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I am having a lot of health issues form or become worse, both mentally and physically. My stress levels are through the roof. I am having frequent headaches, heart palpitations, and feel like my body is deteriorating. I am only 29. Turning 30 next month.

• Access to adequate and timely healthcare has been an immense struggle. A physician told me recently, in her 40 years of being a doctor, she has never seen insurance coverage this bad. She believes health insurance is working against us. Wait times are long to see any specialist. Copays are crazy if they even do accept insurance in-network. I have severe mental illness and getting affordable mental health care here locally is a nightmare. I am a complicated case with medications.
• I just recently as of a month ago lost my job. I witnessed two mass layoffs at my company in my short tenure there
• I am struggling to acquire new employment in my industry. In addition, I am having to distinguish between legitimate job postings and recruitment scams. Scams and fraud... it is everywhere.
• All these illegals are pouring in everywhere. In addition, people are moving here in the drives from up north and California. My assumption is they are trying to escape the high taxes, woke politics, and corrupt governments in their states. They are overwhelming our resources here and my hometown is struggling to adapt and accommodate a massive influx of people. Knoxville, TN was listed as the second most in-demand housing market in the nation. Our state does not collect state income taxes.
• I was mistreated horrendously at the hospital ER when I had my kidney stone. I was placed out in the lobby in my underwear writhing in the most severe pain I experienced in my life.
• People are mean, self-centered, and greedy. Family units are falling apart and support systems are diminishing.
• Everything is so expensive. I payed $80 for 3 bags of groceries a couple days ago. That was WITH my value card. Skimpflation and shrinkflation is running rampant.

Met this girl on a Christian dating app. She only lived 1mile away. She even sent the first message which rarely happens and actually kept th conversation going. We talked for two days off and on. She would go to prayer meets with friends and bible study and therapy. Claimed to have been abused by her ex. Said she stopped being Christian and had sex with him but regretted it and now says that God has forgiven her. She's apparently all about bodily autonomy. Claims to not want kids until after marriage. I honestly don't want kids at all but I told her after marriage because I knew not having kids at all would have been a deal breaker. Long story short, she ends up texting me saying she prayed on it and decided she couldn't trust anyone she met online and that it wouldn't work out between us. I told her I understood but there's still a dull ache. I had asked God if she was the one he held onto for me and to give me a sign. I guess that was the sign. I'm honestly glad though because if being touched triggers her to the point of panic attacks, I don't think it would have been a healthy relationship. Thought Christians weren't supposed to live in fear. Was she a true Christian? Because I don't think she is...

https://www.fedsmith.com/2013/10/11/ronald-reagan-and-the-great-social-security-heist/ Ronald Reagan and The Great Social Security Heist

Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular presidents in modern history. As a former Hollywood actor, he had an uncommon degree of charisma.

The conservatives absolutely loved Reagan for his efforts to reduce the size of government, but most liberals hated him with a passion. Reagan is still revered by a lot of Americans. This reverence for Ronald Reagan helps to explain how he was able to fool most of the American people to a degree unparalleled by any other modern president.

With the help of Alan Greenspan, Reagan pulled off one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated against the American people.

On April 20, 1983, the signing ceremony for the new legislation took place with great fanfare. Below are some of Reagan’s remarks at the signing ceremony.

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In addition to the long-term problem of the baby boomers, the Commission found a possible short-term problem for the years 1983-89. But the outlook improved and became favorable for the 1900s and early 2000s. The possible minor problem for the years 1983-1989 was based on very pessimistic economic assumptions. So, at the time Reagan informed Congressional leaders that Social Security was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, the actual condition of Social Security funding was fairly sound for the next two decades.

Furthermore, Social Security was certainly not Reagan’s “highest priority.” Reagan had never been a friend of Social Security. He was a hardliner when it came to all government social programs. He called unemployment insurance “a prepaid vacation plan for freeloaders.”