Answering a tsunami of objections watering down the Social Security Zombie reveal; influential congressman and serious journalist start talking treason; and Europe is on the war mania chopping block.
"Now time grows short. History will not allow the people of Shem additional centuries, or even decades, to come to their senses and realize what is going on. Just as they have been victims of massacres and genocides for centuries, the people of Shem now face the determination of the Canaanites to exterminate them utterly and finally. a goal they hope to achieve by the end of the millenium."
For those who understand that the undertaking at hand is an entire restructure of the Western World, and with those same understanding that Israel also has had its belly full of NeoCon semi-woke types, those will understand that Israel also has no choice other than to change its tune and fall in line with the entire Restructure Program being pushed by the Trump administration.
Notice that the meeting is in Riyadh. Why? Convenience for one, but also because diplomatically the Saudis figure large in any 'settling down' of the Middle East situation which is most likely to figure into the terms of this comprehensive plan of normalization of relations under discussion between the United States and the Russian Federation.
Folks! Be real glad that The Camel did not win the 2024 election.
You DO know that the people of Shem are NOT the current Zionist mass-murdering, land-stealing LICE of Israel... right? Far more likely they are the Palestinians!
Says some rando on Quora. Students of Biblical history will tell you that the sons of Shem are, among others, Jews. The descendants of Ham are the Canaanites, Egyptians, etc. The descendants of Japheth are those from Asia and Europe.
‼️Prayed today for a veil of Divine protection over:
🙏President DJT and family.
🙏 Elon Musk and family
🙏Robert F. Kennedy and family
This unprecedented shake up in the NWO and domestic corruption needs God's protection from a myriad of enemies fearing exposure and ideological change.
Pray also everyday that toxic injections will all be discontinued… and that psychiatry will stop poisoning people with toxic drugs and find a better way.
If you surrender everything to Jesus, there is no need for worry. Let Him take care of everything. God's Will be done! Pray...Hope...Don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.” – Padre Pio
I’m seeing a lot of complications in people…. Even unvaccinated … in my immediate circle
The bioweapon was meant to harm people… and has been bad for a lot of people - vaccinated or unvaccinated
I believe it triggered underlying vulnerabilities in people
Cardiac troubles- multiple heart attacks in unvaccinated males
Cancers and
Autoimmune issues!
Even in people who did not get the vaccine directly
There have been a lot of problems with the vaccinated too- in my immediate circle- so many deaths and severe health problems- I’ve lost count honestly - double digits
Truth...shedding is a real phenomenon. My unvaccinated Functional physician, who fled Oregon to Tennessee because the State of Oregon was hassling him for prescribing Ivermectin, told me he dad to refuse to see vaccinated people in his practice because every time he saw one he would get mildly suck with covid symptoms. Dr Bryan Ardis has written much about this.
Agree. The Virus was a health bomb and the shots even more so. All for keeping the deep state in control. Truly evil. Payment is demanded of those responsible and those who participated in the execution of modern civilization.
MAHA will be a huge undertaking . Phase one is cleaning up the crap food and removing chemicals everywhere. BIG challenge.
Phase two is even harder. People deciding to fight their own issues regarding lifestyle . Even now there are "healthy" alternatives to eating crap , not having any exercise or outdoor pleasures, and removing the devices that they are addicted to !
Everything in moderation is a good start ( common sense) . Sounds easy...... but definitely NOT when one is addicted and brainwashed.
Remember the Mount of Transfiguration CStone? Jesus Christ had a personal conversation with Moses and Elijah. Matthew 17, After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.
#FearNot, not leastwise because #GodIsLove (Period! - ref. 1 John 4:8).
Seriously, conceptualizing the Abrahamic monotheistic G_d (and/or Allah, Elohim, Dios, Jehovah, Gott, Dieu, & Yahweh) pantheistically is THE Way, the ONLY way the Almighty #DivineProvidence CREATOR can possibly Be omnipotent, omnipresent & omniscient.
Michigan trying to be covered by solar panels, wind turbines, and CCP affiliated battery plants, has just had billions yanked from their Green Agenda and I couldn’t be happier.
And Arizona! On another positive note, have not seen a single “forced change” bus (all white, no markings except that term on the left front) on the interstates between CA and AZ. And a Jewish Family Services “serving the migrants” NGO had to shut down because they haven’t had a single client since Trump took office. Winning!
I’m still seeing the big, black coach buses (with no insignia) leaving the “data warehouse” (under construction, but a great location to set up USAID cots indoors) and going back and forth to the airport.
There are about half dozen patents for free zero point energy devices that would be rolled out if the inventors were not afraid of being shot by the deep state.
Well, solar concentrations USED to be located in the Southwest until they started spraying the crap to "dim" the sun......3 out of ever 4-5 days.....for YEARS!
And to think that even so called conservatives have known about this and still done nothing is reason enough to throw all of them out of office! And then charges should be filed against them for willfully turning a blind eye against the very people they are supposed to be serving! This is absolutely incredible! Corruption, fraud, and likely some treason thrown in the mix!!!
Being elected and sent to Washington, DC is like smoking crack cocaine. It is such a corrupting environment, many well intentioned people go there only to be spoiled by all the perqs and before they even know it, they've become swamp creatures themselves, more interested in just staying there than they are about doing the job we elected them to do. Major reform is needed so that if you are elected, you view it as a sacrificial time in your life of which you hope to get through as quickly as possible then return home to live under the laws you helped to pass.
Unfortunately, agreeing to sacrificial time is not very common and setting up a system where this is the contract for elected officials is going to take a few more years of us being one nation under God. We’ve been one nation under greed for a long time there’s no sacrifice when you’re greedy
Don'cha mean One Nation under a ZIOKLEPTOCRACY? Everyone seems to think this is just bureaucrats doing what bureaucrats do. I posit this is/was part of THE LONG PLAN to castrate America economically and fold it into the global feudal technocracy.
As in all the big crime families............. gotta get the little fish to help fry the big ones . The real top guns often find a way to stay free . We all know the big names ....... so will be interesting to see how it evolves.
I am very sure that secure phones are all on overload at this point .
and bank accounts for dead people can remain active - my wife has a friend who has been collecting SS payments to her dead mother for years - as long as she has signature authority on the account she can spend as she likes - so the comment about payments to dead people that were under 100 yrs. is probably a bigger problem
And be ready to counter the cries of it being an "undue hardship". So far Trump 2.0 has been unfazed by the predictable counterattacks. Finally we have some "authorities" with big balz doing what they should have always been doing. Never thought I'd see it. Desire for vengeance, when righteous, is not a bad thing, it's the only thing that works. Trump, Tulsi, RFK Jr, Kash, Bhattacharya all have personal vendettas, and thank God that they do. Otherwise, they'd cave, as we're so used to seeing.
Agree. I am all for massive retribution and vengeance.
Somehow, our corrupt obstructionist courts/judges need to be sidelined... the SCOTUS is weak... due to traitor liberals and several coward conservatives.
My dad passed in Nov 2023 and our joint bank accounts still remain open with his name still on it (because I'm lazy?). However, the whole "not stopping dead people payments" thing seems strange to me since he received his SS direct deposit a week later, but then it was taken back with the note as "deceased" the NEXT day! I didn't even have time to report his death so I wonder who did? Funeral home? The same thing happened with my Mom in 2013, except she never even got her next direct deposit after she passed. Again, I never told the SSA that she passed. I do believe it happens that they pay dead people, but I wonder why/how they knew about my two cases and stopped the payments immediately.
Deb, the funeral home is supposed to notify SS. Death certificates in Alabama are sent to the funeral home for the family to pick up. I just did 2 years this coming May for my brother who passed away.
My husband will be 90 in Sept! So I don’t need a extra load to prove he is alive since he has dementia too. Caregiving is not made easy!
I am so sick about the fraud and waste in the SS. How easy would it be to figure someone 369 years old is not alive? I’m in total agreement to fix the issue. See SS is not broke! Stop the fraud now!
Thanks again Jeff for the news as it is. So grateful DOGE is doing the job right.
And the SS Admin comes after the money once they know. My sister had to pay back her husband's SS the month after he died. Of course, she reported that he was deceased and they sent the $$ anyway.
I can't imagine how that woman would repay IF it gets reported!
I found out someone I knew didn't report his mother's death. So the checks kept coming. Wonder why the IRS didn't pursue the "recipients" on unpaid taxes. Social security counts as income and taxes have to be paid even tho when you worked you paid tax on the amount deducted as did your employer. So your Social Security money is being taxed twice. As far as the agency saying not "ALL" of deceased are still receiving checks is so much bull. If there is not a died date SOMEONE is getting the checks. The whole system reeks of corruption and incompetence. DEI hires are only a small part of the problem. Gross neglect of duty, incompetence and lack of morals (stealing is a crime) as well as no work ethic. It is continued because Congress as a whole is too lazy to do their jobs as trustees of the taxpayers money. No consequences. No accountability. The time for it to stop is now. GOD keeps HIS promise! Let HIM do HIS work. HE uses who HE will.
It essentially adds up to social security and tax fraud. So those still collecting money on their dead family or acquaintances are just as much part of the swamp or at least an accessory to a crime. We get audited for not reporting income on a 500. ebay sale! Just crazy.
You are wrong about taxes on Social Security. If it is under a certain amount, you don’t have to file a return. I know because I took care of my parents the last few years of their life and we didn’t have to file taxes because their Social Security checks were so low.
It is tax fraud for most of us. You have to earn 24K or less (or it was last year-just about the actual amount of the SS checks) and between that and 54K you get taxed more than normal income (close to 30%) and over 54K it is taxed even more (though I don't know how much). Point actually being, the money was already taxed, so it should not be again, I don't care how much you make.
I don't understand this inability to track a disbursement just because the TAS field was blank. Even if you don't know the ostensible reason for the payment, you obviously know the bank account to which the payment was transferred, and where it went after that.
Follow the money, figure the "justification" after you find out where it went.
This comes from Catherine Austin Fitts. She lays it out quite well in her work. She was an advocate of Trump, but isn't a partisan and points out the realities no matter what they may be.
What I find to be crazy, is believing these technocratic broligarchs, the very people who openly talk about how badly they want to surveille people and keep us safe, who want mRNA in all of us, who want brainchips, etc etc, are more sane than the "crazy lady" you refer to. Even more crazy, thinking they are the heroes we have been waiting for.
After thinking about it, the Musketeers and Trump, or should I say Robin Hood and his Merrymen, are the biggest heroes to the people since America became America the beautiful.
States like Crimeorado doled out millions in Federal dollars to fraudulent Unemployment Claims Due to CoVid19; then whined and hired more investigators, then likely edged up their own State rates on employers when able. How much of all this free cash goes straight to criminals with political connections in the know? Like Pelosi stock trades these career crooks know how to get ahead of the bags of cash heading their way --another means to launder and fund more grift and elect grifters to keep shoveling cash off the gravy train.
In actual fact; Gay, Billionaire, libertarianish, Jewish Gov. Polis declared the emergency order to get out of work (both non-critical & non-essential; legalese) workers the Unemployment funds they needed ASAP in April 2020. Then the Federal $$$ didn't show up for over a YEAR, and by July 2021 i had 2 former employees that i called asking if they'd received payment or at least a redetermination letter from CO Dept of Labor, because I HAD...but neither one got a cent of the $$$ paid out...so one could ask, if they cared to, "Where the Fk did it go???!" The State conveniently asked Employers to NOT Contest these re-determined cases as they would not apply to our rates anyway (being Fed $$$). If you contest it, we can find in FAVOR of the worker AND will THEN raise your UI Rate!!! EXTORTION and GRAFT right out in the open on a large enough scale to enrich plenty of Democult Party Pals millions!
I’m getting strong “Say Anything” vibes from the SSA story…how many people are profiting off of dead people and government incompetence? Too. Many. And what are their motives? Enriching themselves or others? Creating an illegal voter base? It ends with DOGE. Thank goodness for Big Ballz et al 🤣.
Of course there's no rush to fix this as it is how illegals are able to get jobs! I was present when the illegal status of a worker was discovered. He said he could be back the next day with a new name and SSN. I do not doubt it.
A few weeks ago I heard on a podcast that about 20% of construction workers in the US are undocumented. (https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-qzwiq-2389cb97) I asked a guy I know who works in construction, and he estimated that among nonunion operations it's more like 40%.
@(fellow) Taxpayer- My BIL bought an old vineyard in the panhandle of Florida complete with house. He's been renovating the house and building outbuildings. About a year ago the workers started disappearing. Turns out they were leaving Florida because of DeSantis' threats of being deported. He said contractors can't find workers so a lot of projects in the state are at a standstill or grossly slowed. Time to get the welfare cheats out to work.
@Angela- I've been saying this for YEARS. Put the welfare cheats to work. If they do anything to sabotage the jobs in order to be fired, they lose any future social services help.
The fact is that illegal immigrants aren’t needed for anything. Send them back to their homes where they are needed. When they came across the border illegally, they became criminals.
Mmmm not true. I work in landscaping and can with 100% certainty testify that no robot will ever be able to do it. And regardless of what you think of illegals (who are highly represented in the landscaping/nursery trades; I myself would prefer more citizens to do their jobs (I mean, I did, for many years))--it is an insult to the nuances of good work (as opposed to slop) to imagine that a robot can replace a human and all his dexterity, thought, muscle memory, ability to modify processes in nono-seconds, years of accumulated experience leading to knowledge no programmer could ever insert into some chipped brain.
I hate that people think this is a realistic and positive option.
See, to me it starts with de-skilling and specialization of labor. The more you "idiot proof" jobs, and the more you confine them to an extremely narrow range of responsibilities, the more you devalue them and the people who do them. Honestly? It speaks of low self (as in, the self as a member of the human race, creation of God, etc) esteem. That you have so little reverence for the complexity and abilities of the working human animal. Even in an example such as...okay, probably everyone thinks their work is "more nuanced and complex" than a grocery-store cashier's. But when you have essentially turned the cashier into a human conveyor belt, OF COURSE you think a machine should be doing this work. But if people can just remember (or imagine) a few decades ago, the cashier needed to be much more than a human conveyor belt. Especially in smaller stores, where they were/are required to wear more hats than just 'cashier.' Greeter, inventory taker, stocker, receiver, sandwich maker, fill-in product orderer...
Additionally, I think this idea comes from there being no real growth path. If the job is so de-skilled that there is nothing the worker can do to acquire the skills of the next levels up, well, again--the job is devalued, the person doing it is seen as an ambitionless moron. "It would be a kindness, to put a robot in their place...." people say.
And I get it, the argument is: "well the genie [of de-skilling] is out of the bottle, ya can't go back!"
But I disagree.
(Sorry for long reply this is kind of a hobby-horse of mine.)
But what percent of people employed in agriculture are illegals? That's a bigger question for me than what percent of illegals are employed in agriculture.
This is probably how they will push it, though. Trump is already demanding the use of ID to vote (which I agree with), but they will be pushing for digital ID soon. And that one is the deal-breaker for me, if they do it.
Remember, Elon is all about Neurolink. And they are moving toward a Chinese model.
At a local DMV, witnessed non-English speaking males being issued their "real IDs" while I had to amass a huge amount on residency and financial data before they would even let me stand in a (different) line. Ludicrous, and infuriating. Same DMV where, while renewing my DL, overheard the DVM employees tell the "migrants" not to "worry about" the citizenship questions on the voter registration page. Truth. There are about 6-8 computer terminals, all in a fairly small space. Everyone overheard.
This sounds very similar to Athens, Alabama… A lot of non-English-speaking Haitians were in the DMV getting their real ID/licenses before Trump came in. 💩💩💩
The SSA has no problem at all cutting off payments to deceased persons. In several family and friend situations I’ve known of, the family is required to report the death immediately and the payment stops immediately. Not even one extra month is paid. So it appears that they are efficient when they want to be.
We reported the death of my 96 year old father-in-law and SS accidentally made 1 extra payment. We didn’t even have to call them, because a day later the payment was removed from his account. We do wonder if they then use his SS number in other ways, which we won’t ever know, so his number can join the zombies and vote for years and years and facilitate fraud in other ways. Someone knows what they are doing to abuse the system, so I can t wait until DOGE gets to the bottom of the corruption and shuts it down. I want real prison time to extend up the line of all that fraud.
Same thing happened to me after my mother died. The funeral home obtained the death certificate and the government was notified. She died at the end of December and I guess a January payment was already in process. They yanked it back at lightning speed. I assumed it was standard practice for the funeral home to take care of that, but maybe the one I use is more honest than others? 🤷♀️
I don’t understand that, they did the same with my FIL. Died the last day of the month, took the whole check back. Like he didn’t have any expenses that month?? Probably the most expensive month of his life.
My thoughts exactly! Plus you have to wait until the second month after you sign up for SS before you start receiving them. So they screw us out of two months!
Yup - and if you received payments after the time of death, you're responsible for paying that money back. The payments aren't likely the big issue here - the use of bad SSNs for other purposes is gonna be the big one.
I said the same thing when my mom passed. I called to make sure payments stopped and that was next business day after she passed and she was already off! It’s fast when they want it to be
They also have no problem denying and delaying disability claims for people who actually need that assistance and truly can't work. Make them fight the system for years before giving in, and many people die by the time they are approved! It is a disgusting system. And the amount people on SS get per month is a slap in the face for a lifetime of paying into said system. Burn them all to the ground!!
You also can not get SS Disability payment for the first 5 months that you are disable. I have no clue why the first 5 months is any different than the rest of the time. Though I was disable for 19 months, they only paid back to 14 months. Pathetic.
Yep my husband passed in hospice on December 23. By January 2nd, SS had already notified my bank of his death and the SS already had the payment changed to nothing for him and my 16 year olds amount changed from a child with disabled parent to a minor death benefit (which is less money than the disability, make it make sense!) but for some reason, I have to have a phone call to collect my $250 one time survivor benefit after already being on a call to make the appointment for the call to get my $250 one time survivor benefit. Make it make sense! How dang hard can it be to make a $250 one time deposit when they clearly know he’s deceased?!!! Make it make sense PLEASE!!!
SB, I’m so sorry for your loss and the added stress of dealing with this insane bureaucracy! It’s infuriating that this kind of treatment of American citizens has gone on for so long while the SSA that we’ve all paid in to is being robbed blind. Prayers for you. 🙏
SB I'm sorry for your loss. May your husband rest in peace and may perpetual light shine upon him. May Our Lord comfort you and give you strength to deal with the system.
Musk needs to look into Obama's use of a stolen Connecticut social security number. It was originally assigned to someone born in 1890 and living in CT on March 28, 1977. Obama was fifteen years old and in school in Hawaii. If he had a social security number, it would have begun with the numbers 575 or 576, not 042 like he is using. The 042 number appears on hsi 2009 tax filing.
Thanks for pointing this out, I was wondering who the "past president' was who was using a deceased individuals SS#. However I have read before that SS# of deceased persons can be recycled, i wonder if this could be the case with Obama's?
Thanks. I checked this and found it to be true. The first SS#'s were distributed in 1936. I seriously cant wait until the full truth about Obama starts to leak out and when or if he will ever pay for his deception of being a legitimate American. I'd love to see him in prison
There are approximately 1 billion 9 digit combinations for Social Security numbers. Somewhere around 575 million numbers are either in use or have been retired. Absolutely NO recycling.
Open that box up again!!! When they find out they “elected” someone who lied about being a citizen, and they swallowed the bs he dished out and the media propagandized them with -MAYBE that will wake them the hell up!
Watch the Cold Case Posse video presentations that Sheriff Joe Arpaio put out during the Obama regime. I’m a graphic designer with over 30 years’ experience, so I knew the birth certificate was fraudulent from first glance, but there were tons of other doctored documents—from his Selective Services (draft) card to the photos from his high school yearbook. They invented an entire life around that guy.
I read a recent Fox article about BHO’s pres library (currently under construction in Chicago) mired in lawsuits, behind schedule, behind in payments, and DEI hires don’t know how to pour concrete. I suspect he doesn’t really want all those fraudulent documents on display anyway.
@Angela- my son had just lost his precious Beagle (really, such a precious girl) when he heard about this abuse. It rocked him to the core. I have to add, I call him St. Francis of Assisi reincarnated because even wild animals come up to him so stories like this enrage him.
Sickening. Fauci will rot in eternal hell. God knows what he did and Justice will be served. “Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offenses come.” Matt 18:7
Jesus came to the world to create a path for humanity into the realm of heaven!
He is the Alpha and the Omega, The beginning and the End. No God was formed before Him nor after Him!
“By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.”
America is $36 Trillion in Debt and the debt is growing by $2 Trillion per year. How much of the $36T was effectively stolen from American Taxpayers? This is like a thief taking out a huge home equity loan on your residence. Disbursing the loan proceeds to drug gangs, to rape, pillage, destroy your family and community. Then making you pay the home equity loan back with interest. If you don’t pay, you lose your residence. This is how you destroy the greatest nation in human history. Trump and DOGE have found the tip of iceberg. Audits, investigations, prosecutions, arrests and restitution better be starting soon. Anyone protesting this is likely part of the Thieves Cabal.
As I announced several times to large sign-carrying Democrats at yesterday’s dRUMP & Musk protest at Main & University here in #GainesvilleFlorida, #WethePeople can have a Constitutional Republic or an empire, we can’t have both.
So, with our country’s fealty to the oligarchs established (since Ray Gun!), and us supplying ordinance in two “wars,” Cocaine’s NATO proxy war agin the Russian bear, & partnering with genocidal Israel, there’s no question we’re an IMPerium in decline; in need of an “overhaul” as my friend Sam says, below.
DJT’s a symptom of the fact #TheRotsAtTheTop, he’s not the cause. That ignominious label goes to the #nefariousNewWorldOrder’s dim AND repugnant #MastersOfWar (ref. #BobDylan).
I think what Trump and Musk are doing is necessary to save a country that has been quickly spiraling out of control from the Biden administration. I think Biden, or maybe whoever his Puppet Masters were, are the monikers of Evil. Destroyed our country at every turn. Granted, I feel like some eggs will break along the way but in the long run the US needed a big overhaul. I would rather break a few eggs short term than wait 18 months for some "comprehensive" study to be completed and then action never taken.
For those that are being fired, I feel your short-term pain, I was fired, or down sided, or reorganized 9 times in my life. It's part of life. Go forth and conquer and get an even better job. The government is loaded with waste. I worked for the government for 6 years and saw such waste that to me was unimaginable (I am a bit frugal by nature). And no one cared. At some point you come to the edge of the cliff and your options are diminished. The US is looking over the precipice and I'm glad we have a non-career politician that has the balls to do something about.
Witnessed that waste in the public school system. And, "we have to use up our grant by the end of the year..."--rather than, we really didn't need it all, so we'll return to sender.
I watched Hegseth, Rubio, the VP and President say their intentions are otherwise. I watched full speeches, not talking heads telling about it. These cabinet members are serious people. There’s closed door meetings happening and it’s only been a few weeks since these cabinet members gained Senate approval.
Have real world expectations and wait to see what happens.
Trump’s actions speak otherwise. Those flights from the USA to Poland are continuing and the Patriot missiles went to Ukraine from Israel on American c5 cargo planes.
Hegseth had to retract his words later. Kellog says something else
Ahhh, not again “Benny-2-T’s” — you know, ‘BennyTactless and Truculent!” 🙄
Your assessment of the Ukraine/Russia conflict has been demolished in multiple comments sections for many moons now. Do you even have the capacity to wake up from your drunken slumber and comprehend the truth of that entire debacle?
Bottom line — even if you were an only child, you still wouldn’t be your parent’s favorite! 😆
I believe he is active military and doesn’t have much time to dig into things deeply and add detailed commentary. I enjoy his point of view because he is not derogatory and rude. So, no need for personal attacks.
He has been derogatory and rude many times. Iron Horsey was worse, but I still don’t engage with people who show bad faith and who can’t hold a civil conversation.
Benjamin is the poster child of the bad faith commenter.
He makes outrageous claims meant to emotionally manipulate people with no basis or support. He flat out lies about facts. He celebrates the slaughter of other humans as he has done countless times regarding Russians and Palestinians. He defames people and calls them names with reckless abandon (he has called Jeff Childers a liar numerous times). Despite nearly everything he has said about the Ukraine War now being proven false, he has never acknowledged any of it or (heaven-forbid) apologized.
He is not a Christian, and he's a foreigner who immigrated here (an Israeli Jew) who has no stake in this country, no allegiance, and simply sees it as vehicle to do the bidding of his ethnic clan. Yet he attempts to lecture us on how we need to behave. He tries to use emotional manipulation to goad people into doing what he wants. He makes no attempt at rational persuasion but simply attempts to inflame people. In short, he's a deceptive sociopath.
He was crowing a few weeks ago about now that Trump cancelled the vax requirement for visas and that his parents could now come here. No thanks, stay in Israel where they belong. We don't need people who raised such a dishonest hack in this country.
So sick of this garbage and people like him need to be called out.
That’s the takeaway you have? Reenlistment bonuses to the worst paid and highest risk jobs in our government? The one job where they literally own you? Reenlistment numbers have been down for years. Enlisted pay is absolute crap and can’t support a family. But that’s the “bloat” you think is important? Checkout a military pay scale chart and get back to me.
Haha! You must have missed the strings (chains? 😂) attached to those $s until a peace deal is reached. Sorry 2N’s, but your criticism is a tad short sighted IMHO.
Reaction is always slower than action. Trump had four years to set the table and now, no one can keep up with his furious pace. It’s fun to watch the Chinese fire drill. If the elite EU-7 really wanted peace, they would have it. Why would they? The USA was throwing billions at Ukraine to weaken Russia. Just one problem, Russia got stronger economically.
Gonna respectfully dispute the statement “reaction is always slower than action.” Quite the opposite is true, as in a “knee jerk reaction.” It’s a reasoned RESPONSE that’s rightfully slower than actions which are provocative. In Addictions Counseling, “triggering” is a key concept. People generally would prefer negative attention to no attention at all. “Nobody puts Baby in a corner,” right” (ref. #DirtyDancing).
To restrain from reacting when someone is poking at you verbally, trying to “trigger” you into anger, shame, guilt, and/or the most common attitude of defensiveness, it’s much more difficult to maintain “self-control” and not overreact.
And lastly, Mark Twain, the Lincoln of our literature, gave us this koan-like Truth: “All generalizations are false…including this one.”
I’m so glad all of this is coming to light…but, I hope something comes of it. Tax payers deserve a refund for all of this waste, fraud and abuse. And the treasonous behaviors need to be held to account and punished. It’s maddening!!
I don't want a refund. That $ is long gone. I want accountability. I want to see heads roll and jails filled with people that knowingly didn't enter in correct information or issued drivers licenses to illegals or hacked systems and sold SS numbers. Only then will I hope that the systems in place will work. The checks and balances that they say were installed to catch this crap failed. What is also eye opening is the oversight committee. What were they doing. It makes me doubt any and all elected Republicans/Conservatives. Its like they are all in on it.
@Heather- I want both. Chances are I'm older than you and am running out of time. I want to enjoy a little cushion while watching the criminal trials and sentencings. :D
Agreed! CA registers illegals to vote when they get their state sponsored driver’s licenses. Once they have their ID’s, it’s easy peasy to sign up for Medicaid and all sorts of other freebies. Immigration attorney on the news today (she is trying to help the ones legally working here to get past the roadblocks) said CA spent $9.8B for health care for illegals. I missed over what time frame, but like Jeff says, it really doesn’t matter.
I think they are "all in on it" because they understand that so much of the spending they authorize is goods and services bought on credit -- we pay for it with our Federal Reserve charge card and we can raise our own credit limit any time. If it's funny money, who cares how much funny money goes missing? It's easier to kick the can down the road, budget after budget after budget. 🤔
It's not stealing from taxpayers and their children and grandchildren... if they know that no one will ever be able to repay it.
Patronage, graft, even criminality are Age old ASSpects of socio-political dynamism #NEARLY sanctified in Judeo-Christian mythology since Yahweh favored Abel’s tribute/offering over Cain’s.
Diogenes searched vainly for an “Honest Man.”
And the Romans lamented “Who will guard the guards?”
Hypocrisy is the tribute Virtue pays to Vice.
And, to again quote the sagacious Twain: It’s easier to fool people than to convince them (us!) they have been fooled.”
#WeThePeople have been fooled again (and again & again) by the #PowersThatBe (ref. #DavidHalberstam) about epochal events “for the greater good” THEY (the “Big Club’s” oligarchs) SAY. Our default position is rightly thus, distrust.
Trust is a slow-growing vine which is (too) easily undercut.”
Yet, paradoxically, we should always trust the liar to lie and the thief to steal.
Caveat Emptor (Buyer beware). Don’t buy their bipartisan BS. They’re the Machiavellian foxes “guarding” our egg-producing henhouse of “domestic tranquility” since tHEy over-extended the White supremacist concept of #ManifestDestiny to the whole of the planet in 1898 with the #FalseFlagAttack on she battleship Maine to spark the Spanish-American War.
See, War pays plenty to the Machiavellian Macho-minded excitement addicted corporations while Peace only offers a dull “domestic tranquility” for “The Old Folks at Home” (ref. Stephen Foster).
(Whew! I gotta stop.) What was the question anyway?
Bottom line, amigos: Strive to remain healthily skeptical and eschew Soul-Corroding cynicism.
We need to set up a deserted island named “The island of Dr Fauci” and put Fauci and the rest there to be used for all kinds of experiments and testing on humans. On the island, no one will hear them scream.
We should offer whoever thinks this " ... it's too small to worry about." the opportunity to prove they really believe it by letting them personally cover the "small" amounts. I'm sure they won't miss it from their checking account(s).
“…how confident are they that deceased people under 100 aren’t still receiving payments?” I wonder if this is another way they diverted money to the dnc, or some other pet dei project.
ERRATA
— Good morning C&C! I already fixed the date 📆🤦♂️
I never noticed… really could care less! I’m here for SCHOOL!!!
I understand what you mean, but I prefer to say I am here for knowledge. “School” represents government propaganda.
school…’a place where students learn and gain knowledge and skills’ !
bruh
its just that one superfoods hype website
couldn't care less is what you mean.....
Chill…you need a serious hobby!!
Or, I *could* care less, but barely.
See above!!
A mis-date is not an issue for most of us! Thank you for getting out your excellent substack every day!
"Now time grows short. History will not allow the people of Shem additional centuries, or even decades, to come to their senses and realize what is going on. Just as they have been victims of massacres and genocides for centuries, the people of Shem now face the determination of the Canaanites to exterminate them utterly and finally. a goal they hope to achieve by the end of the millenium."
The Curse of Canaan
Eustace Mullins 1987
For those who understand that the undertaking at hand is an entire restructure of the Western World, and with those same understanding that Israel also has had its belly full of NeoCon semi-woke types, those will understand that Israel also has no choice other than to change its tune and fall in line with the entire Restructure Program being pushed by the Trump administration.
Notice that the meeting is in Riyadh. Why? Convenience for one, but also because diplomatically the Saudis figure large in any 'settling down' of the Middle East situation which is most likely to figure into the terms of this comprehensive plan of normalization of relations under discussion between the United States and the Russian Federation.
Folks! Be real glad that The Camel did not win the 2024 election.
You DO know that the people of Shem are NOT the current Zionist mass-murdering, land-stealing LICE of Israel... right? Far more likely they are the Palestinians!
https://www.quora.com/Is-Shem-the-ancestor-of-modern-day-Israelites
Go, Canaan, GO!!
Says some rando on Quora. Students of Biblical history will tell you that the sons of Shem are, among others, Jews. The descendants of Ham are the Canaanites, Egyptians, etc. The descendants of Japheth are those from Asia and Europe.
WERE jews... now Israel is a gaggle of Kazarian/European slime-balls.
You a big fan of the talmud?
Shem was one of Noah's sons.
That was way before Canaan.
LOL
In that day the LORD of hosts will become a beautiful crown
And a glorious diadem to the remnant of His people;
A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment,
A strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.
— Isaiah 28:5-6 NAS
‼️Prayed today for a veil of Divine protection over:
🙏President DJT and family.
🙏 Elon Musk and family
🙏Robert F. Kennedy and family
This unprecedented shake up in the NWO and domestic corruption needs God's protection from a myriad of enemies fearing exposure and ideological change.
🙏Please folks, don't forget to pray for them.
Thank you for this post. It reminded me to shift the balance from worrying to more prayer.
May Gods protection be upon them and guide their paths
Pray also everyday that toxic injections will all be discontinued… and that psychiatry will stop poisoning people with toxic drugs and find a better way.
If you surrender everything to Jesus, there is no need for worry. Let Him take care of everything. God's Will be done! Pray...Hope...Don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.” – Padre Pio
SPAM ⚠️
Include the entire Trump team. All are at risk.
Please include the whole administration, including the DOGE team, and their families! Every one of them is walking around with a target on their back.
Can anybody give me the final cause of death of Thomas Massey's wife? It was so shocking and horrible and then I felt the whole thing was dropped.
https://x.com/JulieDolanTV/status/1842501503719751735?lang=en
I’m seeing a lot of complications in people…. Even unvaccinated … in my immediate circle
The bioweapon was meant to harm people… and has been bad for a lot of people - vaccinated or unvaccinated
I believe it triggered underlying vulnerabilities in people
Cardiac troubles- multiple heart attacks in unvaccinated males
Cancers and
Autoimmune issues!
Even in people who did not get the vaccine directly
There have been a lot of problems with the vaccinated too- in my immediate circle- so many deaths and severe health problems- I’ve lost count honestly - double digits
Truth...shedding is a real phenomenon. My unvaccinated Functional physician, who fled Oregon to Tennessee because the State of Oregon was hassling him for prescribing Ivermectin, told me he dad to refuse to see vaccinated people in his practice because every time he saw one he would get mildly suck with covid symptoms. Dr Bryan Ardis has written much about this.
Agree. The Virus was a health bomb and the shots even more so. All for keeping the deep state in control. Truly evil. Payment is demanded of those responsible and those who participated in the execution of modern civilization.
MAHA will be a huge undertaking . Phase one is cleaning up the crap food and removing chemicals everywhere. BIG challenge.
Phase two is even harder. People deciding to fight their own issues regarding lifestyle . Even now there are "healthy" alternatives to eating crap , not having any exercise or outdoor pleasures, and removing the devices that they are addicted to !
Everything in moderation is a good start ( common sense) . Sounds easy...... but definitely NOT when one is addicted and brainwashed.
It's the spike protein. It is shed from the vaccinated and also part of the covid infection. You can detox from the spike protein. https://imahealth.org/natural-ways-to-increase-autophagy-and-detox-spike-proteins-after-covid-infection-vaccination/
Praying without ceasing for God’s will to be done.
Everyday 🙏♥️
God’s hand is all over this. He is sovereign. Nothing can stop His will.
Thank you for the reminder. This is a great STARTER list, and I do pray for them regularly, but should do it DAILY!
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The ‘remnant’ of His people. How that stands out to me.
“Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.”
Romans 11:5
May His Remnant grow and prosper for we are attacked on all sides.
Do you remember how big the ‘remnant’was that was saved in the flood?
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The ‘remnant’ of the military-aged men who made it out of Egypt AND into the promised land?
2. Joshua and Caleb.
The remnant truly will be small.
And that is very concerning to me.
Now would be a good time to accept the free gift of Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Praise to the Almighty God for giving us a way to freedom in His world.
Even Moses and Aaron didn’t make the cut.
Remember the Mount of Transfiguration CStone? Jesus Christ had a personal conversation with Moses and Elijah. Matthew 17, After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.
CStone, I can't locate that, where does it state how big/small this new remnant will be?
#FearNot, not leastwise because #GodIsLove (Period! - ref. 1 John 4:8).
Seriously, conceptualizing the Abrahamic monotheistic G_d (and/or Allah, Elohim, Dios, Jehovah, Gott, Dieu, & Yahweh) pantheistically is THE Way, the ONLY way the Almighty #DivineProvidence CREATOR can possibly Be omnipotent, omnipresent & omniscient.
#Ty4Reading
Lew A “Lincoln” Welge
#CREATORS (Conspiracy Realist Educator Activist Truther Organizer Reader Socializer)
Good, but much more poetic in KJV.
Musk and his Musketeers will have a field day with the SS data! Can't wait.
Michigan trying to be covered by solar panels, wind turbines, and CCP affiliated battery plants, has just had billions yanked from their Green Agenda and I couldn’t be happier.
YAY!!! THEN ILLINOIS TOO?!?!
And Arizona! On another positive note, have not seen a single “forced change” bus (all white, no markings except that term on the left front) on the interstates between CA and AZ. And a Jewish Family Services “serving the migrants” NGO had to shut down because they haven’t had a single client since Trump took office. Winning!
I’m still seeing the big, black coach buses (with no insignia) leaving the “data warehouse” (under construction, but a great location to set up USAID cots indoors) and going back and forth to the airport.
Jews are fun, aren't they?
much like melanoma.
I hope Washington state is next!
Michigan? You mean Michifornia.
Tlaibville?
We have a big problem with obstetrical Medicaid fraud in the Witchmer state .
Those aren’t Californians. You will know them by their mating call, “Is the chicken local?”
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Why would we buy chicken from any other state???
As a former Michigander I was also happy to see that!
There are about half dozen patents for free zero point energy devices that would be rolled out if the inventors were not afraid of being shot by the deep state.
Wind could make sense in some places but not solar. The most intense solar concentrations in the world are in southern AZ and CA DESERTs.
And in Israel, and in Mongolia of all places.
I used to work for a solar field company.
Well, solar concentrations USED to be located in the Southwest until they started spraying the crap to "dim" the sun......3 out of ever 4-5 days.....for YEARS!
COME ON RFK JR!!!!!!! YANK THE FUNDING!!!!
$4.7 Trillion untraceable from Treasury and the Pentagon has not passed an audit for 9 years. It’s unbelievable when you add in the SSN debacle.
And to think that even so called conservatives have known about this and still done nothing is reason enough to throw all of them out of office! And then charges should be filed against them for willfully turning a blind eye against the very people they are supposed to be serving! This is absolutely incredible! Corruption, fraud, and likely some treason thrown in the mix!!!
Being elected and sent to Washington, DC is like smoking crack cocaine. It is such a corrupting environment, many well intentioned people go there only to be spoiled by all the perqs and before they even know it, they've become swamp creatures themselves, more interested in just staying there than they are about doing the job we elected them to do. Major reform is needed so that if you are elected, you view it as a sacrificial time in your life of which you hope to get through as quickly as possible then return home to live under the laws you helped to pass.
Term limits!
But guess who would have to vote them in?
Talk about voting Conflict of Interest!
Unfortunately, agreeing to sacrificial time is not very common and setting up a system where this is the contract for elected officials is going to take a few more years of us being one nation under God. We’ve been one nation under greed for a long time there’s no sacrifice when you’re greedy
Don'cha mean One Nation under a ZIOKLEPTOCRACY? Everyone seems to think this is just bureaucrats doing what bureaucrats do. I posit this is/was part of THE LONG PLAN to castrate America economically and fold it into the global feudal technocracy.
Yep... we need to wake up, as so many other countries have that expelled the CANCER.
https://rumble.com/v457fgc-jews.html
TERM LIMITS IS THE ONLY ANSWER for all the ‘lawyers’ and grifters!!
Being elected and going to Washington DC is akin to hitting the lottery.
"Being elected and sent to Washington, DC is like smoking crack cocaine."
Well, that explains a lot about AOC and those bug-eyes.
Someone said that more than 75% of them were “In It” so some deals have to be made.
As in all the big crime families............. gotta get the little fish to help fry the big ones . The real top guns often find a way to stay free . We all know the big names ....... so will be interesting to see how it evolves.
I am very sure that secure phones are all on overload at this point .
It's aways about re-election, Deb.
And getting rich while ensuring re-election.
AIPAC handles much of the bribes and extortion business...
...because it's a so-called 2-party system...
I was under the impression that payments were only made by direct deposit to one's bank or via check so why can't these be traced?
and bank accounts for dead people can remain active - my wife has a friend who has been collecting SS payments to her dead mother for years - as long as she has signature authority on the account she can spend as she likes - so the comment about payments to dead people that were under 100 yrs. is probably a bigger problem
Did you and your wife notify social security about your wife’s friend collecting her dead mother’s SS payments? Just curious.
Does your wife’s friend know that is a federal offense and she could go to prison for a long time?
I hope you reported the friend to Social Security. Anonymously, of course.
I recommend that SS cut off payments automatically when a person reaches 90.
They would then have to prove they are still kicking, and make that easy to do.
Might solve a lot of the problem, without a lot of extra work.
And be ready to counter the cries of it being an "undue hardship". So far Trump 2.0 has been unfazed by the predictable counterattacks. Finally we have some "authorities" with big balz doing what they should have always been doing. Never thought I'd see it. Desire for vengeance, when righteous, is not a bad thing, it's the only thing that works. Trump, Tulsi, RFK Jr, Kash, Bhattacharya all have personal vendettas, and thank God that they do. Otherwise, they'd cave, as we're so used to seeing.
Agree. I am all for massive retribution and vengeance.
Somehow, our corrupt obstructionist courts/judges need to be sidelined... the SCOTUS is weak... due to traitor liberals and several coward conservatives.
Proof of Life Application; a photo ID card from the local DMV?
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My dad passed in Nov 2023 and our joint bank accounts still remain open with his name still on it (because I'm lazy?). However, the whole "not stopping dead people payments" thing seems strange to me since he received his SS direct deposit a week later, but then it was taken back with the note as "deceased" the NEXT day! I didn't even have time to report his death so I wonder who did? Funeral home? The same thing happened with my Mom in 2013, except she never even got her next direct deposit after she passed. Again, I never told the SSA that she passed. I do believe it happens that they pay dead people, but I wonder why/how they knew about my two cases and stopped the payments immediately.
Deb, the funeral home is supposed to notify SS. Death certificates in Alabama are sent to the funeral home for the family to pick up. I just did 2 years this coming May for my brother who passed away.
My husband will be 90 in Sept! So I don’t need a extra load to prove he is alive since he has dementia too. Caregiving is not made easy!
I am so sick about the fraud and waste in the SS. How easy would it be to figure someone 369 years old is not alive? I’m in total agreement to fix the issue. See SS is not broke! Stop the fraud now!
Thanks again Jeff for the news as it is. So grateful DOGE is doing the job right.
And the SS Admin comes after the money once they know. My sister had to pay back her husband's SS the month after he died. Of course, she reported that he was deceased and they sent the $$ anyway.
I can't imagine how that woman would repay IF it gets reported!
I found out someone I knew didn't report his mother's death. So the checks kept coming. Wonder why the IRS didn't pursue the "recipients" on unpaid taxes. Social security counts as income and taxes have to be paid even tho when you worked you paid tax on the amount deducted as did your employer. So your Social Security money is being taxed twice. As far as the agency saying not "ALL" of deceased are still receiving checks is so much bull. If there is not a died date SOMEONE is getting the checks. The whole system reeks of corruption and incompetence. DEI hires are only a small part of the problem. Gross neglect of duty, incompetence and lack of morals (stealing is a crime) as well as no work ethic. It is continued because Congress as a whole is too lazy to do their jobs as trustees of the taxpayers money. No consequences. No accountability. The time for it to stop is now. GOD keeps HIS promise! Let HIM do HIS work. HE uses who HE will.
It essentially adds up to social security and tax fraud. So those still collecting money on their dead family or acquaintances are just as much part of the swamp or at least an accessory to a crime. We get audited for not reporting income on a 500. ebay sale! Just crazy.
You are wrong about taxes on Social Security. If it is under a certain amount, you don’t have to file a return. I know because I took care of my parents the last few years of their life and we didn’t have to file taxes because their Social Security checks were so low.
Yup, came here to say the same. I oversee my mom’s accounts and I believe if their income is under $50k they don’t need to file taxes.
It is tax fraud for most of us. You have to earn 24K or less (or it was last year-just about the actual amount of the SS checks) and between that and 54K you get taxed more than normal income (close to 30%) and over 54K it is taxed even more (though I don't know how much). Point actually being, the money was already taxed, so it should not be again, I don't care how much you make.
We no longer have to file. So yeah.
Congress is not lazy . THEY are corrupt and as such part of the "problem" .
Unfortunately most of the guilty in govt. will escape justice.
I don’t think this type of situation happens that often and honestly this isn’t the fraud that concerns me because it can’t be that many.
Those are the easy ones. As noted - it's all of the _other_ areas that a fraudulent SSN can be used that are the hard ones.
All they have to look 👀 is in the mirror 🪞
People are burning their untraceable temporary debit cards at light speed!
Swiss accts?
You can’t trace what you aren’t looking for…
I don't understand this inability to track a disbursement just because the TAS field was blank. Even if you don't know the ostensible reason for the payment, you obviously know the bank account to which the payment was transferred, and where it went after that.
Follow the money, figure the "justification" after you find out where it went.
I can't wait to hear the outrage when people learn about FASAB 56, passed under Trump, essentially creating a second black book of finances.
Johnny-O, my research tells me that program was in place long before Trump became President.
This comes from Catherine Austin Fitts. She lays it out quite well in her work. She was an advocate of Trump, but isn't a partisan and points out the realities no matter what they may be.
I think CAF is smart, but so fearful of a CBDC that she sees conspiracies everywhere. She one who says "President Musk".
They badly want to implement cbdcs, and its happening in other countries. They will destroy freedom as we know it.
Caf. lol. Crazy lady.
What I find to be crazy, is believing these technocratic broligarchs, the very people who openly talk about how badly they want to surveille people and keep us safe, who want mRNA in all of us, who want brainchips, etc etc, are more sane than the "crazy lady" you refer to. Even more crazy, thinking they are the heroes we have been waiting for.
I think that's crazy right there sir.
After thinking about it, the Musketeers and Trump, or should I say Robin Hood and his Merrymen, are the biggest heroes to the people since America became America the beautiful.
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Love ‘your’ new titles!
States like Crimeorado doled out millions in Federal dollars to fraudulent Unemployment Claims Due to CoVid19; then whined and hired more investigators, then likely edged up their own State rates on employers when able. How much of all this free cash goes straight to criminals with political connections in the know? Like Pelosi stock trades these career crooks know how to get ahead of the bags of cash heading their way --another means to launder and fund more grift and elect grifters to keep shoveling cash off the gravy train.
In actual fact; Gay, Billionaire, libertarianish, Jewish Gov. Polis declared the emergency order to get out of work (both non-critical & non-essential; legalese) workers the Unemployment funds they needed ASAP in April 2020. Then the Federal $$$ didn't show up for over a YEAR, and by July 2021 i had 2 former employees that i called asking if they'd received payment or at least a redetermination letter from CO Dept of Labor, because I HAD...but neither one got a cent of the $$$ paid out...so one could ask, if they cared to, "Where the Fk did it go???!" The State conveniently asked Employers to NOT Contest these re-determined cases as they would not apply to our rates anyway (being Fed $$$). If you contest it, we can find in FAVOR of the worker AND will THEN raise your UI Rate!!! EXTORTION and GRAFT right out in the open on a large enough scale to enrich plenty of Democult Party Pals millions!
Crimeorado! Excellent WP.
Musketeers 😂👏 I love it!
“Musk and his Musketeers!” 👏👏👏! AFAIK, you’re the first to have coined the phrase that will undoubtedly spread like the Palisades fire! Thanks JW!
The Zombies field day is going to be buried.
I’m getting strong “Say Anything” vibes from the SSA story…how many people are profiting off of dead people and government incompetence? Too. Many. And what are their motives? Enriching themselves or others? Creating an illegal voter base? It ends with DOGE. Thank goodness for Big Ballz et al 🤣.
Of course there's no rush to fix this as it is how illegals are able to get jobs! I was present when the illegal status of a worker was discovered. He said he could be back the next day with a new name and SSN. I do not doubt it.
Well those SSN got to come from somewhere. How else you going to milk the cows, pick the strawberries and mow the lawns?
A few weeks ago I heard on a podcast that about 20% of construction workers in the US are undocumented. (https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-qzwiq-2389cb97) I asked a guy I know who works in construction, and he estimated that among nonunion operations it's more like 40%.
@(fellow) Taxpayer- My BIL bought an old vineyard in the panhandle of Florida complete with house. He's been renovating the house and building outbuildings. About a year ago the workers started disappearing. Turns out they were leaving Florida because of DeSantis' threats of being deported. He said contractors can't find workers so a lot of projects in the state are at a standstill or grossly slowed. Time to get the welfare cheats out to work.
Thanks for the example. I wonder whether the welfare cheats would be half as skilled as the deported workers.
@Tax- no. But they can learn like the deported workers and will get a little ego boost along the way. Win-win.
And those newly unemployed government (worker) parasites are going to need to learn trades.
Sounds like a good secondary job for all of those IRS workers that were hired…
Hahaha! Cows are milked by robots. Lawns are mowed by robots. Strawberries are mechanically harvested. Send the illegals home.
YES and no...all the lawnmowers I see are pushed or have people riding them.
This is not a statement about illegals..Just an observation.
I am sure there are plenty of inner city unemployed who could do these jobs, but might not because they aren't as lucrative as drugs.
@Angela- I've been saying this for YEARS. Put the welfare cheats to work. If they do anything to sabotage the jobs in order to be fired, they lose any future social services help.
The fact is that illegal immigrants aren’t needed for anything. Send them back to their homes where they are needed. When they came across the border illegally, they became criminals.
Mmmm not true. I work in landscaping and can with 100% certainty testify that no robot will ever be able to do it. And regardless of what you think of illegals (who are highly represented in the landscaping/nursery trades; I myself would prefer more citizens to do their jobs (I mean, I did, for many years))--it is an insult to the nuances of good work (as opposed to slop) to imagine that a robot can replace a human and all his dexterity, thought, muscle memory, ability to modify processes in nono-seconds, years of accumulated experience leading to knowledge no programmer could ever insert into some chipped brain.
I hate that people think this is a realistic and positive option.
Robots do micro-surgery, manufacture autos, drive cars, fly airplanes...
Lol air travel--such a quality experience, lately!
People always seem to think that (automation can replace people) about everything but their own jobs 😑 Everyone else’s is replaceable.
See, to me it starts with de-skilling and specialization of labor. The more you "idiot proof" jobs, and the more you confine them to an extremely narrow range of responsibilities, the more you devalue them and the people who do them. Honestly? It speaks of low self (as in, the self as a member of the human race, creation of God, etc) esteem. That you have so little reverence for the complexity and abilities of the working human animal. Even in an example such as...okay, probably everyone thinks their work is "more nuanced and complex" than a grocery-store cashier's. But when you have essentially turned the cashier into a human conveyor belt, OF COURSE you think a machine should be doing this work. But if people can just remember (or imagine) a few decades ago, the cashier needed to be much more than a human conveyor belt. Especially in smaller stores, where they were/are required to wear more hats than just 'cashier.' Greeter, inventory taker, stocker, receiver, sandwich maker, fill-in product orderer...
Additionally, I think this idea comes from there being no real growth path. If the job is so de-skilled that there is nothing the worker can do to acquire the skills of the next levels up, well, again--the job is devalued, the person doing it is seen as an ambitionless moron. "It would be a kindness, to put a robot in their place...." people say.
And I get it, the argument is: "well the genie [of de-skilling] is out of the bottle, ya can't go back!"
But I disagree.
(Sorry for long reply this is kind of a hobby-horse of mine.)
Only 2 percent of the illegals are employed in agriculture.
Lydia, do you know how that estimate was made?
But what percent of people employed in agriculture are illegals? That's a bigger question for me than what percent of illegals are employed in agriculture.
Lydia, Source please?
And pick the blueberries, don't forget!!
As one women said "Just wait til democrats don't have any blueberries for their smoothies". What a sad day that will be.
REAL ID. 😑🙄🤔
Hard. Pass.
This is probably how they will push it, though. Trump is already demanding the use of ID to vote (which I agree with), but they will be pushing for digital ID soon. And that one is the deal-breaker for me, if they do it.
Remember, Elon is all about Neurolink. And they are moving toward a Chinese model.
Unfortunately.
At a local DMV, witnessed non-English speaking males being issued their "real IDs" while I had to amass a huge amount on residency and financial data before they would even let me stand in a (different) line. Ludicrous, and infuriating. Same DMV where, while renewing my DL, overheard the DVM employees tell the "migrants" not to "worry about" the citizenship questions on the voter registration page. Truth. There are about 6-8 computer terminals, all in a fairly small space. Everyone overheard.
This sounds very similar to Athens, Alabama… A lot of non-English-speaking Haitians were in the DMV getting their real ID/licenses before Trump came in. 💩💩💩
I believe all roads lead to phony elections...my ENTIRE ADULT LIFE!!! 😭😱😖😡
It’s a harsh realization…excited to see it fixed during our lifetime!
This^^^^
100% they do!
The SSA has no problem at all cutting off payments to deceased persons. In several family and friend situations I’ve known of, the family is required to report the death immediately and the payment stops immediately. Not even one extra month is paid. So it appears that they are efficient when they want to be.
We reported the death of my 96 year old father-in-law and SS accidentally made 1 extra payment. We didn’t even have to call them, because a day later the payment was removed from his account. We do wonder if they then use his SS number in other ways, which we won’t ever know, so his number can join the zombies and vote for years and years and facilitate fraud in other ways. Someone knows what they are doing to abuse the system, so I can t wait until DOGE gets to the bottom of the corruption and shuts it down. I want real prison time to extend up the line of all that fraud.
@Carol- my husband said the exact same thing last night: Those who run the system know how to abuse it.
Same thing happened to me after my mother died. The funeral home obtained the death certificate and the government was notified. She died at the end of December and I guess a January payment was already in process. They yanked it back at lightning speed. I assumed it was standard practice for the funeral home to take care of that, but maybe the one I use is more honest than others? 🤷♀️
My dad died at the end of September,, and his September payment was taken back!
I don’t understand that, they did the same with my FIL. Died the last day of the month, took the whole check back. Like he didn’t have any expenses that month?? Probably the most expensive month of his life.
My thoughts exactly! Plus you have to wait until the second month after you sign up for SS before you start receiving them. So they screw us out of two months!
Yup - and if you received payments after the time of death, you're responsible for paying that money back. The payments aren't likely the big issue here - the use of bad SSNs for other purposes is gonna be the big one.
It seems to me, from reports I’ve read, a certain former president is using the SS# of a dead man from Ct.
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I said the same thing when my mom passed. I called to make sure payments stopped and that was next business day after she passed and she was already off! It’s fast when they want it to be
They also have no problem denying and delaying disability claims for people who actually need that assistance and truly can't work. Make them fight the system for years before giving in, and many people die by the time they are approved! It is a disgusting system. And the amount people on SS get per month is a slap in the face for a lifetime of paying into said system. Burn them all to the ground!!
You also can not get SS Disability payment for the first 5 months that you are disable. I have no clue why the first 5 months is any different than the rest of the time. Though I was disable for 19 months, they only paid back to 14 months. Pathetic.
I know, several people in my extended circle of family and friends have experienced this 😞 It really is a travesty 😡
Yep my husband passed in hospice on December 23. By January 2nd, SS had already notified my bank of his death and the SS already had the payment changed to nothing for him and my 16 year olds amount changed from a child with disabled parent to a minor death benefit (which is less money than the disability, make it make sense!) but for some reason, I have to have a phone call to collect my $250 one time survivor benefit after already being on a call to make the appointment for the call to get my $250 one time survivor benefit. Make it make sense! How dang hard can it be to make a $250 one time deposit when they clearly know he’s deceased?!!! Make it make sense PLEASE!!!
SB, I’m so sorry for your loss and the added stress of dealing with this insane bureaucracy! It’s infuriating that this kind of treatment of American citizens has gone on for so long while the SSA that we’ve all paid in to is being robbed blind. Prayers for you. 🙏
I second your entire comment!
SB I'm sorry for your loss. May your husband rest in peace and may perpetual light shine upon him. May Our Lord comfort you and give you strength to deal with the system.
So sorry to hear of your loss.
That was my experience also. We had death certificates for my parents. Once those are created the SS payments should stop. The SSN is right there.
Musk needs to look into Obama's use of a stolen Connecticut social security number. It was originally assigned to someone born in 1890 and living in CT on March 28, 1977. Obama was fifteen years old and in school in Hawaii. If he had a social security number, it would have begun with the numbers 575 or 576, not 042 like he is using. The 042 number appears on hsi 2009 tax filing.
Thanks for pointing this out, I was wondering who the "past president' was who was using a deceased individuals SS#. However I have read before that SS# of deceased persons can be recycled, i wonder if this could be the case with Obama's?
Social security numbers are never reassigned. He has a stolen number that he has used since his mid-20s.
Thanks. I checked this and found it to be true. The first SS#'s were distributed in 1936. I seriously cant wait until the full truth about Obama starts to leak out and when or if he will ever pay for his deception of being a legitimate American. I'd love to see him in prison
It could happen. He stole our country blind.
Oh I’m sure they’ve long since issued his own new SS number, maybe shortly after Lorraine Fuddy died in that plane crash.
I suspect as soon as I started talking about it in 2009.
There are approximately 1 billion 9 digit combinations for Social Security numbers. Somewhere around 575 million numbers are either in use or have been retired. Absolutely NO recycling.
Even if they are recycled (which I don't think they are) what a COINCIDENCE that Obama got a recycled one?
Open that box up again!!! When they find out they “elected” someone who lied about being a citizen, and they swallowed the bs he dished out and the media propagandized them with -MAYBE that will wake them the hell up!
Watch the Cold Case Posse video presentations that Sheriff Joe Arpaio put out during the Obama regime. I’m a graphic designer with over 30 years’ experience, so I knew the birth certificate was fraudulent from first glance, but there were tons of other doctored documents—from his Selective Services (draft) card to the photos from his high school yearbook. They invented an entire life around that guy.
I read a recent Fox article about BHO’s pres library (currently under construction in Chicago) mired in lawsuits, behind schedule, behind in payments, and DEI hires don’t know how to pour concrete. I suspect he doesn’t really want all those fraudulent documents on display anyway.
I have a lot of articles on Obama on https://susandaniels.substack.com/
Mmm - I think they will decide being a citizen isn't "that" important.
Yeah that’s kind of my thought too 😕
Fauci didn't just torture and kill beagles. He did it to children too. Listen to RFK Jr.
https://breaking-news.ca/robert-f-kennedy-jr-confirms-that-anthony-fauci-experimented-on-tortured-and-killed-innocent-orphans/
FUNNY how PETA put furriers out of business, but didn't utter a peep about those sweet beagles.
@Angela- my son had just lost his precious Beagle (really, such a precious girl) when he heard about this abuse. It rocked him to the core. I have to add, I call him St. Francis of Assisi reincarnated because even wild animals come up to him so stories like this enrage him.
I am no fan of PETA but they have fought against animal testing in labs.
Yet we saw no outrage from the revelation about Fauci. None at all in media.
He needs to pay for his crimes
I get the impression this was before 2014. If so, his pardon is moot on such crimes.
Fauci looks very young in this
Yes, he wrote about that in his book and more…and you can see the BBC video he talked of “Guinea Pig Kids Documentary” on Youtube: https://youtu.be/wiRWbDv0obQ?si=B9JNDWx0njQhMOLt
Sickening. Fauci will rot in eternal hell. God knows what he did and Justice will be served. “Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offenses come.” Matt 18:7
Jesus came to the world to create a path for humanity into the realm of heaven!
He is the Alpha and the Omega, The beginning and the End. No God was formed before Him nor after Him!
“By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.”
I John 4:2-3 NKJV
Amen and Amen 🙏
America is $36 Trillion in Debt and the debt is growing by $2 Trillion per year. How much of the $36T was effectively stolen from American Taxpayers? This is like a thief taking out a huge home equity loan on your residence. Disbursing the loan proceeds to drug gangs, to rape, pillage, destroy your family and community. Then making you pay the home equity loan back with interest. If you don’t pay, you lose your residence. This is how you destroy the greatest nation in human history. Trump and DOGE have found the tip of iceberg. Audits, investigations, prosecutions, arrests and restitution better be starting soon. Anyone protesting this is likely part of the Thieves Cabal.
Great analogy!
And when Ft Knox is found to have no gold... KABOOM!!!! The currency, economy and markets will all crash.
(Buy some physical silver, soon!)
Buenos Dias, Leanos
As I announced several times to large sign-carrying Democrats at yesterday’s dRUMP & Musk protest at Main & University here in #GainesvilleFlorida, #WethePeople can have a Constitutional Republic or an empire, we can’t have both.
So, with our country’s fealty to the oligarchs established (since Ray Gun!), and us supplying ordinance in two “wars,” Cocaine’s NATO proxy war agin the Russian bear, & partnering with genocidal Israel, there’s no question we’re an IMPerium in decline; in need of an “overhaul” as my friend Sam says, below.
DJT’s a symptom of the fact #TheRotsAtTheTop, he’s not the cause. That ignominious label goes to the #nefariousNewWorldOrder’s dim AND repugnant #MastersOfWar (ref. #BobDylan).
#Ty4Reading, Amigos.
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM Sam Ray <sraydelmar@gmail.com> wrote:
Here's my two cents.
I think what Trump and Musk are doing is necessary to save a country that has been quickly spiraling out of control from the Biden administration. I think Biden, or maybe whoever his Puppet Masters were, are the monikers of Evil. Destroyed our country at every turn. Granted, I feel like some eggs will break along the way but in the long run the US needed a big overhaul. I would rather break a few eggs short term than wait 18 months for some "comprehensive" study to be completed and then action never taken.
For those that are being fired, I feel your short-term pain, I was fired, or down sided, or reorganized 9 times in my life. It's part of life. Go forth and conquer and get an even better job. The government is loaded with waste. I worked for the government for 6 years and saw such waste that to me was unimaginable (I am a bit frugal by nature). And no one cared. At some point you come to the edge of the cliff and your options are diminished. The US is looking over the precipice and I'm glad we have a non-career politician that has the balls to do something about.
Trump and Musk - continue on!!!
Sam
Witnessed that waste in the public school system. And, "we have to use up our grant by the end of the year..."--rather than, we really didn't need it all, so we'll return to sender.
Yep, in health care too!
Yesterday was Presidents Day, so those were all government employees marching on their day off with pay. Astroturf.
First time EVER getting double-digit #lovelikes and #NEARLY all pertinent and agreeable comments. #TyThankYTHANKYouse!
Trump is continuing aid to Ukraine so you might need a new hero.
How?
I watched Hegseth, Rubio, the VP and President say their intentions are otherwise. I watched full speeches, not talking heads telling about it. These cabinet members are serious people. There’s closed door meetings happening and it’s only been a few weeks since these cabinet members gained Senate approval.
Have real world expectations and wait to see what happens.
Trump’s actions speak otherwise. Those flights from the USA to Poland are continuing and the Patriot missiles went to Ukraine from Israel on American c5 cargo planes.
Hegseth had to retract his words later. Kellog says something else
Ahhh, not again “Benny-2-T’s” — you know, ‘BennyTactless and Truculent!” 🙄
Your assessment of the Ukraine/Russia conflict has been demolished in multiple comments sections for many moons now. Do you even have the capacity to wake up from your drunken slumber and comprehend the truth of that entire debacle?
Bottom line — even if you were an only child, you still wouldn’t be your parent’s favorite! 😆
I believe he is active military and doesn’t have much time to dig into things deeply and add detailed commentary. I enjoy his point of view because he is not derogatory and rude. So, no need for personal attacks.
He has been derogatory and rude many times. Iron Horsey was worse, but I still don’t engage with people who show bad faith and who can’t hold a civil conversation.
Probably true. I maybe missed those. It’s hard to keep up with all the comments! But I’ve seen your logic for years now and appreciate your input. :)
That is very kind of you to say! I appreciate your comments as well!
Oh, he's been derogatory and rude in the past.
I missed it then. It’s ok.
And like an annoyed child, he just popped up to say “ Yeah well they’re still gonna so there!”
Benjamin is the poster child of the bad faith commenter.
He makes outrageous claims meant to emotionally manipulate people with no basis or support. He flat out lies about facts. He celebrates the slaughter of other humans as he has done countless times regarding Russians and Palestinians. He defames people and calls them names with reckless abandon (he has called Jeff Childers a liar numerous times). Despite nearly everything he has said about the Ukraine War now being proven false, he has never acknowledged any of it or (heaven-forbid) apologized.
He is not a Christian, and he's a foreigner who immigrated here (an Israeli Jew) who has no stake in this country, no allegiance, and simply sees it as vehicle to do the bidding of his ethnic clan. Yet he attempts to lecture us on how we need to behave. He tries to use emotional manipulation to goad people into doing what he wants. He makes no attempt at rational persuasion but simply attempts to inflame people. In short, he's a deceptive sociopath.
He was crowing a few weeks ago about now that Trump cancelled the vax requirement for visas and that his parents could now come here. No thanks, stay in Israel where they belong. We don't need people who raised such a dishonest hack in this country.
So sick of this garbage and people like him need to be called out.
@Jeff- I stopped reading after the name calling. I've already been through Middle school. I don't need to revisit.
Are you sure he’s not just an AI robot?
You got me laughing!
I completely ignore Benjaminn 2 N's Numb Nuts
Hegseth said no US troops in Ukraine. What are they continuing?
Hegseth is gonna have to eat his words because they’ll be needed to secure minerals and stuff.
Here is a perfect example of the waste and fraud in our government. Giving morons signing bonuses to reup in the military.
That’s the takeaway you have? Reenlistment bonuses to the worst paid and highest risk jobs in our government? The one job where they literally own you? Reenlistment numbers have been down for years. Enlisted pay is absolute crap and can’t support a family. But that’s the “bloat” you think is important? Checkout a military pay scale chart and get back to me.
You are correct. 👍
And I would love your definition of “morons” as it relates to our military and those who reenlist…….
Comment directed at 2n's. Don't get your panties in a wad.
Then don’t generalize. We military families take our service and sacrifices personally….
Thank you for your sacrifice and your family's service to our nation.
ok mom
Those signing bonuses will continue and you’ll continue to pay for it, too.
Thanks for the bonuses. My last one had The last half get paid out over the summer and came in clutch.
I reenlisted under trump and got a bonus..sorry your girl lost.
I'm not the only that lost.
Haha! You must have missed the strings (chains? 😂) attached to those $s until a peace deal is reached. Sorry 2N’s, but your criticism is a tad short sighted IMHO.
You again. Go back to the blue space.
Why would I go to the blue space? I’m not a democrat.
Thank you for speaking up to those in attendance! They won't hear the truth otherwise.
Reaction is always slower than action. Trump had four years to set the table and now, no one can keep up with his furious pace. It’s fun to watch the Chinese fire drill. If the elite EU-7 really wanted peace, they would have it. Why would they? The USA was throwing billions at Ukraine to weaken Russia. Just one problem, Russia got stronger economically.
@Karen- I call it 'being attacked by bees': They don't know which way to swat because everything is coming at them all at once.
That is a good visual!
Gonna respectfully dispute the statement “reaction is always slower than action.” Quite the opposite is true, as in a “knee jerk reaction.” It’s a reasoned RESPONSE that’s rightfully slower than actions which are provocative. In Addictions Counseling, “triggering” is a key concept. People generally would prefer negative attention to no attention at all. “Nobody puts Baby in a corner,” right” (ref. #DirtyDancing).
To restrain from reacting when someone is poking at you verbally, trying to “trigger” you into anger, shame, guilt, and/or the most common attitude of defensiveness, it’s much more difficult to maintain “self-control” and not overreact.
And lastly, Mark Twain, the Lincoln of our literature, gave us this koan-like Truth: “All generalizations are false…including this one.”
I’m so glad all of this is coming to light…but, I hope something comes of it. Tax payers deserve a refund for all of this waste, fraud and abuse. And the treasonous behaviors need to be held to account and punished. It’s maddening!!
I don't want a refund. That $ is long gone. I want accountability. I want to see heads roll and jails filled with people that knowingly didn't enter in correct information or issued drivers licenses to illegals or hacked systems and sold SS numbers. Only then will I hope that the systems in place will work. The checks and balances that they say were installed to catch this crap failed. What is also eye opening is the oversight committee. What were they doing. It makes me doubt any and all elected Republicans/Conservatives. Its like they are all in on it.
@Heather- I want both. Chances are I'm older than you and am running out of time. I want to enjoy a little cushion while watching the criminal trials and sentencings. :D
Agreed! CA registers illegals to vote when they get their state sponsored driver’s licenses. Once they have their ID’s, it’s easy peasy to sign up for Medicaid and all sorts of other freebies. Immigration attorney on the news today (she is trying to help the ones legally working here to get past the roadblocks) said CA spent $9.8B for health care for illegals. I missed over what time frame, but like Jeff says, it really doesn’t matter.
I think they are "all in on it" because they understand that so much of the spending they authorize is goods and services bought on credit -- we pay for it with our Federal Reserve charge card and we can raise our own credit limit any time. If it's funny money, who cares how much funny money goes missing? It's easier to kick the can down the road, budget after budget after budget. 🤔
It's not stealing from taxpayers and their children and grandchildren... if they know that no one will ever be able to repay it.
Patronage, graft, even criminality are Age old ASSpects of socio-political dynamism #NEARLY sanctified in Judeo-Christian mythology since Yahweh favored Abel’s tribute/offering over Cain’s.
Diogenes searched vainly for an “Honest Man.”
And the Romans lamented “Who will guard the guards?”
Hypocrisy is the tribute Virtue pays to Vice.
And, to again quote the sagacious Twain: It’s easier to fool people than to convince them (us!) they have been fooled.”
#WeThePeople have been fooled again (and again & again) by the #PowersThatBe (ref. #DavidHalberstam) about epochal events “for the greater good” THEY (the “Big Club’s” oligarchs) SAY. Our default position is rightly thus, distrust.
Trust is a slow-growing vine which is (too) easily undercut.”
Yet, paradoxically, we should always trust the liar to lie and the thief to steal.
Caveat Emptor (Buyer beware). Don’t buy their bipartisan BS. They’re the Machiavellian foxes “guarding” our egg-producing henhouse of “domestic tranquility” since tHEy over-extended the White supremacist concept of #ManifestDestiny to the whole of the planet in 1898 with the #FalseFlagAttack on she battleship Maine to spark the Spanish-American War.
See, War pays plenty to the Machiavellian Macho-minded excitement addicted corporations while Peace only offers a dull “domestic tranquility” for “The Old Folks at Home” (ref. Stephen Foster).
(Whew! I gotta stop.) What was the question anyway?
Bottom line, amigos: Strive to remain healthily skeptical and eschew Soul-Corroding cynicism.
#Ty4Reading
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#CREATORS (Conspiracy Realist Educator Activist Truther Organizer Reader Socializer)
That is the only true economic stimulus that America needs. Give us back our money. We are much better managers of money than government.
Exactly. Where's our refund? Where's our repayment for all the $$$$$ we've paid out for waste, grift, fraud, etc.?
Yeah! Where’s our “Peace dividend”!
Good morning, C&C! Obama was fake hope and change. Here is a closer look at the decline of DNC agitprop over the years: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/obama-fake-hope-and-change-propaganda
I enjoyed the post. “Enjoyed” might be the wrong word. I learned somethings.
"appreciate"?
Learned and appreciated
LIKE!
Obama’s communist colored posters were/are a raised-hairs-on-the-arm experience every time I see them.
Look at old communist posters. Exactly the same.
We should probably start constructing gallows. Not hyperbole.
Why? Just drag out the warehoused Guillotines they prepared for us. Not fiction, BTW.
Probably wouldn’t be hard to get together a firing squad of patriotic citizens
There'd be a line across the country for that privilege...
I’ve long held that the proper punishment is to hang them from their toenails…
We need to set up a deserted island named “The island of Dr Fauci” and put Fauci and the rest there to be used for all kinds of experiments and testing on humans. On the island, no one will hear them scream.
Dog dung by preference. Cow dung smells rather sweet; deer scat doesn't smell.
I'd ask how you know so much about dung, but I'm afraid you'd tell me.
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My rotten veg goes into my compost... however I would contribute my cats' box droppings.
Video at 11.
Tar and feathers.
We should offer whoever thinks this " ... it's too small to worry about." the opportunity to prove they really believe it by letting them personally cover the "small" amounts. I'm sure they won't miss it from their checking account(s).
Can you imagine the IRS applying the same standard when collecting our taxes?
“Oh, that discrepancy on your tax return…? Don’t worry about that, that is such a small amount…” Yeah, right.
Don’t forget the $600 red flag because you had a garage sale and sold some stuff. Better report that sh!t or else 🔪!
Im for this!
“…how confident are they that deceased people under 100 aren’t still receiving payments?” I wonder if this is another way they diverted money to the dnc, or some other pet dei project.