🇺🇸 - The ongoing Californian fire caused damages worth over USD 135 billion. Analysts say, anything up to 150 billion is very possible.
For comparison, the entire annual budget of Vietnam - a country inhabited precisely by 100 million people - amounts to USD 81 billion.
Colombia - 110 billion per year. Ukraine's pre-war budget was 106 billion annually.
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British man attacked for entering a ‘no-go zone’ in London.
A horde of Islamists surrounded him and questioned why he was in ‘their’ neighborhood.
They threatened him and began chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they kicked him out.
A 65-year-old couple retiring in 2025 with average earnings will receive an estimated $1.34 million in lifetime benefits, while contributing only $720,000 in today’s dollars.
That shortfall—more than $600,000 per couple—is being made up by younger workers.
“Most of the growth in spending has gone to retirement and healthcare, while programs that promote upward mobility... have been left behind”
https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-medicare-young-workers-cost-10477619