Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@jeremiahealy3657 says : The legislation Congressional Republicans introduced sets overall appropriations for Fiscal Year 2024 at the same level as FY 2022. At this level, all appropriated funding—including both defense and domestic programs—would be cut deeply. However, Congressional Republicans have indicated that they are not willing to cut defense funding at all, which means that everything else in annual appropriations—from cancer research, to education, to veterans’ health care—would be cut by much more. The math is simple, but unforgiving. At their proposed topline funding level—and with defense funding left untouched as Republicans have proposed—everything else is forced to suffer enormous cuts. In fact, their bill would force a cut of 22 percent[1]—cuts that would grow deeper and deeper with each year of their plan. What would that mean for the American people just in the first year of their plan? Consider just a few examples: Undermine Medical Care for Veterans: Cutting funding by 22 percent would mean 30 million fewer veteran outpatient visits, and 81,000 jobs lost across the Veterans Health Administration—leaving veterans unable to get appointments for care including wellness visits, cancer screenings, mental health services, and substance use disorder treatment. Slash Funding for Schools with Low-Income Students and Students with Disabilities: A 22 percent cut would impact 25 million students in schools that teach low-income students and 7.5 million students with disabilities, which could force a reduction of up to 108,000 teachers, aides or other key staff. Eliminate Preschool and Child Care for Hundreds of Thousands of Children: A 22 percent cut would mean 200,000 children lose access to Head Start slots and another 180,000 children lose access to child care—undermining our children’s education and making it more difficult for parents to join the workforce and contribute to our economy. Strip Nutrition Assistance from Millions of Women, Infants, and Children: A 22 percent cut would mean 1.7 million women, infants, and children would lose vital nutrition assistance through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), significantly increasing child poverty and hunger. Rob Seniors of Healthy Meals: A 22 percent cut would take away nutrition services, such as Meals on Wheels, from more than 1 million seniors. For many of these seniors, these programs provide the only healthy meal they receive on any given day. Raise Housing Costs for Hundreds of Thousands: A 22 percent cut would eliminate funding for Housing Choice Vouchers for over 630,000 households, including 190,000 households headed by seniors and 50,000 veterans. Scale Back Rail Safety Inspections: A 22 percent cut would result in 7,000 fewer rail safety inspection days next year alone, and 30,000 fewer miles of track inspected annually—enough track to cross the United States nearly 10 times. These are just a few examples—the list goes on and on. A 22 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health would delay cancer and Alzheimer’s research. A 22 percent cut to the Army Corps of Engineers would affect key water resources projects all over the country. A 22 percent cut to the Department of Homeland Security would undermine border management and drug interdiction. And under their bill, these cuts would get even deeper over time. There is no escaping the pain to working families and our economic future: if they seek to protect any area from cuts, it only means more harmful cuts to all of the other painful impacts listed above. Beyond these impacts, this bill would also hold our economy hostage to even more cuts that would undermine our recovery and harm hard-working families, seniors, and students. It would repeal tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act that are leading to hundreds of billions of dollars in private sector investment in the United States and thousands of jobs. It would put food assistance at risk for many older Americans, cut Medicaid by introducing bureaucratic work reporting requirements that state experiences show would cause millions of people to lose coverage—including working people and people with disabilities—without increasing employment, and deepen hardship for some of the nation’s most vulnerable children. It would eliminate President Biden’s student debt relief plan, taking away breathing room for 26 million Americans who have already applied or are automatically eligible. And it would increase energy bills for families, while also increasing pollution. This bill is vague by design—but that doesn’t obscure the fact that it will force devastating cuts that will hurt millions of people, damage our economy, and undermine our national security. That approach stands in stark contrast to the President’s Budget, which invests in the American people, grows the economy from the middle out and bottom up, and reduces the deficit by nearly $3 trillion by asking the wealthy and big corporations to pay their fair share.>> <<@mikee6571 says : In New York. You can work at the age of fourteen. Look it up. That's our law. Summer jobs mainly. For example; working with children at camps. You can start working at summer youth at fourteen. It doesn't pay much. However, once you turn eighteen. You will age out of summer youth jobs. In the 80's and 90's in New York City. High school students used to work at Wall Street as interns. They used to work for three hours after school. Getting a part-time paycheck. In the summertime. They used to work full-time. Getting a full-time paycheck. When the teenager's finished high school. They continue working at the same job. Only this time. They are full time employees. Earning a full-time paycheck. The best part. You don't even need a college degree to work on Wall Street. You already know everyone at the job site when you were a teenager. The board of directors already know you. They trained you when you were an intern back in high school. You are moving up in the corporate world with no college degree. Fresh out of high school. You already built your connection on Wall Street. The executive's respected the child Labor law. It was flexible. Teenager's were working three hours after school. In the summertime. Teenager's work full-time. For some reason in New York. They stop teenager internships at Wall Street. I wish they had kept that. I would had been in Wall Street right now working today. Moving up in the corporate world. Teenager's have to wait until the summer to work at summer youth. Let me remind you that summer youth doesn't pay much. Some households are below the poverty level. Parents and guardians are trying to make ends meet. Teenager's are committing crimes to survive. Certain parents know about these teenagers criminal activities. Some parents don't say anything because it's bringing a extra income in the house.>> <<@420JRMan says : I was child-labor, 14. Roofs, home interior; all rooms, lawns, bushes, trees, garage, automotive, & more, all before I died at 16. But, knowledge is power.>> <<@KatraMoo says : I have to congratulate the GOP on their efforts to ensure immigrants are not exploited by these evil corporations. These efforts and making sure immigrants stay safe from such exploitation by remaining in their country of origin and having them face their fears of, not to mention the actual reality of the right wing death squads trying to murder them and communist oppression by fleeing to the nation priding itself as a shining beacon to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and freedom to be discriminated against, marginalized, economically exploited, berated, and become the unpaid workers with jobs nobody else wants that make this nations economy run. Congratulations. Next step, the GOP is seeking to replace such a valuable for less if not free labor force of unpaid and even vastly under paid workers that they have worked so hard to expell that the GOP Corporate Masters and Overlords have tasked them with replacing along with combining their efforts to re-educate this natins people into the perfect class of uneducated, ignorant, semi-literate but only good enough to run the machines groups of future too stupid and uneducated republican voters indictrinated to revere the GOP M&OLs as the infallible economic gods they are (according to the hole-y sacred text messages and tweets from the Because I Said So priests of CPAC), and to do so their 3 stage plan has been initiated. 1: Destroy all social safety nets, personal resources that may be substituted by individuals as their own personal safety nets, and eliminate the middke class with extreme widening of weslth and income inequity with no possibility of rebuilding any middle class, causing massive impoverishment of families who are left with the only recourse of their children getting jobs instead of going to school. 2. Destroy the Economy on Purpose and Blame everyone else. Eliminate education so the new class of unpaid and underpaid workers with jobs are left with the option of starting work as soon as possible after potty training, or starting work in a labor camp farm before completion of potty training. 3. Turn over all government functions to the new Corpratocracy of 'Murika Gawd Aint Gonna Help Any of Y'all! Yeehaw! Da South Dun Rised Again bitches. 4. (I never said the GOP could count accurately, nor that it was smart enough to) 1K years of darkness, death, disease, and destruction! Congratulations Dumbasses, the GOP was infiltrated by Dominionists (Ted Dumbass Cruz is one) who's entire goal is to do every evil thing in Revelations to force the 2nd coming mentioned in one of the worlds most read works of fiction, the bible, not written, inspired, influenced, created, or the actual word of Gawd, you dumbasses killed gawd thousands and thousands of years ago. Afterwhich some idiot is going to pull the trigger and push the big red button to reset the world because SkyDaddy's son declined to appear and dance to the played tune. The end. Conservaturds are so pathetic and stupid.>> <<@friedrichjunzt says : For me as a European its not only mindboggling how fast America slides back into the 1930s but how many voters acitvly support policies like this.>> <<@LMLewis says : Children don't know their rights (the few that workers still have), so are easily cheated out of their wages (and even adults are routinely denied full wages) and will not realize when their safety is being threatened by employers violating OSHA or EPA regulations. If the child is injured, they'll have a hard time getting compensation because a child's testimony will likely carry less weight against college-educated, wealthy corporate executives with teams of lawyers beside them. This is ALL about exploitation, on every possible level. It's the equivalent of taking candy from a baby. These ghouls are taking childhood from those babies and exploiting them to get more 'candy' -- yachts, drugs, mansions, etc - for themselves. It's revolting.>> <<@misterno-ice-guy8082 says : This puts a time table on enacting the corporate mogul's evil plan to take over. There's no way these kids will worship the elite when they reach voting age. The rich don't expect the kids who are alive today to have any influence or power when these children would be old enough>> <<@sharonannrees2824 says : This is horrible! Sick system due to all the corporate bribery. Get corporate money out of politics and put all the lobbyists on the unemployment line!>> <<@IhaytFukkingsocialmedia says : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_swOoaGCaiw>> <<@Frannie926 says : Well got to do something with all those fetuses forced to birth…. Just think in a few decades we will have a world of rich and poor. Kings and minions… a bunch of dumbed down legal slaves. Good ole’ America…>> <<@bobyburgers63 says : This is so stupid. Being 16 and being a cashier or a waiter is one thing but doing hard labor is horrible. They are 16 and can't vote.>> <<@snarkysharky7913 says : Ok but I had my first job at 14 and I wanted to work. I begged people. I’m a girl and I in agricultural classes and woodshop classes, we learned how to use power tools in Jr high. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with an apprentice type work deal. But that leaves too much room for bad things to happen. Idk, there’s gotta be some middle ground.>> <<@SingedPheonix says : I'm sure there are some insidious points to this bill, and I usually don't disagree with TYT. But come on 16 years old you should be able to work any job that does not require college or someone's life relies on your job. Canada is 16 years and as young as 14 with parents consent. This is useless to be upset about, unless you have some real points to bring forward. Meat packing plants most be 3rd world in america (yes lower case), find a new soap box you have lots to choose from.>> <<@debracline2198 says : Sad what liars can create! To the Republucan voters you stand with TRUMP you DON"T stand for America period! As for the wealthy wake up you look so out of control when you display liars such as TRUMP!>> <<@5amiann says : What do the parents think in these states?>> <<@paulaburrows8660 says : America is a F ing joke>> <<@thegazetteyt says : Wow, these congress people sell out for so little money, to syphon billions in labor from children.>> <<@cesardelgado1033 says : Its going to be undocumented children who are going to work those jobs remember the ones who yell the loudest about the border are actually in favor of these bills>> <<@dienowplzkthx says : Low wage jobs that they want to sign children up for don't give a shit about "experience". They don't pay more for experience, they don't give you better positions, you won't move up due to more experience let alone as a child. You're meat for the meat grinder. If you want to prepare kids for the job market, give them actual skills, training, and education. But putting them in a restaurant or in front of a band saw isn't it. But we all know it's not what this is really about.>> <<@oddacious0ne says : Crack down on undocumented workers, crack down on abortion, and work the extra children. Edit: /s>> <<@oddacious0ne says : Reagan was a suppoter of open boarders....>> <<@markarnsberg1591 says : They are cranking down on Undocumented workers, so they want child Slave labor>> <<@galaxywolf4895 says : All the corporations want is cheap disposable labor and any corporation that is involved in wanting this should be boycotted.>> <<@LoireValleyChateaux says : House Investigations announced yesterday the Chinese Communist Party deposited $10,000,000 into 20 fake LLC'S set up by Biden Crime Family Inc. ❤️🙏>> <<@Quick_And_Nerdy says : Kind of interesting: make women have the kids, abuse the kids in the workforce. Unrelated? Idk, I'm "just asking questions".>> <<@ApothecaryGrant says : There needs to be a Federal response . Repeal this crap or else lose highway funding etc… Rragan did that about Louisiana’s 18 yo drinking age . He threatened to pull funding , got his way then cut funding anyway .>> <<@intricatic says : Naw, what we need is to "incentivize" office people to work in these same jobs. Like, let's "incentivize" the CEO to have to cut things on a bandsaw for 12hrs with only 2 10m breaks and an unpaid lunch, or risk being fired and forfeiting his retirement and bonuses.>> <<@PR30040Gardenia says : WTFFF 🤬🤬>> <<@mandyharewood886 says : Save the children! No, not the born ones!>> <<@celestialblingjewelry8567 says : America, a third world country. Thanks, GOP!>> <<@TruthHurts2u says : Republicans don't actually want to protect children.>> <<@michellem4287 says : The Restaurant lobby and Koch basically ended common sense Covid measures and now they want child labor without paying them the legal minimum wage? They want kids to work in meatpacking plants. We must overturn the illegal and Federalist Society backed Citizens United and end corporate lobbying that won't pay fair wages. Republicans are evil. #TaxBillionaires50percent #TaxReligion>> <<@travelingthediaspora7996 says : The restaurant association refuses to pay living wages, so they’ll just get children to work those exploitative jobs. SMH!>> <<@HikaruYamamoto says : Whats sad is I would have been safer working at the meat packing plant than fast food. Teens will be exploited and traumatized from abuse at fast food more than cleaning severed heads.>> <<@WhiteTreeProd says : It's all designed so that they can have their cheap labor pool, because you know that they are not going to be paying them any decent wages. Corporate slavery at its best.>> <<@johnreed9415 says : I'm not sure what the problem is. You need to learn about jobs so you can become a contribution to society instead of s drain>> <<@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 says : This cannot be solved peacefully.>> <<@stefansnellgrove says : The same people that say “think of the children” “let kids be kids” not old enough to know LGBT people merely exist but old enough to be forced carry a rapist baby or get shot up in school (even Kindergarten 1st graders just before Christmas) funny the kids don’t matter those times just good ole thoughts and prayers no action.>> <<@doug1117 says : Of course it is spearheaded by CEO's. Not making enough.... Let's exploit children. Basically the same way they treat illegals because they are the ones hiring them. The wealthy. Pay them less, work them hard and treat them like shit because they can't complain about it.>> <<@bobbakker2783 says : Is America corrupt? Oh yea More than that, it is on his way to to be a dictatorship from big monny.>> <<@melissaleoncreolenola says : That's the south will never change ...never>> <<@unknownGOGSatoshi says : Wrong children will remain in school period>> <<@maureenperez5676 says : I don't see a problem with 16 yr olds working in a fast food joint for a few hours a day. Work at a Stable grooming horses, McDonalds, answer phones at an office, babysit if you are responsible enough. Hours should be limited. I DO SEE A PROBLEM...with 16 yr olds working in dangerous conditions, worksites or other jobs with power tools. Kids also need time to be KIDS and to decompress from their daily struggles and have time to do their HOMEWORK. Children MUST BE PROTECTED from Corporate SLAVERY...but young people have been working part-time for DECADES. It is the American "Way".>> <<@Cloud-ql3oy says : Convient timing with roe V wade repelled back.>> <<@gordontall2441 says : It's not badfor a child to work I can tell you from experience. If it gets in the way of school then that's another thing but for example I was not good in school anyway so working was preparing me for life better than wasting time in school.>> <<@DavidBrown-nr9py says : There is no reason why little Tommy and little Suzy cant do a shift in the mine or the slaughter house after their half day in kindergarten. Just when you think the GOP and their corporate overlords couldn't sink any lower.>> <<@allenlovell1604 says : So much for their vaunted " Family Values Claims " [ LOL 😆 😢 ] ! They just want to hire people for next to nothing . Are debtors prisons and poorhouses next 🤔 ? Can't wait to see what these business's excuse will be when a kid gets burned, greviously injured, or gets killed doing these jobs 🤔 ? " Thoughts and Prayers ? " isn't going to fix it !>> <<@vidsbyme2590 says : GOP agenda: No labor laws, no education, no health insurance, no living minimum wage, no retirement and no middle class. Get the kids working young and when they are old they should die before becoming a burden on the wealthy. Believe! Just look at the laws they are passing.>> <<@vidsbyme2590 says : Citizens United v FEC where the SCOTUS said "independent expenditures including those by corporations does not give rise to corruption" invalidating restrictions on independent campaign expenditures by any organization including corporations. This allowed corporations to purchase politicians of both parties. The government no longer protects the public against the unlimited greed of capitalism. It is expected that a corporation will strive to make the most profits possible but the government was expected to regulate and protect the public. Instead we have a government that protects their donor "corporations". Corporations owning politicians since January 21, 2010. Notice neither party wants to undo Citizens United.>> <<@glendagraves1637 says : I didn't know Iowa's government was so backward and prone to lobbyists. Guess I was too pollyannish. I really thought of Iowa as being more caring and more family oriented.>>