NYC paying out obscene amounts in pensions to city employees

[TrackGabe]

Doug, plus this...

my buddy spends the $192 by the 20th of month or therebout.. then he goes to food banks. I took him a few times, they give out some nice food at these food banks. About 4 bags full of groceries, bread, pastries, soups, mixed nuts, fruit, veg, canned tuna, costco food stuff like the wraps and already baked meals...really quality items too, it blows me away. He will hit up 2 food banks and just eat that until he gets his EBT next month. He smokes cigarettes and weed too, takes girls out from time to time.


You are right, he has an OBAMA phone, medi-cal, medicaid, free dentist, free psychotherapist..

 

[Michelangelo]

Doug, plus this...

my buddy spends the $192 by the 20th of month or therebout.. then he goes to food banks. I took him a few times, they give out some nice food at these food banks. About 4 bags full of groceries, bread, pastries, soups, mixed nuts, fruit, veg, canned tuna, costco food stuff like the wraps and already baked meals...really quality items too, it blows me away. He will hit up 2 food banks and just eat that until he gets his EBT next month. He smokes cigarettes and weed too, takes girls out from time to time.


You are right, he has an OBAMA phone, medi-cal, medicaid, free dentist, free psychotherapist..

You wonder why we support Trump?

This is nuts. The lower to middle level working man (and woman) gets screwed every way they turn.

 

[Doug]

Yeah it's pretty crazy Gabe, I left out a few things too, SSI, disability, and other stuff.

You are better off going that way than having a 40k honest job like driving a truck or something.

Like I said just the $192 a month alone is enough to eat on. $1 for breakfast, $2 for lunch, $3 for dinner, you could do it, a lot of cereal , canned tuna, day old bread, Mac & cheese, bananas are cheap, it's enough.

This stuff can't continue forever !

 

[halekulani]

You are better off going that way than having a 40k honest job like driving a truck or something.

Like I said just the $192 a month alone is enough to eat on. $1 for breakfast, $2 for lunch, $3 for dinner, you could do it, a lot of cereal , canned tuna, day old bread, Mac & cheese, bananas are cheap, it's enough.

This stuff can't continue forever !

1. truck driving is going to get automated away
2. enough to barely eat as you've listed is a good way to get chronic health problems
3. everyone here is focusing on the money/benefits they get without work. the downside to all of it is that life cannot get any better and that life is not one that you would wish for your own. it's a shitty life. they are essentially entitled to shit benefits. the big problem is when you pay BILLIONS out to fucking bankers who fucked over the entire economy instead of actually punishing them for REAL crimes. y'all crying over spilled milk when you complain about poor people being fucking poor. statistically, at least 10% of the population isn't going to be smart or capable enough to hold a job better than minimum wage. now add technology replacing manual labor and you probably will increase that closer to 20%. there are going to be more jobless people than ever before in the next 2 decades.

 

[Doug]

Disagree you could manage to eat healthy enough on $6 a day, nothing really exotic doable enough. In jail/ prison it's probably like $3/ day or even less ?

A job like a CDL trucker won't be eliminated in the next 50 years, that's not going away anytime in the foreseeable future.

I would try to steer a daughter to something medical oriented like an RN, a son maybe a stint in the Air Force, then perhaps college, leading to where I'm not sure

Or
Get a trade like electrician, plumber, contractor etc.

I would try to get my progeny to avoid social work, prison guard, retail, restaurant , driving jobs police and firefighter duties.

I'm almost 56 now, so in my last 20 or so years...

If I had my life to live over, I'd do a lot of things differently.

For a career I'd go for air traffic controller, general contractor, pilot, FBI special agent.

I wouldn't opt for something potentially dangerous like police, fireman, tree removal,etc.

Nothing too boring like being an accountant like my father.

Air traffic controller would intrigue me, pays like 150k a year, don't even need a college degree, you get mandatory retirement at like 50-55 years of age, pension ,etc., Extremely high stress job, don't fuck it up, people may die if you do !

I just wish I would've figured this out 40 years ago !

Anything medical is really solid at RN or higher level , that's like 80k for not a whole lot of education, 100k + for APRN, dental hygienist makes good coin, anything medical is solid

 

[Doug]

I could get by on $6 a day for Food and be pretty healthy about it ,to, it would a pretty boring and Spartan diet, I like more expensive things like lobster, shrimp, crab legs, etc.

Okay $6 for the day, with some good shopping skills.

I said $1 for breakfast, eggs are $.99 a dozen

3 scrambled eggs is .$ 025
A pinch of shredded cheese is ten cents
Some ketchup 5 cents

A glass of ok is 20 cents

20 grapes for 20 cents

20 cents for coffee

$1 on budget

Or a bowl of cereal hot or cold and a bit of fruit, comes in at budget...

We got $2 for lunch.

How about a $1 can of tuna made into a sandwich and a couple of slices of cantaloupe, should be close enough to $2

$3 for dinner, maybe grill a burger, some more cantaloupe and grapes, maybe even some ice cream, $3 probably does it ?

Pretty close anyway !

Point is you can live on a $192 food allowance and also eat fairly healthy, it might be a bit boring but it's a lot better than most of the citizens of this planet get, and that is just the beginning, there are food banks and a plethora of other aid programs available.

That theoretical $192/ month is quite sufficient. I know there are
also possible straight Cash benefits on top of that, as well as lots of other things.

No American should ever lack food with the resources available.

I believe I proved even $6/a day is just enough for one person, it's very basic but completely doable and still being healthy about it

If you get this type of public assistance, thank God you are eligible for it !

IMO, there is too much of this going on !
It kind of blew me away when I worked as a Walmart cashier, and a Haitian fellow employee , not only paid with EBT, but I had to give her $100 cash as well !

There is a cash side on top of the $192, I know that for a fact, so $600 a month total is quite possible, even for a foreigner with a job !

It truly has teach a point where working a lower level job is kind of pointless, it's sadly like anything below 60-80 k isn't worth getting out of bed for, when you just play the system and get most everything for free, some type of reform is needed, it makes me axe myself why I even bother to work, like a fool ?