This is a WASTE of government dollars because many of these grants are underway, so all of the work, all of the contributions from participants, all the partial data, will be useless. Let the research finish!

So it would have to be from a .gov address

Sometimes email systems are set to filter out non-government email addresses. So all the efforts to spam these accounts maybe useless because they are essentially sorted to a junk folder.

Oh what a good point about IRS payment! They could clawback some random funds they think are owed. Luckily we set ours up to always owe a little…friends were victims of ID theft and had to fight for a big refund. After that we vowed to never have a refund.

If you don’t have a small business thrift store, find a Savers store (includes Value Village, 2nd Ave, and Unique) they support charities and they continue to invest in an extensive DEI program

But this admin does not seem like the type to bail out anyone. Back then I was a 20something with about $200 in the bank, on a good day, so all the happening were not on my radar.

We do have a credit union! But are they also backed by the FDIC? Admittedly, economics is not my wheelhouse.

My concern is ppl will start pulling out their cash, and I wonder if I should get a head of the curve. I remember years ago there was a big bank bailout; could we end up in a similar spot?

He will catch it just like he caught the billions of dollars for condoms in Gaza…then after wreaking havoc, he will say “sorry, I make mistakes. But that ok. It’s not a big deal”

You are right. There will be high scrutiny of left leaning officials and those that stood up to Trump on the right. They will be vilified because they didn’t claim something small, like royalties from a book written 20 years ago. Meanwhile the oligarchs will continue to skate by

I am about ready to get most of our cash out of our savings account and lock it in our safe at home. The change we make on interest is not enough to make it worth the risk

In this world that we expect things delivered to us next day, Amazon has a grip over us in almost every good. Getting off Amazon for some people is like weaning off of drugs; it’s a slow process of behavior change

Sending you positive energy to keep your funding

Steny is still alive?!?

Selling your Tesla sounds like “pour out your Bud Light”. Just don’t buy another one and tell everyone you can that Teslas suck.

Paraphrasing what I sent-
“DOGE needs to close tax loopholes! DO NOT TOUCH SS and MEDICAID. Real people need that. Increase inheritance taxes, tax gains on stocks, make sure people can’t run businesses into the ground and claim a tax credit for the loss. Help the working ppl that elected you!”