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Eric Holder says

We used to have a ban on word "you" on this site. It elevated the discussion quite a bit.

The worst insult: Why, you YOU!

Ceffer says

Eric Holder says

We used to have a ban on word "you" on this site. It elevated the discussion quite a bit.

The worst insult: Why, you YOU!

Instant ban!

Patrick says

The pension is supposed to be good, but I don't know how good. She's been a teacher for only three years.

For California teachers, you multiply years of service by the age factor (see below):
CalSTRS 2% at 62
The standard age factor is 2% at age 62. If you retire before
age 62, the age factor gradually decreases to 1.16% at
age 55. If you retire after age 62, the age factor gradually
increases to 2.4% at age 65.

So for ten years of teaching and retiring after 65 years old, you'd get 24% of salary in retirement. California teachers do not get (or contribute to) Social Security during their time teaching.
https://www.calstrs.com/files/934177add/understandingtheformula.pdf

https://slaynews.com/news/doge-uncovers-untraceable-payment-line-funneled-4-7-trillion-black-hole/

President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has just uncovered an eye-watering and unprecedented abuse of taxpayer funds.

The Elon Musk-led DOGE team has discovered an identification code linking U.S. Treasury payments to an “untraceable” budget line item.

The untraceable payment line accounts for a shocking $4.7 trillion in taxpayer funds that were funneled into a black hole, with no record of where the money went.

In a post on X, DOGE wrote:

“The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).

“In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible.

“As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going.”

DOGE thanked the U.S. Treasury for the department’s work in identifying the optional field.

The_Deplorable says

Glock-n-Load says

"These memes mean nothing. You have ZERO idea if they’re true or not."

You are in denial.
You are refusing to face reality hoping for what? That it will go away? Dream!

I don't mean you but, all of us. We really have no idea what the truth is when it comes to all of this stuff. I don't expect much, if anything, to change. Fraud, waste and abuse will live for eternity.

"Although the exact number of Federal employees who have been – or will be – affected by widespread layoffs instituted the Trump administration is not immediately clear, recent reports suggest the current number of cuts tops 12,000.
This number is in addition to the roughly 75,000 Federal employees who have accepted the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” offer. This program allows Federal employees to resign but be paid through Sept. 30."

FUCK YEAH BABY

EBGuy says

California teachers do not get (or contribute to) Social Security during their time teaching.

Not all, but most teachers do part time work. Men specifically. My BIL would get hired by a painter and paint decks and houses in the summer. W-2. A lot though would go for cash jobs.

He's dead now, but a lot of teachers fuck up big time. Get part time W-2 non-government work throughout the years. It's another check on top of the pension. Might be small, but better than nothing. Always pisses me off when teachers bitch about not getting SS. You didn't pay in and could have.

EBGuy says

California teachers do not get (or contribute to) Social Security during their time teaching.

Neither do railway workers, I believe.

Guv employees with other retirement plans can 'opt out' of SS payments, which they usually do, since the alternate Guv plans are better. I know the Lab guys in Livermore have very nice retirement plans and get to keep the SS dole to spend.

Congress don't pay SS either, because in addition to all the graft, bribery and insider training, they have fabulous medical and 'retirement' that they have self assigned.

SS used to be 15 percent off the top of the paycheck, with the payee paying half (7.5 percent) and the employer paying half. That's a lot over a working life for so little return at the end compared to standard investments. It's especially bloody painful when it is use to subsidize the illegals and doled out whatever grifty grafty way the politicians see fit to whomever. Now, add that to the insult that it is also laundered away, and somebody needs to be burned at the stake.

Ceffer says

Guv employees with other retirement plans can 'opt out' of SS payments, which they usually do, since the alternate Guv plans are better. I know the Lab guys in Livermore have very nice retirement plans and get to keep the SS dole to spend.

Congress don't pay SS either, because in addition to all the graft, bribery and insider training, they have fabulous medical and 'retirement' that they have self assigned.

Do the "lab guys" at the Livermore's get a state pension like CALPERS or do they get Federal Employee Retirement System ?

I think they "lab guys" are employees of the university which administers the federal lab

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AD says

Do the "lab guys" at the Livermore's get a state pension like CALPERS or do they get Federal Employee Retirement System ?

I think they "lab guys" are employees of the university which administers the federal lab

I don't know, but I would guess its the FERS. Our neighbors who worked for LLC said they didn't have to contribute SS.

The USDA says "several" staffers working on the bird flu response were terminated over the weekend, and "we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters."

$2B and she still can't afford an orthodontist or an ozempic prescription. . .

stereotomy says

$2B and she still can't afford an orthodontist or an ozempic prescription. . .

You don't get rid of a good chaw spitting hole.

No, CIA Mockingbird just gives him the dumbest lines to promulgate.

https://t.me/TheCatturd/5294

Now, tell us what you really think.

He's been confirmed.

Ceffer says

stereotomy says

$2B and she still can't afford an orthodontist or an ozempic prescription. . .

You don't get rid of a good chaw spitting hole.

If they gave her an enema, there'd be nothing left of her.

https://x.com/ThomasMHern/status/1891698187188011458

https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1892348045553009109

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1892439128177856745