JANIE, I'm the guest above.

You have hit the nail on the head so many times in this discourse, that, if I was the nail, I'd be all bent out o' shape like some here that cannot hear all the absolute truths you've posted.

Two words I want/need to toss out are Spend down.

With both of our MANY pre-existing med realities, with my sig other not having had enough "quarters in" to be considered for SSDI even though she is thoroughly disabled, even though I COULD earn if I put my mind to it, I cannot earn because it would be added to our already huge "spend down". All that JUST so I can get regular ECTs for her through Medicaid. And the state we are in is the new Mississippi of the north!!!!! No budget agreed on. Month to month emergency spending bills. Gridlock by politicians. No funding for mental health and everything else cut WAY back!---------- And why? Because of this absolutely insane war sucking thousands of billions of dollars away from all that made life in America worthwhile.---Check out Ian Robb's song "They're Takin' It Away"---a real stunner. Not to mention the obscene systematic dismantling of the nations values and rights.

I used to send cash to ACLU & Amnesty Int. regularly. I can't keep doing that now, and I have come to resent the calls and the mailings I get all the damn time. Yes, mam, I know from where you come. And it's appreciated.