• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    3 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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      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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      I was gonna day $5k is just a handout to insurance companies for just the birth of the baby.

      Which is, well, the end of Republicans giving a shit about babies and children.

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      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.

      It’s the classic of someone having to visit a doctor while in Europe. And they’re always shocked at how cheap it is in comparison. Even people who know it’s much cheaper tend to think it’s like 50% , not 99-100% less. I had an emergency room visit with blood and urine testing, painkiller injection, private exam room, etc… It took a few hours and was about $25 that you could pay at a machine on your way out.

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      3 months ago

      This is literally going to be an argument if people start proposing free daycare/child care :/

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      Napkin math. A box of Huggies size 1 diapers sells at 10.50 for 32 diapers, or roughly 30 cents each. My newborn spoiled a diaper about 7 to 8 times a day on average, it let’s easy say 2.50 a day, 356 days or about 912 dollars in diapers for the first year.

      That doesn’t count wipes, powder, up sizes as they grow. I suppose you could go premier diapers as well, but yeah there’s probably an easy 3000 gap on clothes

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    Wages have not kept up with productivity and GDP increases since the 1970s.

    How about making single income middle class families possible again, so you can have one stay at home parent.

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      Ironically, thats the exact idea behind the whole trade war thing. It has lead to TSMC already accelerating their plans to expand the Arizona microchip fabrication lab, which means… Factory jobs, the thing we used to have in the 70’s.

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    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

    @BigMacHole@lemm.ee am I doing it right?

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    According to my halfassed search engine results, giving birth costs on average $18,000.

    Just the cost of epidural, estimates range from $1000 to $3500 out of that cost.

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    monkey paw finger curls You get free healthcare coverage and half minimum wage for each child just for existing. However, you and your child must renounce your citizenship, forfeit your passport, and accept indentured servant status until you can buy back your citizenship after repaying the government child support in full.

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    I sometimes joke with my kids and call them Lamborghini 1 and 2, because that’s how much money it was suggested you would need for each kid, and I’m sure that has doubled or tripled by now.

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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.