Hawaiian

1 minute ago, Hawaiian said:

https://aol.com/news/hegseth-collins-push-cutting-veterans-120043807.html

If true, not a smart move by the nominee, unless he wants to pass the position to De Santis.

https://aol.com/news/hegseth-collins-push-cutting-veterans-120043807.html

13 hours ago, Airalee said:

I’m thinking that when the time comes, I might as well eschew Medicare.  
 

Cheaper to just spend my twilight years in Thailand and when cash pay healthcare becomes unaffordable (I have insurance but don’t use it) just self administer my own palliative care.

Being reasonably healthy and physically active, I never thought I would be needing the medical services I am receiving today, care that I could never provide on my own.  Nice that you are being positive about caring for yourself, but when a medical condition make you miserable and causes nearly unbearable pain, you may not be able to care for yourself.

13 hours ago, Airalee said:

When do some of recipients need to take responsibility for their own health?  
 

Why does SNAP cover the crap that these obese land whales stuff their pieholes with? 

over 1000 results for SNAP and EBT just for chocolate?!!!

 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=chocolate&rh=p_n_program_participation%3A17428820011&dc&ds=v1%3AmSXwuD%2Fy2RepJLgGJDauN%2B5vQ6NgA4YrZnnIr5eNFkA&crid=2IQ0VK4PZRYBC&qid=1733552509&rnid=17428819011&sprefix=Cho%2Caps%2C355&ref=sr_nr_p_n_program_participation_1

 

Are healthy people supposed to subsidize diets of Doritos and Mountain Dew?

Why are these fatties not required to exercise?

 

The ACA was a complete scam.  I haven’t been able to buy health insurance through it ever.  
 

Instead, I was approved for Medicaid….only because I’m one of those people they can hit with the clawback provision but will not give me any control over the healthcare or provider I choose.

 

That’s why I moved to Thailand. 

My girlfriend and I frequently talk about people not taking care of themselves with their poor eating habits.  We also agree that our tax dollars should not go to buying junk food for SNAP recipients. 

She has excellent, company-paid health insurance through her employer and me with Medicare and Tricare. 

1 hour ago, RetiredNavy71 said:

So what happens when you get old and need SS and Medicare and it's not there? Be careful what you wish for 

Can Trump unilaterally cut SS and Medicare?  I don't think so.  Like many others, I have contributed to both, as an employer and employee.  Revolutions have been started over such things.

1 hour ago, RJRS1301 said:

Perhaps he could look at his own fraud, after all he is an expert on ripping everyone off

Don't know about you, but I never got ripped off from him.  However, I do feel for those that did.

1 hour ago, bimbumbam said:

I feel like i was almost too parent-y with them and I believe this is what the teachers didn’t like. The other preferred teacher was also better at discipline 

 

i was always chasing them to clean their face, making sure they didn’t injure themselves, sometimes the thai teacher didn’t even bother chasing after them. I was always paranoid they would get harmed and i could get blamed (thinking about it now I had a good reason for that)

 

i also made them wash their hands, or even washed their face, gave them extra water, played with them etc, the kids were happy and wanted to hold ny hands and hug me…i was probably not smiley enough for the staff…

Once you have the trust of the kids it becomes easier to motivate them into wanting to learn from you.  I am not a teacher, but get along with kids because I engage them in conversation in things they are interested in.  Some are surprised that I even listen to what  they have to say. 

Don't give up.  It may take awhile, but there is always some place you will fit in.

Maybe this story will encourage some to donate to this great cause.

13 hours ago, billd766 said:

I have osteo-arthritis in both knees and I have to use a walking stick for anything more than about 20 metres.

 

I agree 100% though in the big village near to where I live there are few buildings with steps. I use a walking stick and handrail or not, I make sure that I walk slowly (I have little choice) and that when I climb or descend steps, both feet are on each step before I move to the next one.

 

TBH I find that ramps are much harder than steps, especially when I go down. If my wife or anyone else is with me on ramps, I use my left hand on their shoulder for extra support.

 

Fortunately out here there are always Thai people who are willing to help. The lady at the local pharmacy always helps me down the 3 steps from her shop, as does the manager at the post office which has 6 steps plus a handrail.

Yes, people here have always offered to help.  The guy with the vegetable truck even walked me back to the front door of the house on one of my bad days. 

9 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

The Senate can recess for 9 days without triggering the 10-day minimum recess appointments clause.

Correct.  That ruling came from SCOTUS.

47 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

The lack of a reply are very telling. 

Mind if I reply?  There will be more than tears falling. 

34 minutes ago, radiochaser said:

I drank well water as a kid, that has fluoride in it.  

The amount of fluoride in well water varies from region to region.

Only testing can tell you how much and testing is very expensive.

10 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

There are inefficiencies in Medicare that need a bipartisan approach to find solutions not a sledge hammer approach to cut benefits. 
 

Agree that there are abuses including the needy and also by Medicare providers and suppliers. Improper billings and even physicians referring patients to services that they have financial interests or hospitals offering incentives to physicians to relocate to their area. 
 

Beggars that question whether Elon and Vivek are the right choice to address this social issue. 

 

 

 

 

$100 billion is a conservative estimate of annual Medicare fraud.

Experts say it is considerably more.  This alone requires some serious work.  Using the sledge hammer example is a tad extreme.  If you read my previous posts I am not proposing cuts.

At least we agree there is a lot of work to do. 

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

When you consider that Trump added $7.1 trillion to the deficit last time around, I think it is safe to call this election campaign hyperbole. 

Is this what you are referring to?    Spending and cutting services are not the same thing.    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/22/hakeem-jeffries/did-donald-trump-rack-up-more-debt-than-ant-other/

1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

Most universal healthcare and social security in the world need government expenditures to subsidize their operational needs. It’s the government responsibilities to take care of the health and social well being of their people. The programs may need to be revamped to ensure efficiency in dispensing the benefits and customer service deficiencies; not cutting the benefits to the needy. 

U.S. hospitals, by law, are not allowed to refuse patients and this includes their emergency rooms.  Because of this, quite a few patients are showing up at emergency rooms for reasons that are not real emergencies.  They abuse this privilege because they don't want to bother making an appointment with their PCP and stand in line like every one else.  This common practice needs to be addressed as it is causing a lot unnecessary costs.  Not to discriminate, but it seems most of these abusers are the so-called needy.

1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

Most universal healthcare and social security in the world need government expenditures to subsidize their operational needs. It’s the government responsibilities to take care of the health and social well being of their people. The programs may need to be revamped to ensure efficiency in dispensing the benefits and customer service deficiencies; not cutting the benefits to the needy. 

A complete overhaul is in order.  The reimbursements to Medicare providers are already low and yet Medicare continues to lower them.

Another trick used is "provider cutback."  For many doctors this is becoming unsustainable.  They cannot continue in practice by being grossly underpaid. 

This is just one of the areas that need major surgery.

(SEE MY NEXT POST)

1 hour ago, Walker88 said:

LOL!

 

Most members of the cult are obese, out of shape, dumb old men ("I love the poorly educated"...45).

 

As for me, the government spent a lot of time and money teaching me to be skilled in things I would have preferred not to have ever had to use. "Snowflake" is probably not the right term for me and those like me. Gym Rat, maybe, but not snowflake nor blubberbutt like most of the cult.

 

Oh, and you know absolutely nothing about "most illegals", nor do you know how most terrorists enter the US (#1 is via commercial airline, #2 is from Canada). Many terrorists are stopped, quietly, before they board a commercial flight, because foreign liaison intel services provide shared intel, from their own sources, to US intel. Already allied nations have said they will not share while 47 is POTUS, as he has both a history of mouthing off (Israeli penetration of ISIS was outed by 45 in his Oval Office chat with FM Lavrov and Amb Kislyak) and is wildly cavalier and irresponsible with the handling of classified documents.

 

If you know nothing about all of this, best keep quiet, lest you do---as Lincoln once said---"want to remove all doubt" about your total lack of knowledge.

There you go again with that old cliche, "the cult."  What's YOUR favorite term for Biden's ardent supporters?

1 hour ago, Walker88 said:

LOL!

 

Most members of the cult are obese, out of shape, dumb old men ("I love the poorly educated"...45).

 

As for me, the government spent a lot of time and money teaching me to be skilled in things I would have preferred not to have ever had to use. "Snowflake" is probably not the right term for me and those like me. Gym Rat, maybe, but not snowflake nor blubberbutt like most of the cult.

 

Oh, and you know absolutely nothing about "most illegals", nor do you know how most terrorists enter the US (#1 is via commercial airline, #2 is from Canada). Many terrorists are stopped, quietly, before they board a commercial flight, because foreign liaison intel services provide shared intel, from their own sources, to US intel. Already allied nations have said they will not share while 47 is POTUS, as he has both a history of mouthing off (Israeli penetration of ISIS was outed by 45 in his Oval Office chat with FM Lavrov and Amb Kislyak) and is wildly cavalier and irresponsible with the handling of classified documents.

 

If you know nothing about all of this, best keep quiet, lest you do---as Lincoln once said---"want to remove all doubt" about your total lack of knowledge.

Seems as you were also taught how to sugar coat all of accomplishments of U.S. intelligence operations.  What you fail to  mention is some of the failures and blunders.  "Weapons of Mass Destruction," comes to mind.  And then to send Colin Powell on a disgraceful mission before the whole world to see.  Yes, many terrorist plots have been uncovered, but 9/11 was a total failure; shameful that these terrorists were discovered and then the information not acted upon.  Then there is the saga of Osama Bin Laden. Enough said.

40 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

Yes there is - not all that many people voted for his candidates, or for him for that matter!

It's probably because there are still those who think Trump won't accomplish much and love illegals running wild and bankrupting sanctuary cities  They are going to be greatly disappointed.

17 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

No we don't. We can address him as the weasel. The thief. The huckster. The phony, or the goon. 

 

Respect has to be earned and it should never be freely given, he conducted a completely ridiculous campaign, he said an inordinate number of ridiculously stupid things, and none of that should ever be forgotten. Okay, he won and he's president now, but you could dress up a wild boar with royal garments it's still just a very unattractive wild animal. 

I sense sour grapes and a sore loser .  Call him whatever you want.  He's gotten used to that.  All the name-calling has not stopped him or even slowed him down. 

3 hours ago, Lacessit said:

IIRC the Mexican president told Trump to put his tariffs where the sun doesn't shine.

 

Canada has a positive balance of payments with the USA, quite apart from America importing 52% of its petroleum from there.

 

As for Xi, the US debt is $800 billion. If that were called in, it would probably break American hegemony, as far as being the reserve currency goes.

 

Trump lost the last trade war with China - badly. American farmers needed massive subsidies to placate them.

 

You may be right, it's just threats. If he acts on them, it's going to get ugly - for everyone.

Mexico's president told Trump that there would be reciprocal tariffs which would do serious harm to the American auto industry.  I don't think she was quite as blunt as you describe.

One poster suggested Trump levy a tax on remittances from the U.S. to Mexico.  These monies contribute 4.2%, or $61 billion to Mexico's GDP. 

It is interesting that Trudeau showed up at Mar-a-Lago uninvited.  What conversation took place, we really don't know.

Yes, China holds $749 billion of American debt, but attempting to redeem this would cause a lot of turmoil in the financial markets.  It would cause a disruption in worldwide trade, including that of China's biggest customers.

Guess we have to see what unfolds next.

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

Santayana said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

 

The chaos of the first Trump presidency has been conveniently forgotten by most. Selective memory of purported achievements has been substituted.

 

It would be good if I was disappointed.

I think he has learned something from the past and despite some of his alarming statements he will not act on them.  Already his threat of tariffs seems to be bringing both Canada and Mexico to the table.

And have you noticed, Xi has been unusually quiet.  He knows how damaging more tariffs will be to the already slowing Chinese economy. 

Yes, I hope I am right and you will be disappointed.

On 11/29/2024 at 6:14 PM, G_Money said:

Unfortunately, assassination is the only strategy left in the leftists doctrine.

 

They have failed at every illegal attempt to keep Trump from running for President.

 

 

Right.  Now they are more than desperate and that is what makes them so dangerous.