Comments by "Janis Williams" (@janiswilliams2766) on "How government helps seniors on one hand and shafts them on the other" video.

Social security was never set up to be the sole support for anyone throughout their retirement. People needed to make saving a priority and a lot of people haven’t and unfortunately a lot of people still don’t. Food banks that I was associated with required people to have a social security number, several forms of ID and the amount of groceries provided were dependent upon the household size. A lot of people I saw in the food lines given where I live, reflected the American majority demographic, men and women; quite a few with incredibly expensive and nice cars including one who was driving a cyber truck, several in huge escaladles, F150s, BMWs, Mercedes. Other food banks are supported by the community, donations and/ or churches etc where there is no legal status requirement for receiving food, the Y I go to work-out is in the inner city and they have such a food bank. All kinds of people come there, overwhelmingly they are legally here or are citizens. Immigrants are not sucking up your benefits. Most of them work and pay taxes yet won’t be eligible for social security nor most benefits, depending on your state. The monkey on most peoples back is poor financial planning in youth and continued frivolous spending without discipline.
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@JuliaB1955 you haven’t read Project 2025 and how that affects Medicare and Medicaid, if these two women think they don’t have anything now they’ll have even less with your favorite color.
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As you should be. Particularly since a part of it targets seniors.
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Never too late to start saving money and cut down on frivolous spending and know your community resources. You should be going to every senior centers now and seeing what they offer and what you qualify for. Many senior center will usually have seminars on financial planning and budgeting. Look at universities in your area and look for the Ollie program for life long learning, they will usually have resources there about how to go about getting resources. If nothing else make some friends there and they will que you in on what resources they use or know about.
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@KimK-cd3oe given that you put some thought into it , you should probably be fine.
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There’s a lot of resources out there, people just don’t utilize them all and prefer to put the blame on others. I call service companies like cable and cell phone and I have a lane line every 6 months to find out if there is a special and have it lowered. I immediately call when it goes up and try and negotiate for a better price. I do that with my credit cards as well even though I don’t usually carry a balance , if I have to I want the lowest rate possible.
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There’s libraries, shopping centers, community centers Y, some churches open up their community rooms when the temp gets to hot. I’ve even sat in hospital lobbies reading a book or doing puzzles, other times I sat in public administration buildings. Hospitals were better as I’d go to the cafeteria and have a cheap lunch when I was working in the field and I had lags between clients/appointments. There are many places open beyond 2.
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Their poor financial decisions in life is easier to blame on brown people. It’s really a hateful country as is shown with the Springfield Ohio incident.
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⁠ @gloriouslifeonwheels3621 there’s only one party who is persisting in racial hatred and who implement policies that perpetuate structural racism that negatively affects black and brown people. There’s also only one party that yanked the border bill at the last minute that would have assisted in curbing illegal immigration issues providing much more money to hiring more border enforcing personnel. Only one party thought it was clever to build a rusting wall and get Mexico to pay for it and essentially did nothing but get in the way of progress that cost us billions. There’s only only one party that marginalizes the poor, black, brown or white by tempting people to believe in trickle down economics and continues to give tax cuts to the rich —- so those people earning lower incomes in the service of others, or screwed up in financial planning or continue to make terrible financial decisions only one party promotes you picking yourself up by your bootstraps. Only one party raided over a trillion dollars out of the social security trust fund to fund a war trying to avenge his fathers presidency and didn’t put the money back into the trust fund. Only one party put together the Project 2025 administrative plan. Only one party has had to come in and spend time in their term to clean up the financial nightmare and messes from prior administrations for the last 35 years instead of working on their own agenda for the betterment of the middle and working class. If people want to direct their anger somewhere first they should do some self reflection and not blame everything negative about their lives on someone else and then go get pissed off and start boycotting the businesses that hire undocumented immigrants. You can start with the California agricultural businesses or you can do meat processing plants in other parts of the country… lots of places where people can go and demonstrate their frustration that they don’t want these businesses hiring ‘illegals’. There’s ‘illegals’ working in car washes, restaraunts, hotels, etc. Some people can go and park themselves in front of Mara Lago as there has been several ‘illegals’ working there. Immigrants come here to work, don’t like that .. then go deal with the businesses who hire them. Go boycott the businesses like target and Walmart that buy meat and food products from businesses that hire ‘illegals.’
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@iucp101 he debunked it because he knows it’s not popular yet everyone involved in it are people who he had in his administration and likely to have them involved again. He’s quite enmeshed with the Heritage Foundation who told him who to put on the supreme court. I’d say he was quite entangled and embedded with Project 2025. Fox Entertainment might have debunked it but no other credible news source has.
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@skapunkoialternativeliving6522 one does have to utilize some common sense. The only place that I listed that may require you to buy something is a store. But I’m not in the habit of sitting inside the store. There’s usually some seating outside of stores. The shopping center usually has public spaces outside of shops but still indoors. Libraries are great places. But hey, if someone purposely doesn’t want to find the resources or find excuses in using those resources that’s on them.
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@JuliaB1955 the heritage society was relevant enough for the orange party to put in 3 conservative Supreme Court justices who made laws negatively impacting your Medicare in 2025. It’s interesting that all you people whining about immigrants didn’t have enough forethought to have a better financial plan other than winging it with social security. The orange party is the party of trickle down economics and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. It seems that people still aren’t capable of figuring it out yet. Now there’s a 1000 page hard document, that you can read, about the party of trickle down economics and pulling yourself by your bootstraps and you don’t want to believe it. You can’t fix willful ignorance.
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Women and primarily minorities have always been in servitude. Looks like even more rights are being taken away from women.
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Please read up on Project 2025 and come to your own conclusions. There are two areas in the document that address Medicare and Medicaid. Here is a snippet from PBS. Project 2025 would raid the Medicare trust fund Insurance company profits have skyrocketed over the past decade, due in large part to increased revenue from MA plans. Gross margins for MA plans in 2023 were $1,982 per enrollee, more than double the $910 gross margins in group market health insurance plans, such as the plans people get through their jobs. In 2023, “administration” (which includes exorbitant salaries and profit) made up an average of 13 percent of MA spending. Traditional Medicare, despite being labeled “the bureaucrat-driven fee-for-service system” by Project 2025, spends less than 2 percent on administration and doesn’t take any profit. The Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund is projected to be insolvent by 2036 unless congressional action is taken. The Biden-Harris administration has called for extending the solvency of the Medicare trust fund by at least 25 years by modestly increasing the Medicare tax rate on income above $400,000, closing loopholes in existing Medicare taxes, dedicating the Medicare net investment income tax to the HI Trust Fund, and crediting savings from prescription drug reforms to the HI Trust Fund. Astonishingly, Project 2025’s proposal is to enroll even more Medicare beneficiaries in the option that costs 22 percent more per enrollee.
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