Thursday Night Open Thread

Well, it finally happened. I’m posting the Backstreet Boys. I know what you’re thinking: this better be worth it.

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Let’s make this all better. I’ll do what I can later. For now, you pick something better to talk about. It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.

What’s on your mind?

6 Comments

  1. Un-parody-able:

    Presidential Candidate Wants To Give Everyone $1,000 a Month in Free Cash
    The Hill / Aris Folley / 01/10/19

    Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang is vowing to pay every American citizen between the ages of 18 and 64 a $1,000 check once a month if he is elected in 2020.

    Yang, who is running his presidential campaign largely around the idea of universal basic income, already launched a pilot program for free cash payments known as the Freedom Dividend, CNBC reported on Wednesday.

    For the program, Yang selected a family in Goffstown, New Hampshire, who he says will be receiving $12,000 in free cash for the year.

    Yang said Charles Fassi, his wife and child received their first $1,000 check from him at a party on New Year’s Eve in New York City.

    • Attendance at the New Year’s Eve party in New York City, from New Hampshire, cost Charles Fassi, his wife, and child in excess of $1,000, thus providing a Mount Rushmore-esque epitome of liberalism for the ages.

    • Latest figures I could find give the US population between 15-64 [Working age] as 206,755,997. The ultimate figure will thus be a little off from the 18-64 age range given but you work with what you got.

      206,755,997 x 12,000 = $2,480,071,964,000 a year necessary for this plan. Given the age imprecision let us just round it down to a cost of $2,000,000,000,000.00 a year. That is above all our other generosity with the public Fisc.

      I mainly object because I would only get the extra $12,000.00 for another 5 years. Hardly seems fair to me.

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