I\u2019m glad that President Trump managed to bring peace to the Gaza – Israel conflict. Overall it\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve noticed that there are Democrats claiming President Trump is building on something someone did in the Biden Administration.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t believe it and honestly don\u2019t give a damn what they think. Or what lies they have to tell themselves to maintain their delusion that Biden was in any way good for the country.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think it will last, Hamas is already testing the boundaries and they are not to be trusted. They\u2019re not going to willingly give away their control or power, and they\u2019ve no doubt negotiated this peace as a survival tactic. I believe they should be hunted down and exterminated like the lying vermin they are. If Israel decides to do exactly that, I\u2019m all for nobody noticing.<\/p>\n
My only concern is that I don\u2019t want America involved in it at all. It\u2019s none of our concern.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not being islamophobic, or genocidal, it\u2019s recognizing an enemy that has for decades played the same game. Attack, get their asses kicked, sue for peace, rebuild their arsenal, attack again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like the shampoo bottle instructions, “wash, rinse, repeat.”<\/p>\n
\u201cOh Hamas did a terror attack in Israel? Again? Yawn!”<\/p>\n
I\u2019m really hoping President Trump holds the line regarding our involvement and that he\u2019s able to keep the other Middle Eastern nations to their word about controlling the bullshit in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, I don\u2019t think this will be a lasting peace. I\u2019m willing to enjoy Palestinian protestors being off our streets for a while.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been amused watching the media trying to acknowledge the accomplishment without choking on their own bile.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s been in office less than a year, and thus far he\u2019s keeping campaign promises. Illegal crossings at the border are at what some reports indicate, a 50 year low.<\/p>\n
Corporations are brining manufacturing back to America, (that\u2019s going to be a long term improvement.) Oil drilling is allowed in US coastal waters again. I\u2019m not sure that I\u2019m all for that, but I am for energy independence, and if drilling is a stepping stone to that I\u2019m good with it.<\/p>\n
The H1B programs are under fire so maybe we\u2019ll have the ability to call a bank, cellphone, electric, natural gas, and almost any other service oriented company and get someone that we don\u2019t need a universal translator to understand. It would be nice to conduct business in my language without straining to understand the person.<\/p>\n
Folks are screaming that our medical industry will be impacted. Maybe. However, since we\u2019re deporting a substantial number of people who use hospital ERs and urgent cares like their primary care physicians because they\u2019re getting medical services on the tax payer dime. The medical issue may sort itself out without intervention.<\/p>\n
I for one don\u2019t feel comfortable with the sloppy medical care that has become commonplace. Nor do I feel comfortable having to ask for a translation of the doctor’s diagnosis, then ask for a translation of the translation a nurse provided, from a janitor.<\/p>\n
Yes, these people supposedly speak English. But it\u2019s unintelligible.<\/p>\n
I do enjoy the fact that when these people look at my last name, they revert to \u201cMr.\u201d And my first name.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That being said, I\u2019ve recently had some \u201cAmerican\u201d workers do the same thing because they can\u2019t navigate saying my last name. Had our family not americanized the spelling when we came in on Ellis Island or other ports of entry, I\u2019d probably be a whole lot more amused. Or offended\u2026 I\u2019m not sure which.<\/p>\n
Were it not for the expense and inconvenience, I\u2019d consider changing my last name back to the original spelling. At least then, when someone botched it they\u2019d have a good reason.<\/p>\n
How is it that I, an uneducated<\/em> American, can usually say<\/em><\/strong> someone\u2019s first and last name from the way it is spelled? When I was answering technical support calls, I always took the time to give it a whirl, ask if I got it right, then carry on with the conversation properly using the Mr. Mrs. or Miss pronouns and the person\u2019s last name as a sign of respect.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a small thing, but I always found it made people at least more comfortable and feel that they were being heard. Referring to someone as “Mr. Steve” always felt, to me at least, disrespectful.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s the prescription pricing that President Trump is working on bringing into line. I\u2019m super happy about that. There\u2019s never been any excuse for being able to buy the same medication in Mexico or Canada at 1\/2 or 1\/4 the price just because you bought it outside the United States.<\/p>\n What does the drug cost to manufacture? What does it cost to package and distribute? What did it cost to develop? Add the costs up divide that by the number of people likely to use the drug during it\u2019s patent period, add a little % of profit and that\u2019s the freaking cost the consumer should pay no matter where they live.<\/p>\n If their government wants to subsidize the cost to provide the medication to the poor, that\u2019s their business.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no way that the people of the United States should have been paying higher prices for something just because someone, somewhere, decided they should pay for someone in Zimbabwe to pay less. President Trump is right in saying the American people have been ripped off for years.<\/p>\n I know the pharmaceutical industry is pissed off at Trump and I\u2019m “all in” for that too.\u00a0<\/p>\n Even here in America, you can see the differences. Wallgreens charges 4 times the price for a generic medication I\u2019m familiar with than Rite-Aid did. What Wallgreens charges medicare is even more.<\/p>\n House & Senate Democrats light their hair on fire about medicare and social security becoming insolvent but don\u2019t have any plan except to keep pumping money into those systems, except asking why. They never get to the root cause of stopping that kind of fraud.<\/p>\n President Trump went to the source and attempted to put a stop to usury pricing.<\/p>\n The Senate Democrats are claiming that millions will lose healthcare due to the government shutdown. They neglect to say that many of those millions are getting it for free due to government subsidies. Some are flat out illegal aliens, some are people who are citizens and who truly need assistance. The latter, I\u2019d like to see taken care of but until the former are not getting the freebies they\u2019ll be hurt too.<\/p>\n Why is it better to be an illegal in America than it is to be a citizen?<\/p>\n I could’ve had healthcare for the previous 5 years.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t because the math just didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n Let me lay it out to you. I couldn\u2019t pay for a bottom of the barrel Obamacare plan. It cost more than my mortgage. I could have applied for a subsidy that the state insurance folks called \u201cFree\u201d.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s not free. It\u2019s paid for by tax dollars, and required giving the state direct access to my banking, retirement, and pensions. Oh and since I owned a house, they\u2019d have had the ability to put a lien on my house to cover the \u201cFree\u201d taxpayer subsidy.<\/p>\n They\u2019d have monitored my income, so they could make sure I wasn\u2019t getting benefits I wasn\u2019t allowed to have. Oh, and guess what? The subsidy is taxable<\/strong> as earned income.\u00a0<\/p>\n I\u2019d have been paying full income tax on a subsidy that did nothing but pay for a service costing $1600-$1800 a month, but over the past 5 years the actual cost of medical care cost \u00a0me a grand total of 12K out of pocket.<\/p>\n Plus I\u2019d have been paying for car registration, property taxes, sales tax, gas tax, and all the wonderful little fees & taxes on my utility bills that provide \u201cFree\u201d utilities to people who are poorer than me.<\/p>\n Providing those \u201cFree\u201d services to the people poorer than me, in effect drives them further down the economic curve by increasing their tax burden, rather than raising them up.<\/p>\n Our Senate Democrats are fighting for more money to provide subsidies for a system of insurance that is clearly broken, and whether by design or implementation breaks the backs of not only the poor, but also the working individuals paying their taxes to the Federal and State governments.\u00a0<\/p>\n Admittedly I\u2019m a special case. In that I have hard assets, but even a single guy in an apartment would feel the impact, if for example his employer didn\u2019t provide health insurance.<\/p>\n So I\u2019m actually all in for not raising the subsidies. I’m hoping that the Senate Democrats demand to raise more subsidies to pump into a broken system like Obamacare, casts in sharp relief<\/em> just how broken and wrong Obamacare<\/strong> was from the start.<\/p>\n A functioning system shouldn\u2019t require endless money to be poured into it in ever increasing amounts.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve got a car that costs more to maintain than the payment on a newer vehicle, you dump the broken car and buy a new one. You sure as hell don\u2019t keep pumping money into it and at the same time let your drunken buddies keep borrowing it then returning it more broken, with an empty gas tank day after day.<\/p>\n That\u2019s essentially what Obamacare is doing.<\/p>\n I hope that Kennedy or Trump asks how much money shows up in Politicians bank accounts or campaign funds from Obamacare insurers and pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n I think the answer would be very enlightening. Afterwards, I\u2019d like to see those answers referred to the DOJ followed by swift indictments and punishment for any wrong doing. I don\u2019t care how many Congressmen are utterly destroyed or which party they\u2019re affiliated with.<\/p>\n Which brings me back to peace in the Middle East, and the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n Trump bringing an end to the Israeli \/ Palestinian conflict in short order makes me question in a broader sense just how similar the flow of money is in the military industrial complex to the medical \/ pharmaceutical games.<\/p>\n For those Congressmen who\u2019ve been feeding the conflicts through words or deeds, how much money have they made?<\/p>\n Could it be that\u2019s<\/strong> why they hate President Trump\u2019s policies with every fiber of their being?<\/p>\n I hope President Trump is able to put an end to taxation for everyone. I\u2019d be happiest if he stopped all taxation. But I\u2019d be willing to accept him doing away with taxation on everyone that didn\u2019t make a million a year.<\/p>\n That should make the Senate Democrats happy. After all, they\u2019ve been saying for years, \u201cTax the rich<\/em>,\u201d haven\u2019t they? But they say this knowing they\u2019re immune from taxation don\u2019t they? Maybe the House and Senate should be taxed at 50% on every dollar they make in excess of their Congressional pay.<\/p>\n Yeah, I know I\u2019ve been all over the map with this one. Sorry…<\/p>\n Have a great day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m glad that President Trump managed to bring peace to the Gaza – Israel conflict. Overall it\u2019s a good thing. I\u2019ve noticed that there are Democrats claiming President Trump is building on something someone did in the Biden Administration. I don\u2019t believe it and honestly don\u2019t give a damn what they think. Or what lies … <\/p>\n