According to Martin O’Malley, former commissioner of the Social Security system, Social Security is already running lean, with overhead of 1.2 percent. Compare that to an insurance company like Liberty Mutual, with overhead of 23 percent.…
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The Department of Government Efficiency, “DOGE,” is ostensibly in charge of increasing the efficiency of the departments it audits. What it is actually doing is crippling or eliminating those agencies—the VA, FAA, DoE, USAID, National Parks Service, Post Office, FEMA, etc. for the purpose of monetizing their assets and privatizing their services.…
The net result is that the top 2 percent of tax payers will get lower taxes, and the other 98 percent will pay more in Trump Tariff Taxes for a reduction in government services, Medicare, Social Security benefits, etc.…
Approximately 200 people from across Otsego County attended, carrying protest signs, waving flags, and chanting pro-democracy slogans, such as “We want our country back,” and “This is what democracy looks like.”…
The bottom line is this: Unless you radically change Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, all of which would require legislative action and the signature of a president, there are only two real choices to reduce spending.…
We believe that these, and other actions taken by this administration, are immoral and antithetical to the concepts of mercy, compassion, integrity and humanity which should be at the core of any civilized society.…
“All these people are out here today, on Presidents Day, to participate in the national day of rallies sponsored by a whole bunch of Democratic groups to fight for democracy,” Cooperstown/Oneonta Indivisible spokesperson Virginia Kennedy said during the protest.…
One of my favorite non-fiction books is Carol Sheriff’s “The Artificial River.” Sheriff takes a unique look at the completion of the Erie Canal, 200 years ago on October 26, 1825. Instead of focusing on its engineering marvels—like most books about the canal—Sheriff shows how the canal changed the lives of Upstate New Yorkers.…
Greetings, friends, another year
Has threatened us with questionable cheer
We’ve tried to be thrilled with the way we are going
But some of us fell, and that storm just keeps blowing.…
Conservatives have a larger than ever responsibility to protect our country and rights for our grandchildren and future generations. Once we lose what we have, there will be no coming back. November 5 will be the deciding day of which way we will go and what we will have to look forward to and leave our grandchildren.…