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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: we don't need nurses, right?
Date: 11/23/25 5:19 PM
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But the Biden admin winked and nodded at the asylum process and abused it to the maximum extent. That’s the nuance that you don’t understand.

Something clearly happened during the Biden administration. The data makes that clear. Otherwise, why would the number of people showing up at the border triple and quadruple, compared to the Obama administration? Was Biden a slave to the "JCs" that wanted to flood the US with cheap labor?

As offered before, the US has four political parties: the bigot goober GOP, the "all for the JCs" GOP, the "all for the JCs" Dems, and the democratic socialist Dems. fwiw, I wondered about who the Big O was serving, when he was nattering about fictions like "clean coal", and pushing his "automatic IRA" to skim people's paychecks, and hand the money to Wall St, without the Prole's prior informed consent.

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The Obama automatic IRA was a legislative proposal that would have required employers without a retirement plan to automatically enroll their workers in an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) via payroll deduction, unless the employees opted out. The proposal was never passed by Congress, but it spurred the creation of similar, successful state-level auto-IRA programs.

The Federal Proposal (Never Enacted)

President Obama included the auto-IRA proposal in every one of his administration's budgets, but it never gained enough traction in Congress to become federal law. Key features of the proposed national program included:

Mandatory Employer Participation: Employers with more than 10 employees who did not already offer a retirement plan (like a 401(k)) would be required to facilitate the program.

Automatic Enrollment with Opt-Out: Employees would be automatically enrolled but could choose to opt out and stop contributing at any time.

Employee Contributions: Contributions would come solely from employees via payroll deduction; employers would not be required to contribute.

Tax Credits for Small Businesses: Small businesses would receive tax credits to help cover the costs of implementing the program.

Default Investment: The default investment was generally expected to be low-cost target-date funds.


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