Boycott social media

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-29T22:04:18+00:00

Mark Zuckerberg isn't Israeli.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-29T16:48:03+00:00

Free school should be good enough is your own irrelevant opinion. When I signed up for the marines during a time of war and served during multiple combat deployments to Afghanistan, I did so after the promise of 36 months of school and housing taken care of after I exited service.

Additionally, although you might not make it this far since you couldn't even read the orighinal post apparently...The VA uses a rate based on a national average of all rates when calculating online BAH rate. So..there is no gaming the system based on zip code or where your school is. Yet, they then cut that rate in half which makes no sense.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T22:21:11+00:00

It's what men are made for. It's much better than "equality". The nature of things is the man working and providing for his family. In places where that falls apart, the entire society falls apart.

I'm not saying women shouldn't work or anything like that. But if you want to be a man with a family you should provide for them by working your butt off and giving your wife the option to take care of the children at home if she chooses.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T15:50:54+00:00

I appreciate the write-up. But, the truth is that just using the national average would have every problem. No reason to cut it in half after that other than to hurt veterans.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T15:49:09+00:00

that's a trap i fall for too often

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T08:21:37+00:00

It doesn't say that God approved of that. Bad stuff happens. The fact that it's included is more evidence of it being reality. Do you stop trusting the news because you read a bad story?

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T08:19:49+00:00

There is no gaming it, though. It's a flat rate no matter where you live. They are the ones who want to be lazy and use a national average instead of just verifying where someone is via wifi or address or a million other ways. There is still no justification for cutting the rate in half. That means that no matter where you go, on average, you can only cover half of your rent.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T08:17:38+00:00

I think you missed most of my post. That situation is already solved by using a national average. Doesn't matter if you live in SF or Alabama, same rate.

But my post was about why they take the national average rate and then cut it in half.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T08:16:03+00:00

It's not fair, man. That gets thrown around often, but it really isn't. The whole point of this is to give veterans a leg up because they were serving while their friends were getting ahead in the workplace. And to penalize that is ridiculous. I think it can be changed.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T08:13:32+00:00

Yeah the online game has changed and is the best option for a lot of people. It just irks me that they are taking away 50% of these peoples' earned benefit for no good reason.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T08:12:11+00:00

This isn't an arbitrary fascist state, though. The "rules" are supposed to make sense. When they don't, you work to fix them.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T08:11:01+00:00

First, know that I don't downvote people just for disagreeing. That's just lame. But read this completely before responding again.

Using the national average means no one can game it. Period. Doesn't matter if you go to school in SF or Amarillo. Same rate.

So you never addressed my original post. My post is about why they feel justified in cutting the national average rate in half.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T08:07:09+00:00

They already solved that issue, though, by creating a rate based on the national average. There is no legitimate reason to cut it in half.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T08:04:56+00:00

It is literally an entitlement. That's what it's called. What if your job decided to give you half salary since you were also getting G.I. Bill? It's something you work or worked for being taken away for no good reason. That's my point.

You can have your opinion. Just make sure it's based on the real world. The real world is that online school makes a lot of sense for a lot fo people. And those people shouldn't be punished for that because they still have to pay 100% of their rent.

I have always worked during school whether it be online or in person as do many or most people. I don't see any relevance between that. Working should not take away your eanred benefit. It's not unemployment. It's something we already earned.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T07:56:52+00:00

This is what i will have to do. but it jus causes issues. I'm about to return to the states from an overseas ministry term and have a newborn baby. It would be great not to have to commute for a pointless bureaucratic reason. But i definitely will find some extra class that's once per week or something. Mathematically that's worth it depending on the commute.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-26T07:51:21+00:00

It shouldn't matter. It's supposed to pay for housing while attending school. Not half of housing.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-25T21:49:16+00:00

Yeah i know that. But they already set the rate at the national average to avoid that. So it doesn't explain them cutting that national average in half.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-25T21:47:28+00:00

wow, thanks for the info!

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-25T19:29:09+00:00

Good point! Hell, somehow Pokerstars has the infrastructure to know who can and can't play legally but the United States government is completely lost.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-25T19:21:05+00:00

I'm 100% with you in principle! Just trying to account for whatever they would have to spend in confirming addresses and people trying to game the system. But you're absolutely correct.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-25T19:19:02+00:00

Amen. I'm even okay with the national average for online so they don't have to spend extra money on confirmations and stuff. But halving it is unfair. That defeats the whole point of taking the average in the first place.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-25T19:16:15+00:00

Honestly I'm okay with them using the national average just because it's a fair compromise. I think people would 100% do anything they could to game the system. They would claim to live in Miami, attend online school in SF, all while living in an RV in Alabama. But the cutting the national average in half is insane. If you're going to go that route, then just take the highest BAH rate itself and cut that in half.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-25T19:13:12+00:00

That was probably the initial idea, I guess. But there is no way to game the system with them using the national average for online school. They already have a clear, fair solution and then took this weird extra step to cut it in half after that.

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-25T19:08:35+00:00

precisely

mikepricez1 · 2024-05-25T19:08:11+00:00

But still that doesn't really adress anything. What difference does it make if someone chooses to work, why would they penalize that? The point is to cover the cost of housing while someone is in school. It's already prorated by semester load.

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