Sam Stephens

Saved husband, father, and grandfather. Angus Bulls and Black Hereford Cows. NO UNREQUESTED DM’s.

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

A Canadian who lived their “universal healthcare” system for 32 years just gave Americans the reality check everyone pushing “Medicare for All” needs to hear.

She didn’t rant. She showed the receipts:

• Nearly 200,000 emergency patients waited 48+ hours for a hospital bed last year alone.
• Almost 1 million Canadians now leave the ER without care because the wait is too long (up fivefold in some reports).
• ER doctors warn these delays are lethal.
• 5.9 million adults still have no regular family doctor.
• Specialist waitlists are exploding — median 28.6 weeks from GP referral to treatment. Some doctors are closing practices to new patients.
• Only 2.5 hospital beds per 1,000 people — well below the OECD average. Hallway medicine is routine. Patients die on stretchers.

Her line hits hard:

“We want universal healthcare… until we learn.”

She’s not wrong. Canada’s single-payer model gives coverage on paper but delivers rationing by queue in practice. Long waits aren’t a bug — they’re the feature when government controls supply and prices.

America’s system is also broken: crushing costs, administrative bloat, and real gaps for the uninsured or underinsured. We spend nearly twice as much per person and still have problems.

The solution isn’t importing Canada’s waiting rooms. It’s fixing supply (train more doctors/nurses, cut red tape), adding real competition and price transparency, expanding HSAs/direct primary care, and protecting innovation.

Be informed before you trade one set of problems for another.

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

Kansas City is 3 hours from Springfield.
7 days for mail to go from KC to SGF.

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

Why is the Postmaster General getting massive bonuses when Americans can’t get their mail on time and local postmasters fear for their jobs?

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

this is a $123 rock.

Stuck in a cows hoof.

Fought her for an hour and couldn’t get it safely.

Took her to the vet.

20 secs on the table and it’s out.

Back to baby.

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

GET IT DONE!

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

We don’t have 60 votes for the House-passed SAVE America Act

But we do have a simple majority

Given the bill’s widespread bipartisan popularity, we could pass it with a simple majority—by debating it until it passes

I explain how in this clip

Share if you want this to happen

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

Pickle ball in not supposed to be a violent sport.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Democrats Criticize Trump For Holding MMA Match On The Hallowed Ground Where Biden Hosted Topless Trannies

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

Rain stopped about noon. Rain or ballgames the rest of the week. Gotta finish mowing…

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

One of the best bad guys in a John Wayne western.

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

yes pass the save act.
No do not nuke the filibuster.
How about senators do their freaking job!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BOOM! At midnight Sen. Mike Lee went WAR MODE for the SAVE AMERICA ACT, and FORCED a vote on it

He nailed it: "The Department of Homeland Security has found tens of THOUSANDS of registered non-citizens in the United States!"

We NEED to nuke the filibuster and pass it! 🇺🇸

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

Colorado’s Jefferson County Public Schools had 61 male athletes on girls’ sports rosters.

Not one. Not a handful. 61.

Biological males taking roster spots, wins, scholarships, and safety from actual girls, all while the district cheered it on.

This isn’t “inclusion.” It’s erasure of girls’ sports.

How many more districts are hiding the same numbers?

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

NBC says the quiet part out loud

LA won’t have results tonight because tonz of mail-in ballots will be arriving over the next few days which will help the Democrats

This is how they cheat

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

Place a call this morning at 11:39 am about an invoice. On hold for 4 hours 47 minutes 27 seconds. No one ever picked up. Time to head home. I will try again tomorrow morning.
Bride said I am petty, I prefer persistent.

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.

Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.

1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],

2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],

3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible]

4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent]

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following.

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US

AND MY FAVORITE:

Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?

A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments!

The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!

Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!

If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though.

Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so but it’s worth a try.

How many people can YOU send this to?

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

@TheEXECUTlONER_ It is nice. The bad part is the ugly “monument” built in the middle of the street near it. Closed the street for months.

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

I would be even more confident that my vote would mean something, do diluted by illegal aliens.

[Flora Luz @FloraLuzz_]

Imagine showing up to vote and seeing

ICE checking IDs at the door.

Would you still vote?

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

More Americans were shot this weekend in Chicago than were shot during the entire Iran War.

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

@BowTiedYukon I feel for ya.
But next time the kid will touch every base.
Celebrating is for after you touch home.

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

big dead trees that gotta come out of the fence row.
10 strands of barb wire in each…

[Sam Stephens @SamStep30208022]

we smoke a bunch of meat on the weekend and eat the left overs each night after work.

[USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸 @Arkypatriot]

Zoomers: “Boomers have all the money.”

Boomers: “Baby, that’s because we’re still eating the same pot of beans we started cooking in 1974 while y’all DoorDash a smoothie with a service fee, delivery fee, convenience fee, and emotional damage fee.”