Democrat's wanting to allow 16 year olds to vote. The liberal democrat's must be seriously desperate for voters. Those at the age of 16 do not have the common sense, knowledge or wisdom to understate government policy or international politics. Between the Green New Deal and now this they could split the democratic party in 2020.

AgDay, 4:00am. China is coming close to tripling their 2017 ag imports over the next 3 or so years. Of course, it's all the presidents fault, right?

AgDay, Tuesday, 19 March 2019. In a New Jersey port a boat load of 1 million pounds of Chinese pork was caught illegally coming into the USA. The reason this is such an issue is that African Swine Flu has devastated the Chinese pork industry. This much pork is not a small amount and questions remain about the Chinese governments involvement. Had this entered the USA the American pork industry would have been devastated for years to come.

... and people are so upset with President Trump defending our country and market places.

Clay High School (South Bend Indiana) received a report form a female student that she had been sexually assaulted. The county police have spent the last week investigating the case. As it turns out the accusations were false.

The state has decided not to prosecute the teen girl. This is unfair. False criminal accusations in the general public would result in prosecution for making falsely criminal accusations and would result in possible jail time if found guilty.

We've locally had male teen students make false legal accusations in school and they were not only expelled from school but prosecuted. So why does a female break the same law and get a slap on the wrist?

Wonderful new democratic governor of Michigan just proposed a new gas tax for road repair. Currently Michigan has a tax of 26 cents per gallon. If approved an additional 46 cents per gallon will be added.This is a 175% tax increase. Opponents are suggesting evaluating where the gas taxes are being spent now before any increase is approved. At present some of the gas tax goes to schools and then government . I went to college in Grand Rapids Michigan and everyone complains because property and gas taxes were high then but Detroit receives a disproportionate amount of the money.

Gasoline taxes should go 100% to road repair and property taxes should be 100% for school support. If Detroit schools need more money Detroit property taxes should pay for. Not force people from Flint, Grand Rapids, etc, to pay for it. This is a way of hiding school cost in other state budgets and forcing people who don't live there or some who don't even live in the state of Michigan to pay for it.

Spread the tax sources around so that no one can really figure out where it's all coming from. In the end it's socialism. Give the government your money and freedoms and the government will imply you will have more security.

In my opinion Obamacare was known to be a rip off and would shortly fall apart. Now that we have disastercare the real direction is coming to the forefront: Medicare for all.

Sounds nice but PBS news just said it will cost tens of trillions to implement. Typical socialism.

So please show us where in the constitution or in federal law. a citizen cannot do business deals in another country?

No accusations, not "he was working with Putin" (unless you have rock solid proof), just why is it wrong?

KGB agent comment: find me a man and I'll find a crime to pin on him.

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And although Special Counsel Robert Mueller has yet to publicly pinpoint illegal Russia collusion on Trump’s part he’s still looking. Meantime, former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell is making an explosive allegation. She’s among those who believe there’s now compelling evidence pointing to a parallel scandal.

Sharyl: In the simplest of terms if possible, what do you think is the story that's been uncovered in the past two years?

Sidney Powell: That the entire Russia collusion narrative was made up. That the FBI and the intelligence community and the Department of Justice began an investigation against four American citizens simply because they worked for the opposition political candidate, that being Donald Trump.

http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/russia-probe-02-11-2019

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Anyone interested in this I suggest you watch today's program at the above address.

Voters are souring on 'Medicare for all'

If somebody offered you a sandwich for free, you’d probably take it. $10? You might take it, if it was really good. $30? No thanks.

Voters are beginning to do similar cost-benefit analysis on Medicare for all, the Democratic plan for universal health care that’s sure to be a top campaign issue in 2020. In a January Morning Consult poll, 56% of respondents said they support Medicare for all, while 29% opposed it. Less than a month later, support fell to 50% while opposition rose to 38%.

The only thing that changed? People began to get a better understanding of what Medicare for all actually is—including the need to eliminate the private insurance system.

Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris, who’s running for president, triggered this deeper level of analysis on January 29, when CNN’s Jake Tapper asked her if she favored getting rid of private insurance. “Let’s eliminate all that,” Harris said. “We need to have Medicare for all.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/voters-are-souring-on-medicare-for-all-180225270.html

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Please remember the promise of ObamaCare: ‘If you like your health care plan, you can keep it’

History has proven that anytime the federal government is involved efficiency takes a nose dive. Medicare, as it stands, is not better than regular insurance. I'm retired and on medicare.

1. Medicare pays 80% of hospital costs and medical procedures. An MRI where I live costs $2500. With just medicare that leaves the patient paying $500.
2. Medicare Plan D drug coverage is a joke compared to private insurance. All of the cheap medications come with a copay of $5 to $15. You need an expensive medication and you run into a Tier system. I use Silverscript which is run by CVS Caremark. I've checked out most popular systems and they all cover about the same. All quotes below are if you use their preferred pharmacies:
Tier 1 (varies slightly by state): typically $1 to $10
Tier 2 (varies slightly by state): typically $5 to $20
Tier 3 (varies slightly by state): typically $20 to $47
Tier 4 (varies slightly by state): typically 34% to 50%

Of the 1200 drugs Silverscript covers take a guess where 50% of them end up????
Tier 4. You pay 34% to 50% of the drugs retail and most of them are very high. This is why medicare recipients have to decide which medications to get and which to do without, even if they need it.
3. One can obtain Medicare Plan F to have added hospital and procedure coverage but it costs and added $150 (here in Indiana). By the way all of this is per month, not per year.

Medicare is anything but wonderful and free. Placing everyone on medicare would increase the workload by 44 times. Unlike private insurance medicare only seriously checks less than 5% of claims. Serious area of abuse.vAnd this is where the new breed of democrat's want us to go??? Like the Beatles old song: Back To The USSR.

A Gallup poll states that 42,000,000 central and south Americans plan on coming to America depending on what transpires with President Trumps wall.

... and the democrat's will be there with open arms ready to give them citizenship so that they can vote democratic in all future elections.

All of the up and coming 2020 democratic presidential candidates are popular with the free spending socialist crowd but aren't as appealing to the average American blue collar worker as President Trump is. While watching the news on Sunday The media played as if America is overjoyed that they have such a large selection of "progressive" candidates. So far I haven't seen anyone who will be real competition for the President. Keep those socialists coming.

Oh, the Green New Deal called for economic security for people unable and “unwilling to work”. That phrase was included in a news brief sent out and when FOX news asked about it their representative claimed FOX news blatantly made that modification. Not humble enough to say, oops.

The Green New Deal people are coming on strong. What the average American is asking is, who is going to pay for all of this?

Of course, the tax cut that President Trump gave us (the tax cut that has boosted Obama's flailing economy) will be taken back to pay for their tax and spend era.

The democrat's didn't learn from Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" mistake.

Someday if social security makes me rich I'm going to find an old 1962 Studebaker Hawk. Then replace the engine with the biggest engine that will fit under the hood.

BTW, Studebaker's were built in South Bend Indiana. I grew up there and originally owned a 1962 Studebaker Lark.

The Studebaker Hawk was Stude's answer to the Ford T-Bird. In South Bend Hawk's were very popular. The average high school guys owned Larks. The well to do owned either a Hawk or a T-Bird.

Of all of the dances we practiced in the class at the local YMCA I liked to Waltz and the Rumba.

I eventually stopped because most of the women were married. I understand it was only a class to learn or practice but doing the Rumba with a married woman just felt weird.

When I first signed up here I thought BBW meant Big Bodied Women. Boy did I receive a quick education!

Go to your local pharmacy and hang out in the aisle where DEPENDS are stored.

1. On 25 March 2018 the first caravan left for San Diego. Arrived roughly April 30 2018.

2. Second caravan left October 12, 2018 arrived November 15, 2018.

3. Third caravan left January 15, 2019 still en-route.

4. A 4th is now being organized. The Reuters article stated that printed notices are being distributed asking for more people to join.
5. In the same Reuters article large quantities of Venezuelan's are planning on making the trip to the US boarder.

The dams are broken and thousands upon thousands of people are telling us they are coming and nothing we do will stop them. Brought to us by the democrat's of America.

Indiana House Bill 1284, sponsored by Representative Jim Lucas (R-69), passed from the House Committee on Judiciary by a vote of 9-2. It would provide immunity for a justified use of force in certain instances to help prevent frivolous lawsuits. Victims of violent crime shouldn’t be subjected to unnecessary civil suits, therefore being victimized twice. This bill would also require a court to award, in certain instances, reasonable attorney's fees if it determines a suit was brought unjustly, helping to prevent financial ruin for individuals protecting themselves and others.

Indiana House Bill 1643, sponsored by Representative Ben Smaltz (R-52), passed from the House Committee on Public Policy by a vote of 12-0. It would increase the duration of a 4-year License to Carry a Handgun (LTCH) to five years and also eliminate the fee. In addition, it would allow gun owners greater ability to carry a firearm for self-defense in houses of worship, while respecting private property owner rights.

Wednesday, 6 February 2019

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Even though a state court, local court or grand jury finds a citizen who used a weapon to defend themself not guilty of any crime: I.E. self defense.

Yet the criminal or criminals family can still sue the victim who defended himself/herself. They become a victim a second time. Civil cases do not require the same level of evidence to find for the plaintive. I find the two above bills being worked on in the Indiana house a much needed modification to our state law.

1. Our entertainment is based on sex and violence. Forty years ago I said that as these two items become more predominant not only will our morals and ethics go down but we will become so use to them that we will become immune to the real thing when it happens in society. I'm of the 60's generation. Free love (sex) was something my generation desired but it was, more or less, kept in the back room. Our decendents now consider it their absolute right no matter how it hurts marriage, society, children from unwanted pregnancies, disease or themself.

2. As technology progresses video has been able to accurately simulate what it looks like when a person is shot by a weapon. Blood, skin, clothing, etc, is seen being ejected just as it is when a person is really shot. We (especially those under 30) have become desensitised to killing and murder. All the younger generation has ever known is violent video games, music, movies and a legal system has given the entertainment industry the right to proceed no matter what the outcome. The RIGHTS of Hollywood (to make money this way) are embedded in concrete. Lawyers and judges could care less how it effects society as a whole. Notice that as entertainment becomes more graphically violent it don't take long for the audience to become bored with the level of sex and violence they've gotten use to. So new innovative ways are devised to display sex and violence in even more debase ways audibly, visually and psychologically.

3. When parts of society protest they are verbally mocked, abused and labelled as Nazi's trying to control others rights. Unfortunately it doesn't surprise me that most of todays serial shooters are 30 and younger. It's all they know. Entertainment is what has taught the 30 and under crowd their ethics, morals and conflict resolution techniques. Some parents attempt to intervene and have been taken to court by Child Protection Services or the ACLU. Parents are now afraid to say no to their children because of the courts and social pressure. It's, almost, against the law to stand up for the morals one believes in.

4.Unfortunately I feel things will have to become significantly worse until the courts, politicians, media, etc, will decide to do anything. The problem is when this stage comes the pendulum will swing way to far the other direction. Constitutional rights will be sacrificed. We can see this already beginning to happen. In 2017 several politicians and high level court judges suggesting eliminating the 2nd amendment. We say it can't happen here but then Germans said the same thing in the late 20's. This trend has been slowly forced on the American people but it's happened so slowly that no one thought we'd be where we are now. For the life of me, when I was 18 (1969) never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that we would be where we are today. All of this "entertainment" is vigorously protected not because Hollywood is so interested in maintaining the constitution but because they are making SL-easy money off of it.

5. The Boiling Frog. The boiling frog is a fable describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in cool water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of threats that arise gradually.

Our society is in hot water now and can't or doesn't want to perceive it or feels powerless to do anything.

Having family over for a holiday and one family member sits in the bathroom playing games on their smart phone.

Socialism enhances the lovely human trait of being greedy and corruption. You've just proven the arguments you're trying to disprove. Socialism, like it's more radical relative communism, is an ideology where everyone is economically equal. Unfortunately the politicians are more economically equal than the rest of society. The politicians always have better health care programs, retirement programs, etc.

Socialism doesn't work because of human GREED! Of course, eliminate greed and you might have a chance of getting it to work. How can society eliminate greed?

1. Ask the greedy politicians to pass laws against greed, right? Legislating human character traits? The ACLU may not like that.
2. The second favorite answer: educate them. So you have educated greedy politicians.

Socialists always forget that human nature becomes greedy and "Corrupt" within the socialistic legal system where you can get something for nothing.