@POTUS
, when U.S. vets joke about the sketchy 'disabilities' veterans claim to obtain lifetime, tax-free VA Disability payments via
@DeptVetAffairs
, it's obviously time to reform the bloated VA Disability boondoggle:
@michaelkruse
@politico
@POLITICOMag
Who's going to tell this guy his socialist, taxpayer-funded pension and socialist, taxpayer-subsidized Tricare will most likely be cut?
@TheLegalBrain1
@katedubbleyew
@MoobertJ
@codeofvets
$152.50 in 1975 would be equal to $839.82 today.
9 credits and fees at the University of Houston today (in-state rate): $3,763.74
Every DAY, I'm surprised younger Americans haven't lit EVERYTHING on fire.
@ahouse4all
-- U.S. military budget: $877 billion a year.
-- VA budget: $303 billion a year.
-- TANF (welfare) budget: $20 billion a year.
-- WIC (women, infants & children nutrition program): $6 billion a year.
America fucking HATES the poor, especially poor women and children.
@ahouse4all
Oh no, I'm not victim blaming. I'm angry and it's coming out as sarcasm instead of a string of obscenities.
I am SEETHING at how poorly the United States treats the poor, especially women, infants and children.
@ahouse4all
My bad. The budget for TANF, America's ONLY cash assistance welfare, available ONLY to poor families with dependent children, is $16.5 billion a year.
For the entire United States population.
Worse, the inbred sausagefest in Congress mandated fucking WORK requirements for TANF.
@Michael_L130
@RollingStone
Your awful comment is exactly why Israel's global support is dropping like a rock.
"If you're an aid worker in Israel, feeding the victims of Israel's genocide, and Israel chooses to murder you, that's your fault."
@ApatheticNo
@krassenstein
@Mericamemed
How are there no victims?
The Trump Organization and several individuals engaged in financial fraud by presenting vastly disparate property values to potential lenders and tax officials.
That's less tax revenue going to fund essential government operations.
@michaelkruse
@politico
@POLITICOMag
‘Our System Needs to Be Broken, and He Is the Man to Do It’
Ok. Military retirees like Ted Johnson, the man interviewed for this article, have a lot more to lose from a broken system than the rest of us.
@ahouse4all
Her first mistake was having children.
That's a RISKY decision in a country still operating like it's 1965 when it comes to women, infants and children.
Given how shitty men can be, and how cruel our male-dominated society is, I saw the writing on the wall and never had kids.
@JoJoFromJerz
I'm happy that so many of the Jan. 6 yahoos ended up in prison, and have a federal misdemeanor and/or felony on their record.
I'm especially happy that several of these folks have been stripped of veteran benefits, public pensions, Social Security & Medicare.
FAFO.
@MissREVO
@ninaturner
@nytimes
@ElieNYC
As a former Dem who WORKED for Democrats, I need to know: what are voters getting from Democrats?
Last session, Dems in Congress could have introduced a healthcare public option.
They bailed out PRIVATE pensions with taxpayer dollars instead.
@ABC
Texas v. White, 1869: The Constitution does not permit states to unilaterally secede from the United States, and that the ordinances of secession, and all the acts of the legislatures within seceding states intended to give effect to such ordinances, were "absolutely null".
@lavinia_colzani
@briebriejoy
"Does Joy Gray know the 3B yearly are meant to be a freebie to hook Israel as a costumer for the US MIC"
Sounds like Israel should give up the freebies from America and develop its own defense industry.
@burneraccountry
@notcapnamerica
Obamacare was intended to start a transition to universal healthcare, so that younger, healthier Americans' health insurance premiums prop up the Medicare, Medicaid, VA HC and Tricare trainwrecks.
Without Obamacare, we'll have cuts to these programs sooner than I expected.
@b_connerton
@khamis_ac
I'm astounded how easily Americans are able to justify murder.
Some people insist these protesters were communists supporting the Vietcong. Were military snipers' firearms trained on Vietnam veterans & civilians protesting the Vietnam war?
@OriginalNPH
@RBReich
Republicans here in Pennsylvania did really well in the 2020 election, winning most state row offices and increasing their numbers in the Legislature.
If the election was fraudulent, why didn't these Republican winners contest their "wins"?
@Amer_icanbadass
@JoJoFromJerz
Donald Trump made up to $160 million from international business dealings while he was serving as president of the United States, according to an analysis of his tax returns by CREW.
.
@twevorbrown
@TheLegalBrain1
@katedubbleyew
@MoobertJ
@codeofvets
I don't need to do any 'simple personal finance' to know that younger Americans, especially those with usurious student loan debt, are getting screwed over royally.
Good luck getting them to turn out and vote against Republicans who think like Lindsey Graham:
@JackLombardi
@AdamSchiff
Jack, you didn't answer me:
Who's telling vets, the disabled & a TSUNAMI of senior citizens they're entitled to my tax dollars for their healthcare until the day they die?
I don't want to subsidize other Americans' healthcare while I'm GOUGED for my own.
Abolish it all.
@DanPatrick
@IngrahamAngle
I think Texas should count on its US military bases being relocated to other states.
We can't have bases in states governed by people who can't follow the Constitution -- specifically the Supremacy Clause.
@edgiesversion
@Nate_McMurray
"Illegal immigration costs each American taxpayer $1,156 per year"
I'm shocked at how cheap that is.
We'd be able to spend even more on the next generation of taxpayers if we weren't pissing away almost $1,000,000,000,000 a year on the world's biggest military budget:
@TrumpAF2024
@KicksGameProper
Federal law is the supreme law of the land. It's right there in the Constitution.
If Texas doesn't think the feds are doing enough at the border, Texas can supplement the feds' activities, not usurp them.
Texas gets LOTS of DOD & FEMA dollars and should rein in the vitriol.
@PatelForPA
Holy crap. Bhavini, you're running to represent the 758,799 residents of PA-12, not Israel.
I live where the yellow dot is on this map of PA-12 and I have NEVER seen you in my community.
Have you even been outside of the city of Pittsburgh -- or in Westmoreland County?
@JoJoFromJerz
I will never dissuade military personnel or veterans from voting for the Republicans who plan to cut military pensions and veteran benefits:
@ahouse4all
I had a senior citizen tell me that if Social Security is cut or abolished, she'll go on welfare.
Good luck with that.
You HAVE to have dependent kids and be broke as hell to be eligible for TANF, the only cash assistance welfare in America.
And it pays next to nothing.
@davidhogg111
@treeaston
"empty posturing that makes a small cluster of very online purists feel validated."
David, to some Americans, that could include you.
Don't give this guy any kudos.
@ashleighlondon
@cinenoor
@BaddCompani
Here in my Republican community in Pennsylvania, where Doug Mastriano wants to crack down on abortion in a big way, he'd be surprised at how many Republicans get abortions on the regular.
@Caruzkcab
@PA_Capitol_Boy
How is this 'doxxing'? 🙄🙄🙄
These folks willingly signed their names (but not their addresses 😄) on nominating petitions, which are legal documents AND public record.
@chose_freedom
@MSW_researcher
@darinsmith1974
@SmalleyDa
@tlecaque
Chander: "If I site a bunch of books will you actually take the time to read them or are you just trying to make me waste my time?"
Cite. The word is cite. Not 'site'.
Also, Confederate leadership was LUCKY to not be hanged for treason.
Hanging traitors should make a comeback.
@KDKA
"Stauber, whose Rugby Realty owns the Gulf Tower & two other buildings in Downtown Pittsburgh, says, unlike other cities, Pittsburgh has not offered the help & incentives needed to get the projects off the dime."
Translation: Owner of properties worth millions wants a handout.
@GunnelsWarren
A mere 4% of the world's population (America) is paying for the WORLD'S biggest military budget, which funds 170 bases in at least 80 countries around the world.
@b_connerton
@khamis_ac
This sounds EXACTLY like what Israel is doing.
Are you telling people via Twitter that it's open season on anyone who supports Israel?
@ashleighlondon
@cinenoor
@BaddCompani
I asked my nephew how many of his high school classmates in this 2:1 Republican community in Pennsylvania ended up pregnant.
"None," he replied. "If a girl gets pregnant, her parents are like, 'Oh hell no' and they take her to get an abortion."
@usefultwidiot
@RoKhanna
How about no deductibles at all?
America's healthcare system is one of the best in the world, but the way Americans are compelled to pay for it is a TRAVESTY.
@lucyethss
@JaykePlants
@anne28480493
@RichardGrenell
Do you hear yourself? Why would the federal government make public classified, confidential, top-secret documents?
And I really don't give a fuck about Trump. Presidents are mostly irrelevant, but walking off with even ONE classified document lands 'regular' people in prison.
@ABC
There's an upside to Texas seceding from the union.
Military bases in Texas will have to be closed in these next few years as it is; we can just abandon the bases there, and spend these dollars in northern states.
@SteveSchmidtSES
Given the political climate in Texas -and- the actual fast-warming 🔥 climate in that state, it's just a matter of time until the US military bases in the Lone Star state are moved north.
@GulagSheepy
@0DSLMS
Conservatives own guns by almost 3:1 over liberals.
The majority of gun deaths in America are suicides.
Mostly by white men.
You do the math.
@MissREVO
@ninaturner
@nytimes
@ElieNYC
Why didn't Democrats introduce a public option instead of bailing out pensions for retirees who vote GOP?
Democrats cannot ignore the concerns of women, the poor, POC & other marginalized communities and then expect them to vote for Dems. People will just stay home.
@JoshuaPHilll
Kinda like the way Congressional Democrats, when booting Americans from Medicaid last session, could have passed a healthcare public option, but chose instead of bail out PRIVATE pensions for union retirees who regularly vote GOP because of guns.
@BrianLoughrey4
@TheMikeMorton
@kayleighmcenany
"House Republicans’ Agriculture Appropriations Bill Would Cut WIC Benefits for 5 Million Participants, Put SNAP Benefits at Risk for 1 Million Older Adults"
@SJohn_1974
@GavinNewsom
@GOP
I agree. We need to REQUIRE deadbeat dads to support their offspring ANY way possible, including selling body parts.
The going rate for a healthy kidney is $240,000.
@fooconner
@chwolfson
Yeah, Mastriano needs the media WAYYYY more than they need him.
No reporter should EVER be a stenographer for this right-wing, egomaniacal nutter, but PA voters DO need to know how evasive, arrogant, condescending and uncommunicative
@Dougmastriano
is.
@Bubblebathgirl
@JoeBiden
"Republicans aren’t trying to cut Social Security or Medicare."
Wanna bet?
The cuts to entitlements, including veteran benefits & military pensions, will be BRUTAL:
@alanrosca
@GozukaraFurkan
China is so awful that they're our No. 2 creditor. Not too long ago, they were No. 1.
We use the funds from China to pay for Medicare, Medicaid, SSDI, SSI, veteran benefits and the BIGGEST military budget in the WORLD.
They must not be that bad.
@AmericanMama86
@SenFettermanPA
@Columbia
"Pro Hamas members of Congress" 🙄🙄
You mean the 'anti-genocide members of Congress'.
Israel, under the sociopathic Benjamin Netanyahu, has killed 28 times the number of Israelis killed on Oct. 7.
@TheLegalBrain1
@katedubbleyew
@MoobertJ
@codeofvets
Reallocate to student loan debt the $1.5 TRILLION the US taxpayer spends every year subsidizing Medicare, Medicaid, VA healthcare, Tricare and the FEHB.
Grandpa can crowdfund for the money for his healthcare, like the rest of us do.
@chwolfson
@dougmastriano
The right thing for any legitimate media outlet to do is ignore this rally. "Today Mastriano and DeSantis were in Pittsburgh to drum up support for Mastriano's campaign. Here's what was said."
Then run this:
@any_realreader
@janjowen
@KinjNS
I was under the impression the surviving spouse could keep a good number of assets.
I'll try to dodge the shit thrown at me, but Medicaid for nursing home care ($90K a year) is intended for low-income folks, not people restructuring their assets so the taxpayers pay the bill.
@beardsupr3me
@NOLAnews
There's no stipulations on the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer Program, aka Summer EBT.
Participants just have to be below income threshholds.
@JonDelano
The use of evergreen trees, wreaths, and garlands to symbolize eternal life was a custom of the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Hebrews. Tree worship was common among the pagan Europeans and survived their conversion to Christianity.
@atrupar
John Fetterman has done a great job in convincing me to never vote again. I voted for him and it was a mistake.
Democratic candidates running for office where I live are useless, lazy and corrupt.