More than ever, since World War II, ordinary Americans of the middle-class and lower are struggling horrendously due to bad, asinine Executive decisions (the Iran War), Executive foreign tariffs, Executive driven hyper-inflation, and an astronomical Cost of Living, also caused by the Executive Branch. It is most likely those Americans won’t see or recoup the 2-year (or more) losses for at least two more years, if not more. BUT WAIT!!! 😲 There is hope!
Back on September 9-10, 2026 in Dallas, TX, fake prez Donald J. Trump promised all Americans a $5,000 payment, called the “Trump Dividend” check. Wow! But just a second, I have one question…
Has anyone, any American received one dime from fake prez Trump? Let me know. I want to know how and why you received even a dime from Trump!
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Well, us Social Security folk did receive an extra $90 in October. Not sure if that qualifies??
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Sandy and I did not receive any extra money with SSA. Zero, zilch, nada. 😒
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Per the internet: “About 20.8 million Medicare Part B enrollees who are not high-income earners, do not receive Medicaid premium assistance, and are not in Medicare Advantage received the one-time $90 rebate.” Perhaps you two fell into one of those categories?
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Yes, we are supposedly “right on the cusp” of many various so-called benefits. Hell, even my Mom (rest her soul) was NEVER legit to received any help from Medicaid, general LT Care, or private Assisted Care Living facilities in Central Texas—who were all private pay anyway!—because she earned from Southwest Airlines and Mobil Oil $100–$300 over her work career that always disqualified her. And here’s the real gut-punch…
Mom’s late husband was a WW2 veteran, and the VA wouldn’t qualify her for benefits either after his death OR for her LT Care help! 🤬
It seems Sandy and I will fall in that category too of barely just over the Poverty Line. 😠
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One questions, Nan. Is the extra $90 a one time cheque, or a permanent raise in your SS payment? We got an across-the-board raise in our Old Age Security payment, $71 CA. About US $50 per month. Only a 4.5% raise, but better than nothing. The good thing, one of the only go9d things, about moving back to Lethbridge, we no longer have to drive 5 hours or more to go see a specialist for 15 minutes, and I have a number of them. We are paying a high rate for fuel, but we are using 75% less or more. That makes for a much better bottom line.
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The $90 was a one-time payment. Each year the Social Security fund gets evaluated and recipients generally get an annual raise of a few percentage points … which is usually eaten up by the increased cost of goods and services.
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Where is the $5000?
Same place as the checks he promised for the efforts of the DOGEbags and refunds for tariffs. All this crap was part of the rhetoric style he and his staff calls, “the weave”. In the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge ,the Sandy character (played played by Art Garfunkel) repeatedly calls the Jonathan character (played by Jack Nicholson) a BS artist (I am unfamiliar with yer policy on swear werds, so I used initials). I knew of several such individuals back in my High School days — anything you did they did it faster and under duress. This behavior is expected when it’s driven by teenage hormones and massive insecurity, but an adult man in his 80s? The phrase “arrested development” immediately leaps to mind.
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Agree with everything you’ve stated Kamchak… and then some.
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Didn’t he say the Reps must win the House and Senate for this payout to be realized, or did I miss something?
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So why make that conditional promise in the first place? Does the MORON think the American people can be bought, bribed, that “everyone has a price” at the expense of our honor, integrity, and principles? Yeah, no.
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Maybe he was trying to bribe the fence sitters to get out and vote?
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And that is SUCH a tRump-ass move!
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The $5,000 was promised if the Republicans won the midterms, which they rather spectacularly did not.
Of course there’s not a chance in Hell that anyone would have seen a dime of that money even if they had won, but technically he does have an “out” for this one.
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My reply Infidel, with respect to you of course, is the same as the one I gave Ark up above. 🙂
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Since a Trump promise has all the depth and durability of a paper hat in storm, placing store by one suggests a painfully innocent mind. Why am I not therefore surprised by the scepticism and mockery, hereabouts.
By the way, if someone could enlighten this puzzled Brit…about that $5,000 bucks. Did he ever explain the practicalities of it, like if he paid it to everyone than he would be paying it to folks who voted against him…..or have I missed some subtlety….Or since a snowball had a better chance in Hell than anyone ever getting those bucks, does it matter?
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