a meme, right?

Oh don’t worry he just fired the head of the BLS because they dared report the truth lol.

“The state has decided that this report is not in the interest of the people”

Yeah they can skew things and make elections harder via gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc. but ultimately the plurality of Americans either didn’t vote or voted R.

Yeah the accountability chain here is:

President is accountable to Congress via impeachment/recall. Congress is accountable to the people via elections.

The people opted to not hold Congress accountable, and Congress is a bunch of cucks that refuse to do their jobs, and the Supreme Court is clearly choosing to not even try to enforce anything… but the ultimate truth is “people chose this”. Very sadly. The American people chose this executive, this Congress, and indirectly this Court.

“This isn’t the real America” - sorry but it actually is.

I’m a simple man. I see AI slop, I downvote AI slop.

Which isn’t really relevant to their original comment about basic necessities? So far it’s like you haven’t bothered to read any comments but just really wanted to say something. Got the number of people for my expenses comment wrong, completely missed the point of the main comment. 0/2.

… 65 - 20 = 45, which I explicitly called out as our lowest expenses for 2 people but their comment is about 40 for a family of four…

Off by a factor of 2, bud

Straight up no idea how you’re doing that - genuinely you should be proud of your budgeting.

My partner and I live quite comfortably admittedly, but we rarely buy “things” - our biggest discretionary spending by far is on higher quality food. Our net expenses last year was around 65k CAD.

24k went to housing, around 20k went into investments and savings, and the last 20k was on “everything else”, including discretionary spending. We live comfortably but not nearly extravagantly and our expenses floor for the two of us is probably 40k… let alone adding two kids.

And we live in an incredibly cheap city compared to Vancouver/Toronto!