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Once out on the street it is very hard to get back on your feet. I am so lucky that my family stepped ahead. My daughter is now fixing an apartment in her basement for me so I do not have to live with anyone else. My other daughter had spent $10,000 dollars remodeling an old cabin on their property and it was a beautiful tiny house but their…[Read more]

In my case I already have something that works. I am low enough income that I am eligible for Medicaid to pick up what Medicare does not pay for. If they change the eligibility for Medicaid that will do the same thing in a lot of cases.

We just cannot keep our hands off other peoples countries. IMO it is a means of keeping our own mess out of the news.

Well I am very afraid because I am totally dependent on federal programs. And while I am disgusted with Biden’s failure to get anything meaningful done I have experienced Rs deliberately cutting those programs because they hate all of us down here on the bottom. They want us to suffer. So I am glad that I live in MN where we are still thinking .

It used to be. The UI and most cities in Eastern Iowa were liberal Ds back then. Sounds like they are now heading to quickly join Western Iowa. IMO it is very sad. I graduated from the UI and worked for the D party in Iowa City in the 70s. Very sad situation.

I grew up in NW Iowa and this is not new. My family registered R so that we could vote in local caucuses as they did not even have Ds on the ballot. We voted D in the general election but we wanted some say on who our local officials would be.
The only difference from then and today is that today they finally understand that they are mostly Nazi.

The last two articles here have mentioned when all this sh-t started. Thirty or forty years to build to the failure we are seeing now!! People had better learn right here and now that Republican (and NeoDemocratic) policies are totally geared to make the rich richer at the expense of all the rest of us.

An either or tax!

Small dogs do a pretty good job of protecting a home simply by yapping at everything that moves a little differently! We have a little one and she is in trouble a lot for waking everyone up. Usually she is correct someone is at the door!!

“Look great” – as opposed to actually being great?

Finally this gives us a bottoms up power structure that may work better than letting the police beat the hell out of us in a protest line.

If you travel across Iowa and the border area in Minnesota you see a line of wind mills that are the result of that 1980s movement. It is a beautiful sight to see.

But nothing much has been done to address the northern part of the MN state. My family have tried using solar on roofs but in the winter when it is needed the most the weather is the…[Read more]

We are not blind but it is typical of modern people to just sit back and wait for the disaster to get to critical point before they start screaming for the politicians to do something about it. Just like we just did with Covid 19.

I would like to see a follow up to this report that would outline clearly what type of things we the people should…[Read more]

I read an article saying that the US Navy exploded a huge bomb off shore – wonder how close that explosion was to the site of this collapse?

Yesterday I saw an article with a politician telling them they should not be a state because no one forces them to live there. That politician is an absolute idiot. No one forces any of us to live in their state.

Our home got a taste of what the workers go through when one of the people here ordered Propel bottled water. The huge boxes are so heavy none of us can carry them. I talked with one of the delivery men yesterday and said “what are they ordering in these boxes?”. My guess that OSHA would not approve the weight level for any of us but Amazon does…[Read more]

The old cold war was about giving money to the military industrial establishment. The new one has the same goal plus keeping the empire able to interfere with other nations. It will still mean most of our tax money goes to war related items rather than rebuilding our country. Good old moderates still in charge.

I was 17 years old when I started following that advice. My severely disabled daughter was born that year. Family history had given me a look into institutional care facilities and what was wrong with them. I grew up that year. I decided that I would take care of her at home. But everyone thought I was crazy. They may have been right but at first…[Read more]

When they have nothing else to scare the people into spending money on the military they drag out the UFO bull. And that is what I think is happening now. Shame on you Joe.

That last sentence can describe the Republican Party since the 1980s if not even earlier. But all too many Democrats joined them when Clinton was elected in the 1990s. Don’t know what Obama thinks – he just knows how to stay out of personal trouble by not rocking the boat.

I hope we can make it through this because I have a special needs…[Read more]