I received your #survey by email yesterday and filled it out -- I suppose the flood of letters and calls you receive are not easy to catalog. Daily, I hold conversations and hear tales (and fear) of the decline in #prosperity and #opportunity from across the full spectrum of #US citizens. 4/15
@realTuckFrumper Speaking of... Because you have to be asleep to believe it.
"WASHINGTON—Noting that millions have already fallen victim... the FBI warned Monday of the ‘#AmericanDream’ scam. “Reports are coming in all across the country of Americans who were promised great #prosperity and #success in exchange for a lifetime of hard work, only to find themselves swindled and left with virtually nothing,” said agent Dean Winthrop..."
"FBI Warns Of ‘American Dream’ #Scam"
https://theonion.com/fbi-warns-of-american-dream-scam-1822834360/
Because you have to be asleep to believe it.
"WASHINGTON—Noting that millions have already fallen victim... the FBI warned Monday of the ‘#AmericanDream’ scam. “Reports are coming in all across the country of Americans who were promised great #prosperity and #success in exchange for a lifetime of hard work, only to find themselves swindled and left with virtually nothing,” said agent Dean Winthrop..."
"FBI Warns Of ‘American Dream’ #Scam"
https://theonion.com/fbi-warns-of-american-dream-scam-1822834360/ Not really #Satire
#GOP only knows how to start a #recession. Since WW2, #USA has seen most #growth and #prosperity under #Democrat #governance. #MAGA is by far the #worst of the lot. In addition to being #ignorant, they are the epitome of #arrogance, #racism and #antiAmerican behavior.
#TraitorGOP #TraitorMAGA #SaveTheRepublic #defeatGOP #impeach #government #economy #economics #USPolitics #opposeGOP #tariffs
![So, are these differences in outcomes just the result of random chance? One would think so. But the application of universally accepted statistical methodology says otherwise.
The last five recessions all started while a Republican was in the White House (Reagan. G.H.W. Bush, G.W. Bush twice, and Trump). Readers can check out the chronology for themselves. The odds of getting that outcome by chance, if the true probability of a recession starting during a Democrat’s presidency were equal to that during a Republican’s presidency, would be (1/2)(1/2)(1/2)(1/2)(1/2), i.e., one out of 32 = 3.1%. Very unlikely. The same as the odds of getting “heads” on five out of five consecutive coin-flips. Such a rejection of equality is said to be “statistically significant at the 95% level of confidence.”
What if we go back further? A remarkable 9 of the last 10 recessions have started when a Republican was president. The odds that this outcome would have occurred just by chance are even more remote: one out of 100. [That is, 10/210 = 0.0098.]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/337/207/182/112/230/original/700c65af36af4676.png "So, are these differences in outcomes just the result of random chance? One would think so. But the application of universally accepted statistical methodology says otherwise.
The last five recessions all started while a Republican was in the White House (Reagan. G.H.W. Bush, G.W. Bush twice, and Trump). Readers can check out the chronology for themselves. The odds of getting that outcome by chance, if the true probability of a recession starting during a Democrat’s presidency were equal to that during a Republican’s presidency, would be (1/2)(1/2)(1/2)(1/2)(1/2), i.e., one out of 32 = 3.1%. Very unlikely. The same as the odds of getting “heads” on five out of five consecutive coin-flips. Such a rejection of equality is said to be “statistically significant at the 95% level of confidence.”
What if we go back further? A remarkable 9 of the last 10 recessions have started when a Republican was president. The odds that this outcome would have occurred just by chance are even more remote: one out of 100. [That is, 10/210 = 0.0098.]")
Day 16 cont 
“Many lament a lack of long-term #PoliticalVision and express #fear for the #future. They question where the bold and #BravePoliticians are, who are willing to make hard decisions for the #LongTerm betterment of the #nation.”
#AusPol / #politics / #prosperity / #policy / #Labor / #LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-13/abc-your-say-federal-election-politicians-with-vision/105164874>
U.S. Voters: note this
“Time and again, we are seeing the President’s continuous attempt to trample on workers’ rights,” said Attorney General Bonta. “My fellow attorneys general and I remain unwavering in our commitment to stand against the President’s unlawful removal of Member Wilcox from NLRB.”
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/114324548769622937
#work #rights #labor #unions #prosperity #money #business
But I do not approve of what I see in use, that is, to seek to affirm and support our religion by the prosperity of our enterprises. Our belief has other foundation enough, without going about to authorize it by events: for the people being accustomed to such plausible arguments as these and so proper to their taste, it is to be feared, lest when they fail of success they should also stagger in their faith.
[Mais je trouve mauvais ce que je voy en usage, de chercher à fermir & appuyer nostre religion par la prosperité de nos entreprises. Nostre creance a assez d’autres fondemens, sans l’authoriser par les evenemens. Car le peuple accoustumé à ces argumens plausibles, & proprement de son goust, il est danger, quand les evenemens viennent à leur tour contraires & des-avantageux, qu’il en esbranle sa foy.]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1572), “That a Man Is Soberly to Judge of the Divine Ordinance [Qu’il faut sobrement se mesler de juger des ordonnances divines], Essays, Book 1, ch. 31 (1.31) (1595) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
@tg9541 They get it from the “Atlas Shrugged” novels written by #Russian emigrée #AynRand (where the ‘hero’ is a character named John Galt). Her hyper-rationalist #Objectivism philosophy (#empathy is a sin) was perversely melded into the ethos of so-called fundamentalist #Christians already worshipping #prosperity in the #UnitedStates.
I saw an excellent essay on this #American phenomenon entitled “Who is #Jesus Galt?” that has since been ‘disappeared’. 
Nowadays, in a #multipolar world, only countries big enough can thrive. #Europe CAN be an #independent actor, giving example for everyone when it comes to #democracy, #humanrights, #wealth, and #prosperity.
If we act together, we can achieve the #EU of our dream. A country that thrives in #freedom.
We must oppose other imperialistic countries such as #China, killing people and spreading mass surveillance; #USA, willing to conquer its ally; and more.
We must be an island of freedom. For #Europe!
Kerala's secret to #prosperity isn't magic, it's just basic #literacy and #healthcare. Who knew investing in humans could work? 
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is still trying to figure out why money in Swiss bank accounts doesn't bring happiness. 
https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-kerala-go-from-poor-to-prosperous-among-indias-states #Kerala #InvestingInHumans #SwissBankAccounts #HackerNews #ngated
Hindu Goddesses Kamala & Bhairavi 19th Century India
#19thcentury, #Bhairavi, #Generosity, #Integrity, #Kamala, #Lakshmi, #Mahavidya, #Parvati, #Prosperity, #Purity, #Shubhankari, #Vishnu
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Where does prosperity come from? From nature? from authorities? from unions? from capital accumulation? When capitalists accumulate capital, everyone, even the poorest, prospers. When #government or unions interferes with the market, #prosperity shrinks. #capitalaccumulation #capitalism #unions
“Republicans under President Donald Trump and his sidekick billionaire Elon Musk are imposing a government that is based in the idea that a government that works to make people safe, prosperous, and healthy is simply ripping off wealthy people.”
#government
#protection
#prosperity
#health
#oligarchs
#DonTheCon
#felontrump
We are hearing a lot of East-West trade and energy infrastructure in response to #USTariffs . Here’s a starting point to learn about www.canadiancorridor.ca/about/ The Northern Corridor, via Policy School University of Calgary. Yes, science is useful and a catalyst for #prosperity!
17 #world #SDG aim for #peace and #prosperity for #people and the #planet.
By the way, these #goals were created by the United Nations and #waterless #toilets are supporting several of them, especially goal 6.
#FFF #FastFactFriday #FastFact
ABEREUS - A Better Resource Us
#prosperity : advance or gain in anything good or desirable
- French: prospérité
- Italian: prosperità
- Portuguese: prosperidade
- Spanish: prosperidad
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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want — which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear — which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1941-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union), “Four Freedoms,” Washington, D. C.
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
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