March 12, 2019

Trump said he wouldn't cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. His 2020 budget cuts all 3.

Over the next 10 years, Trump’s 2020 budget proposal aims to spend $1.5 trillion less on Medicaid — instead allocating $1.2 trillion in a block-grant program to states — $25 billion less on Social Security, and $845 billion less on Medicare (some of that is reclassified to a different department). Their intentions are to cut benefits under Medicaid and Social Security. The impact on Medicare is more complicated, which I’ll get into a bit later.

Here’s what’s actually happening: This budget proposes finding $845 billion in savings over 10 years from Medicare as we know it. But $269 billion of that figure is reclassified under the Department of Health and Human Services, bringing the Medicare cuts to $575 billion. As Vox explained, the administration says it will achieve these cost reductions by targeting wasteful spending and provider payments and lowering prescription drug costs.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which advocates for fiscal responsibility, estimates that 85 percent of these cuts will come from reductions in provider payments, 5 percent would come from policies around medical malpractice, and 11 percent would come from reducing drug costs through the Medicare Part D program. Medicare Part D is the only area of these reforms that could raise out-of-pocket drug prices for some while lowering it for others. Otherwise, premiums, deductibles, and copays would largely be left unaffected.

Unsurprisingly, the Federation of American Hospitals is not a fan of this part of Trump’s budget proposal. In a statement, they called the reforms “devastating for seniors.” More surprisingly, as Axios’s Sam Baker points out, these reforms are pretty similar to policies Barack Obama proposed in 2012 that Republicans panned.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts

Trumps Lies are Coming to fold, as the Media talks BS the Truth takes a Backseat!

March 12, 2019

"My Pillow" Guy at CPAC: Donald Trump is the Best Because He "Was Chosen by God"

Mike Lindell, the guy known to TV audiences as the “My Pillow” guy, also happens to be a conservative Christian activist. During a talk at the right-wing CPAC event this morning, he told the crowd that Donald Trump was “chosen by God” and that’s why he’s so amazing.

… Now we go back in time to 2016, and I see myself in divine appointments, and one was especially important. Donald Trump invited me to meet him at Trump Tower in New York City. I walked into his city with high hopes on August 15, 2016. I walked out of that office after meeting with him, and I knew God had chosen him for such a time as this.

God answered our prayers, our millions of prayers, and gave us grace, and a miracle happened on Nov. 8, 2016. We were given a second chance and time granted to get our country back on track with our conservative values and getting people saved in Jesus’ name.
As I stand before you today, I see the greatest president in history. Of course he is. He was chosen by God.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/02/28/my-pillow-guy-at-cpac-donald-trump-is-the-best-because-he-was-chosen-by-god/

The idiocy (noun, plural id·i·o·cies. utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.: All this talk of zombies coming to attack us is pure idiocy.) Scary, Foolish People Love Trump!

January 4, 2019

DOW -660 Enough Trump is a GOP Disaster 4 Pure Greed World Glad Trump only 4 Years

First of all, no one should have their savings in the stock market. I do Options and have earned 3x my losses this year in stocks by playing the volatility indexes on our brokerage accounts (kind of like a hobby that pays well). So, it's pure gambling.To us, when we flip real estate, we buy low on liens, fix up, and sell. This is even better than sports gambling that is now legal in RI or casinos.

Same is true with stocks, get depressed ones like AMSC, and sell high. this stock was almost $500 a share one time but picked it up for pennies on the dollar, like $3 a share and the return is now over 3x!

To me, the stock market is one gigantic ponzi scheme where most companies are 20 to 100x earnings, so it's shorting and pulling out after a 20% to 40% gain. No one should have, as they keep saying, no more than 10% of your net worth in the stock market.

https://community.aarp.org/t5/Politics-Current-Events/TRUMP-IS-KILLING-THE-STOCK-MARKET/td-p/1967340