Questions: Society & Politics

🇺🇸 Individual Income Brackets (Pre-Tax, Annual)

Bracket Income Range Approx. Percentile

Low income <$30,000 Bottom 25%

Lower-middle $30,000 – $55,000 25th – 50th

Middle class $55,000 – $100,000 50th – 75th

Upper-middle $100,000 – $180,000 75th – 90th

High income $180,000 – $500,000 90th – 99th

Top 1% $500,000+ 99th+

42 percent of fire departments in Tennessee are classified as At-Risk or Distressed

There are 5 levels of classification (from lowest to highest):

Distressed

At-Risk

Transitional

Competitive

Attainment

There are 79 percent more departments that are in the At-Risk and Distressed categories than there are in the Competitive or Attainment categories.

I am pushing for the Fire and Emergency Services Reform and Accountability Act (FESRAA). This act will also add protections into law for emergency service personnel, including immunity for off-duty EMS personnel who act in good faith during a medical emergency when help is far away. In addition, there would be incentives offered to volunteers to encourage recruitment and retention.

Return to the Land, an ethnonationalist organization, has established a whites-only settlement in Arkansas and plans expansion into Missouri. The members forming this "white people only town" say its to protect benefit and act as a stronghold for the white race of americans in the United states, that they apparently don't see it as being anything bad..

Welll being not white and born in the southern united states, all my life, I never seen how white people honestly anywhere in the south, or in america in general, being oppressed in any way. Historically there's only ever been white people having the lucky upper hand at every point of their life.

Just for a little example let's take the time black people did try and build a successful community. Just 1 state away. In Tulsa Oklahoma, It was called "Black Wall Street" it was made of a community of black owned businesses that actually thrived in the early 1900s. It didn't keep out anyone based solely on their race or LGBT status or beliefs. It was a community that welcomed everyone. But not long after it was seen as being successful. The Tulsa Race Massacre happened in 1921. All because some white residents that lived near it didn't like seeing blacks being able to have a successful self sustained community.

Now a days most Maga would claim this is just woke bullshit that shouldn't be taught in schools. But they're just wrong this is what happened and for some the only way some people would even hear about it is from the history books or a black person that remembers the events happening, even I didn't know about it until I heard it from my dad.

Look what I'm saying is it's not bad to just build a community. But when you actively push out people based solely on their skin, religion, or LGBTor immigrant status then thats just not fair and not right. Frankly it goes against what america has valued for the past 120 years.

But what do you think? Good thing or a bad thing?