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Trump fails again! Massive unemployment in the Washington DC area is a consequence of trump firing and laying off government workers... Many of those former employees will try and sell their houses and move back home... So the price of houses in the Washington DC area should go down... That's what always happens in a former town... Where there's no work... They used to call it the Rust Belt when the steel mills shut down... It'll be a lot like Detroit after the automakers moved their factories to Asia... One thing that is important to remember is that if you simply do not make your mortgage payment for 3 months the bank owns the house and it's their problem not yours...
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and Now for Something Completely Different
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The Trump Effect: 3 Airplane Crashes... He fired a bunch of people at FAA and now it's disaster time! How many people have to die before we LOCK HIM UP?
(202) 224-3121
https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm
Call your Senators and tell 'em to Deport Musk and Arrest Trump again and again and again...
Click Here to buy a "lock him up" sticker!
Trump’s climate war lands at HHS.
The plan is to convince enough Republican Senators and congressman to dump Trump because he's causing harm to their own voters...
LINK: https://www.zazzle.com/dump_trump_you_can_change_the_words_button-256031123885279499
Link to my Newest Buttons - Click Here
EVERY ONE HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ IT...
THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THE
GOVERNMENT'S CALCULATION OF AVAILABLE SOCIAL SECURITY IS THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY EVER COLLECTED A SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK!!!
WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?
Remember, not only did you and I contribute to Social Security but your employer did, too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes.
If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to$220,500.
Read that again.
Did you see where the Government paid in one single penny?
We are talking about the money you and your employer put in a Government bank to ensure you and me that we would have a retirement check from the money we put in, not the Government.
Now they are calling the money we put in an entitlement when we reach the age to take it back.
If you calculate the future invested value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% interest (less than what the Government pays on the money that it borrows).
After 49 years of working you'd have$892,919.98.
If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit!
If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.
THE FOLKS IN WASHINGTON HAVE PULLED OFF A BIGGER PONZI SCHEME THAN BERNIE MADOFF EVER DID.
Entitlement my foot; I paid cash for my social security insurance!
Just because they borrowed the money for another government spending, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!!
Remember the benefits for members of Congress?
+ free healthcare,
+ outrageous retirement packages,
+ 67 paid holidays,
+ three weeks paid vacation,
+ unlimited paid sick days.
Now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social security retirement payments entitlements?
They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives, and now, when it's time for us to collect, the government is running out of money.
Why did the government borrow from it in the first place? It was supposed to be in a locked box, not part of the general fund.
Sad isn't it?
99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.
I'm in the 1%
I JUST DID!
The List of Trump’s Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF...
It's fascism, plain and simple.
barrier, barriers, biased, biased toward, biases,
biases towards, bipoc, black and latinx, community diversity,
community equity, cultural differences, cultural heritage,
culturally responsive, disabilities, disability, discriminated,
discrimination, discriminatory, diverse backgrounds,
diverse communities, diverse community, diverse group,
diverse groups, diversified, diversify, diversifying,
diversity and inclusion, diversity equity, enhance the diversity,
enhancing diversity, equal opportunity, equality, equitable,
equity, ethnicity, excluded, female, females, fostering inclusivity,
gender, gender diversity, genders, hate speech, excluded,
female, females, fostering inclusivity, gender, gender diversity,
genders, hate speech, hispanic minority, historically,
implicit bias, implicit biases, inclusion, inclusive,
inclusiveness, inclusivity, increase diversity
increase the diversity, indigenous community, inequalities
inequality, inequitable, inequities, institutional, Igbt,
marginalize, marginalized, minorities, minority,
multicultural, polarization, political, prejudice, privileges
promoting diversity, race and ethnicity, racial,
racial diversity, racial inequality, racial justice,
racially, racism, sense of belonging, sexual preferences,
social justice, sociocultural, socioeconomic,
status, stereotypes, systemic, trauma, under appreciated,
under represented, under served, underrepresentation,
underrepresented, underserved, undervalued,
victim, women, women and underrepresented
inclusiveness, inclusivity, increase diversity
increase the diversity, indigenous community, inequalities
inequality, inequitable, inequities, institutional, Igbt,
marginalize, marginalized, minorities, minority,
multicultural, polarization, political, prejudice, privileges
promoting diversity, race and ethnicity, racial,
racial diversity, racial inequality, racial justice,
racially, racism, sense of belonging, sexual preferences,
social justice, sociocultural, socioeconomic,
status, stereotypes, systemic, trauma, under appreciated,
under represented, under served, underrepresentation,
underrepresented, underserved, undervalued,
victim, women, women and underrepresented
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When I was in vet school I went to this one lecture that I will never forget. Various clubs would have different guest lecturers come in to talk about relevant topics and since I was in the Wildlife Disease Association club I naturally attended all the wildlife and conservation discussions. Well on this particular occasion, the speakers started off telling us they had been working on a project involving the conservation of lemurs in Madagascar. Lemurs exist only in Madagascar, and they are in real trouble; they’re considered the most endangered group of mammals on Earth. This team of veterinarians was initially assembled to address threats to lemur health and work on conservation solutions to try and save as many lemur species from extinction as possible. As they explored the most present dangers to lemurs they found that although habitat loss was the primary problem for these vulnerable animals, predation by humans was a significant cause of losses as well. The vets realized it was crucial for the hunting of lemurs by native people to stop, but of course this is not so simple a problem.
The local Malagasy people are dealing with extreme poverty and food insecurity, with nearly half of children under five years old suffering from chronic malnutrition. The local people have always subsisted on hunting wildlife for food, and as Madagascar’s wildlife population declines, the people who rely on so-called bushmeat to survive are struggling more and more. People are literally starving.
Our conservation team thought about this a lot. They had initially intended to focus efforts on education but came to understand that this is not an issue arising from a lack of knowledge. For these people it is a question of survival. It doesn’t matter how many times a foreigner tells you not to eat an animal you’ve hunted your entire life, if your child is starving you are going to do everything in your power to keep your family alive.
So the vets changed course. Rather than focus efforts on simply teaching people about lemurs, they decided to try and use veterinary medicine to reduce the underlying issue of food insecurity. They supposed that if a reliable protein source could be introduced for the people who needed it, the dependence on meat from wildlife would greatly decrease. So they got to work establishing new flocks of chickens in the most at-risk communities, and also initiated an aggressive vaccination program for Newcastle disease (an infectious illness of poultry that is of particular concern in this area). They worked with over 600 households to ensure appropriate husbandry and vaccination for every flock, and soon found these communities were being transformed by the introduction of a steady protein source. Families with a healthy flock of chickens were far less likely to hunt wild animals like lemurs, and fewer kids went hungry. Thats what we call a win-win situation.
This chicken vaccine program became just one small part of an amazing conservation outreach initiative in Madagascar that puts local people at the center of everything they do. Helping these vulnerable communities of people helps similarly vulnerable wildlife, always. If we go into a country guns-blazing with that fire for conservation in our hearts and a plan to save native animals, we simply cannot ignore the humans who live around them. Doing so is counterintuitive to creating an effective plan because whether we recognize it or not, humans and animals are inextricably linked in many ways. A true conservation success story is one that doesn’t leave needy humans in its wake, and that is why I think this particular story has stuck with me for so long.
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(Source 2- cool video exploring this initiative from some folks involved)
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