This is why people are fleeing Illinois.
"...Ameya Pawar with the Economic Security Project said there are 150 different programs across the country. He gave examples of people using the money to buy sports goods for their children or even to take a vacation.
“And all of this money that goes into the pockets to stabilize households flows through local businesses,” Pawar told the committee. “So you see some of this money back in sales taxes, and other taxes.”
"Buehler said there could be unintended consequences, like reducing work productivity and more.
“For regardless of immigration status, I think an unintended consequence could be a flood of migrants coming to Illinois looking for benefits and not having to work for it,” he said.
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How the Columbia River created the US Air Force and the Atomic Bomb?
excerpts from Cadillac Desert:
- In the nineteenth century, aluminum had a street value close to gold's - a function of the amount of energy needed to produce it and the type of energy required.
- It takes twelve times as much energy to produce raw aluminum as it does to make iron, and since the process is electrolytic, it has to be done with electricity.
- After the First World War, aluminum became cheaper, though still not common. The raw material, the production flow, the manufacturing patent, and the end uses were pretty much controlled by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), which was to vertical integration what William Randolph Hearst was to yellow journalism.
- Hearst, at least, had competition; Alcoa didn't - except from Adolf Hitler, who made Germany the world leader in aluminum production soon after seizing power , for reasons the Allies did not immediately discern.
- No one knows exactly how many planes and ...
Scott could spend some $$ on this?? USA bought old Soviet Era jets for 2.2 million each
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-buys-81-soviet-fighter-jets-from-russian-ally-20k-2024-4
