Clark Howard says if you’re ordering furniture and paying a deposit, there’s ONE mistake you cannot afford to make:
❌ Don’t pay with cash
❌ Don’t pay with a check If that store goes out of business before your furniture arrives? Your money could disappear with it.
✅ Always use a credit card — and there’s a critical deadline most people don’t know about: If your furniture doesn’t arrive within 55 days, you may need to dispute the charge before you lose your protection.
⚠️ This is the furniture shopping warning every consumer needs right now.
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Orange Dream
Strawberry Watermelon Refresher
Blackberry Passion Fruit Refresher
Mango Pineapple Refresher with popping boba
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💰 This guy says you should start taking Social Security at age 62.
He walks through the real math on claiming at 62 vs 67 vs 70 using a clear example: roughly $18k/year at 62, $24k at full retirement age (67), or $36k at 70. He shows the break-even points and reminds us that the average life expectancy here in the US is 79 years old.
It’s not just about getting the bigger monthly check — it depends on your health, how long you live, and your personal situation.
It’s such a practical reminder that these big decisions need to be run with your own numbers, not just generic advice. It’s also wise to run this past a financial adviser.
Would you claim Social Security early (at 62), at full retirement age, or wait until 70? What’s your reasoning?
When the time comes, I’ll be collecting it at 62.
Also, just because you know someone professionally does NOT mean you know their full character.
People go to work and are the life of the office then go home to terrorize their family.
A NEW DAY IS DAWNING AND A NEW WORLD ORDER HAS EMERGED.
Iran has surfaced as a legitimate world power. Many countries around the world are secretly negotiating deals with Iran behind Donald Trump’s back.
When the sand clears, US will be isolated from almost every major country except Israel. With friends like Israel who needs enemies?
We may have lost our financial dominance of our Petrodollar. Our tourism industry is devastated including the billions cities were expecting to make from the World Cup. Atlanta alone loses one billion.
We’ve lost trillions of dollars of military equipment, assets, radar, defense systems, and 13 military bases. Gulf states have been canceling security, defense, and weapons contracts with the US. And signing new deals with Europe and China.
Donald Trump has done a what he does best, —bankruptcies. America, according to the US treasury department is officially insolvent. Only took MAGA 15 months.
MAGA will go down in history as the biggest LOSER in American history.
Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following:
$510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research
$82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated)
$61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated)
$240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated)
$659 million - Community building grants
$47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated)
$449 million - Economic development grants for communities
$1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA)
$993 million - Scientific research and technology standards
$150 million - Support for American exports and trade
$2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs
$8.5 billion - Funding for public schools
$1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated)
$2.7 billion - College access and higher education support
$15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects
$1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.1 billion - Scientific research funding
$386 million - Environmental cleanup programs
$150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research
$4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated)
$768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance
$819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children
$775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated)
$5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention
$5 billion - Medical research (NIH)
$129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research
$356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response
$1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants
$707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure
$52 million - Airport and transportation security
$40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats
$53 million - Funding for homeland security operations
$3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated)
$1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated)
$393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness
$529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated)
$489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities
$50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated)
$60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws
$58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated)
$45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety
$20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated)
$395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated)
$234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs
$101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws
$46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad
$2 billion - International humanitarian aid
$1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated)
$4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs
$2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships
$642 million - International economic and treasury programs
$315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad
$486 million - Grants for public transit projects
$4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
$372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities
$145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure
$204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities
$1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement
$100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated)
$1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection
$2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds
$90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated)
$3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research
$297 million - NASA technology innovation programs
$1.1 billion - International Space Station operations
$143 million - STEM education programs
$309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs
$170 million - Small Business Administration operations
$158 million - Loans for small businesses
I see this is making the rounds again. I have a VO Resource List with classes, coaches, books, websites, podcasts and more. Everything is personally vetted by me before it’s added. I also have a link to my Equipment List and Audition Tracker in my bio🔗🌲 https://t.co/gE7YzDIYkS