*NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s largest subsidized affordable housing complex was just sold for hundreds of millions of dollars, with some of the money going to a prominent critic of government housing programs: President Donald Trump. … he owned 4 percent of the complex, giving him potential proceeds from the sale of about $36 million. …
Starrett City has received subsidies from the federal government worth millions of dollars a year, including $78 million in 2009 alone …
Under his proposed federal spending plan for fiscal year 2019, Trump proposes slashing the budget for rental assistance programs by more than 11 percent compared with 2017. He also proposes to eliminate funding for the Public Housing Capital Fund, dedicated to supporting public housing complexes.*
Given that his previous endorsements remind me of the gynecological trick about sexing fetuses* that’s not exactly a great feat. Anybody who wins happens to be the one he liked, by definition.
possibly an urban legend: unless absolutely sure tell the mother one sex, write down the other. That way you’re right either way.
Because the Koreans can’t do anything by themselves and their respect for Trump is what defines every breath they’ve all taken since the day he was inaugurated, with the biggest crowds ever.
When Reagan died, I got sick of reading headlines about how he’d singlehandedly brought down the USSR. The guy with the funny birthmark barely got mentioned. The rest of the USSR were just Potemkin villagers. Let’s not give Trump the same kind of treatment, please, talking as if every single event that happens while he’s President is his own personal doing.
I’m fairly certain it used to be, even if it isn’t anymore. Certainly the majority of the people I know who joined the military did so for that reason (caveat: anecdotes are not data, yadda yadda yadda); only one made a career of it (and a reasonably illustrious one too). And it has certainly been a major recruiting tool for the military for decades.
Why do you think it is not the case that payment for college is a prime motivator for joining up?
Sure, payment for college is a motivator for joining up. Saying “Most people join because that’s the only way they could pay for college” is not accurate.
Not to worry. Trump has traded NK for Iran with respect to another war starting. We’re probably in better shape because it’s only the entire Middle East that will boil over now, not some insignificant little country in the middle of nowhere.
unsupported assertion: This plan of yours is highly functional and useful.
Wouldn’t it be smarter to reserve judgment rather than take to the contrary?
A quick Google reveals that college incentives are consistently in the top 10 of reasons given.
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If you want to treat “Most people join the military because that’s the only way to pay for college” the same as “College incentives are in the top 10 of reasons given” then feel free.
And the evidence which runs contrary is what?
Your assertion?
There’s evidence that educational incentives are a good motivator.
Whether or not that corresponds to the specifics of the assertion about the “only” way is a question which may not have ever been addressed through research. Feel free to check.
But what is the evidence against the assertion?
You said you believe the assertion is in accurate based on no evidence.
So shouldn’t you doubt your assertion?
I would, but I’m not the one making the claim that most people join the military because that’s the only way to pay for college. Perhaps the person making that claim could check the research.
