Help for older people to make ends meet

I'm 60 years old and this is the first time in my life I have had to deal with such long standing poverty period due to our pay being cut so drastically and losing jobs to no work available. I thought it might be nice to share tips on survival. It also might set my mind at east to hear that others are doing the same unusual things I'm doing to save money, such as: Warming my hands over a candle while keyboarding because I don't want to turn the heat up. Usin ...

You may not like the message nor the messenger, but it's worth knowing about at least. ...

What do you think about this statement Republicans? I know there are some on this board that have been looking for a job for months. Blocking the benefits for the unemployed and statements like this will be fuel for the Dems in November.A debate on the Senate floor Monday over unemployment compensation crystallized, at least for a moment, the divide between the two parties in Washington. Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican whip, argued that unemployment benefits dissuade people from job-hunt ...

Every day I just shake my head at how this man actually became president. I'm sure his devoted supporters will defend him but how long can this go on. We are the laughing stock of the world. ...

the Pilsbury roll out crusts or the frozen crusts? I'd love to make homemade pies, but I always mess up the crust! I've wondered if the store bought crusts are any good? ...

Turns out Jared was investigated by FBI for pornography. He was the spokesperson for 15 years. Imagine how his wife and 2 kids feel now that it is splashed all over the papers Tragic. ...

After Koch gift. After the United Negro College Fund accepted a $25 million grant from Koch Brothers, Inc and the Charles Koch Foundation, The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) sent a letter to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) yesterday ending their relationship. This includes a paid internship program. In the letter, AFSCME President Lee Saunders condemned the action as “not only deeply hostile to the rights and dignity of public employees, but ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has ended a nearly $1 million program that provided gym memberships for employees. The new administration under EPA administrator Scott Pruitt identified the gym memberships as an abuse of taxpayer dollars. Examples of the program's misuse included $15,000 for gym memberships for 37 EPA scientists in Las Vegas last year. "We have ended taxpayer-funded fitness centers at EPA; a program that was costing American taxpayers $900,000 per year," said EPA ...

at the White House. Well, imagine that! ...

administration is eliminating one of Barack Obama’s many outrageous amnesty initiatives, this one involving illegal immigrants from African countries affected by the Ebola virus a few years ago. The Ebola amnesty scandal got buried in the hoopla of the administration’s broad executive order protecting millions of illegal alien Mexicans and Central Americans, but it was just as alarming. Launched in 2014, the Ebola reprieve was issued separately—and quietly—via a Temporary Protected Statu ...

IRVING, Texas — A Texas high school student at the center of a storm after authorities mistook his clock invention for a fake bomb got a reprieve from the highest level Wednesday. President Obama invited him to bring his invention to the White House. "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?," @POTUS tweeted. "We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great." More at link... ...

claim to the money. Obama administration sued companies like Bank of America to give mortgages to people who could not afford to pay them back, and the bank had agreed to pay $16.6 billion in order to avoid further prosecution from the federal government. That settlement money went to left wing organizations including the National Council of La Raza, Operation Hope, and National Community Reinvestment Coalition. These groups that were illegally given the money by Obama used to be known, c ...

This is sooooo stoopid!!! What do they want the President to do? I guess the President needs to sit at his desk 24 hours/day. After all, he can only handle one catastrophe at a time. I think our President needs to move his office and staff to a boat and park it next to the gusher. Hopefully, that will make people happy. I guess Republicans have forgotten how many days Bush spent at his Texas ranch. Last week, it was an ad. This time, it's a statement from the GOP chairman. O ...

This will be #4, but I think he's a keeper. ...

offshoring MT jobs about bring jobs back to the US? ...

It was interesting to me that he was trying so hard to twist Obama's motives. He was complaining that Obama's expressed desire that everyone could attend college was a putdown of those without college educations! Obama is an elitist - against the working class! He's not very good with the subtlety required to incite the DBs. ...

I have this sillly song stuck in m'head now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2RJN9a_jdM&feature=player_embedded ...

Poor Alec just keeps bumbling, stumbling, and tumbling. You could feel sorry for such a hapless soul, except that this isn't a person, but the soulless ALEC – the American Legislative Exchange Council. This secretive corporate front is behind hundreds of regressive and repressive bills that're being pushed through Republican-controlled state legislatures. Its bills and tactics are so venomous that 35 of ALEC's brand-name corporate funders – from Amazon to Walmart &n ...

I received this in an email. I think we'll be hearing more from him... Meet Maine 's New Governor --- In case you haven't heard about this guy before, his name will stick in your mind! The new Maine Governor, Paul LePage is making New Jersey 's Chris Christie look timid. He isn't afraid to say what he thinks. Judging by the comments, every time he opens his mouth, his popularity goes up. He brought down the house at his inauguration when he shook his fist toward the med ...

After all, didn't he say he's being treated unfairly by them over and over and over and over 100s of times? Did he go to raise heck, stomp his feet in protest, threaten to run 3rd party again, or just plain threaten.... I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. Plus the rest of the world finds him ridiculous and a clown, so we're going from "the Messiah" to Ronald McDonald. ...

So, I am extremely liberal--by this venue's standards anyway. I was at a gathering of friends yesterday, and, yes, most of us are pretty liberal, there are a few strays, and we had a few jabs back and forth, but the point. I was told by one of my friends that I should watch Carson on Meet the Press...it was outrageous, funny, (all the other side political jabbing, you know how it goes, most of you do it with Hilary). I just had time to do it. This is the most reasonable I have seen th ...

either married or have a significant other ever feel as though you are just sort of a nonentity after some amount of time and wonder where am I going from here on. I get very tired of lack of communication and just nothing much to say. You work, do housework bla bla and just not much fun and wonder how to get out of this situation. Do you move on or just accept it or what. ...

on keynote speaker at the DNC - "I don't want my daughter near him." Link ...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/19/obama-rouhani-united-nations-iran/2838577/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomWorld-TopStories+(USATODAY+-+World+Top+Stories) ...

bringing down President Trump: another women’s march. Which means another public instance of Trump haters shouting slogans to one another and mistaking it for constructive politics. What progressives need to defeat Trump is outreach, but all they have is outrage. On March 8, organizers seem to be aiming for a different vibe than the librarians-in-pussy-hats element that made the first women’s march after Trump’s inauguration so adorable. Instead of milling around Washington, organi ...

From the NY Times this morning "Senator Marco Rubio...spokesman told Breitbart News, a conservative news outlet, that House conservatives should not fall for a “ruse” that could lead to one of their more narrow, piecemeal immigration bills being used as vehicle to enter a conference negotiation between the House and the Senate, from which a broader immigration bill could emerge." Business-Conservative Alliance Presses for Immigration Action Doug Mills/The New York ...

I read an article today and had seen part of Meet the Press this morning where Hillary said Trump should release his tax returns. She's not the only one saying this and I can't believe I agree with her on that subject!!! Cokie and Steve Roberts also had a good article on Trump and his taxes in the local paper today. What gets me is the Trumpeters think it's okay for Trump to hide his taxes and it's okay that he's part of the 1% group, but in 2012 they were all ...

I was wondering if anyone else is going through this. I turned 53 last spring, but I have been noticing that food I normally eat and have been eating for yers and years are either making me feel sick, giving me diarrhea and even heartburn. I wonder if this is an age thing and that dietary needs change. So far have identified: Milk, eggs, cheese (but not greek yogurt), ice cream (but not organic) they all upset my stomache. Chocolate candy (but not chocolate chip cookies), peanuts, ...

I have been working so many years now and I don't really mind it but hubs and I were just talking this weekend. Have checked the following issue out with neurologist- no answer on this. I noticed problems I was having with balance, sometimes standing and veering to 1 side or the other, never knowing which way I might go. I try to play it off when others notice because it is embarrassing for me. I cannot walk a straight line, hope never stopped to check and asked to do that, find I hit my f ...

Help for older people to make ends meet

Thanks for this...SM - Old Anon

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