[Business Insider] Living paycheck to paycheck is an unfortunately common hallmark of American life.
Having it all ‐ the ability to cover basic expenses, while still having "fun money" and contributing to savings ‐ can be a difficult feat.
That total amount ‐ also known as an annual "living wage" ‐ varies significantly depending on what state you're in.
GoBankingRates recently determined the necessary living wage in each state using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the 50/30/20 budgeting rule. This popular general budgeting rule allocates 50% of annual income to necessities like housing, 30% to discretionary expenses like travel, and the remaining 20% to savings.
The median necessary living wage across the entire US is $67,690. The state with the lowest annual living wage is Mississippi with $58,321. The state with the highest living wage is Hawaii with $136,437. Other expensive states (unsurprisingly) included New York and California, which have notoriously high costs of living and expensive housing markets.
Keep reading to see what the annual living wage necessary is to live comfortably in every US state, listed in alphabetical order by state name. Also included is the actual median household income in each state according to 2018 data from the US Census Bureau and the median price of homes listed for sale in each state from Zillow.
[The Mises Institute] Few remember him today, for reasons that should unsettle us all, but Vladimir Bukovsky was a hero from a dark age whose example confirms Mises’s motto, taken from the Aeneid: "Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it." Often glossed in the press as a "Soviet dissident," Bukovsky was infinitely more important. He took on the entirety of the Communist behemoth and lived to see it fall ‐ only to watch pieces of it rise again, he claims, and all with the conniving of the West.
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky seemed destined to be a dissenter. The son of true-believer communists, Bukovsky realized at age ten, when Stalin died, that a mortal god was no god at all. He began to distrust the propaganda of the Soviet state. Apparently preternaturally incapable of lying, to others or, most important, to himself, Bukovsky refused to acquiesce in the quiet suicide of the conscience that is the necessary condition for any totalitarian government to succeed. As an undergraduate, Bukovsky began taking part in public demonstrations against the Soviet regime, after which he was marked for life as an enemy of the state.
Bukovsky embraced this role. Like a handful of others ‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, of course, and poets Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstein, to name just a few ‐ Bukovsky valued integrity above all else. He knew that communism was a lie and that everyone complicit with it was a liar, and he would not be a part of any of it. Tortured, imprisoned, subjected to psychological torment and physical deprivation, Bukovsky didn’t yield. He went on hunger strikes, published samizdat that circulated widely inside and outside of the Soviet Union, and made it the purpose of his life to tell everyone, everywhere: man must be free, and freedom and truth are ultimately the same thing.
Bukovsky detailed the decades of abuses and outrages in a book he published after the Soviet Union, grown tired of imprisoning him and increasingly wary of dissidents in general, exiled him. To Build a Castle, which Bukovsky put out in 1978 after he had settled in England, tells the story of the depravity of communist rule. In particular, and especially under Yuri Andropov (a man whom Bukovsky hated like no other), the Soviets learned how to weaponize psychiatry in order to diagnose those who resisted socialism as suffering from "sluggish schizophrenia" or some other nonsensical malady. Declared insane (as were thousands of other dissidents), Bukovsky relied on what he called "the implacable force of one man’s refusal to submit." He was a tiny leaven of truth against the abuse of psychiatry, but even that small truth won out. The Soviets were eventually censured by their psychiatry colleagues in the West; Bukovsky had again not given in to evil, but had proceeded ever more boldly against it. In time, the Iron Curtain fell, and the Evil Empire, which had had a stranglehold on Eastern Europe and half of Eurasia, collapsed. Bukovsky had stared down the Soviet Union ‐ the individual had defeated the collective.
It is at this point in the story of the Soviet Union that we in the West tend to swell with pride. We defeated the communist beast, we believe. Freedom prevailed.
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‐ only to watch pieces of it rise again, he claims, and all with the conniving of the West.
Cause the f****** ruling caste refused to hold those in the West accountable for their long betrayal of Western Civilization with the fall of the Wall. They wanted a more 'kinder gentler' world. You don't use aspirin to cure cancer.
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redefining history to show it was from within that this happened. There are dissenters in every nation, the USSR spent their treasure in finances fighting the cold war, and their human treasure in Afghanistan. They were broken and coming apart by the time Bukovsky came around to try and steal credit.
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Two forces fighting each other eventually look the same. Think about it.
There was an interesting SciFi story done this way. Two species battling across the universe. At one point the Earth side makes humans and a planet with a similar planetary ecology to the enemy. The enemy knows their biology and ecology so knows how to bio/chem/radiation attack it. Earth fights strongly from the planet and looks at each attack modifying it to be more effective and returns the favor to the enemies colonies. At some point it gets good enough to do it to the enemies home planets and exterminate them. Then it needs to write off it's modified enemy like planets and people so they are not a future threat.
The point? For 70 years each was doing the same. The Soviets even had US cities and one assumes we did the same or had think tanks doing the same (or universities). After the win over communism we didn't shut these down...
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Declared insane (as were thousands of other dissidents), Bukovsky relied on what he called "the implacable force of one man’s refusal to submit." He was a tiny leaven of truth against the abuse of psychiatry, but even that small truth won out.
Sounds familiar. We're going through our own (Deep) State-sanctioned perversion of psychiatry in this country as well. So many absurd notions are being forced upon us, daily, by the collective madness that is identity politucs wokeness and its machinery of repression in the form of denunciations, career or professional death, Twitter mobs, corporate HR Gestapo and their idiotic speech codes, "unconscious bias training," "diversity & inclusion" re-education camps and Thoughtcrime suppression.
[KausFiles] I haven't tweeted anything that's pissed off as many people as this (on 11/12) :
I suppose if the Respectable Interagency Consensus on Ukraine is willing to righteously remove a democratically elected president -- in Ukraine (2014) -- it's not such a big step to justify doing the same thing in the US.
Tufts professor Dan Drezner immediately tweeted, paternally, "you're more than a bit out of your depth"-- though he was understandably too busy to explain why. David Frum chided that Trump wasn't "democratically elected," since Hillary won the popular vote ‐ a point echoed by a massive Twitter troll army that apparently follows Frum (who knew?).
** — The apparent urge among Trump opponents to lower the bar for impeachment (until the U.S. becomes effectively the sort of parliamentary system rejected in the Constitution) recently became explicit in anti-Trumper Jonah Goldberg’s case, when he tweeted that “the president ultimately serves at the pleasure of Congress.” That wasn’t the idea.
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Kaus is indeed out of his depth, and playing with fire. Then again, so we're Victoria Nuland and John McCain.
What they all fail to grasp is that Ukraine = Africa with white faces.
There won't be a stable democracy with rule of law and a robust civil society in Ukraine anytime in the next 25 years any more than Libya or Zimbabwe or Mali or Congo will attain stability and good government in that time frame. Won't happen.
Ukraine is Russia's Russia. It's corruption squared, with ethnic and political hatred and separatism layered on top of a dysfunctional society and a legacy of the most brutal anti-semitism beneath it.
On top of all of this is the hard fact that Ukraine stands between Russia and its most important warm-water port, one that sits in a peninsula that is as near and dear to the Russian historical memory as Boston, or maybe the Alamo, is to us.
Yes, Putin's a thug surrounded by gangsters. That's beside the point, which is that there is no way on God's green earth that ANY Russian government, even the most liberal or pro-western, would ever tolerate an independent Ukraine joining NATO.
Face it: our Ukraine "experts" played with fire and burned their fingers. Perfesser Dreznee doesn't know any better than his most naive freshman student does regarding what should be done about Ukraine.
And gadflies like Mickey Kaus, David Frum and their ilk should stop using this pathetically dysfunctional country as a way to settle domestic American scores.
Stop Americanizing and politicizing everything. Try seeing the world as it is for once.
[AmGreatness] Max Boot recently wrote that my arguments against the impeachment inquiry are prima facie proof of why the Democrats should, in fact, impeach Trump: "If even the great historian Victor Davis Hanson can’t make a single convincing argument against impeachment, I am forced to conclude that no such argument exists."
In fact, I made 10 such arguments, all of which Boot attempted, but has failed, to refute. In this context, Boot’s intellectual erosion as a historian and analyst is a valuable warning of stage-four Trump Derangement Syndrome. I offer that diagnosis with regret given I once knew and liked Boot. But his commentary over the last three years has become sadly unhinged.
...No one should know better the horrific crimes of a mass-murdering Josef Stalin than the Russian-born Boot. Stalin’s purges, orchestrated famines, gulags, show trials, liquidation of the officer class, and atrocities during World War II perhaps accounted for over 20 million Russian deaths. So how could Boot write, "I would sooner vote for Josef Stalin than I would vote for Donald Trump"? Twenty million dead souls don’t quite match Boot’s hatred of Trump.
...After the former Republican Boot saw Trump elected, by defeating his own particular favored Republican primary candidate, and Hillary Clinton, he seemed a bit embittered: "For the health of our republic, I think we need to destroy the Republican Party."
...Boot claims there "have been many legitimate investigations prompted by the president’s unethical and even illegal conduct." Well, there certainly have been "bombshell" hysterias designed to subvert or abort his candidacy, his transition, and now his presidency.
But note that if Boot truly believes Trump’s conduct has proved serially illegal and there have been many "legitimate investigations" into his alleged criminal conduct, why then has not a single act resulted in a criminal referral? What is now the fate of all those who swore to us that Trump was a Russian asset, traitor, treasonous, or pervert such as James Comey, Andrew McCabe, James Clapper, John Brennan, and Christopher Steele?
...Boot’s analyses are not factually based. So when he writes, "All that is left is the tribal loyalty that Republicans, including Republican intellectuals, feel toward a Republican president. They would never make such excuses for a Democrat." In fact, I’ve never been a registered Republican, and remain an independent. In reference to tribal loyalty and the damage it does to institutions, Boot should consult James Piereson’s recent essay on Democratic partisan obstruction:
With the impeachment charade in mind, it is useful to review the various political and constitutional "norms" that have been blasted away in recent decades, mostly due to hyper-partisan conduct by Democrats, with encouragement and cover from the mainstream media.
...At many levels, the psychological pathology of projection has characterized this entire three-year effort to remove Trump. That syndrome also applies to the NeverTrump rump that for over 1,000 days has misled and smeared in its self-righteous pursuit of supposed truth and civility. IMO, the biggest problem in the modern world is pretend-intelligentsia
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The same motivation that brought you the Russian Collusion Hoax is what is bringing you the "inquiry" of Trump as an evil traitorous Impeachable.
Its ALL Democrat Butt Dump.
We elected Trump to give us HIRING signs all along the highways and get rid of Obama 'the "smartest man in the room" and all his rule pileup bureaucrats.
The American People don't LIKE bureaucrats. Its Genetic.
The Democrtats literally have NOTHING to offer America.
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Ukraine was "COVER FOR BIDEN" and Kerry and Pelosi and Clinton. They, and others yet to be exposed, used Ukraine as their families' personal slush fund.
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how could Boot write, "I would sooner vote for Josef Stalin than I would vote for Donald Trump"?
Maybe because the guy actually does NOT know much about Stalin or his crimes. He's too young, he grew up here, he's long been a hack who views the world entirely through a domestic US political lens. IIUC he hasn't even spent any amount of time in Russia since he was too young to remember anything.
We are ruled by morons-- who are advised by naifs and ignoramuses.
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Reminds me a bit of Governor Schwarzenegger in California. Democrat State Senate circled wagons and said they wouldn't help at all. He had to get referendums for anything which meant he ws powerless. Voters put these vermin in power, not much can be done until voters wake the F-up.
It's Kurt
[Townhall] So, while that human troll doll of an ambassador was back east dancing for Adam Schiff’s pleasure and I was out in a glitzy blue Los Angeles-area city at a nice restaurant to score some munchables and people were talking and chatting and interacting and how many were talking about impeachment?
Here’s a hint: It’s the same number as the average dates per decade for a Weekly Standard writer.
Ouch.
Just kidding ‐ there is no such thing as a writer for the Weekly Standard because it destroyed itself by sucking.
The number is "Zero."
Nil.
Nada.
Even less than the amount of Indian in Chef Sitting Bolshevik’s DNA.
No one cares.
Well, not no one. People in Washington care. After all, Donald Trump’s real crime is not deferring to the same D.C. geniuses who were so relentlessly awful that they caused us to elect Donald Trump in the first place. The meme is going around that "I hired Donald Trump to fire people like you," and boy ‐ is it ever on point. That the president ‐ yeah, he’s our president and he’s going to keep being our president for five more long years ‐ refuses to submit to the bureaucrats of the ruling caste on foreign policy is not a bug. It’s a feature ‐ the feature that closed the sale.
...Here’s the deal about impeachment. All this three-ring clown show stuff, all these poll-tested narratives ("Remember, our focus group in Duluth says ’quid pro quo’ is 7.632 percent less evocative than ’bribery’! Everyone go with ’bribery’ from now on!"), all these endless, rehearsed resumé dumps they call their opening statements, mean nothing. It’s a joke. This is not a fact-finding inquiry. This is kabuki theater for dumb people, trying to swing them around to embracing the fait accompli that is impeachment.
...So, to get rid of Trump and stop him from his unholy destruction of norms and rules, our elite has abandoned...
The concept of free speech...
The notion of objective reporting...
The idea of due process...
The principle that the people rule, not government flunkies.
They somehow think that this all gets forgotten after the inevitable humiliation of the Democrat coupsters in the Senate. They would scour the Earth of freedoms and rights and call the resulting wasteland "Democracy."
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Whats the CHARGE ? WHAT is Trump being indicted FOR?
For BEING Trump? We elected him FOR that. Get RID of the DC crapheads. They work for us, we don't work for them.
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I'm surprised the Pubs haven't walked out of this Schitt show. By attending this impeachment hearing star chamber show trial gives it far more dignity than it deserves. The lynching occurred before the trial began--sometime back in 2015 or 2016.
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As long as this continues, more information that everybody knows comes out, JohnQC... and the well developed American instinct for fairness drives ever more of the undecideds into President Trump’s camp.
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This is Wylie E. Coyote's ACME rocket exploding over his head. Elmer Fudd shooting himself in the arse. Daffy Duck walking into the business end of the hunter's [not Hunter B's] shotgun.
[The National Interest] Key point: The B-52 can carry a huge diversity of weapons and remain an effective military asset.
Sixty-seven years after the U.S. Air Force received its last B-52 from Boeing, the flying branch finally has firmed up plans to fit the heavy bomber with new engines.
Air Force magazine in its January 2019 issue took a deep dive into the re-engining effort.
"If Air Force plans hold up, the B-52 will be approaching nearly a century of service by 2050," reporter John Tirpak wrote. "To keep the airplane flying, the service plans to equip each B-52 with new engines, which are expected to be so much more maintainer-friendly and efficient that they’ll pay for themselves in just 10 years."
In addition to new motors, the 76 B-52s in Air Force service also could get upgraded avionics, defensive gear, sensors and ejection seats, War Zone reporter Joe Trevithick revealed. The re-engined, enhanced bombers could receive the new designation B-52J.
In 2018, the Air Force announced it would retire its 62 1980s-vintage B-1Bs bombers and 20 newer B-2 stealth bombers no later than the 2040s, while the updated B-52s would continue to operate alongside at least 100 new B-21 stealth bombers.
"Despite their age, the B-52s have high mission-capable rates, can carry a huge diversity of weapons, and can perform effectively‐as long as the enemy lacks elaborate air defenses," Tirpak wrote. "Even in a higher-end fight, the B-52 can still launch missiles from well outside enemy air defenses. It is the only U.S. bomber that can launch nuclear cruise missiles, and it will be the initial platform for the new Long-Range Stand-Off missile."
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Designed almost overnight instead of becoming a runaway program like the F-35. KISS is a good principle.
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^ Amen. Feeling a little Herby all of a sudden...
The shell game industrial complex
That gobbled and grew turkey tom pecs
Now squats on your table
(can't fly -- isn't able!)
And marks its Thanksgiving with bomb sex.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐Acme Forks & Knives was trying to block a lawsuit brought against them by the obese community. The lawsuit suggested that the company's utensils were deadly tools that caused people to become overweight.
The Supreme Court has blocked the company's attempt to block the lawsuit, paving the way for victims of heart disease and other diet-related ailments to sue Acme.
"Finally---the big forks and knives lobby will be held accountable for contributing to heart disease and obesity, the leading causes of death among American adults," said a spokesperson for the oppressed obese community. "No human action leads to these deaths. It is entirely on the sentient utensils used to carry out the mass eating events."
"Blood is on their hands!" protesters cried. "Fight the corporate fork and knife lobby!"
Lawyers for the plaintiffs in these lawsuits have presented evidence that Acme Forks & Knives have marketed their utensils to the obese, specifically encouraging them to shovel a bunch of food in their mouths. They also said it was dangerous and irresponsible for the company to market a "fully automatic assault spork" that can shove "300 rounds of chili" into your face in under 10 seconds.
"Nobody needs that kind of forkpower," said one lawyer. "We will get justice for the obvious cause of this epidemic of deaths: the guys who make the utensils."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.