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Leave the fag hag alone.

Hey Bill, Trump is suggesting giving out money:
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Time to go on record against it. Remember how easy this was to condemn when you thought Democrats were doing it?

#140 "what has a democrat done to help you"

- 19th Amendment | Women's right to vote

- Apollo 11 | First manned moon mission (and all of the value-added innovations)

- Social Security | Social insurance program

- Medicare | Health insurance for seniors

- NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization " the political and military alliance between the US, Canada and Europe

- Medicaid | Health care program for low income people

- Securities and Exchange Act Law | Oversee the trading of securities and protect investors

- Rural Electrification Act | Federal loans for the installation of electricity to serve rural areas

- Peace Corps | American volunteers promoting friendship, goodwill and peace around the world

- Unemployment Benefits | Temporary payments to the unemployed

- Fair Labor Standards Act | Ending the cruel practice of child labor

- Servicemen's Readjustment Act | The GI Bill, which has benefited millions of returning soldiers

- Federal Home Loan Program | Guaranteed loans that allowed millions of Americans to become homeowners

- National Industrial Recovery Act | 8 hour workday, minimum wage, paid overtime, and the right to collective bargaining

- National School Lunch Act | Free or low-cost meals for children who might otherwise go hungry

- 1965 Voting Rights Act | Prohibits discrimination in voting

- National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis | Forerunner of the March of Dimes

- Head Start Program | Comprehensive services for low income families

- 1964 Civil Rights Act | Prohibits discrimination and protects civil rights

- Marshall Plan European Recovery Act | Rebuilt a secure and peaceful Europe after World War II

- Financial Aid for Higher Education Loans | Guaranteed student loans that enabled over 50 million Americans to receive a college education

- Family and Medical Leave Act | Temporary unpaid leave and job protection to employees " for qualified medical and family reasons

- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act | Protect workers against pay discrimination

- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Health care reform: Preventive care screening, lower prescription drug costs, protection for pre-existing conditions among many other benefits

- American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 | Pandemic recovery, economic stimulus payments, free vaccines, funeral expense assistance, expanded child tax credits, block grants for schools, funds for small business and many other benefits

What have the GOPyers given us?

- a $37.000,000,000,000.00 debt

- free taxpayer money to the uber wealthy

You're welcome.

What a country we've got. Just a few years ago we finished the "Forever Wars" and now Dummkopf Trumpf and his cronies and family want to make profits from involving us in another war. Don Junior is invested in a drone company in Florida, something is going on with contracts in the USN, and Felon Musk continues making obscene amounts of money hand over first with the Trumpf junta.

Earlier this year House Democrat Al Green (D-TX) introduced a bill to impeach Dummkopf Trumpf after he ordered the attacks on Iran, but the measure was killed by his fellow Democrats. Apparently 128 Democrats were not unhappy with the US attacking Iran.

From Politico, 24 June 2025:

"Most House Democrats joined with Republicans on Tuesday to quash an effort to impeach President Dummkopf Trumpf over his weekend Iran strikes.

Rep. Al Green's impeachment resolution was tabled on a 344-79 vote, with 128 Democrats joining all 216 Republicans to kill the measure.

Those included House Democratic leaders, who have been wary of pursuing new impeachments after two prior Trumpf impeachments failed during his first term. Still, dozens of Democrats voted to keep Green's resolution alive.

Green introduced the measure lambasting Trumpf for striking Iran without congressional approval Tuesday and used a fast-track process to force a quick vote. GOP leaders moved first with the motion to table.

Some Democrats, most prominently New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called for Trumpf's impeachment in the aftermath of the strike, though there's little appetite in the rest of the caucus for impeachment. Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar yanked a prior impeachment measure he sponsored last month before it even came up for a vote after facing fierce blowback in the caucus."

Now the US is getting ready to attack Venezuela.


Republicans keep saying Obamacare is broke but the only reason it is that they won't renew the subsidies that make it affordable. In truth thfey hate "Obamacare" because of the nickname "Obamacare" they started calling the Affordable Care Act" out of their fear that it would become an important part of the Social Safety Net for Americans; which it has and the Democrats are refusing to just quietly let it die by helping to pass a bill to reopen the government that doesn't include the subsidies that make the Affordable Care Act" affordable for millions of Americans which is the Republican's sneaky plan to destroy the Act that millions of Americans depend on for healthcare! Every Senior Citizen on Medicare and Social Security should be supporting the Democrats right now on this fight because, make no mistake about it, if the Republicans win on this they WILL be coming after Medicare and Social Security next. Remember Trump saying he's going after all the "Democrats programs?" Medicare are both Democratic programs and his goal is to kill them before he leaves office so he can steal the SS trust fund to pay for the tax cuts he is giving his billionaire buddies! This is not just a battle about the ACA or "Obamacare" this is about much more! Every Senior Citizen on SS and Medicare should be involved in this fight, and their families too! This is a Class War and the enemy of the people has control of all three branches of government, at least until after the midterm elections so you can expect that they will fight with every tool they have to gut the Social Safetey Net that "We the People" pay for ourselves.

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When the ACA was written, it said subsidies were for exchanges "established by the State." That made sense when everyone thought states would cooperate but many didn't. So opponents sued, complaining that people who bought insurance through the federal exchange weren't allowed to get those tax credits. The case, King v. Burwell (2015), went all the way to the Supreme Court.

The Court ruled that Congress meant for subsidies to apply nationwide, whether a state or the federal government ran the exchange. That ruling saved the ACA, but it exposed how fragile it really was. One poorly worded sentence, "established by the State.", nearly destroyed the entire law. Another wrench in the grand plan.

Then came yet another one. The individual mandate penalty for not buying insurance was repealed, thus depriving the grand plan of much needed revenue.

Things haven't worked out the way the architects promised. Yes...some lower income Americans gained coverage, but employer group plans have continued climbing. Self-insured have been squeezed. A huge problem was that cost controls were largely ignored. Furthermore, Congress never allowed cross-state competition, which could have lowered costs by putting pressure on insurance providers. ACA would have never passed if they had.

That brick wall for businesses is still there. Employees covered by employer plans are generally ineligible for subsidized exchange coverage, as are their spouses if the employer's plan meets ACA affordability rules.

Something is still broken in the system. Hospitals, pharmaceuticals, administration, and government regulation continue driving up costs and no one has the backbone to fix them.

Democrats won't touch their signature program, and Republicans still haven't offered a serious, workable alternative.
So here we are, decades later, staring at the same brick wall I saw coming forty years ago.

Then came Trump.

Dan,
"I knew. Forty years ago."

As did I.

My accounting career, I talked with many owners and accounting managers, and something I saw was alarming. Over and over again, every company I worked with had one thing in common. When their annual group health insurance renewal arrived, the premium had typically increased five to ten percent, in that ballpark.

Year after year, those rate hikes outpaced inflation and consumed a bigger share (percent) of sales revenue than nearly every other expense on their books.

That spelled trouble for companies that had, for years, just absorbed the increases while still offering free health insurance for employees. I even knew one company that provided free family coverage until the late 80s.

At that rate, a brick wall was inevitable. It was just a matter of time. Something was wrong then, and it's still wrong now.

The government eventually stepped in with a grand plan called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Obamacare which was supposed to fix the system by spreading out risk and making insurance affordable for everyone. It offered federal premium tax credits (subsidies) for people who bought coverage on new state-run insurance exchanges, along with a mandate requiring everyone to have and pay for health insurance.

The idea was simple. Healthy young people who often skipped insurance would now pay in, spreading and balancing costs for everyone else.
But there was a problem. Many states refused to create their own exchanges or expand Medicaid. That forced Washington to step in and build a massive federal exchange what we now know as Healthcare.gov (as a backup).

It was never supposed to be the main system, but suddenly it was. That was the first wrench in the grand plan.
Then came another one, even bigger.

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US airlines cancel over 1,000 flights for a second straight day largely due to Trumpstein shutdown

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Putin has to be thrilled that his orange bitch is destroying the United States.

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