I'm not all that crazy about him. He takes entirely too much money from pharmaceutical and financial services companies (big deals in New Jersey) and then is beholden to them. In that way he is a lot like old Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, if you can remember him. Also, you might remember Booker made a royal mess of the $100 million Mark Zuckerberg and the missus gave him with great fanfare a few years ago to fix the schools of Newark. Some of it was Z's fault, this being his first big foray into philanthropy and his due diligence consisted of being dazzled by Mayor Booker. But a lot of it was Booker's mismanagement. Much of that was really questionable, especially the $20 million of it he spent on consultants who waltzed in to tell Newark parents and teachers to do things they had no intention of agreeing with.
So, when we were raising our kids (they are in their late twenties now) we got what people in Canada call Family Allowance though it probably has a different name now. Small monthly payment tied to income, back then it was something like forty bucks a month. We were doing OK financially, so instead of spending it, we put it in a RESP, which is a special kind of bank account which, as I recall, is tax free, and the government chips in a bit every year, matching up to a certain amount. It's to pay for education, and now I understand it can also be used for apprenticeship programs. They'd put a little of their birthday money in too, sometimes, and my dad gave them $100 a couple of times throughout their childhoods. This money, along with some pretty good scholarships, paid my son's way to a university degree in engineering. Daughter didn't get any scholarships, but her share got her through a two year program at a community college that qualified her for a job she's been supporting herself on since. So they were young adults with qualifications, debt free.
It really worked pretty well and did exactly what it was meant to do. I'd think that any similar kind of program, rejigged a bit to allow for families that have to use the monthly money to get by, and who don't have a grandpa who can write a nice little cheque now and then, would also work for a lot of people. It really doesn't seem like an outlandish idea.
It does not make any kind of sense to allow an 18 year old to use the savings as a down on a house, when the 18 year old's primary source of income would be the minimum hourly wage from a McD's or no income but attending college and living on the parents' dime and in their basement - like how does Mr Booker expect an 18 year old to meet a mortgage payment - I think the nation is still feeling the collapse of those tons of notes on the poor folks buying a house on the balloon payment prank, sure pay 200 a month now on a note of 250,000 for a house, which in 5 years balloons to a mortgage payment of $1500 a month - and that was the work of the Clinton administration, if memory serves. So, please, not a mortgage at the age of 18, don't be stoopid, twice, about the same thing.
Nah, it's only a few idiots like Walker Bragman--you know, the same asshole who wrote that hideous 2016 essay for Salon titled "A Liberal Case For Donald Trump".
Stephen Miller ruined Stephen Miller's $80 plate of sushi in a fit of pique when a lesser being working a menial service job deigned to express his opinion to him.
Excuse me, but you misspelled that. It's called the Scare-avan.
I'm not all that crazy about him. He takes entirely too much money from pharmaceutical and financial services companies (big deals in New Jersey) and then is beholden to them. In that way he is a lot like old Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, if you can remember him. Also, you might remember Booker made a royal mess of the $100 million Mark Zuckerberg and the missus gave him with great fanfare a few years ago to fix the schools of Newark. Some of it was Z's fault, this being his first big foray into philanthropy and his due diligence consisted of being dazzled by Mayor Booker. But a lot of it was Booker's mismanagement. Much of that was really questionable, especially the $20 million of it he spent on consultants who waltzed in to tell Newark parents and teachers to do things they had no intention of agreeing with.
Tie the purchase of the AR-15 to a minimum number of semesters on Dean's list and you might get somewhere with it.
WHY ARE WE WORRIED ABOUT BOMBS WHEN CAROL'S LAKE HOUSE IS STILL IN DANGER?
Where's that picture of the little "Why not both?" girl?
I cheat and use wonton wrappers.
I'm for putting Donald Trump in a nursing home with no internet access, does that count?
So, when we were raising our kids (they are in their late twenties now) we got what people in Canada call Family Allowance though it probably has a different name now. Small monthly payment tied to income, back then it was something like forty bucks a month. We were doing OK financially, so instead of spending it, we put it in a RESP, which is a special kind of bank account which, as I recall, is tax free, and the government chips in a bit every year, matching up to a certain amount. It's to pay for education, and now I understand it can also be used for apprenticeship programs. They'd put a little of their birthday money in too, sometimes, and my dad gave them $100 a couple of times throughout their childhoods. This money, along with some pretty good scholarships, paid my son's way to a university degree in engineering. Daughter didn't get any scholarships, but her share got her through a two year program at a community college that qualified her for a job she's been supporting herself on since. So they were young adults with qualifications, debt free.
It really worked pretty well and did exactly what it was meant to do. I'd think that any similar kind of program, rejigged a bit to allow for families that have to use the monthly money to get by, and who don't have a grandpa who can write a nice little cheque now and then, would also work for a lot of people. It really doesn't seem like an outlandish idea.
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It does not make any kind of sense to allow an 18 year old to use the savings as a down on a house, when the 18 year old's primary source of income would be the minimum hourly wage from a McD's or no income but attending college and living on the parents' dime and in their basement - like how does Mr Booker expect an 18 year old to meet a mortgage payment - I think the nation is still feeling the collapse of those tons of notes on the poor folks buying a house on the balloon payment prank, sure pay 200 a month now on a note of 250,000 for a house, which in 5 years balloons to a mortgage payment of $1500 a month - and that was the work of the Clinton administration, if memory serves. So, please, not a mortgage at the age of 18, don't be stoopid, twice, about the same thing.
Nah, it's only a few idiots like Walker Bragman--you know, the same asshole who wrote that hideous 2016 essay for Salon titled "A Liberal Case For Donald Trump".
Well, yes. But liberals made him do it. Personal responsibility, you know.
Scooter batteries won't make it to 6th Avenue and back.
Stephen Miller ruined Stephen Miller's $80 plate of sushi in a fit of pique when a lesser being working a menial service job deigned to express his opinion to him.
A very small advance toward the Jubilee will occur when Bruce Tinsley ("Mallard Fillmore" finally manages to drink himself to death.
How are you supposed to polish your electric dog without one? Huh?