Andrew Pederson

songwriter and screenwriter, guitarist, composer, passionate about music, film, reef conservation in the tropics and scuba diving, UW alum

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@Hedgeye yesterday I toured a sub-development of Ascension (itself a part of The Peaks) in Summerlin South (west Las Vegas) called Crestline (gorgeous homes)… 104 lots, almost all built out, $1.8-2 million each, 75% sold, big $$$ is gobbling up properties

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@VivekGRamaswamy !!! no property taxes for seniors’ primary residences, the majority of seniors live on fixed income and the inflation in food, medical care, insurance, etc outpaces COLA increases — prop taxes mainly fund grotesquely over bloated salaries / pensions of local gov administrators

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@ZakariaMDv3 unless you are on Warfarin, no can do

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@celestialbe1ng m a d n e s s

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@ArthurMacwaters not unless chemists, engineers, etc can create more resilient plastics and seals that don’t break down over time (food and water storage, oxygen containment, etc)

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@ChristianHeiens remove enough parasites and property taxes are unnecessary

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@ChristianHeiens bad take, property taxes pay the grotesquely over bloated salaries and pensions of useless local government paper pushers / administration… reducing the size of local government is the solution (but won’t happen)

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@redpillb0t this:

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

🚨Want to ACTUALLY save the planet?

We need to RAISE MORE COWS & EAT MORE BEEF.

University of Nebraska study just proved: Cows are CARBON NEGATIVE.

Through grazing, they drive grass growth that produces MORE OXYGEN than the methane & CO2 they emit.

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@esaagar @Matt_Bracken48 wife and I have been to Nagoya and Tokyo twice, super clean, trains efficient, people so polite and helpful, food great, and no homeless

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@redpillb0t evil… wait till they learn how much biomass is in Alaska

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@caroljsroth can be as simple as heading to a sports bar, share an order of fish and chips and have a local microbrew on tap

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@Liz_Wheeler wrong, wife and I have been on many Princess cruises (Alaska and Caribbean, their newer ships, Discovery, Star, Sun), outstanding service, 24/7 food and barista service at their International Cafe, and with the right Cruise Director a camaraderie builds amongst the passengers

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@WallStreetMav wrong, for age 60+ go w Holland America, age 40-60 go with Princess (the newer ships: Discovery, Star, Sun, etc), w Princess you get 24/7 food and barista service at their International Cafe

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@ValerieAnne1970 complete and utter bullshit, our Creator gives evil permission? good grief

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@JCarp03470 @scarlett4kids @mtntallpaul it’s total madness

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@Handre hi-rise Hong Kong, still one of the world's most expensive places to buy residential properties (condos, apartments, or homes)

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@annvandersteel how is it affecting the bees?

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Welfare State explained for people who actually work for a living.

The system is working. Just not for you.

You wake up before your kids do. You drive an hour to a job that barely covers the bills. You eat lunch at your desk. You miss the school play. You come home tired, check your paycheck, and half of it's gone before you touch it.

Now picture your neighbor.

She hasn't worked in three years. Her kids are in free childcare. Her rent is paid by the state. Her groceries are covered. Her healthcare is free. She takes home more than you do.

Not because she's cheating the system. Because the system told her to.

Her caseworker ran the numbers on an $18/hour job offer. Taking it would lose her food assistance, childcare, cash benefits, healthcare. All in, that job would leave her $27,000 poorer per year than staying home.

She didn't take it. You'd have done the same.

Now picture your buddy and his girlfriend. Together six years. Two kids. They want to get married. But the government charges them $20,200 a year to be a legal family. So on paper, they aren't one.

Now picture your uncle. Bad back but functional. He can work. But disability pays $28,000 plus free healthcare. Working part-time pays $22,000 with nothing. Over 1,400 law firms exist solely to help people make that switch. Less than 1% ever come back to work.

These aren't lazy people. They're doing basic math.

And the math is everywhere.

There are over 80 federal welfare programs in this country. Not 5. Not 10. Over 80. That's before you touch the states. California adds 23 more. New York adds 24.

A family of four on maximum federal benefits takes home $90,000 a year. Tax free. Without working.

You know what the median family that actually works makes? $80,000. Before taxes.

Read that again. The family on welfare takes home more than the family going to work every day. And the working family is paying for it.

In California, a family of four can pull $114,000 a year in combined benefits. In New York City, $118,000. The city will pay $4,100 a month for your apartment alone. That's a doorman building.

It doesn't stop at the border.

In the UK, a jobless family with three kids takes home £46,000 in benefits. A family with both parents working full-time on minimum wage? £28,000. You'd need to earn £71,000 to match what the non-working family gets for free. And in November 2025, the UK removed its child benefit cap entirely. Every additional child now unlocks more money. No limit.

Now here's the part that should make you set your phone down.

There's a nurse in Sacramento. She makes $85,000. Works nights. Takes home $61,000 after taxes. No childcare help. No food assistance. No housing voucher. Makes too much for any of it. She is funding a system that pays other people more than she takes home. And her only return on investment is the bill.

Maybe that nurse is your wife. Maybe that family making $65,000 with two jobs and no help is yours. You were told to go to school, get a job, work hard, play by the rules. And for that you get to fund a system that pays people more than you make.

$1.2 trillion a year. $3,600 from every working American. Fifty years. Same poverty rate as 1973.

We didn't build a safety net. We built a gateway drug. You get on one program, that qualifies you for three more, those qualify you for five more. Before long you're enrolled in fifteen programs and any attempt to earn more costs you thousands in lost benefits.

The system doesn't help you climb out. It makes climbing out expensive.

And if you dare question any of it, you're "heartless." You "hate poor people." You "want children to starve."

No. I want a system that helps people get back on their feet. Not one that pays them to stay down.

When you can stack 80 programs to clear six figures without working, you don't have a safety net. You have a country addicted to dependence.

Every bureaucrat needs the poverty to justify their job. Every politician needs the dependency to justify their vote. Every program needs more funding to justify its existence.

They don't want to solve poverty. A solved problem doesn't need a budget.

You paid for it. You're still paying for it.

And the people running it are going to ask you to pay more.

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@SirBylHolte https://t.co/QPHdNJtf5m

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Eye-opening interview with Dr. Sarah Myhill exposing the cholesterol myth!

"Statins are not rooted in research or science. They are rooted in propaganda."

Cholesterol is ESSENTIAL—your body needs it for hormones, vitamin D, cell membranes, brain function, and more. It's not the villain we've been sold.

Statins? They block vital pathways (like CoQ10 production), leading to muscle pain, fatigue, accelerated aging, and mitochondrial damage—while the 'benefits' are overhyped and not commensurate with cholesterol reduction alone.

The trillion-dollar statin empire thrives on fear, not facts. Time to rethink heart health: focus on real causes like inflammation, poor diet, and mitochondrial dysfunction—not aggressively lowering a natural, life-sustaining substance.

Share this vital information with family & friends who are taking harmful statin drugs. Bookmark for future sharing!

[Andrew Pederson @AndrewDavidPed1]

@AdrianneCurry constant exposure to rage baiting lib social media echo chambers… perhaps women are more emotionally effected than men