• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    They chose to use a stock photo of a million dollars.

    $5000 is only 2 and a half of those bundles of $20’s.

    These people are trying to run propaganda for Trump, they can’t even keep their fascist bullshit straight.

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      8 months ago

      but when you look through maga glasses, that’s what you see when a black single mom of 2 receives a wic voucher for a couple gallons of milk.

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      I worked both Brinks type security and for Chase, so the inside and outside. That’s not a million. It’s probably somewhere between a quarter and a half, but the picture doesn’t make it super easy to tell.

      Your point is very valid however, they used a deceiving picture on purpose.

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    That won’t even cover half of the (insured) cost of even the smoothest birth with my plan, and I work for a multi-billion dollar company.

    This country, man. Having traveled abroad a bit, you start to realize how tunnel-visioned people stateside can get. Don’t even realize how much they/we are getting fleeced.

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    8 months ago

    How about some of that socialism for the rest of us, and not just for breeders and soybean farmers?

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        I was being a bit facetious, but yeah. It’s a pretty transparent ploy to get the birth rate up for as little money as possible. God forbid line doesn’t go up always and forever, for all eternity.

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    8 months ago

    5000$ is a lot. In Germany you get only 250€

    well, that's

    per month until they’re 27 (as long as they’re still in school/university)
    plus free healthcare for mother and child
    plus free daycare (depending on the state)
    plus free schools and universities

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    8 months ago
    • A: This is the ‘bad’ kind of incentive. My mom worked in a hospital where people would come in pregnant, tons of neglected kids in tow, asking how much wellfare they could get for the next kid. Stuff like vouchers for school, care, healthcare and stuff doesn’t incentive that.

    • B: It’s hilariously inadequate and out-of-touch. $5K for childcare these days is a joke, even as a nice supplement.

    …But that’s the point. This is for show, like Trump’s COVID checks with his signature on them. It’s a brand to tell people “Hey! I’m Trump, and I’m helping you!” directly, a decent idea poorly implemented for PR purposes. It’s also hilariously hypocritical, seeing how much ‘blank check hand-outs’ were criticized for decades.

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    We had this in Australia for a while, where there was no hospital costs for birth, and almost 20 years ago, so it was a considerable help. The conservatives started claiming people were having babies just to get the money and then spending it on big TV’s and other luxuries.

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    8 months ago

    instead of DEPENDING on GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS new parents should be GRATEFUL someone is WILLING to be GENEROUS and provide them with such GOODWILL. America is WINNING again under PRESIDENT TRUMP

    @[email protected] am I doing it right?