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Dear Buddy Carter: Health Care Premium subsidies help people

Buddy Carter, why do you persist in sending lies in your Congressional newsletter? Isn’t the purpose of these newsletters to inform rather than misinform? Your recent newsletter takes aim at Democrats during the shutdown. You claim that Democrats are keeping the government shutdown in order to provide subsidies for healthcare for undocumented migrants. You wrote: […]

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Government Medicare Money

Georgia Social Security offices on DOGE chopping list

Recent updates to the DOGE.gov ‘savings’ page now list Social Security Administration (SSA) office closures in the following Georgia cities: Columbus Gainesville Vidalia Brunswick Thomasville There is no rhyme or reason for these closures, other than it’s a simple checkbox on a computer screen and a complete lack of concern about the consequences. SSA offices […]

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Dear Buddy Carter

Your compatriot, Rich McCormick, had a town hall recently. It did not go as well as he hoped, especially considering the continued chaos in the federal government. Still, he did what a Congressional representative should do, and met with the public he represents. And that leads us to you. Exactly when will you meet with […]

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Well now, 2024 didn’t go quite as we planned

I was, and I was not, surprised by Trump’s re-election. I knew there were too many men who would normally vote Democrat who balk at electing a women to be Commander-in-Chief; particularly a Black/Asian woman. I knew that thanks to the rebound from COVID that prices are high—aided and abetted by corporations using COVID as […]