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On Hobbies:
I have a hobby that you probably have not heard of, and that there are not many of us around- I am a Lotlogist.
A Lotologist is someone who studies and collects Lottery tickets and items. I have over 25,000 different tickets from lotteries all over the world- I collect and trade tickets with other members. We put out a newsletter every other month, and in it list all of the newest issues from each state lottery.
It's a fun hobby- kind of like collecting stamps because you are dealing with government-issued items that are only available for a limited time, and a lot of the art is interesting. Most members collect scratched tickets, so there is no real value in the actual ticket which makes it easier to start collecting.
We are always looking for new members, and for people in different states to send us used tickets for trading- I even pay people for tickets from some states that are hard to get tickets from!
The US Federal Government spends $500 a year on early kids care. Why are they spending that, on what?
Kindergarten or preschool is a joke, it’s a baby sitter. As I remember 4th grade was when school got serious, before that painting and stories, and waiting for go home time. Studies show children who go to preschool/kindergarten have head start on first grade, blah blah blah. Fine, stop it, every kid starts even in first grade.
The real problem is wages have not kept up with inflation. If shit costs twice what it did a few years ago where is all that extra money going. CEOs making 3,000% of the productive people doesn’t explain it. Private equity bandits get a big bite raping and pillaging across the land, buying up Grandpa’s widget factory laying everyone off and shipping the business to China who subcontracts it to Africa. Some of the profit buys politicians.
GM in their stupidity spun off Delco-Remy whose parts they use in every vehicle. When the government offered a fair price to bring Delco-Remy back under GM’s roof private equity said nope, laid off 24,000 Americans and moved everything out of the country... but I digress.
The point is the working folks have fallen so far behind that couples both have to work to survive. With the state of the art of birth control damn few kids come along without a conscious effort or above average stupid.
OK, the decision to have kids is fine but the best thing for the kid is one parent stays home to nurture.
Yeah, it’s usually Mom although I know two couples who switched that.
In these other countries who spend so much on kiddy care who pays for schools? Here it’s mostly local and state. The Feds will kick in about 7%. I wonder how much of that $14,436 goes to schools.
Besides, we’re ‘Mericans and we don’t need no socialist woke Feds raising our kids, we can screw ‘em up our own selves.
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