US Default? Since 2008, Net Interest Costs UP 192%, Social Security And Health Entitlements UP 140%, Nondefense Discretionary Spending UP 76% Based On 2032 Federal Budget

by confoundedinterest17 Newly-minted US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces a daunting task: trying to avoid a US debt default. As I have discussed many times before, nothing has been the same since the US housing bubble and near-collapse of the banking …

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Electric vehicle tail light costs over $4,000 Installed

Hummer EVs https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/hummer-electric-vehicle-tail-light-costs-4-000 Car review website the Drive confirmed General Motor’s list price for one tail light is $3,045. Without factoring in labor, the list price for a set of tail lights runs for nearly $6,100, “The taillights in the …

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As Housing Costs Soar, Co-Living Makes a Comeback

You will own nothing…you will live with total strangers and you will like it…. via dnyuz: At first, Lindsey Tindage, a 27-year-old corporate recruiter, was leery of co-living, a housing model that brings strangers together in a dormitory-like arrangement. “It seemed sort …

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Plastic recycling exacerbates global warming and costs taxpayers billions. Plastic recycling was a well intentioned idea that failed. After decades of effort only 5% of plastic gets recycled and failed efforts create 10X more global warming than doing nothing at all.

Washington — Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as “fiction.” Titled “Circular Claims Fall Flat Again,” the study …

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