(Info from PBS News Hour) Compared to people in most developed nations, including Canada, Americans have for years paid far more for health care while staying sicker and dying sooner!
“To Canadians, the notion that access to health care should be based on need, not ability to pay, is a defining national value.” Americans simply don’t live with that confidence. Losing a job is bad enough, but imagine that you’re going to have to lose everything you’ve got to qualify for Medicaid. Sell your house. Sell your car and basically be on the bones of your ass before you get any medical coverage! That is our way of dealing with healthcare! In 2019, health expenses drove more Americans into bankruptcy than any other reason, according to the American Journal of Public Health. That same year, health care consumed 17 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, a greater share than in any other developed country, including Canada!
So here is my take. We need universal healthcare, but we need to design it better than Canada who has long wait periods for elective or none emergency operations. They (Canada) do not cover dental, for example, or drugs that have not been prescribed by a hospital. They are way cheaper even when you do have to pay, however. But Switzerland, for example, has a system where you pay, but if you cannot afford to pay the govt pays your premiums. No one goes uncovered. So what we have in the U.S. sucks, it is more expensive, it will bankrupt you before it will even give you minimal coverage, and you die younger, and are sick more than any other industrialized nation.
So I do not know exactly where Biden is going to be, but it has to be better than Trump’s plan which is to get rid of what we do have with no plan to replace it, at all! And he also wants to permanently get rid of payroll taxes for medicare and social security which will bankrupt SS in three years with no ability to pay us any dollars at all. So consider this when you vote, a vote for Trump means you die sooner, stay sick longer, and if you are like me and depend on my Social Security, I will starve, lose my home, my car, and be on the street in Trump‘s America! And so will you, please look at Trump’s policies, at what he does versus what he says while campaigning! They are never the same, and you and I both suffer, no matter whether we are left or right-leaning!Thank you!
Trump’s proposal to erect a Tariff wall, promising billions of dollars and a wealthier nation, is a contradiction in itself. The following is an excerpt from a reliable source, Heather Cox Richardson.
“This is a deliberate lie. Tariffs are essentially taxes on imported products, and they are paid not by foreign countries but by American consumers. Economists warn that Trump’s tariff plan would cost a typical family an average of more than $2,600 a year, with poorer families hardest hit; spike inflation as high as 20%; result in 50,000 to 70,000 fewer jobs created each month; slow economic growth; and add about $5.8 trillion in deficits over ten years. It would tank an economy that under the Biden administration, which has used tariffs selectively to protect new industries and stop unfair trade practices, has boomed.”
Back to John Love! Tariffs over the years have always been bad for you and me, the consumer! Largely responsible for the famous Wall Street Crash and the main reason for the Great Depression! Trump is looking out for Trump, plain and simple, in everything he does. Tariffs do have their uses. They can be used to protect American jobs and manufacturing, but they must be used in specific ways, like surgery, never as a tariff wall. As was mentioned above, between the quotation marks!
Trump has told so many lies during this election campaign that even the most ardent Trump supporter cannot be unaware! Just common sense will tell you that no one brought over-the-border illegals to vote in any election. For one, it is a federal crime; two, all kinds of false documentation would be needed for each individual, requiring a vast manufacturing structure impossible to conceal. Plus, red states would be all over any such activity, and we would know about it. Actually, so would blue states; as I said, it is a federal crime; Trump lies every day, multiple times a day; it is who he is. We cannot have such a morally corrupt man in the white house. He is also not an educated man; just open your ears and listen to him speak! He only took real estate classes at Wharton and was even refused entrance for lack of grades until his brother interceded. Why do you think he has threatened to sue anyone for releasing his grades? Think about it!
In the last few days, Donald Trump, as usual, told lies to the American people! He told the public that the Border Czar, Kamala Harris, had let into the country 13000 convicted murderers! He then added another thousand to that total the next day. So here are the facts! This number was gleaned from a report released by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement “non-detained docket” covering around 20 years. So, it included the time Trump was president! Also, they were not people being convicted of homicide by another country and then entering the U.S. They committed crimes after they got here; a lot of them are still in jail here in the U.S. The ones that are free have served their time and cannot be extradited because the country of origin will not allow it. So because of a Supreme Court ruling saying that they can only be held by Immigration for a limited time if they are no longer wanted by law enforcement, they are forced to free anyone who is not currently wanted by said law enforcement! None of this had anything to do with Kamala Harris. One, she was never the Border Czar; her mandate as Vice President was to try and meet with the countries where all these immigrants were fleeing from on a fact-finding mission to stem the origin of the problem. She had no mandate that actually included the border. As I have said before, Trump is a pathological liar, and none of what he has said about Kamala ever, really, is the truth! If you want proof it is easily obtained, just look at the report for yourself, it is not a state secret! We do not want this man for President. He is a liar; even when the truth would be more beneficial to him, he cannot help himself; he lies. Plus, he is not a moral man; the evidence that backs that up is easily found, and most times Trump is convicted by his own statements on air!
Trump says that virtually 100 percent of the new jobs under Biden have gone to illegal aliens. Did you know that? A hundred percent! Aside from being impossible even to try such a feat, it just isn’t factual! Trump lies!
Trump repeatedly labeled Biden as “corrupt” — but he applied the same charge to MSNBC, the 2020 elections, the judge in a libel case Trump lost, the judge in a business fraud case Trump lost, the prosecutor in a pending Georgia case, New York state and finally the entire United States. Trump is a felon, his trials had a jury of regular citizens, none associated with any branch of government or justice system. Trump is a liar!
Trump claims that the Democrats, and specifically the state of New York, are passing a bill to allow the execution of babies after they are born! You must be mentally disturbed to believe such a lie! Such a thing is illegal in every state, and no state is trying to kill babies after they are born. He also claims that Harris is all for it! That is untrue, Harris does want Roe v Wade back! Trump is a liar!
Trump claims that Biden is forcing all boat manufacturers to go totally electric. He further claims that electric boats would sink from all the weight. There are electric boats that float just fine and are very, very fast. They are mostly experimental, but Trump’s science is just not factual or true! Trump is a liar!
Trump claimed both Biden and Harris wanted to raise the retirement age. Biden did bring it up when he was a senator but has opposed it as President. Harris never wanted it and never discussed it! Trump is a liar!
Trump claims that Harris wants to outlaw red meat. What was said is that she would like to encourage people to eat less red meat but that she likes a good cheeseburger herself. Trump is a liar!
Trump has claimed for months that Biden was secretly behind all his legal troubles; now he claims it was Harris. In fact, it was civilians who had no part in government who indicted him and subsequently found him guilty on 34 counts, notwithstanding his legal troubles over trying to influence people to illegally find votes or trying to change the electorate votes. Trump is a liar!
Trump now claims that Harris is the border czar. Harris was never in charge of the border, her assigned job was to lead the diplomacy efforts with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Hondurasin an attempt to address the conditions that prompted their citizens to try to migrate to the United States in the first place! Trump is always a liar!
Deaths from any kind of drug was around 107,000 according to the CDC, not the three million that Trump claimed was fentanyl that came over the border. Most fentanyl deaths are from legal prescription drugs that the patient overdosed on. And most illegal fentanyl comes through legal ports of entry smuggled by U.S. citizens. Trump is a liar!
Trumps claim that Harris is against all Jews is laughable as she is married to a Jewish man! Trump is a liar!
Trump claimed that Harris, a lawyer who was elected as San Francisco’s district attorney and then as California’s attorney general, “failed her law exams and continued to say she couldn’t pass her bar exams. She couldn’t pass anything. Couldn’t pass everything. She couldn’t pass anything, he chanted. She failed her first bar exam attempt and got it on the second try. She is one of the highest-rated attorneys in the country, but Trump is, of course, a liar! Oh, and not overly bright, either! It is probably one of the reasons he is such a habitual liar; he does not know many facts, so he just claims to know instead! But he has to hold the world record for lying in public with a straight face. But fact check any speech he has ever given, any speech; it will have multiple lies included every time!
I did not have a normal childhood. I taught myself to read to understand road signs because I started driving at nine. I did not go to a full year of school until I was in the 6th grade. I hardly ever went to school at all before that year. So my reading was not the normal fare, and no one was reading to me. Around the 7th grade, I discovered Sir Walter Scott and Thomas B. Costain! I read a lot of books by both authors. Scott’s Ivanhoe was really one of my favorites. The Black Rose was also right up there by Costain. I know both have been done in the movies, but they do not come close to the books! Not really children’s stories but they made an impression on me that lasted. I came across the Count of Monte Cristo in the 8th grade, and kind of felt like I cheated when it was assigned to me as a sophomore to do as a book report! I read voraciously all through my teen years and in the Corps. I was on a plane coming back from Vietnam and other vacation spots when I discovered the Hobbit in the seat magazine holder. I was hooked on everything Hobbit after! As a youngster, I never had fairy tales to read or had them read to me, but I have now read a host of classics and a library full of science fiction and fantasy! I am currently reading the Scions of Shannara. I currently have five bookcases full of Sci-fi and fantasy, and a very large bookcase full of classics, all read. My wife made me cancel all my book subscriptions when I wanted to buy an extra Tuff Shed to store them. She has no idea how many I have stored the Books app on my iPhone!
I have always thought that If I could go back in time I would like to visit North America before any Europeans came. I would, especially if I had a guarantee of safety, try and learn as many native languages as I could and warn them about what was coming! Then I would attempt to get them all to work together to watch their shores. I would not want them to massacre any who showed up! Greet them with overwhelming force, inform them that they did not discover anything, this land already belongs to, and is settled by, people who do not welcome them! If my fantasy has merit, then they would be given fresh water, jerky, dried fruit, and the basics to get them back wherever they came from! Then, I would head south to warn the people who were about to come in contact with Christopher Columbus! Make sure they knew he wanted to make slaves out of them and take any and all resources they had. I am aware that Europe and the rest of the populated world, knowing there were lands and how to find them, would eventually show up with forces well-armed and still subjugate, murder, rob, and rape their way across all of the Americas! So I probably would have made it much worse than it actually was over time. However, Christopher Columbus did not discover America. He and his men actually never set foot on North American soil, only a few islands in the Bahamas! Later in our history, the pilgrims did and became a blight on what is now North America. They were responsible for women being subjugated and thought of as inferior throughout our society here in America, the supposed land of the free. It was 1974 before women could have their own bank accounts, their own credit card, or their own home! The first act allowing women to own and control land was passed in 1848, but only if her husband had died, not leaving a will, and I think, without a male son! I would rather have the Vikings, who did discover America, to deal with. All they wanted to do was hunt here!
The more you see Trump speaking in public, the more noticeable his mental decline. Even weeks ago, in a short statement, he thought he was running against former President Obama. Recently, he confused Nikki Haley, who is competing with him for the GOP nomination, with Nancy Pelosi! He has confused countries and the leaders of those countries, not once but several times. He has spoken in gibberish lately, and his speech bites are incomprehensible and unintelligible! His command of language has always been lacking, but now it is just scary!
He is, of course, still on about how the last election for president was stolen from him. No evidence has been found that it happened! Even his party officials and attorney general told him no interference or skullduggery had happened! He is claiming banks are all crooked now because the big banks will not loan him money, as his financial records are not accurate, and he is not able to back his loans with the financial data required. This is a man who has a party, the Republicans, in his thrall. In the first 234 years of our country, no former President had ever been indicted. In the last few months, Trump has been charged in four criminal cases. Four felony accounts for his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Several recounts were done in states that favored Trump, but even more votes were uncovered for Biden, not Trump. He faces thirteen felony accounts for interfering in the election occurring in Georgia. In New York, he faces 24 felony accounts for trying to hide payments to a porn star to cover up an affair. In Florida, he faces forty felony counts for hoarding classified documents.
This does not take into account at least 18 women who accuse Trump of sexual misconduct and assault. The man, in his own words, has bragged about assaulting women!
The man is a racist. There are instances where he ordered all black employees to be removed from his own casino floor so he and his wife would not have to look at them! He has been sued, not once, but twice by the federal govt, for his actions in his real estate business against selling or renting to people of color.
All of this is well documented; you can find any of this for yourself. So why would anyone want this man to represent America or anyone with any moral fiber whatsoever? This man should be shunned by anyone who represents justice, morality, or fair play! This should be extended to a party willing to look away while these things are done because he can help them gain the power they crave! Power gained in this manner should tell you how corrupt the governing force they represent is going to be!
The more you see Trump speaking in public, the more noticeable his mental decline. Even weeks ago, in a short statement, he thought he was running against former President Obama. Just this weekend, he confused Nikki Haley, who is competing with him for the GOP nomination, with Nancy Pelosi! He has confused countries and the leaders of those countries, recently.
He is, of course, still on about how the last election for president was stolen from him. No evidence has been found that it happened! Even his party officials and attorney general told him no interference or skullduggery had happened! He is claiming banks are all crooked now because the big banks will not loan him money, as his financial records are not accurate, and he is not able to back his loans with the financial data required.
Almost everything out of the Trump camp, especially if uttered by him, is exaggerated or patently untrue. Republicans are claiming that education is being used to turn our kids and young adults away from the party and God. Education is how you determine what your vote means, what your congress is doing, and how things work in the world. The last thing they want is an informed public, so education has to be attacked. Along that same line, some of our politicians have started whitewashing our history, even changing it, to make our country seem to be what it is not. Whenever you start changing or even deleting our history, you cheat us out of knowing what not to repeat in the future and how best not to fail! You must know where you have failed and what mistakes were made to plan a better future. I do not believe that a lot of the GOP believe that! Book bannings are on the rise. To Kill a Mockingbird is an example of a banned book. One of the classics. A Color Purple, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Grapes of Wrath are a few examples. These books are based on our country’s past, and we need to experience them and study the era that spawned them. Then come to your own conclusion about how we make ourselves better.
Trump is dangerous; he is a bully, and he is attracted to men who rule without democracy getting in the way! I believe he was always challenged morally, and his mental acuity is that of the trickster, not statesman, and even that mental acuity is now fading fast!
If I can see it, you certainly should. I did not go to school for more than a couple of months a year until the sixth grade. I still took time off for jobs sweeping up after school lunch in order to afford to eat! So that made me late to math class in the seventh grade because it was right after lunch, and I had to wait until the cafeteria was vacated before I could sweep up and empty trash cans. Math was my hardest class, so not really a good thing! I also left early before school finished at the end of the 6th grade because I got a job with a sheep farmer herding 3000 critters for the summer, and the drive started a couple of weeks before school let out. On the drive, I was in charge of the pack string. After we got up to the target meadows in the high country, my 13-year-old self and a 14-year-old were left in charge of 3000 sheep for the summer. So until I moved to Council Idaho and the eighth grade, that was the first time I actually went to a whole year of school.
I tell you this because I had to work hard to catch up to my classmates in Council, who were way above average, as it turned out. I had no parents, but that was not as much of a disadvantage as you might think. I ran away from my stepfather and birth mother at age eleven and convinced a step relative to hide my sister and I. Long story short, this was accomplished, and my sister and I were farmed out to other step-relatives. That was another nightmare we will not go into. A school teacher from Council knew of my predicament and managed to get me away from these people just as I was ready to flee again and move me to Council, where I stayed with them for three years. I then moved into the town Doctors home during my junior year in high school. By the time I graduated, I had become an A-average student, been a class president, a two-time editor of the school paper, captain of an undefeated football team, and on the Student Council. So a fairly successful transition!
While in college, I ran out of money; even though I was working in the woods for Boise Cascade summers by then, it was not enough. Doctor Edwards was planning on putting me through college, but I, for some reason, had not figured on that, so since there was a draft, I took a series of tests and qualified for a guaranteed posting in aviation. I selected the Marines because you could get a four-year posting, whereas the Air Force wanted six. I did not like the navy uniform or serving at sea, so the Marines won. A day into boot camp and I was kicking my ass for that decision! But glad I did it afterward!
I made it through aviation electronics school and was assigned to work on EA6A Grumman Intruders, a computer warfare aircraft. I wound up in VMCJ-1, two tours in Nam in what was called Linebacker II operations out of Da Nang. I also spent a lot of time in Japan and the Philippines, so not all work and no play. After four years, I got out of the Marines as a Sgt. and returned to school. Got factory trained by GM, got rated as a Delco Tech, and Master Mechanic with an Advanced Engine System degree. Got my smog license and specialized in five-gas analysis on a dyno! Mr. Pratt probably rolled over in his grave to find out I actually made a living with physics and chemistry! I did that for the same company for 29 years as their lead tech, shop foreman, and service manager. I then went to work for a group of five Bobcat dealerships as a service manager and sometimes shop foreman when needed. I retired after a six-year stint.
Since then, I have written a published novel called Shipp; The Alien Wars of Earth. I am now writing a sequel. I write a blog, called the Love Chronicles, which a lot of you probably wish I did not as I am a political activist, or at least think I am! I guess telling you I write a blog is superfluous as you are reading it now!
But I tell all of you this to demonstrate that if an old Marine with no big-name college degrees can look at a man and immediately see the liar, the immoral person, the thief, the cheat, and the fact that he is a narcissistic egomaniac, you my audience should also easily see this! I should not even have to name this person; every one of you should know exactly who I am talking about!
The failure of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to build an international coalition to combat the coronavirus is a lasting failure! The damage to America’s standing, influence, and power in the world by weakening the system of partnerships and alliances the country has created and relied on for decades may take many decades to repair. Since the start of his presidency, Trump has abandoned multiple treaties and agreements, undermined the credibility of U.S. defense agreements, bullied and belittled allies, and kissed the asses of dictators who threaten both our allies and the United States. And now he is running for President again with multiple criminal investigations going on! Including incitement to violence against our own government, which you can hear with your own ears if you look for it! Tried to have a legitimate election overthrown; again, you can hear him with your own ears if you just spent five minutes looking for it. I could go on, but I will leave you with this last tidbit, and I will shut up. There was multiple investigations into illegal voting during this last Presidential election. Most of them were sponsored by the GOP. None found anything. As a matter of fact, when more votes were found, they were for Biden, not Trump, and this from GOP-driven investigations in Arizona! Even Trump’s attorney general stated there was no election fraud that would have even attributed minutely to a different outcome!
Pay attention to the speeches even now being given by Trump because, again, the truth is an elusive critter in his world. Do you really want this man to be your guy?
Your going to hear the big lie repeated by Trump and his supporter’s ad nauseam as the presidential election gets nearer! So we need to start addressing what it is, and how it is being used!
A big lie is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth, used especially as a propaganda technique. The German expression was coined by Adolf Hitler when he dictated his book Mein Kampf to describe the use of a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.”.
According to historian Jeffrey Herf, the Nazis used the idea of the original big lie to turn sentiment against Jews and justify the Holocaust. Herf maintains that Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Party actually used the big lie technique that they described – and that they used it to turn long-standing antisemitism in Europe into mass murder. Herf further argues that the Nazis’ big lie was their depiction of Germany as an innocent, besieged land striking back at “international Jewry“, which the Nazis blamed for starting World War I. Nazi propaganda repeatedly claimed that Jews held power behind the scenes in Britain, Russia, and the United States. It further spread claims that the Jews had begun a war of extermination against Germany and used these to assert that Germany had a right to annihilate the Jews in self-defense.
In the 21st century, the term has been applied to attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 U.S. presidential election by Donald Trump and his allies, specifically the false claim that the election was stolen through massive voter and electoral fraud. The scale of the claims resulted in Trump supporters attacking the United States Capitol.[3][4] Later reports indicate that Trump knew he had lost the election while promoting the narrative.[5][6][7][8] Scholars say that constant repetition in many different media is necessary for the success of the big lie technique, as is a psychological motivation for the audience to believe the extreme assertions. (Sourced through Wikipedia)
Two days before the Jan. 6 insurrection, Tucker Carlson sounded like a man finished with Donald Trump.
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” Carlson, Fox News’s biggest mouth, said, adding, “I hate him passionately.” Then, musing on Trump’s catastrophic presidency, he said, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”
At least that’s what Carlson said privately to colleagues in text messages. Publicly, Carlson continued to do what he had done for years — promote Trump’s lies, ardently defend the man he deeply despised, and keep Fox’s prevarication (lying) mill churning with American democracy being the true victim! This has been reported by many different news sources, but what really capped it all off is that many of Fox News people have had what they said privately about Trump exposed in court. They knew there was no election fraud and that Trump was lying! But they kept up the façade because they knew it was what their audience wanted, and they were afraid to lose in the ratings. So they lied and then lied some more. So by any definition, Fox News has never reported actual news. They report sensationalist falsehoods to bolster their audience share; they have never bothered with facts. I repeat, never bothered with facts!
Out of all of the investigations, the big lie spawned, none found anything that would even come close to changing the election outcome. In the recount done by Arizona, for example, sponsored by the GOP, even more votes were found for Biden. Of course Fox, or GOP politicians never told you that, did they?
Trump claimed that 85 billion in perfectly fine equipment had been left for the Taliban in our withdrawal from Afghanistan. $83 billion was the total amount of money Congress had appropriated during the war to a fund supporting the Afghan security forces. Only part of this funding was for equipment. We did leave about 7 billion in equipment, but most of that was rendered inoperable before we left. Trump lied, as usual.
Trump claimed his administration “filled up” the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but it has now been “virtually drained” by the Biden administration. It actually contained fewer barrels of crude when Trump left office in early 2021 than when he took office in 2017. Biden did use some to mitigate prices at the pump, but it still is the largest oil reserve of any country on the planet!
Trump also claimed that no president had ever sought or received $1 for our country from China until he came along. In reality, the US has had tariffs on China for more than two centuries! Also, American importers, not Chinese exporters, make the actual tariff payments – and study after study during Trump’s presidency found that Americans were bearing the cost of the tariffs. Trump lied back then, and he is still lying. Is anyone really surprised?
His claim that we are worried about a minuscule amount of sea rise in 300 years when we should be worried about nuclear weapons is a crock. Of course, we, as a people and as a govt., are concerned about nuclear weapons. Sea rise, however, is going to be way more than he predicted, and it is rising now, not in 300 years. But the man lies, has always lied, no surprise!
There isn’t anything factual about his statements about the drug problem in China. They are more rigid in their law enforcement across the board then we are, but they do not have immediate trials and execute drug offenders on the same day! They also have a large problem with drug abuse, just like we do. Trump just reached into his magic bag of lies for that statement too!
He completely misconstrued the facts about the missile that landed in Poland; he did not get any of that right. They do not know where it came from or that Russia was behind the launch! It is being heavily investigated at this time.
He claimed he finished the border wall but was stopped from building even more than there ever was. He did not finish, and immigrants made sport about climbing over what was built!
Trump claimed that he had to send in the national guard despite democrats’ refusal to ask for such help in places like Minnesota. Actually, a democratic governor sent in the guard 7 hours before Trump even threatened to do it. Trump had no idea what was even really happening. When Trump made this false claim in 2020, the governor activated the Guard in response to requests from officials in Minneapolis and St. Paul – cities also run by Democrats. Trump lies about everything every time he opens his mouth. Not just little errors in facts but giant lies he knows are lies.
Look, I just wanted to point out enough lies for you to get the idea that he lies about everything. The rest of the speech was no different. He said, for example, that he went for decades as President with no wars. He was only President for 4 years, so how is that true? He does not even live in reality, and you want him to be back in office? I will not even get into Jan 6th, or about the election lies, or his trying to force people to do his bidding to stay in office, and yet you have not learned yet how dangerous this man is. Even Fox and others have finally come around to an OMG realization when it comes to Trump!
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