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Florida took an interesting approach to reducing the mooching of health care by deadbeat illegal aliens, and it is working. Under Governor deSantis, they adopted legislation to require hospitals to determine the citizenship and immigration status of patients at admission. Once that went into effect, it cut illegal alien freeloading of health care dramatically. We should do that in North Carolina, too.

Commented: Thursday, July 31st, 2025 @ 9:13 am By: borderhawk

A huge burden on American health care that raises medical costs and health insurance premiums is hospitals having to subsidize the cost of treating illegal aliens who should not even be in the country to begin with. When the illegal aliens cannot or will not pay, the cost of their care is dumped on those who can, including their insurance companies. Even if we just limited what hospitals were required to provide to illegal aliens to acute emergencies, it would cut medical costs significantly to American citizens.

As to Medicaid expansion, in North Carolina that scheme made hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians who had private health coverage through their employer ineligible for that private insurance and forced them onto Medicaid. Some lost their doctors in the process. Forcing people who had private health care onto Medicaid is NOT beneficial to those people because many of the better doctors do not take Medicaid. And why should taxpayers have to pay for it instead of their employers?

Tom Campbell is left of Lenin.

Commented: Thursday, July 31st, 2025 @ 8:09 am By: John Steed

Those answers are simple, and can be simply summed up in one answer: Donald Trump is Hitler.

Commented: Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 @ 11:20 pm By: Big Bob 2.0

borderhawk: When it comes to Illegal Aliens, the vast majority of all Democratic Socialists have double downed on stupid when it comes to their rejection of patriotic policy.

Commented: Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 @ 3:36 pm By: Stan Deatherage

That deranged Greta Thunberg can cry her crazy eyes out. This is a huge burden off of the American economy, the American consumer, and the American taxpayer. Climate alarmism is a globalist political charade and it is time to drive a stake through its evil heart. Hooray for Lee Zeldin.

Commented: Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 @ 10:14 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Now there are NONE of them, thanks to the General Assembly. Good job!

Also that gender bill is great, prohibiting tax money for genital mutilation surgery, declaring basic biology to be fact that there are only two genders, and helping get the smut out of our school libraries.

Commented: Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 @ 9:50 am By: Conservative Voter

Boasberg is one crooked political hack of a judge. He needs to be removed from office.

Commented: Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 @ 9:27 am By: borderhawk

Eventually, we will probably learn almost every sordid detail regarding the Epstein case due to the Trump administration not being corrupt and incredibly transparent; whereas, the Idiot President Biden administration was the most corrupt in the history of the United States, and were allocated the special privilege of propagandistic cover by the most corrupt media, Democratic Socialists all, in the history of the United States.

Any Democratic Socialist trying to gain political advantage now over any Epstein issue at this point is charlatan first class, as well as an intellectual mutant of the first right.

Commented: Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 @ 1:19 am By: Stan Deatherage

With Democrats, the louder they scream about their innocence, the more guilty they are.

Commented: Tuesday, July 29th, 2025 @ 11:10 am By: Hood Richardson

Obama bringing in communist sympathizer Brennan is like Lincoln bringing in mulitple communists to help him in his invasion of the South in the 1860s. At that time communism had mainly been established in Germany, where Marx and Engles were from, and they participated in the German revolutionary activities in 1848. After that, many fled Germany, Marx and Engels to the UK and many others to the USA.

Lincoln appointed two of those German communists as generals in his army to fight the south, and an American communist or communist sympathizer as his Assistant Secretary of War. Many other German communists served in lower ranks in the Union army.

Union General August Willach had been a member of the Central Committee of the Communist League before he fled Germany and was a personal friend of Engels. Marx himself called Willach "a communist with a heart". His German-American fellow traveller "48ers" called Willach "the reddest of the red."

Another German communist who served as a Union General was General Joseph Weydemeyer, who was also a personal friend of Karl Marx. Marx gave Weydemeyer a personal letter of introduction when Weydemeyer came to America to a local communist sympathizer, Charles A. Dana. Weydemeyer and Dana together arranged the first publicantion of Marx's "Communist Manifesto" in America. Dana went on to be Lincoln's Assistant Secretary of War against the south.

Commented: Tuesday, July 29th, 2025 @ 9:25 am By: Rino Hunter

Good for Grassley! We need more decent common sense judges to counteract those hyper partisan leftwing radical judges appointed by Obama and by Biden's autopen. Congress needs to declare the Biden autopen judicial appointments void and the seats vacant, so decent judges can fill them instead of those crooks.

Commented: Tuesday, July 29th, 2025 @ 8:02 am By: Rino Hunter

The dollar today is worth about what ten cents were 50 or 60 years ago. Gold, on the other hand is worth almost 100 times what it was 50 or 60 years ago. Silver is worth almost 40 times more. Traditionally, there are three "monetary metals" that have a foreign exchange cross with all currencies in the ForEx market - gold, silver, and platinum. Gold and silver have been used for circulating currencies from ancient times until very recent. Platinum has also been used, but less so, for circulating currency. The only other metal that is sometimes called a monetary metal is palladium, although it has never been used as a circulating currency.

National central banks hold only one metal as reserves, and that is gold, although silver is often held for stability by individuals around the world and one central bank, Russia, has recently been stockpiling it, too. In the last few years, central banks around the world have been increasing their holdings of gold and gradually dumping dollars and euros.

Fiat currencies like the dollar have depreciated at diffent rates. Sixty years ago, The British pound was worth $2.80 in US currency and the Swiss franc 23 cents. Now the pound and franc are worth slightly more than one dollar each. The British pound has depreciated faster than the dollar, while the Swiss franc has depreciated much more slowly, although all of them have depreciated against gold and silver.

Bullion coins of specific weights of gold and silver are being issued by an increasing number of national mints around the world, including the US wint. There is also a curious new currency issued by several states called the Goldback, with one goldback worth 2/1000 of an ounce of gold. Half of that amount is actually incorporated into the banknotes themselves in the form of 24 carat gold leaf. State governments currently issuing goldbacks include New Hampshire, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Florida. They are designed to be spent as money in establishments which accept them. They come in denominations of from half goldbacks to 100 goldbacks.

Personally, I prefer the actual bullion but the goldback is an interesting idea, especially if more states adopt it.

Commented: Monday, July 28th, 2025 @ 4:28 pm By: John Steed