"70% of elderly people get the flu shot every year, and it kills off a portion of them on day zero. It's got a day-zero kill record. It's in the Medicare data, and nobody's saying a damn thing about this."
~Steve Kirsch
When my husband died in late summer last year, my daughter and I didn't just lose him.
We lost more than half our household income overnight.
Suddenly, every dollar had a job. Every bill became a math problem.
Because my income dropped so dramatically, I became eligible for a GST rebate of about $435.
To some people, that might sound like a nice little bonus.
To people like me, trying to live on less than $27,000 a year, it's not spending money. It's survival money.
Where I live, water, garbage, and recycling cost me $520 every three months. Coincidentally, those bills arrive around the same time as the GST rebate.
So the GST cheque doesn't buy treats. It doesn't fund vacations. It doesn't even make life easier.
It mostly disappears into a utility bill before I can blink.
Today I'm sharing screenshots from my CRA account to demonstrate the federal government's latest affordability miracle with their renamed GST benefit masquerading as the Groceries and Essentials Benefit.
My GST rebate went up.
By six dollars.
Not sixty.
Not six hundred.
Six.
Apparently somewhere in Ottawa, somebody looked at the affordability crisis facing Canadians and thought:
"Hmm, needs more half sandwich."🤔
What makes this worse is knowing there are millions of Canadians out there who need help just as badly as I do, but don't qualify for a penny of it.
People working two jobs.
People trying to raise families.
Seniors watching every grocery bill climb higher.
People doing everything right and still falling behind.
So to @MarkJCarney, I have a simple question.
Why are you celebrating the existence of a Grocery and Essentials Benefit instead of asking why Canadians need one in the first place? How much did it cost taxpayers for the photo-op? Do you not see the hypocrisy in it?
Because that is the part I can't understand. A government should not be standing in a grocery store congratulating itself for handing back a few dollars of taxpayers' own money.
A government should be creating the conditions where people can afford groceries without government assistance.
The goal should be fewer Canadians needing benefits, not more!
I'm not proud to qualify for this.
👉🏻 I don't want to qualify for a government cheque.
👉🏻 I don't want to qualify for a renamed GST rebate.
👉🏻 I don't want my kid to qualify for a school lunch program because parents can no longer afford lunches.
I want an economy where ordinary Canadians can stand on their own feet and keep more of what they earn and be proud about it.
The fact that Ottawa felt the need to rename the GST rebate to include the words "Groceries and Essentials" should have set off alarm bells in every cabinet office in the country.
Because groceries and essentials are not luxuries. If Canadians need government assistance to afford the basics of life, that is not evidence of success.
It's evidence that something has gone very badly wrong.
What makes it even harder to stomach is watching a government talk about borrowing billions for new projects and sovereign wealth funds while ordinary Canadians are being told to celebrate an extra six dollars.
Six dollars!
That's not economic leadership.
That's a receipt. Perhaps the question Canadians should be asking is this:
If #MarkCarney's resume is as impressive as advertised, why do the results look like this?
At some point, Canadians stop listening to credentials and start looking at outcomes. And the outcomes are speaking for themselves!
Bought a $1,742.80 camera online from BestBuy.
The FedEx delivery driver stole it. FedEx admitted it.
But BestBuy won’t give a refund. They said we need to “work with local law enforcement.”
Thought everyone should know if you buy from @BestBuy and a @FedEx driver steals what you paid for, your money is gone. Neither company will make it right.
I’ve spent over $30K at BestBuy and will never spend another penny there.
🚨BREAKING :In a stunning 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled parents are allowed to opt their children out of being indoctrinated with LGBTQ+ propaganda!
🚨BREAKING: Miguel Bosé, the biggest Spanish-language pop star of the last few decades, has just released a video taking a knee and putting his hand over his heart in honour of Henry Nowak
This has now spread like a wildfire. Europe has never been more UNITED! 🇪🇸🇬🇧
Kerry-Lynne Findlay is the most politically savvy person I've seen in British Columbia in my lifetime She is in no hurry to have a standing MLA step down, doesn't need a seat in the Legislature to travel the province, get her point across and let Eby dig himself in deeper
Texas Children’s Hospital need to be stopped. I can’t count the number of stories that I’ve heard over the years of what TCH has done to try and destroy lives all so that they can harvest more organs to make more money.
Laws in Texas and across the United States need to be changed to stop the perverse incentive to extract organs from children that want to live.
Pro-life Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy credits her baby girl with Down syndrome, Valentina, for “perfecting their family.”
This child, with an extra chromosome, is valuable and worthy of life. ❤️
DR. PAUL THOMAS: “You are MORE likely to die from the vax than from the DISEASE, this is true for EVERY single vax on the childhood schedule.”‼️
DR. SUZANNE HUMPHRIES: “If mandates were to STOP, these companies would CRASH. And that’s not going to be allowed to happen...”‼️
The statistical analysis of each vax...
The risk of death from Polio is 1 in 1 trillion
The risk of death from the Polio vax is 1 in 215K‼️
The risk of death from Diphtheria is 1 in 42.5 million
The risk of death from the Diphtheria vax 1 in 76K‼️
The risk of death from Tetanus is 1 in 1.5 million
The risk of death from the Tetanus Vax is 1 in 76K‼️
The risk of death from Pertussis is 1 in 2.3 million
The risk of death from the Pertussis vax is 1 in 76K‼️
The risk of death from Measles is 1 in 106.5 million
The risk of death from the Measles vax is 1 in 108K‼️
The risk of death from Mumps is 1 in 40.3 million
The risk of death from the Mumps vax is 1 in 108K‼️
The risk of death from Rubella is 1 in 0/negligible
The risk of death from the Rubella vax is 1 in 108K‼️
The risk of death from Chickenpox is 1 in 32.3 million
The risk of death from Chickenpox vax is 1 in 202K‼️
The risk of death from Hepatitis-A is 1 in 1.6 million
The risk of death from the Hep-A vax is 1 in 73K‼️
The risk of death from Hepatitis-B is 1 in 305K
The risk of death from the Hep-B vax is 1 in 96K‼️
The risk of death from HIB is 1 in 1.5 million
The risk of death from the HIB vax is 1 in 46K‼️
The risk of death from Pneumonia is 1 in 236K
The risk of death from Pneumonia vax is 1 in 50K‼️
The risk of death from Meningitis is 1 in 822K
The risk of death from Meningitis vax is 1 in 141K‼️
The risk of death from Influenza is 1 in 136K
The risk of death from the Influenza Vax is 1 in 15K‼️🙏👇
🚨BREAKING: Steve Hilton, who was placed in first place after election day for Governor of California, is now projected to fall into third place and be ELIMINATED!
This is voter fraud! We are witnessing 2020 all over again!
This is what grocery shopping looks like in Canada right now.
Three packs of chicken breasts — but only because they were 30% off.
One pack of butter.
Four ears of corn.
$52.
He says he only buys meat when it’s 30% off or better… because that’s the only way he can afford to put protein on the table.
This isn’t normal.
This is what happens when you hammer farmers with carbon taxes, jack up transportation costs, and run the economy into the ground for over a decade.
Under Harper you could buy chicken without needing a clearance sticker.
Under Carney, even basic groceries require hunting for discounts just to survive.
They broke the country and then told us it’s fine.
Drop a 🍗 if you’re done pretending this is acceptable.
Yesterday, I received an official mail ballot at my Washington apartment for a woman I’ve never heard of.
I’ve rented this place since I got elected OVER A YEAR AGO.
All anyone would need to do is fill it out, sign it, and send it back.
Democrats are stealing elections every day.
PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!