Add Medicare to that list.
My parents paid Medicare taxes for 50 years but still have to pay a $174 ($185 in 2025) premium on Part B and $50 for Part D (drugs). Medicare is full of holes so they had to buy a Supplemental plan for another $150 a month. Their medical insurance premiums are now $200+ MORE a month than last year when Dad was still working…AFTER 50+ years of medicare taxes! I keep trying to make the math work but it doesn’t .
Ted Turner hasn’t owned CNN for years. He sold to AOL-Time Warner who eventually sold the whole company (CNN, Warner Brothers, Turner Broadcasting, HBO) to ATT. ATT CEO John Stankey came in and destroyed the company when he refused to listen to the experts in the company. It’s his way or the highway so many top level employees left or were pushed out. When the big ATT investors were upset at the debacle, the board told Stankey to find a solution….and then promoted him for his incompetence. Stankey found another company that was on the verge of collapse (per their own CEO, David Zaslav) and combined the two. They spun off the Turner group of properties as a separate entity and then combined it with Discovery Networks to form Warner Brothers Discovery. Zaslav, who was failing at Discovery, was put in charge and continued the downward spiral of the company. His first company meeting was a ‘David and Oprah’ lovefest where he didn’t address the plans for the company because he was too busy bragging about Oprah’s love for him and his family. The employees were NOT impressed. He doesn’t really want anything other than the studios so he can be a Hollywood Mogul. He could be looking for a buyer of CNN.
And eliminate the loopholes that allow H1B visa holders to steal jobs from Americans.
Corporations LIE and say they can’t find a citizen to do the job so they can hire H1Bs at a cheaper rate. Happened at my job. The company didn’t advertise the job and wanted to underpay US developer candidates so no US citizen would accept it. I had those skills so I know what the going rates were. At a prior job,I was making over $20,000 MORE than what my current employer would pay for the same tech stack. And, they laid off a bunch of tech employees but turned around and hired Tata, an H1B employer to handle those tasks. It took Tata over a month to do what we normally did in a week.
It’s illegal to take out your phone in Georgia polling places. And, since the scanner reads the QR code not the text, you can’t verify what the scanner is recording.
I ask EVERY time I vote as a way to educate voters around me. And when they say no to my phone use, I then ask them how can I verify my vote. It’s impossible!
50+ years of Medicare taxes by yourself and your employer and then you STILL have to pay a monthly premium for substandard insurance. AND you also have to buy a Drug plan.
Medicare coverage is so bad that you need to buy a supplemental plan to fill the gaps.
My parents are paying over $200 more a month for medical insurance than they paid last year under dad’s employer plan. After 50 years of forced taxation!
But our government has plenty of our tax dollars to pass onto Ukraine and every other nation in the world! Our government hates us.
Here’s a great website for tracking the pedos in the Catholic Church. You can look up your local bishop or priest. There was one particular case where the priest explained how he groomed children. And their families. I think the name was something like Ghana or Gana. It started with a G. The Catholic Church covered up all his crimes and tried to hush up the victims. Truly evil…. Found it on Twitter years ago before I was put in Twitter jail for life for an unspecified reason…
Great find on LinkedIn! Thanks.
She seems to have a long history of US election interference. She must still be mad that she couldn’t get Killary elected.
I don’t have Instagram either. They wanted me to post a hostage-like photo of my face while holding a piece of paper with an Instagram confirmation number just to get an account. That’s a huge NO from me!
This post only contains a screenshot. Has this been confirmed as real? I haven’t had Twitter since Jan 2021 so I can’t check
If so, Anyone emailing her from a throwaway email address? You know, for more details and maybe provide an explanation of 1776. Are Americans eligible for the free housing offer, especially in NC?
Trump should drop the Medicare monthly premium! My parents and their employer paid Medicare taxes for 50 years and now my parents have to pay a Medicare premium AND also buy an additional medical insurance plan because Medicare is crap coverage! Their monthly Medicare costs are over $200 more than they were paying when Dad was employed and on his employer’s insurance! Where did their tax dollars go and where are mine going?
CNN was part of Turner Broadcasting. Time Warner sold it off to ATT (John Stankey) who destroyed the whole company in a similar manner to his destruction of DirecTV. When the board and large stockholders realized how bad the deal had been, they demanded action. Stankey got a promotion instead of being fired. He met up with Zaslav who was also failing at Discovery. They did a deal where ATT spun off Warner Bros (studios, HBO, Turner Broadcasting, CNN) and then it merged with Discovery to form Warner Bros Discovery. Zaslav, whose biggest success had been Shark Week, was put in charge of the larger company (Warner Bros). The company has continued in a downward spiral. And DEI became a big priority.
I have friends who worked there….It used to have a great culture with good benefits and employee events. Now it’s not a happy place.
Fani’s daughter was arrested for driving with a suspended license in Fayette County GA. Her license was suspended a second time for driving with a previously suspended licence. Apparently, Fayette didn’t care that her mom was a Fulton County DA. Makes you wonder how many times it also may have happened in Fulton County but she was let go because her mother was DA,doesn’t it?. The daughter must think she is above the law too..
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2024/09/04/fani-willis-daughter-arrested-n2644283
I hadn’t thought about an option like that. I don’t think there are any Amish or Mennonite communities near us but I will look into it.
It’s pretty ridiculous that I have to worry about the medical community but this particular massive medical chain were aggressively forcing their Covid protocols on their patients and staff. I don’t trust them.
Thanks!
Just cancelled a dr appt because they wouldn’t let me amend the affiliate hospital’s paperwork that required me to grant the hospital medical network a multitude of my rights and another of their documents that demanded rights to my data. I don’t need to go to the hospital, I just need to see the doctor. The hospital documents were not the normal HIPAA and Right to Treat. They were way longer than any other version that I’ve seen.
Don’t know what I’m going to do since that medical organization has a stranglehold in my area. I may have to take a ‘medical vacation’ just to see a dr. who is not owned by these corporate overlords
I read the newspapers at this Library of Congress archive site.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
The Beta version is easier to read but a little buggy still.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/about-this-collection/
There are so many digital resources there, even tho it is the government. Great for researching your family, if you have a unique last name. Newspapers go back to the 1700s.
Colorado brags on their sunny days but they fail to mention that many of those sunny days are accompanied by very cold temperatures. It’s usually very sunny when the temperatures are -10.
And they love to say that ‘the snow melts the next day’ but only when it snows in April and May.
Expect snow from October to May. The earliest snow we experienced was Sept and the latest was the weekend before Memorial Day.
It is beautiful for a few months in summer…
Georgia uses Dominion machines.
You enter your vote on the touch screen of the Dominion machine, print it out, then walk it over to the Dominion scanner. You are supposed to verify your vote is correct on the printed ballot BUT YOU CAN’T! The scanner reads the QR code only, not the printed text. It is ILLEGAL to have your phone out in a polling place. I can’t read a QR code without scanning it with my phone so I can’t verify my vote on the printed copy.
The only paper ballots are mail-in ballots. The poll workers are not allowed to give you a paper ballot at the polling place
Nitter link https://xcancel.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1863771172485104124#m