Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
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As of May 2026, the administration has announced a nationwide six-month freeze on new Medicare enrollments for specific hospice and home health agencies as part of an expansion of fraud-prevention initiatives. This action targets providers with high fraud risk, temporarily restricting new admissions, while separate initiatives aim to reduce hospital readmissions.
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...freeze on new Medicare enrollments for specific hospice and home health agencies
Give the old phartz another lecture on "traditional family values" and tell them to move in with, and sponge off of, their spawn and siblings, instead.
I have no spawn or siblings, so I would, instead, get a lecture on "personal responsibility", and told I should have created spawn, so I could sponge off them in my dotage.
Steve
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I should have created spawn, so I could sponge off them in my dotage.
You (and "We the People") created JCs, so THEY are required to fund our dotage in full.
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The funny part is....
Let's say the "family values" talk is mostly bullshit by closeted gay Conservatives eager to get home to their hopefully legal aged same sex play-partner lol.
Because many times---it is. The "family values" people on the Right live that life just about as much as the "wealth gap!" 401K White Liberals do on the Left---meaning, it's vanity and a source of power--not even close to a way of life.
Older Americans --actually show up to vote. There's no Rock the Vote. there's no QR code. There's no hey look here's your hip-hop-gang-banger-star du jour telling you to vote----followef by disappointment.
Old folk - will vote.
If the GOP wants to keep doing stuff with Medicare, ACA, Social Security - so be it.
Eventually SCOTUS will be stacked with more seats.
And demographics are going to resume their natural course.
Republicans will consist of bill Clinton and Barack Obama - when that day comes ;)
No dog in this fight. If the Right wants to give away the country- hey, I won't stand in the way.
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You (and "We the People") created JCs, so THEY are required to fund our dotage in full.
The "job creator" narrative is a con. It has always been a con. It's one objective is to rob the Proles, to make the rich richer. The Proles were too dumb to realize they were being lied to and manipulated, just like their boss at the day job uses them.
Let's say the "family values" talk is mostly bullshit
It's a "wedge issue", to divide and conquer the Proles.
Old folk - will vote.
That only matters if there are "free and fair" elections. Even then, it barely matters, because TPTB fix it so we don't have a real choice. Remember how Hillary leveraged her control of the party machine to make her nomination inevitable, even though every poll showed she was the only candidate that Trump could beat? We get a choice of big money backed candidate 1, and big money backed candidate 2. Whichever one wins, they first serve the big money that got them there.
We used to be able to figure it out. We used to understand. Then the Proles got dumb.
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at this, you lose
Steve
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I disagree on the "job creator is a con" -- but I don't care enough to argue it. I'm satisfied in America and the West as to who are now the job creators - and who are the binge drinkers tattoo-buyers. and needing freee child care. My hope is more people have this spirit and it totally kills job creation in america and the West---which leads to lower tax revenues more cut services. and eventual political violence in the most affluent places. I'm patient.
So I cede the point, with hopes of dastardly consequences.
As far as Hillary --- your example is well taken. Heck on what used to be my side - W did same thing in 2000. In 2004 W and Kerry were different - but members of literally some same clubs. (The Caste system I've spoken about ;)
I will say this----I do feel there is some difference. I'm not sure Hillary would cut research - the way Trump has. I'm not sure Hillary would take a run at hospice like Trump has. I'm not sure Hillary would want to cut Social Security or medicare benefits or Medicaid or food stamps - the way the Republicans might.
There still are - some noticeable differences.
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In 2004 W and Kerry were different - but members of literally some same clubs. (The Caste system I've spoken about ;)Yup. Both "Skull and Bones". Don't see many people at the top levels who went to a state university, and did not have time for frat nonsense, because they were working.
There still are - some noticeable differences. I don't know about that. Look at the list of the top recipients of bribes from the Israel lobby, in the Senate. Notice #2 on the list, Bob Menendez, with $2.5M of Israeli money in his pocket, went to prison for taking bribes from Egypt, not Israel. I think it was watching Hillary speak/pledge fealty to Israel at AIPAC, that I finally twigged about the undue influence Israel has. She was only in the Senate for 8 years, and pocketed over $2.3M, third highest. Ted Cruz openly says he ran for the Senate to serve Israel, but he ranks 8th on this list.
Money from Pro-Israel to US Senators, 1990-2024https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cyc...Steve
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No dog in this fight.
As Spankee stated, his people eat the dogs and cats. No cats/dogs on Mar-a-Poo-Poo.
If the Right wants to give away the country- hey, I won't stand in the way.
How good is your Chinese/Russian?
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The "job creator" narrative is a con. It has always been a con. It's one objective is to rob the Proles, to make the rich richer.
Tell me something I don't already know.
I took FAILING "JC businesses" and made them profitable. No real reward for ME. After I left, the businesses went bankrupt some years later. That about says it all.
