Grouse

It's dark humor. It's funny people would allow that to happen and if you don't laugh, you'll cry. Moving on....

"If a $1 million stack of $100 bills is 40 inches high, then a $1 billion stack is 40,000 inches high, and a $1 trillion stack is 40,000,000 inches high — which is 631 miles. Now multiply 631 by 32 to calculate the height of the stack of Ben Franklins needed to equal our $32 trillion national debt: 20,192. That's right. To pay off our national debt, you'd need a stack of $100 bills that reaches more than 20,000 miles into space." —Douglas Andrews

Smyrna NY 1942

Cooper and Hemingway in 1940

Read it and weep https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/14/charts-how-much-inflation-increased-since-2021.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&fbclid=IwAR1aagcTdFDxwQ03R49ZSky2Lg9VNXyAbsgl2KbELl2SYUa6rQs3Hm-Q75w

NY circa 1950

I can relate

Gilboa, New York circa 1958

1944

Biden plots massive government hiring spree: When it comes to Democrats and their view of government, bigger is always better. Joe Biden's proposed budget puts that view into overdrive, as he's already added 75,000 more non-defense employees since taking office and is on the way to adding 88,400 employees this year. He wants an additional 81,700 in 2024. The federal government has experienced a general trend of downsizing payrolls since 2013, and it become even leaner under Donald Trump, with executive branch employees numbering 2.183 million when he left office. Biden is ballooning that total to 2.356 million by 2024, which represents one of the fastest expansions of the federal government in U.S. history. As conservatives well know, bigger government means a greater threat to Americans' individual liberty, which we are witnessing almost every day under Biden.