12-04-2024, 07:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-04-2024, 07:35 AM by freeloader.)
I don’t really have a problem with the government spending money to research problems with healthcare for racial and ethnic minorities, but to each their own.
I have a much greater problem with Trump spending $141 million of taxpayer money golfing, primarily at his courses and pocketing tens of millions of dollars in payments directly from the government.
I love the irony of the leader of the most expensive presidential administration in history complains so much about government wasting money.
I love the irony of Republican politicians who take credit for funding packages that they vote against. And then, they are the ones who load up bills with the most pork spending through the earmarking process. And then they have the gaul to go home to their districts and talk about how much they have done to help their constituents.
I feel bad for the people who are actually impacted, but part of me hopes Musk does what he says and cuts $2 trillion from the budget, just to show people what they actually voted for. One of Musk’s highest priorities (and one of the easiest things to cut, actually) for instance is $150 billion in VA funding that pays to operate rural clinics and pay VA medical practitioners. Most of those doctors, nurses, etc are on the GS payscale, and make considerably more than regular federal employees. When all those clinics close that the VA loses tens of thousands of medical professionals and there is no money to pay for veteran’s healthcare at public and private hospitals, maybe people will notice. Probably not though. It’s ok to let thousands of veterans suffer and die if it means preventing a professor from spending $100,000 to help better train psychologists who work with black patients.
There isn’t $2 trillion in the budget to cut, unless you make substantial cuts to the military, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans’s healthcare and benefits. Realistically, there are going to have to be reductions in Medicare reimbursements (which is going to make it a lot harder for older people to get care as doctors drop Medicare patients), means testing of Social Security (since a tax increase on SS receipts seems off the table), administrative bodies that limit health spending at end of live (death panels)c wholesale cuts to the military, and a dramatic reduction in the Medicaid nursing home benefit. The last one probably does need to change, and that is coming from a confirmed Liberal. The laws surrounding long term care insurance and the 5-year spend down need to change. If you/your spouse have money, you need to pay for your nursing home care. The current laws allow wealthy and middle class people to shield millions of dollars from the clawback, while they are placed in Medicaid-funded nursing home beds. It’s absurd that we have a whole insurance industry (long term care) whose sole purpose it to allow people to protect assets before going on, essentially, welfare.
I have a much greater problem with Trump spending $141 million of taxpayer money golfing, primarily at his courses and pocketing tens of millions of dollars in payments directly from the government.
I love the irony of the leader of the most expensive presidential administration in history complains so much about government wasting money.
I love the irony of Republican politicians who take credit for funding packages that they vote against. And then, they are the ones who load up bills with the most pork spending through the earmarking process. And then they have the gaul to go home to their districts and talk about how much they have done to help their constituents.
I feel bad for the people who are actually impacted, but part of me hopes Musk does what he says and cuts $2 trillion from the budget, just to show people what they actually voted for. One of Musk’s highest priorities (and one of the easiest things to cut, actually) for instance is $150 billion in VA funding that pays to operate rural clinics and pay VA medical practitioners. Most of those doctors, nurses, etc are on the GS payscale, and make considerably more than regular federal employees. When all those clinics close that the VA loses tens of thousands of medical professionals and there is no money to pay for veteran’s healthcare at public and private hospitals, maybe people will notice. Probably not though. It’s ok to let thousands of veterans suffer and die if it means preventing a professor from spending $100,000 to help better train psychologists who work with black patients.
There isn’t $2 trillion in the budget to cut, unless you make substantial cuts to the military, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans’s healthcare and benefits. Realistically, there are going to have to be reductions in Medicare reimbursements (which is going to make it a lot harder for older people to get care as doctors drop Medicare patients), means testing of Social Security (since a tax increase on SS receipts seems off the table), administrative bodies that limit health spending at end of live (death panels)c wholesale cuts to the military, and a dramatic reduction in the Medicaid nursing home benefit. The last one probably does need to change, and that is coming from a confirmed Liberal. The laws surrounding long term care insurance and the 5-year spend down need to change. If you/your spouse have money, you need to pay for your nursing home care. The current laws allow wealthy and middle class people to shield millions of dollars from the clawback, while they are placed in Medicaid-funded nursing home beds. It’s absurd that we have a whole insurance industry (long term care) whose sole purpose it to allow people to protect assets before going on, essentially, welfare.
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Master of Business Administration (financial planning specialization), University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, in progress.
BA, UMPI. Accounting major; Business Administration major/Management & Leadership concentration. Awarded Dec. 2021.
In-person/B&M: BA (history, archaeology)
In-person/B&M: MA (American history)
Sophia: 15 courses (42hrs)
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