“Purchased For $2.9 Million, Now Worth About $4”: 30 Examples Of The Biggest Wastes Of Money

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Damn, that terrible talking again. Learn about army logistics.

Good old Eisenhower caused the 1979 Iranian revolution by overthrowing the democratically elected Iranian government in 1953 and installing the tyrannical Shah (with a bit of assistance from Britain) - if Iran hadn't had a Western-backed tyrant in charge, the Iranian revolution never would have happened.

The ones that voting for Trump yes they do.

I live only on social security. $1,000 a month. Pretty sure I don't deserve this.

It's bad when even Steven Bannon thinks he's a jerk. Of course, he's this Trump regime's Steve Bannon.

Oh wow what a fresh take someone on BP hating Americans, you never see that.

Millions of us voted against the orange menace. Do we deserve it? No.

My mom doesn't. She and many others didn't vote for him.

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I cannot WAIT until you see how much better the US will be in a couple of years.

@Rob D: yeah. Consider the following. I despise BoJo the clown, but think about it: you could have him in your house as a dinner guest and he'd be perfectly charming and wouldn't try to rape anyone... 😬

Smart choice. Something that both sides of the pond need to do more often. Think before doing!

Not true - we can now have blue passports! ....oh we could have had them anyway but we, as a soveriegn nation, chose EU purple. Errm well, no hang on, give me some time errr fewer immigrants ..... no thats not happening. 350M extra per week for the NHS........nope. Just going to give Johnson, Farage and Rees-Mogg a call......no they don't want to talk about it, seems they are too busy counting the extra money they made in the last 8 years

I'll give you one: we can now charge VAT on private school fees. Probably not the outcome those who voted to leave wanted, but it makes me happy :D

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We were able to get the Covid vaccine well ahead of the rest of Europe, and had the third best roll-out in the world (whether you think that was a good idea or not). We didn't have to agree how to go about it with 27 other countries.

@Boo, oi! England said nothing of the sort to Scottish voters. Us English had nothing at all to do with it. The EU pointed out that Scotland would have to meet EU joining requirements and wouldn't automatically gain EU membership - nothing to do with England or the English. The UK government also had a lot of things to say. But us English? We just sat here. And yes, a lot of English people did vote leave - so? Why hate the English? It was the UK government which decided on the referendum - hate David Cameron if you like, but leave us English out of it. We've done nothing to you lot. Most of us don't even think about Scotland.

In actual fact, voting amongst younger people was found to be roughly double what was originally reported, according to Opinium, with around 65% turnout. 70% of voters under 44 (born in 1972)voted to remain. What are your sources?

I wanna be rich! Unfortunately, my parents didn't cooperate...

Yeah if you had put 1000 euros in (Dutch systemic bank that didn't fold) ING in March 2009, you'd have 8800 euros now - an annual yield of over 14%, minus inflation is about 12%. A little under half of Americans have that kind of money saved. Fewer still haven't needed it in those 16 years. If only you had invested 50,000 back then, you'd be able to buy a house with the profits now. /s

The lights are the least of your consumption these days. Typically, the "big light" in the living room would be perhaps 5 x 60W incandescent bulbs (300W) - these days with LED lights, it is 5 x 6W (30W). I managed to save 30W by fixing the settings on my NAS so that it hibernated properly - 30W x 24hr x 365 days equates to about £50. Leaving the lights on for an hour or two ain't gonna hurt. Washing machines, tumble driers, immersion heaters all use way more.

Given how cheap electricity is these days (do you *know* how expensive electricity was in the 1970s?), and how efficient the lights are, why worry about the cost of lighting? The cost of housing, heating, and food are much bigger problems where I live.

40? Are you people moles? We had 60 & 100 watters, the ones that heat better than the oven!

I don't want to! Can I change the channel, please??

Americans can absolutely govern themselves, as long as you keep the smart ones in charge. As soon as the dumbest loudest ones break through, we get….this *gestures broadly*

So few of those drawn to positions of power are suited to positions of power.

Oh, that's been true since Teddy was prez.

Vance is actually more frightening. Trump is pandering to the dumbest humans ever produced. Vance, like DeSantis, means it. I only hope republican boomers die off before either can take up the republican mantle.

If he dies in the few days left before he takes office, Vance won’t have been sworn in either, so Harris will be the next prez. I’m just saying, ya know, cross your fingers…

Not a large majority. Roughly half, and rapidly declining. The more they realize they might get exactly what they voted for/Trump is already walking back many of his campaign promises and he’s not even in the White House yet, they’re starting to regret it. Wish we all didn’t have to go down with them.

49% of people who actually voted is NOT a majority