a chance to take a vacation, the chance to send my kids (2) to college, a chance to pay for a possible medical problem that won’t take my savings for my kids to go to college to pay for. A chance to live a life where we arn’t worried all the time about HOW ARE WE GOING TO PAY FOR IT, what ever the hell IT is.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s early focus in Congress this year is on the kind of popular, consumer-oriented measures that have been a foundation of her Senate career.

At the start of her third term in office and weighing a run for president, Klobuchar in recent weeks has emphasized her renewed push for cheaper prescription drugs, and for tighter privacy laws for social media users. With both, she’s touting collaboration with Republican colleagues in hopes of progress despite a divided Congress.

“Let’s get this done,” Klobuchar says in a video posted on her Twitter account this week, where she argues for three measures she’s sponsored intended to lower prescription prices. “We should be governing from opportunity for the people of America. Not a crisis.”

Klobuchar has said in recent weeks that she’s considering a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. She has not yet announced her decision, but her goals in the new congressional term offer a preview of issues that could help comprise a presidential platform.

http://www.startribune.com/one-eye-on-possible-presidential-bid-klobuchar-shapes-d-c-agenda/505100402/

American people is a great idea. Now if they would just SHOW it in graphs....like Ross Perot did with graphs and props when he was running. I really don’t think people really understand HOW HUGE THE GAP REALLY IS between rich and poor. We need to see it in graphs........I’ve been looking and haven’t really found any that show it in, and I hate to say this, in simple ways that are easy to understand. I think people need to see the difference, because it’s disgusting.

A foreign country changed the outcome of our ELECTION. Really, isn’t that treason???

I can’t wait until he’s found guilty and watch him fry........TREASON.

Love figure skating.......a tiny 13 year old could be winning this thing....short program tonight long program tomorrow on NBC network.

team in the Nation, Michigan, today at the Kohl center. Michigan is 2 - 11 at the house of Bucky.....

well almost a millionaire, our neighbor 3 homes down from us just won 935,000.00 dollars in a lottery. So happy for him......he's just a guy, divorced, has a son who lives 3 hours away, his dog died a couple of years ago, and he's just a good neighbor. We are so happy for him, I did ask him to buy me a new car, he laughed and said he'd think about it. We're just happy for him. He's been playing the lottery for a long time, and said if ya don't play ya don't win.

For the first time in six years, retired Wisconsin public employees with all of their money in the Wisconsin Retirement System’s (WRS) main trust fund could see a reduction in their pension checks.

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board, which manages the money in the WRS funds, gave its preliminary 2018 year-end returns late Friday and, like the stock market, the results were down.

The Core Fund, with $93.6 billion in assets as of Dec. 31, had a preliminary return of minus 3.3 percent for 2018 while the smaller Variable Fund, with $7.1 billion in assets, had a preliminary return of minus 7.9 percent.

That means pension payments for most of the 203,000 retirees in the WRS could take a small hit.


https://madison.com/wsj/business/pension-payments-could-dip-for-retired-wisconsin-public-employees/article_aaeb462c-b673-583d-be2b-7da1283c9ab8.html