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Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.
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VA to Terminate Home Loan Relief Program | Veterans Guide
Recent changes to VA programs, including the halting of the mortgage rescue program, have left many veterans unsure of their next steps. Veterans Guide explains how we can help you navigate these challenges and secure the benefits you’ve earned.
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Veterans across the country are grappling with unexpected changes in their benefits and support systems, as recent reports indicate significant shifts in VA programs. These alterations have left many veterans confused and uncertain about their future, with some facing a sudden loss of crucial assistance.

In a move that has caught veterans and advocacy groups by surprise, the Department of Veterans Affairs recently announced it would halt its mortgage rescue program, which had been designed to help veterans avoid foreclosure. Launched just a year ago, the program provided financial assistance to veterans at risk of losing their homes. Now, veterans who were counting on this support are left scrambling for alternative solutions, further complicating their already challenging financial situations.

Farmers want more welfare.

www.ky3.com
Farmers push for federal assistance for tornado and flood damage
Farmers in Fulton and Sharp Counties held a meeting on Saturday, April 26, to figure out how to get a disaster declaration from the federal government.
https://www.ky3.com/2025/04/26/farmers- ... od-damage/

Farmers in Fulton and Sharp Counties held a meeting on Saturday, April 26, to figure out how to get a disaster declaration from the federal government.

The agricultural community is trying to get help after the recent tornadoes and floods devastated the area.

Kenneth Wagoner is a farmer who lost everything to the tornado that hit Cave City on March 14. He attended the meeting.

“The tornado that hit Cave City came directly across my property, and it wiped out everything. There’s nothing, no houses, no sheds, no barns, nothing,” Wagoner said.

Fulton County Office of Emergency Management Director Jeremy Langston says farmers are pivotal to both areas.

“Mainly trying to get some push for federal assistance for the agricultural side of things, not just for our area but for the state in general,” Langston said. “We all live in a state here that’s largely based on agriculture and trying to make sure they get some of their needs heard and trying to get some assistance to them as well.”


https://www.npr.org/2025/04/27/nx-s1-53 ... ncertainty

Its been a few weeks since President Trump put a pause on high import taxes on most US trading partners, while increasing tariffs on China. American farmers worry all the back and forth is setting up what could be the worst farm crisis in almost half a century.

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 11:16 am VA to Terminate Home Loan Relief Program | Veterans Guide
Recent changes to VA programs, including the halting of the mortgage rescue program, have left many veterans unsure of their next steps.

Follow the steps.

Step 1: save 20% in cash
Step 2: locate home place offer
Step 3: once offer is accepted walk down the street to any credit union. Take out conventional mortgage with 20% down, 30 years, fixed rate pay no points
Step 4: move into home
Step 5: make your mortgage payments
Step 6: if you can’t make a mortgage payment sell your house, pay off mortgage, and move into an apartment and start over with step 1

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 11:15 am Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

Who cares?

Everyone is free to bite their own nose off to spite their face. Boycotting sure beats homos suing bakers who won’t bake them a wedding cake.

innocentbystander wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 12:45 pm

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 11:16 am VA to Terminate Home Loan Relief Program | Veterans Guide
Recent changes to VA programs, including the halting of the mortgage rescue program, have left many veterans unsure of their next steps.

Follow the steps.

Step 1: save 20% in cash
Step 2: locate home place offer
Step 3: once offer is accepted walk down the street to any credit union. Take out conventional mortgage with 20% down, 30 years, fixed rate pay no points
Step 4: move into home
Step 5: make your mortgage payments
Step 6: if you can’t make a mortgage payment sell your house, pay off mortgage, and move into an apartment and start over with step 1

You literally have no idea as to how VA loans work and why they exist, do you?

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 2:53 pm

innocentbystander wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 12:45 pm

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 11:16 am VA to Terminate Home Loan Relief Program | Veterans Guide
Recent changes to VA programs, including the halting of the mortgage rescue program, have left many veterans unsure of their next steps.

Follow the steps.

Step 1: save 20% in cash
Step 2: locate home place offer
Step 3: once offer is accepted walk down the street to any credit union. Take out conventional mortgage with 20% down, 30 years, fixed rate pay no points
Step 4: move into home
Step 5: make your mortgage payments
Step 6: if you can’t make a mortgage payment sell your house, pay off mortgage, and move into an apartment and start over with step 1

You literally have no idea as to how VA loans work and why they exist, do you?

Sure I do. The VA offers to cover a portion of he loan if the borrower fails to pay. It makes the veteran a more attractive risk to the lender. We offered these bullshit loans as a benefit to veterans to give them a serious leg up over other borrowers. In some cases you put almost no money down to buy that house. Problem is counselor, we now have almost 3 complete generations from world war 2 who feel that this type of borrowing is necessary for ALL people to be able to buy a home. All we have done is have 3 complete generations of US citizens who could never pass a damn marshmallow test.

I think I have had 11 or maybe 12 mortgages over the years. Never put less than 20% down. I think it should be that way for all borrowers with no exceptions. I said that once to a real estate agent and she shrugged and gave a snippy remark the way you would that if my way was the case, only old people could ever buy a house. She was wrong the way you are wrong about almost everything.

Idiot

Virginia (Roberts) Giuffre who allegedly had sex with both Epstein and Prince Andrew, well, she just committed suicide in Australia.

Please do likewise...

lol, A+

BINGO!

Boo-hoo..

After Trump Aid Cuts, Food Banks Scrounge and Scrimp
In one of the country’s poorest areas, the quantity and quality of government deliveries have dropped, forcing one charity to make do with thin soup and dried cranberries.
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Sara Busse needed to make a hot meal for 40 needy seniors. She had promised a main dish, a starch, a vegetable, a fruit and a dessert.

In the past, she had gotten many of those ingredients for free from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

This time, she had dried cranberries, crackers and vegetable soup.

“What am I supposed to do?” she said. “What am I supposed to cook?”

Earlier this year, the Trump administration cut about $1 billion in federal aid to anti-hunger groups, according to the national advocacy group Feeding America.

That put more pressure on charitable organizations that distribute groceries or meals to hold up their corner of the American safety net, dipping into reserves and scrounging for donations to replace the food they had lost.

Ms. Busse’s charity in the shadow of West Virginia’s Capitol illustrates this struggle in miniature. Trinity’s Table serves meals at a senior gathering, a child-care center and a women’s shelter, all to people living in or near poverty. For many of her clients, Ms. Busse said, this may be the heartiest meal of the week — and perhaps the only one of the day.

In the past few months, Ms. Busse had already spent $10,000 — a third of her group’s savings — to keep the meals going, replacing the ingredients the government was no longer providing.

She said she had begun to feel as if she were trapped in some grim reality cooking show, forced to turn a dwindling supply of federal aid into 600 meals a week, for as long she could.

...

The Agriculture Department began helping food banks this way in the 1980s, with a program that served a dual purpose: It provided nutritional items to needy individuals but also propped up prices for U.S. farmers, by buying their goods and then giving them away.

During his first term, President Trump did not cut this aid; he increased it, sharply, to accommodate farm surpluses caused by his trade wars and the hunger that followed the Covid-19 pandemic. Spending on food aid quadrupled, to $3 billion in 2020.

This time, however, Mr. Trump’s administration did the opposite. It canceled about $1 billion in food aid announced last fall by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., according to Feeding America. Feeding America said that, before those cuts, it had projected that the government would spend $2 billion on aid to food banks this fiscal year.

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The sudden cutbacks hit hard in Appalachia, where hunger is especially prevalent and government aid plays an outsize role in fighting it.

Food banks in cities typically get 25 percent or less of their food from the Agriculture Department. They have other options: donations from big-box stores and grocery distribution centers, wealthy benefactors and companies.

Not here.

Facing Hunger Foodbank, which supplies groceries to food pantries and charity kitchens in the southern half of West Virginia, relied on the government for about 40 percent of its food.

It had been expecting 16 truckloads from the government for April. Then 11 of those were canceled, said Cyndi Kirkhart, the food bank’s chief executive.

Sorry hedge I can’t get to Australia at the moment.

I love what Amazon is doing.

Well Amazon is helping because they are doing the math to show what will happen for tariffs. That is a good thing. Intelligence is always better than ignorance.