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Wow, Republicans must really hate their constituents.
South Dakota passed a ballot measure to expand medicaid which goes into effect in July. This expanded medicaid for low income was widely hated by republican lawmakers and governor. Basically, what it does is expand eligibility. Currently, to be able to get the incentives you can't work or have income so it really disincentives working. If you work a $15 an hour fast food job, have no healthcare through work, and are below the poverty line for a family of 3 you make too much money to have medicaid. You, know the program designed to help people like you and your kids. So medicaid was expanded by voters and raised the cap on how much money you can make to be eligible to be more in alignment with inflation, though doesn't go nearly far enough in my optionion.
In anycase, South Dakota is moving fast to purge their medicaid of everyone deemed ineligible this month. And most of the people they are purging will become eligible again in July under the expanded medicaid. So, essentially, they are moving as fast as possible to purge these people for 2 to 3 months.
When called out on this, and asked why they just won't wait until July to purge people they deem ineligible their response was just people are welcome to reapply again in July.
But that leaves families without access to healthcare for a period of time. And this could be fatal to some who are unable to obtain healthcare during the couple of months they are not elligible.
South Dakota passed a ballot measure to expand medicaid which goes into effect in July. This expanded medicaid for low income was widely hated by republican lawmakers and governor. Basically, what it does is expand eligibility. Currently, to be able to get the incentives you can't work or have income so it really disincentives working. If you work a $15 an hour fast food job, have no healthcare through work, and are below the poverty line for a family of 3 you make too much money to have medicaid. You, know the program designed to help people like you and your kids. So medicaid was expanded by voters and raised the cap on how much money you can make to be eligible to be more in alignment with inflation, though doesn't go nearly far enough in my optionion.
In anycase, South Dakota is moving fast to purge their medicaid of everyone deemed ineligible this month. And most of the people they are purging will become eligible again in July under the expanded medicaid. So, essentially, they are moving as fast as possible to purge these people for 2 to 3 months.
When called out on this, and asked why they just won't wait until July to purge people they deem ineligible their response was just people are welcome to reapply again in July.
But that leaves families without access to healthcare for a period of time. And this could be fatal to some who are unable to obtain healthcare during the couple of months they are not elligible.
The full sentence was 11 months. He’s already has served 22 months and faces more time if convicted yet again.
no police officer was ever charged in this case nor did they file a report about this incident citing they were told not to. What the actual fuck.
Be nice if double jeopardy applied to convictions that are throwing out.
Be even nicer if this state disbarred, fined, convicted, and sentenced the DA and the officer involved. Eastern Washington is so F’n stupid
North Carolina Seeks to Ban Participation Trophies for Children
Republican senators are standing up to a major threat to the nation.
www.vice.com
Back to being just for winners. Mine as well print t-shirts that say losers as well.
Twentytwo
Pre-order Goodness
What’s happening in Tennessee right now is downright fascism! Our country is so fucked.
3 Democrats in the TN House face possible expulsion, the first time in state history it would not be bipartisan
Reps. Gloria Johnson (Knoxville), Justin Jones (Nashville) and Justin Pearson (Memphis) walked up to the well of the House during their Thursday session, violating rules of decorum in the chamber.
www.wkrn.com
And bringing up gun control is as bad a insurrection as Jan 6 in their eyes?
Nee Lewman
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I think we give out too many trophies and celebrate too many non-sensical "graduations". I think legislating it is fucking stupid and the antithesis of everything the Repubilican party is supposed to be about and the exact kind of legislation of "morality" that they accuse the left of so often.North Carolina Seeks to Ban Participation Trophies for Children
Republican senators are standing up to a major threat to the nation.
Back to being just for winners. Mine as well print t-shirts that say losers as well.
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Dtknuckles
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A socialist ran from jail during the red scare. I forget his name.
Finland is now officially a member of NATO.
What kind of reaction do we expect from Putin today?
What kind of reaction do we expect from Putin today?
Nee Lewman
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Anything other than “Finnish them” Is a wasted opportunity.
In college, I dated a Finn--actually a half Finn, his mom was Finnish and his dad was from good ole Louisiana. When I went to visit them in Finland, they had stories of family members dying at Russian hands as late as 1939. The tension between Finland and Russia is way more intense than many people realize. They HATE each other. There are people alive today that still know and remember people that died in Finnish/Russian conflict. Finland was German adjacent in World War II simply because they would fight with anyone who fought Russians. So yes, I expect Putin to do something because the animosity that these two countries goes back centuries. Now, there is also a certain level of animosity that Finns have towards Sweden--if the Russians didn't control and conquer Finland, then it was the Swedes doing it. The last time Helsinki was totally decimated, it was because of a Swedish attack (in the 1800's which is why the city is one of the "newer" built cities in Europe) and until the 1950's Finland had an entirely Swedish upper class. But Finns have decently let bygones be bygones with Sweden, however, they have not at all with Russia--I think largely because Finland and Sweden are both more socialist democracies whereas Russia is not.
I guess what I am saying is that I expect retaliation, but given Chinese intervention, the special waiver the US gave Japan to purchase Russian oil, and Mexico buying Russian oil, while South American countries start slowly aligning with the Chinese and cuts ties with the US, and btw, most analysts are calling Ukraine a war of attrition, I think Putin is already seeing us as a crumbling super power who can't get a fighter jet off the ground.
Inside America’s Dysfunctional Trillion-Dollar Fighter-Jet Program (Published 2019)
The F-35 was once the Pentagon’s high-profile problem child. Has it finally moved past its reputation of being an overhyped and underperforming warplane?
yukbon
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but they're already Finnished!
Nee Lewman
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She’s the poster child of stupidest timeline.
The CEO of JPMorgan Chase said the recent collapse of SVB and Signature Bank is not over yet and will ripple through the economy for years to come. He's warning investors of tough years ahead.
The commercial real estate market is operating in a perfect storm of rising interest rates, declining occupancy rates for offices, and now, less access to credit. There's a huge impending rollover of debt that was initially financed in a low interest rate environment.
This could impact smaller and medium-sized banks with higher commercial real estate exposure. Lenders with less than $250 billion in assets make up 80% of commercial real estate lending, according to a March 16 report by Goldman Sachs economists David Mericle and Manuel Abecasis
Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman rings the recession alarm and says commercial real estate is next in the crosshairs of global banking turmoil
The billionaire investor said banks are tightening lending on commercial properties as a way to shore up liquidity.
markets.businessinsider.com