JonWanderer

Patient healthcare evangelist. Over 30 years in healthcare and tech. Solutions architect. Love God. Love People.

[JonWanderer @JonWanderer]

@Atul_Gawande This pandemic is full of hit and miss. To continue to use the word science implies solution. The “practice” of medicine is just that. And the FDA and CDC have a lot of skeletons in their closets and trust of them is low. The Zelenko protocol is valid. Pharma rules and Dr’s $.

[🇺🇸 Justice @250_Revolution]

Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.

I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).

And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

😡😡😡✅

[JonWanderer @JonWanderer]

@Thdelli1887 @misterchambo @ZekeEmanuel Let’s be clear. The health complex will tell each other their prices. Just like the automotive industry does. Just like the gas industry does. Transparency, while a utopian dream, will not bring prices down. Only slow their rise a bit. As cheaper people get hired.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 INFURIATING: Leader John Thune is already BACKING DOWN on the SAVE Act, saying there are “implications” to triggering a “talking filibuster”

IF YOU CAN’T EVEN PASS A BILL THAT 80% OF AMERICANS SUPPORT, YOU NEED TO RESIGN, @LeaderJohnThune

The implications of FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS are MUCH greater than forcing the Democrats to actually TALK during their filibuster.

PUT THEM ON DEFENSE!

[Ann Vandersteel™️ @annvandersteel]

Your daily necessary reminder that taxation is theft.

ESPECIALLY when you pay taxes on the same sums of money multiple times:

You earn money through hard work.

Government steals a chunk right off the top—federal income tax, state income tax, payroll taxes.

Then you spend what's left.

They hit you again—sales tax, excise taxes, gas tax, property tax on the stuff you buy.

When you die, they even tax it again—estate tax, inheritance tax.

It's double, triple, quadruple dipping on YOUR labor.

No consent, no opt-out.

Just force and threats of jail if you resist.

And don't forget Social Security.

They steal 15.3% FICA payroll tax upfront (you and employer split).

Then when you finally get benefits, up to 85% gets taxed again as income if you earn over the thresholds.

Double-taxed retirement scam on top of everything else.

Our Founding Fathers fought a revolution over less.

Yet we sheepishly accept giving our money to foreign wars, DEI nonsense, endless welfare, and kickbacks.

Real Americans should keep MORE of what they earn.

America First means ending the heist.

ABOLISH THE IRS.

MAGA. 🇺🇸

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Walz Announces $8 Billion Grant To Somali Company To Investigate Fraud https://t.co/EPG0zVFSzu

[JonWanderer @JonWanderer]

@SMB_Attorney Exactly. And when you spent 20 years in IT and 20 years in healthcare it is no simpler. Because they constantly rewrite the laws altogether favor insurance. Not the people who need it.

[JonWanderer @JonWanderer]

@DutchRojas “Cutting the Cord” by Martin Cooper explains the cell phone fiasco. Lots of litigation. Which is why we are doomed in healthcare. No “patient” or billionaire would fund fixing the system and eradicating all the kickbacks and spreads.

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

I very much appreciate the Secret Service’s outstanding work in detecting a potential plot to shut down communications systems in New York City.

This unnerving discovery found hundreds of servers with over 100,000 SIM cards that could be used to flood telecommunications systems and disrupt operations in a major part of the United States.

I look forward to the results of this investigation. We live in dangerous times – this should be a wake up call.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

🚨🧵 1/Repost if you think this is yet another good reason to end universal mail-in voting

[JonWanderer @JonWanderer]

@DutchRojas Pay off loans. Stay out of medical malpractice. Get paid by pharma.

[JonWanderer @JonWanderer]

@SenSanders …and killed how many…

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

DISASTER 👇

The number of reported r*pes in England and Wales has gone through the roof.

- In 2000 there was 7801 r*pes.

- In 2024 there was 71.227 r*pes.

That's more than 800% increase in just 24 years.

What went wrong and why isn't the media talking about it?

[JonWanderer @JonWanderer]

@BexStreams @elonmusk This is an interesting summary but doesn’t discuss term limits. Which is the real problem. The founding fathers ran businesses. And left when they added their value.

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

We need to find out more about why Congress was exempted from the shots. Has anyone done a deep dive into that?

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

The average Social Security recipient gets $1200/mo after working 50+ years.

The average illegal “refugee” gets $3874/month after being in America for 50 minutes.

And that should INFURIATE everyone.

[꧁♛𝓑𝓵✯𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓮𝓼♛꧂ @heyitsmeCarolyn]

That’s the problem👇

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

I believe Trump cares about the American People
I believe Elon cares about the American People

I believe Congress only cares about themselves

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

I’d vote for it if we got real spending cuts. But this bill is the largest debt increase in U.S. history—$5T.

That’s like giving your 16-year-old a credit card, watching them rack up $2K on booze and gambling, then raising their limit to $10K. Irresponsible.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Anna Paulina Luna @realannapaulina]

Bring Back Big Beautiful Bromance