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I think Geraldo Rivera says things like this because he found nothing in Capone’s vault many years ago! Kek

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Oral History: When Geraldo Rivera Opened Al Capone's Vault

For gangland aficionados, it was almost as good as the Super Bowl. On April 21, 1986, nearly 30 million viewers tuned in to The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults, a live primetime excavation hosted by Geraldo Rivera that promised to dig deep into the catacombs of the criminal’s hotel hideout on Chicago’s South Side. For two hours, Rivera shouted over power tools, ignited dynamite, took target practice with a submachine gun, and teased the possibility of finding money, weapons, or the decayed corpses of Capone’s rivals.

For Rivera,it represented an opportunity to rekindle a careerthat had stalled following a highly-publicized departure from ABC after 15 years with the network. “I knew everyone in the news business would be watching,” he tells mental_floss. “And as the evening wore on, I had more and more of a sinking feeling.”

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/78842/oral-history-30-years-ago-geraldo-rivera-opened-al-capones-vault

Last week, Michigan’s Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed funding for maternity homes, adoption tax credits, and other budget items that assist pregnant women. While post-Dobbs, Whitmer and her fellow Democrats seek to conceal the party’s pro-abortion agenda by pushing state courts to institute the extreme abortion regime they demand, in striking from the budget any spending that has a semblance of supporting the choice of life, Whitmer exposes her party’s abortion-first position…

Democrats do not want the people to decide abortion policy, however, because they know the populace does not support their party’s extreme abortion-on-demand position, which is why in Kansas, abortion activists pretend a complete abortion ban is on the ballot. Likewise, in Michigan, rather than debate abortion policy and push for legislation to implement the public’s preferences, Whitmer has instead turned to the state Supreme Court to institute an extreme abortion regime through the Michigan constitution, while she and her fellow Democrats sidestep debates over limits on abortions.

In fact, in announcing that she had asked the Michigan Supreme Court to expedite her lawsuit seeking a declaration of a state constitutional right to abortion, Whitmer used nearly identical language to that spoken from the abortion lobby in Kansas. “While politicians in other states rush to ban abortion, even in instances of rape or incest, Michigan must remain a place where a woman’s ability to make her own medical decisions with her trusted health care provider is respected,” Whitmer said in a press release.

What Whitmer won’t tell the public, though, and what she and her fellow Democrats don’t want Michiganders to know, is that they want an abortion regime that permits abortion on demand for any reasonuntil the moment of birth, paid for by taxpayers. And that is precisely what will be installed on the populace if the Michigan Supreme Court finds a right to abortion in the state constitution. Further, by using the Michigan Supreme Court to achieve this end, rather than the legislative process, Democrats can avoid the extremist label.

But while Whitmer’s rhetoric and her use of the judicial system to achieve her ends may mask Democrats’ intent, her line-item vetoes in last week’s 2022-2023 budget make clear where the party stands on abortion, even if she prefers the courts provide the bottom line: It is not about choice or helping women; it is about abortion first.

Whitmer’s stark strike-out from the budget of funds designed to help women choose life or to aid women who have chosen life says it all. The budget items she struck went much beyond assistance to pregnancy resource centers, which since Dobbs have strangely been in Democrats’ crosshairs.Whitmer actually struck $4 million allocated for maternity homes that provide “safe housing and comprehensive support serviceswithout charge for pregnant women who are without a safe home and in need.”

Whitmer’s line-item vetoes likewise exposed the revolting truth that Democrats prefer abortion to adoption. Here, the Democrat governor struck $2 million in tax credits to adoptive parents and $10 million designed to provide factual information to pregnant women about adoption as an alternative to abortion, including the birth mother’s ability to establish a pre-birth plan…

https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/25/in-show-of-pro-abortion-brutality-gov-gretchen-whitmer-just-slashed-care-for-pregnant-women-from-michigans-budget/

https://twitter.com/FDRLST/status/1551556623516049408?s=20&t=sH2Lc0AXtI_Rmj_w8sAHLg

Left’s Latest Health Care Scheme Will Worsen Inflation, The Deficit

Chris Jacobs

The press would have you believe that the objections of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., have scuttled any attempt by the Biden administration and Democrats to pass a big-government agenda. But a recent report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) proves the false nature of that media narrative.

The report, compiled at the request of several Senate Republicans, illustrates the effects of a permanent extension of the increase in Obamacare subsidies. Democrats enacted in last year’s “Covid relief” spending blowout. If made permanent — as Democrats have wanted to do practically since the moment these “temporary” subsidies passed — thisadditional welfare spendingwould undermine private health care coverage, while worsening inflation and increasing the deficit by $248 billion over its first 10 years.

Despite these harmful effects, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wants to ram through an extension of these enhanced subsidies — paid forby a raid on the Medicare program— before Congress breaks for its August vacation. The details contained within the report illustrate that the left’s lust for more control over the health care system remains alive and well.

Employers Dropping Coverage

While the report claims that on net, extending the subsidies would reduce the number of uninsured by 2.2 million, CBO also notes that the number of people with employer-sponsored coverage would decline by a greater number — 2.3 millionpeople in total. In addition, enrollment in government plans like Medicaid would increase by 200,000.

Why would these changes take place? The budget agencies believe that the richer subsidies would encourage at least some employers to stop offering health coverage to their workers:

The estimated reduction in employment-based coverage and the increase in Medicaid and [State Children’s Health Insurance Program] enrollment are driven primarily by a reduction in offers of employment-based coverage that would result from the enhanced marketplace subsidies…. The estimated effect on the number of people with employment-based coverage is larger for a permanent extension than is the case for the enhanced subsidies in place for 2021 and 2022 because the agencies estimate that few employers changed their decision to offer health insurance given the temporary nature of the enhanced subsidy. [Emphasis mine.]

Some reports suggest that Democrats may try to extend the enhanced Obamacare subsidies for “only” an additional two years.

Big Increase in Welfare Spending

Of the total $248 billion net deficit impact from a subsidy extension over the next 10 years, fully $181.4 billion comes from outlay effects on the federal budget. By contrast, only $66.5 billion of the deficit impact stems from lower federal revenues.

To put it in plain English: Nearly three-quarters of the budgetary impact of a permanent subsidy extension would come from the federal government writing checks for people over and above any income tax liability they owe. While the left likes to call the Obamacare insurance subsidies “tax credits,” the CBO report demonstrates that, in the vast majority of cases,these subsidies represent pure welfare spendingon behalf of exchange enrollees.

Benefits for the Wealthy Too

That said, of the total increase in subsidy spending, 15 percent of the total would come from families making more than five times the federal poverty level. That amounts to $36.1 billion in spending over a decade for a family of four making at least $138,750 this year. In many areas across the country, a family of four earning nearly $140,000 would qualify as affluent, if not rich.

Moreover,$7 billion in new federal spendingwill go towards _households making more than 750 percent of the federal poverty level — which for a family of four totals $208,125__. Particularly with federal debt exceeding $30 trillion, most Americans would rightly consider the federal government spending billions of dollars on “low-income” subsidies to families making over $200,000 per year preposterous.

All these subsidies would of course exacerbate inflation. Families earning $150,000 or $200,000 per year can already afford health coverage.

The fact that Manchin nixed trillions in harmful tax increases from Democrats’ “Build Back Bankrupt” measure doesn’t make what remains innocuous, by any stretch. Between its effects in strangling private coverage, expanding welfare dependency, and encouraging inflation, the legislation will still inflict harm on the country and its health care system for years to come.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/25/lefts-latest-health-care-scheme-will-worsen-inflation-the-deficit-and-your-insurance/

When will the seizing of money, property and assetts begin for foreign interference in our elections and human and child trafficking. It must happen soon.

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