So my Dad works since he was 15, pays taxes faithfully that entire time. Now he's 65, lost his job, punished for having to retire "early" at 65 by getting less social security.
Further punished by having no choice but be enrolled in Medicare, which comes right out of pocket, after forgoing healthcare his entire life (dude pulled his own teeth, literally, multiple times) because insurance and care were both unaffordable.
Medicare doesn't even cover glasses.
So then he signs up for social security. Isn't going to make enough to live off of and he's never made a ton in his life. Even his meager pay, that he barely got by on, isn't matched by social security after paying into it for 50 years.
But these people deserve BOTH? Go to hell!
I’ve had shingles twice and was never vaccinated for it.
The two times I had it, I was married to a man that worked in a hospital. Not sure what to think of that.
I haven't seen one in person, but I can't shake the thought that the only reason everyone thinks they're orbs is because of how they appear on camera.
To me, it seems like it's not that they're orbs at all. They're just drones, but there's some kind of 'shield' being emitted from them that screws up camera footage.
I saw a video where it started out as an orange orb, then the guy's camera spazzes out and it's this huge orange oval shape with webbing in it. Very similar looking to before the camera spazzed, just much bigger and now oblong. Other videos of orbs looked the same, with that kind of webbed circle of light, but without the blowout when the guy's camera spazzed.
It reminds me of those special clothes celebrities can wear, that white out everything. Something that screws with the camera lens and makes filming it pointless, but more advanced.
Just my two cents.
Praying for your dad's quick and easy recovery, and for peace for you and your family. I'm so glad it worked out that you were up at that time and got him the help he needed.
I love how unserious everyone is becoming about everything.
Yes, they’re no longer literal stamps and they’re digital.
I’m just saying we were given that amount. About $130 something for a month. At a time when it costs us $250 a week at the store and a package of hamburger is $15.
Yes it covers dumb stuff like candy, but at least in my state, as far as I can tell, it does not cover fast food.
Maybe my family is just super unlucky but the two times my parents lost their jobs and we were given food stamps, we only got less than $150 a month. I don’t know who these people are that can afford the kind of stuff you’re talking about on food stamps.
Okay. I don’t like this.
Absolutely, people abuse this system horrifically. And yes, those people need to get a job since they’re otherwise healthy and fine to work.
I do not want a government that’s already ridiculously cold and unfair to the good people that don’t screw over the system and have paid into it for literally 50 years to police what kind of food people buy.
Rather than punishing the consumer, go after these corrupt assholes that made junk food so junky in the first place.
Big time.
My Dad's former boss already had mood issues, but once she got the vaxx and forced her husband to as well, they both got ridiculously moody.
She went from grumpy to straight up bipolar.
One minute her mood would be fine, the next she'd be yelling over something that was her own fault. She'd take it out on Dad. Then maybe 20 minutes later she'd come to Dad bawling her eyes out and apologizing, saying she just lost her temper.
It finally all culminated in November with her making a mistake and blaming it on Dad and firing him for it. After spending years calling him family, saying that he was so incredibly helpful and she was so glad she'd hired him, and how he did such great work.
Keep in mind that this is a very small business, and aside from their son that worked only when he felt like it, Dad was the only employee. They were getting lots of business and she got rid of the only reliable worker she had.
Lady is batshit crazy.
As far as I know they only got the initial shots, no boosters.
My aunt got a shot and a booster, and gets every flu and whatever shot she can. She's got mood issues too.
Chevy Chase just did too
No, sorry. I only just heard about that for the first time yesterday, and have no idea even what it is yet.
Taxes are another reason to hate the government. They needlessly over complicate everything. It’s all to cause chaos rather than function smoothly or actually be helpful.
All I want is to be able to cash out half my bag and have it be enough to pay off the house and survive. I don’t need a lambo, I just want to exist without stress and the ever present fear of homelessness eating away at me.
I absolutely detest the government.
Posted a while back that my dad was unfairly fired from his job. That was almost exactly a month ago. His boss said he messed up a major job but Dad was sure he didn’t, and she wouldn’t show him proof. He tried multiple times. However, his mistake was so severe (/s) that his evil boss offered him a desk job (he’s a tradesman) for $10 less an hour. We barely got by with his full check and she knew that. She called him family, said he was essential to their mom and pop shop. He did so much for them.
So we applied for unemployment, food stamps, and Medicaid.
Medicaid and food stamps went through. Even though he’s done what he’s supposed to and paid his taxes since 16 years old, he only gets less than $200/month in food stamps.
He’s been forced to go ahead and retire. He turns 65 in 3 days, and he’s having to retire a year sooner than he wanted to.
It’s been almost a month and we still haven’t seen the first unemployment check. They’re “understaffed”. So one month with 0 money.
Now we’re getting jerked around about social security. It’s an absolute nightmare to deal with them, next to impossible to get a hold of anyone, and you have to wrap up every scrap of personal information you have and send it to them to get any of this done.
His social security was only going to be something like $2000. Before Medicare fees are taken out. But now they’re double taking out Medicare even though he was told he’d only have to pay $35 and would receive assistance for the remainder.
And Medicare absolutely sucks. Covers nothing. But you have to get it. It’s insanity.
It’s a nightmare. It’s all one gigantic headache designed to be as annoying and complicated and confusing as possible. For a system aimed at seniors. I’ve had to do most of it for them because they aren’t tech savvy.
And that they don’t care at all that they make you go a month with zero income? Absolutely disgusting.
We need XRP to moon so bad.
Update: The system is so broken. SS said that it would “be illegal” for him to get support on his Medicare payment. Our local government are the ones that set it up for us.
Our local government told us that he was given Medicaid until January 1st and it would then switch to Medicare. Now they’re charging us for having Medicare in December when he didn’t apply for that. Why should we have to pay for useless Medicare when he’s not even on SS yet and we are getting 0 income because local government can’t pull their heads out long enough to give him his legally entitled unemployment?
At its deepest most foundational level, this country is an absolute mess held together by ratty old duct tape.
We’re seeing firsthand how unfair this system is.
My Dad has worked 50 years. Just got screwed over and unfairly lost his job, from a boss that teased him with nonexistent raises and told him just a few weeks ago he was like family. The she fired him with zero remorse and no reason. He turns 65 next month and was trying to work until at least 66 to get as much SSA as he could without working himself to death.
Now we’re applying for unemployment, food stamps, and Medicaid as well as SSA.
The amount of info they demand, the amount of hoops you have to jump through for a fraction of the paycheck you could barely get by on in the first place is insane.
Yet we have these murderous, raping, pet eating, thieving pieces of shit illegally entering our country having to give zero information and getting $15,000.
It’s infuriating. I hate this government and what’s been done to our country.
No. I don't trust the justice system to make this call correctly. They've gotten it wrong too many times.
While I don't have any sympathy for evil people that abuse children, I do understand that in many cases it comes from a place of trauma (being abused themselves as children) and/or mental illness. Only if we can definitively determine that pedophiles can not be mentally cured should something like this be considered.
Thank you for the incredibly thoughtful reply!
I have never pursued disability because I would be unable to work, and when work is good, it pays more than the disability would. It would also mean a very long stint of not working and no income while waiting for approval.
I have extreme anxiety, OCD, and PTSD. I can look into a job like that but I worry I wouldn’t be able to handle it given the anxiety. Chatting online would be much easier on me but I’m not sure if something like that exists.
Did not graduate high school or get my GED so that will make it hard to get any job along those lines even though I educated myself outside of the system.
I do have a computer but not a phone with service. I do commission-based art and writing for an income (adult themed, unfortunately, but it’s what people are willing to buy, and I know God understands that I’m doing it for my family) and it pays okay, but I only have a few clients and have always struggled to get more despite trying to play the exhausting social media game for self promotion. I have been teaching myself game development and am making a game I intend to release on Steam sometime next year. It’s about halfway done right now.
It’s just me and my parents. Mom also has health issues and we don’t want her working as a result of that. Once we have more of an idea about if he’ll be granted unemployment or not, we’ll know how much difference needs to be made up, and Dad may end up getting a part time job and I may end up selling whatever of my things I can to get us by. I don’t have a lot but it’ll be something.
We do not eat out except very special occasions (very rare) and we do not have cable. We already cut anything unnecessary long ago except for one $10 streaming service I’ll be cutting soon. We are discussing a family member moving in with us if things get very dire but it’s up in the air right now and will require a large upfront cost to upgrade our electrical panel we’d have to figure out and I would lose my bedroom. So that sucks but I’ll do it.
Above all else we’ll be prioritizing keeping the house, even if we have to cut the internet or electric for a while. It still has $102,000 to be paid on it.
Thank you so much for your kindness and advice. We got our house in 2019 and compared to houses renting and selling around us, we’re extremely fortunate, and our mortgage is only about $850/month. The house next door to us was renting for $2,200/month before the owner kicked the people out and made it an Air Bnb.
Thank you for your response and kind words.
I’m trying, but I’m struggling. Being autistic and having anxiety and OCD, this is a nightmare. We were already homeless just in 2018 before he got this job. I’ve worked so hard to ensure that that never happens again. Getting this house was nothing short of a miracle from God, and it was very obvious that it was his efforts that got us here. So it’s extremely confusing to now have it so threatened.
Dad struggled very hard to get the job he just lost. A big part was because we didn’t have a car, but we have one now so that will help. But the kinds of jobs that he’ll get will not pay enough for us to maintain the struggle-level income he just lost. He could get a job outside of his field but those pay worse too.
We know he’ll be punished. He’s been in a lot of pain from a failing hip doing a manual labor job, but he was trying to hold out until he turned 66 1/2 for those full benefits anyways. To lose that so close to the finish line and have no choice but to take the hit absolutely sucks.
Thank you very much. I’m trying to have that faith right now, but it’s not easy.
Thank you so much.
I hope this is allowed because I have nowhere else to go. I’m requesting prayers for my family, please.
My dad was just unjustly fired from his job. He was our primary provider. I’m disabled (not on disability) and work from home but it’s commission based and very sporadic.
We’re trying to get started with unemployment and getting him drawing social security, but he doesn’t turn 65 for another month.
We’ve cut back everything we possibly can and we were already struggling badly. Plus it will be 3-5 months before social security goes through, apparently.
Please pray for us to stay calm, together, and to not lose our home.
We prayed so hard. This is devastating.
I’m happy that everyone is so happy. Seen lots of people saying it’s like they can finally exhale and relax, but it doesn’t sit well with me.
This can’t be the ending but rather the beginning of the next phase.
There’s a lot I’m confused on now that the election has passed though. It was such a big milestone but it feels like lots of others have been missed.
What happened to the stuff with China, and wasn’t it supposed to come before Israel?
What about the 10 days - darnkess/darkness? Those still coming?
Communications outage? Sum of all fears?
It just feels like there’s a lot that’s meant to happen, both mentioned by Q and things mentioned in the awakened communities, some that make sense and some that don’t.
Something “happening” with “aliens” makes a lot of sense, given the media dragging the subject out every few months. Then the project blue beam stuff.
Then there’s the spiritual warfare and all the theories on how deep that goes and what it actually will look like. You could argue that it was beating them in the election, but that doesn’t feel nearly big enough to me.
There’s also the economic crash.
We’re talking less than three months between now and inauguration. That’s a lot of stuff that’s been talked about and talked about all this time, some can of course just be conjecture. But still, it’s supposed to happen before Trump is back proper, right?
Are we in for a huge roller coaster ride leading up to January? Because though it’s been hard as hell so far, it’s been extremely mundane, if that makes sense. I expected more fantastical stuff. Not that I’m hoping for it - at least not the bad stuff. But still. I feel like I’ve been tensed for a hit to the head with a metal bat and got love tapped with a stick of foam instead.
Edit: I hope this doesn’t sound doomerish. I don’t mean it that way at all.
Daaaaaaaaamn!
Very nice connection. That’s super cool if true.
Awww, you’re a total sweetheart. Thank you.
Aww that was beautiful. They’re always just mean to me, no matter how nice I try to be.
Thanks for being kind to them.
And replaces it with what?