Wasteful, silly government spending

[Debp]

DOGE appointed to fix this type of stuff.   These are just some of the wasteful programs the government spends money on.

 

[missmuffet]

What about those who are homeless and hungry?

[Debp]

22 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

What about those who are homeless and hungry?

And also it would be great to have a extra little bump in senior's Social Security checks.

[other one]

51 minutes ago, Debp said:

And also it would be great to have a extra little bump in senior's Social Security checks.

3.5%

[missmuffet]

57 minutes ago, Debp said:

And also it would be great to have a extra little bump in senior's Social Security checks.

Social Security would not come first for me. I would like to first see those homeless and hungry taken care of

first. I am ok but they are not.

[Debp]

2 hours ago, other one said:

3.5%

I meant it would be nice for the government to give us an extra bit in addition to our regular cost of living increase.

My rent increase each year is always more than my Social Security cost of living increase.

[Neighbor]

4 hours ago, Debp said:

And also it would be great to have a extra little bump in senior's Social Security checks.

Ah a hand out? Actually, I  received a nice COLA bump as did all SS Retirement benefits receivers I think. Funny  kind of makes inflation my friend.

Harsh as it may sound, and is, those (In the USA) that do not manage to provide more than SS for themselves are going to be suffering in "retirement", or will work until they are 75 or older as I did. Though I loved to work so that wasn't a hardship for me, till my body caved and said no more, "no mas".

Yes many are poor, many suffer all life long, and many do not have long lives in the flesh. Guess it has been that way  since the fall of Adam. Praise God for the second Adam eh? Therein is our hope certain.

[Neighbor]

1 hour ago, Debp said:

I meant it would be nice for the government to give us an extra bit in addition to our regular cost of living increase.

My rent increase each year is always more than my Social Security cost of living increase.

Yep housing in the USA is a serious issue, But really so in the LA basin. It has been that way  for at least 45 years that I know of. Why when I was there rents might bump 20% in one year. One reason is the cost of operating apartments has gone through the roof.

Insurance,and property taxes  alone force huge increaces to be passed along. It is a bummer. As a property owner of a personal residence I get breaks but as a apartment owner i get increases if I profit I get more increases and there are no deductions passed on  by governments to the tenants. 

What is it,  I forget,- prop 11? In California prop 11 prevents huge increases in residential property tax, but not for rental property- sorry you get to bite on the bullet and take it.

At Florida it is prop 13. I still pay what mounts to 1978  property taxes, while new people that buy in pay,  oh my, five times what I pay. And now I get a inflation benefit for  what little increase there might be. Renters always get the short end of the stick, to put it mildly.

As I still look around at moving I find that today it is a financial disaster just based on  property tax rates. I really have a free ride-well long as I stay in the saddle on this one pony.

I could not afford to live at LA today that is for sure.

[Debp]

44 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

I could not afford to live at LA today that is for sure.

New people moving into my older apartment building are currently being charged $1900 a month for a one bedroom.   

I've been here since the early 1970s so pay less.   Since it's an older building it's under rent control.  But we still get a yearly rent increase of 3 or 4 percent a year.   Last year my rent increase was about $50 a month.

Only during the Pandemic did the mayor freeze rents.   I missed the first year freeze by two months.   Thankfully had two years of the rent freeze.

[Neighbor]

Well Debp, don't move here it is not a bargain anymore!!! Same kind of prices here now, and it's with all those look alike bag of splinters being built by Blackwater or similar named entities.

Fifty thousand dollar 1977 built homes here go for  an easy five hundred thousand and rapidly closing in on eight hundred thousand dollars; prices just zoom upward.

And they (People) keep on a coming. Guess it must be worse elsewhere. Why it was just a year ago $200 a square foot was an average cost now it is hitting $340 a square foot. Amazing!

Gads I built for $30 a square foot back in the day. No wonder so many cannot figure out how to prepare for old age and/or retirement. Guess we are blessed even as we think wow it is expensive today.

Oh, somehow I don't think costs will go down from  the savings from no more wasteful spending. There will be just some newer program birthed with any savings. Net result will be more spending, just not wasteful of course.