vtmarmot
P Magoon, Livin' Free NH
EVERYBODY steals these days
Except the hard working honest folks that keep the world running. Lord knows, we get very little protection.
Don't get me started on politicians. Both parties and the independents have lied to us and stolen from us as long as I have been watching politics. I can think of very few that I believe in and admire. Now the Republicans have their vaunted tax cut, they admit they will come for our social security and medicare before too long, while the big recipients, the wall streeters and all, will continue to reap the benefits. Trump, Ryan and McConnell tout our cuts, but mine is trivial and it will sunset in a few years. Will my Medicare and Social Security still be there when I need them?
My father-in-law saved diligently and when he had a heart attack and ended up brain-damaged, he and my mother-in-law went into a Masonic home. Thank God for the Masons. He was a fifty year Shriner. He died five years later of lung cancer. My mother-in-law was able to keep her apartment there until she got dementia and had to go to their assisted living facility, where she remains. This costs $11,500 per month. We had to exhaust all her funds and then Medicare took over. Trump, Ryan and all would take this away. People like us don't have that kind of money, and we don't have the resources to take care of a demented elderly person in our home. We would have to quit our jobs and stop being productive members of society, then exhaust all our funds so we'd have nothing when we need it.
My wife and I have been frugal and we have no debts. We also have no children. What will happen to us if we become demented and can't care for ourselves? I hope we have enough faculties left to go outside and sit in a snow bank until it's over rather than become victims of God-knows-what.
We have been victims of the Anthem hack and the Equifax hack. We monitor our credit religiously. It is frozen at all three reporting agencies and we both maintain Identity-Guard to make sure we are not victimized by identity-theft. We constantly get calls from heavily accented people wanting to log onto our PC's so they can "fix" them. I abuse these people viciously and still they call. We check out all weirdness on our PC's. Microsoft and HP push more useless BS on us every day, degrading our system performance. I am a lifelong programmer and have the skills to fix these things. I feel so sorry for those that don't. I also feel sorry for those that are victimized by the phone scammers because they don't know any better. Maybe our government could find the source of some of these scammers and hackers and take them out. No trial, just shoot them on the spot when found.
Then there's the complexity of dealing with Social Security, Medicare, employer retirement misinformation. When will the good people get the protection they deserve. I'm not asking for a hand-out, just for the victimization to stop. It comes from everywhere.
Except the hard working honest folks that keep the world running. Lord knows, we get very little protection.
Don't get me started on politicians. Both parties and the independents have lied to us and stolen from us as long as I have been watching politics. I can think of very few that I believe in and admire. Now the Republicans have their vaunted tax cut, they admit they will come for our social security and medicare before too long, while the big recipients, the wall streeters and all, will continue to reap the benefits. Trump, Ryan and McConnell tout our cuts, but mine is trivial and it will sunset in a few years. Will my Medicare and Social Security still be there when I need them?
My father-in-law saved diligently and when he had a heart attack and ended up brain-damaged, he and my mother-in-law went into a Masonic home. Thank God for the Masons. He was a fifty year Shriner. He died five years later of lung cancer. My mother-in-law was able to keep her apartment there until she got dementia and had to go to their assisted living facility, where she remains. This costs $11,500 per month. We had to exhaust all her funds and then Medicare took over. Trump, Ryan and all would take this away. People like us don't have that kind of money, and we don't have the resources to take care of a demented elderly person in our home. We would have to quit our jobs and stop being productive members of society, then exhaust all our funds so we'd have nothing when we need it.
My wife and I have been frugal and we have no debts. We also have no children. What will happen to us if we become demented and can't care for ourselves? I hope we have enough faculties left to go outside and sit in a snow bank until it's over rather than become victims of God-knows-what.
We have been victims of the Anthem hack and the Equifax hack. We monitor our credit religiously. It is frozen at all three reporting agencies and we both maintain Identity-Guard to make sure we are not victimized by identity-theft. We constantly get calls from heavily accented people wanting to log onto our PC's so they can "fix" them. I abuse these people viciously and still they call. We check out all weirdness on our PC's. Microsoft and HP push more useless BS on us every day, degrading our system performance. I am a lifelong programmer and have the skills to fix these things. I feel so sorry for those that don't. I also feel sorry for those that are victimized by the phone scammers because they don't know any better. Maybe our government could find the source of some of these scammers and hackers and take them out. No trial, just shoot them on the spot when found.
Then there's the complexity of dealing with Social Security, Medicare, employer retirement misinformation. When will the good people get the protection they deserve. I'm not asking for a hand-out, just for the victimization to stop. It comes from everywhere.
