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  • Yes, Medicare DOES have an App

    Now’s a great time to download Medicare’s “What’s covered” app — available for free on the App Store and Google Play.

    “What’s covered” makes it easy to see what items and services are covered by Medicare Part A and/or Part B, how to get covered benefits, and basic cost information. Use the app at the doctor’s office, hospital, or anywhere you use your phone or tablet!

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    Interesting website showing popular plugins that are downloaded daily: TopFiftyWP.com

  • National Debt Growing Under Trump

    The CBO (bipartisan Congressional Budget Office) is projecting that the national debt will reach $960 billion for the 2019 fiscal year and probably climb to $1 trillion in 2020 under the Trump Administration.

    Trump cut the tax rate for the wealthy and the money to run the government has to come from somewhere. Thus, the national debt is growing and is unsustainable.

    Infographic: U.S. National Debt Is Growing Rapidly | Statista You will find more infographics at Statista

  • Scholten, Hillary

    Hillary Schoilten

    Supports a woman’s right to choose, common sense gun reform. Continues to fight for marriage equality and fights against corrupt gerrymandering.

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  • Art Fettig, “Pass it on!”

    A dynamic speaker named Bill Sanders invited me to join him one day when he was visiting Jackson prison. That would be around 1980. We went into the maximum security section and visited with prisoners serving life sentences and then we would each gave a little speech and talked with prisoners privately.  I asked one prisoner why he was in prison and he told me he had murdered a couple of people when he was a young man. It was quite an experience and I will never forget the sound of that big gate clanging behind me when we entered.

    I wanted something stronger to share with these men who could well be spending the rest of their live in the prison. I wrote my Self-Esteem Credo and on a later visits I shared it with some prisoners.

    Sometime later I received an e-mail from a New Zealand prison counselor who advised me he had obtained a copy of my Credo from a friend and had been using it with prisoners for many years now and says it makes a real difference in the behavior and attitudes of prisoners that he works with.

    Several years ago thanks to Christopher’s News Notes over a million copies of my   Credo have been distributed to teens.

    The Self Esteem Credo  
    © Art Fettig 

    God made me – I was no accident,  
    No happenstance. I was in God’s plan  
    And He doesn’t make junk, ever.  
    I was born to be a successful human being.  
    I am somebody special, unique,  
    Definitely one of a kind  
    And I love me.  
    That is essential so that   
    I might love you too.  
    I have potentials, yes,  
    There is greatness in me,  
    And if I harness that specialness  
    Then I will write my name  
    In the sands of time with my deeds.  
    Yes, I must worker harder, longer,  
    With greater drive  
    If I am to excel,  
    And I will pay that price.  
    For talents demand daily  
    Care and honing.  
    I was born in God’s image and likeness  
    And I will strive to do God’s will.