How nice with a little socialist welfare, eh? Did you proudly wear
your red MAGA hat?

Welcome back! I was worried that you'd been smurfed! ;)

Even if I made double my
income, I'd still be eligible for HEAP (Home Energy Assistance Progra

Holy smoke! That's less than half of $3,322. Do you even have a job?

A family of 4 can earn up to $6,390 per month and still be eligible for energy assistance in my state.

If you make too much money to qualify for energy assistance, then congratulations!

Even people flipping burgers for minimum wage make more than the maximum income to be eligible.

You're very wrong about this. This is a slice of government cheese that I've been eating every year for the past 25 years.

https://access.nyc.gov/programs/home-energy-assistance-program-heap/#determine-

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Bj”rn Felten <=-

Welcome back! I was worried that you'd been smurfed! ;)

Our resident Swedish Meatball was probably hiding in a fjord to stay away from the roving bands of Muslim extremists in his country.

You're very wrong about this. This is a slice of government cheese that I've been eating every year for the past 25 years.

I cannot fault people for taking advantage of any gov't program that allows them to get some of their tax dollars back.


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Our resident Swedish Meatball was probably hiding in a fjord to stay
away from the roving bands of Muslim extremists in his country.

One thing is for sure: He's definitely been putting the letter J in places where it don't belong. LOL

You're very wrong about this. This is a slice of government cheese th I've been eating every year for the past 25 years.

I cannot fault people for taking advantage of any gov't program that allows them to get some of their tax dollars back.

I'll take anything I qualify for. Not doing so equates to protesting against money. I pick on leftists for being on food stamps, but I'm only joking. I don't actually have anything against food stamp recipients. If they qualify for it, then they'd better take it. But they ought to have a backup plan for in case the food stamps get cut off to pay for the Ukraine war or for transgender comic books.

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Aaron Thomas -> Bj”rn Felten skrev 2025-05-05 05:36:

Even if I made double my
income, I'd still be eligible for HEAP (Home Energy Assistance Progra

Holy smoke! That's less than half of $3,322. Do you even have a job?

A family of 4 can earn up to $6,390 per month and still be eligible for energy assistance in my state.

So, with less than half of that, $3,195, you are the sole provider able to support four people? Reality check, please!



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A family of 4 can earn up to $6,390 per month and still be eligible f energy assistance in my state.

So, with less than half of that, $3,195, you are the sole provider
able to support four people? Reality check, please!

I never said that I'm the "sole provider."

Nike and Adidas are sole providers.

But let me make you even more wrong than you already are by saying this:

I used to be the sole provider of the family and back (around 2012) I was only making $1600 a month.

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Hello All!

Biden: "I just don't understand how people think that if we allow a dictator, a thug, to decide he's going to take significant portions of land that aren't his, that that's going to satisfy him. I don't quite understand." (Reuters, May 7)

Trump Supporters are bunch of idiots.

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Biden: "I just don't understand how people think that if we allow a dictator, a thug, to decide he's going to take significant portions of land that aren't his, that that's going to satisfy him. I don't quite understand." (Reuters, May 7)

Because Biden said something on TV, the majority of American voters are idiots.

That must be a good channel you're watching.

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Aaron Thomas -> Bj”rn Felten skrev 2025-05-05 19:33:

I used to be the sole provider of the family and back (around 2012) I
was only making $1600 a month.

This is getting better and better with each iteration. Did you perhaps flunk out on maths already in elementary school?

Four people living on $1600 per month means $13 per capita and day. That doesn't even cover proper food, but even more importantly mortgage, taxes, transportation and utility services.

$1600 per month means that you are a total social failure with no education. A perfect member of the MAGA Cult...


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Aaron Thomas -> Bj”rn Felten skrev 2025-05-05 19:33:

I used to be the sole provider of the family and back (around 2012) I
was only making $1600 a month.

This is getting better and better with each iteration. Did you
perhaps flunk out on maths already in elementary school?
Four people living on $1600 per month means $13 per capita and day.
That doesn't even cover proper food, but even more importantly
mortgage, taxes, transportation and utility services.
$1600 per month means that you are a total social failure with no education. A perfect member of the MAGA Cult...

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is you're stupid
and make bad decisions.

Wow, you have an opinion! Good thing we all have opinions. Sometimes
people who are stupid have stupid opinions and make bad assumptions. Of
course this is only my opinion. Good thing we all have one.

Have a great day!


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I used to be the sole provider of the family and back (around 2012) I was only making $1600 a month.

This is getting better and better with each iteration. Did you
perhaps flunk out on maths already in elementary school?

Four people living on $1600 per month means $13 per capita and day. That doesn't even cover proper food, but even more importantly mortgage, taxes, transportation and utility services.

$1600 per month means that you are a total social failure with no education. A perfect member of the MAGA Cult...

I'm glad you're enjoying this. Here's the funniest part: I'm talking about $1600 gross pay. After taxes and automatic child support garnishment it was more like $1000 per month that 3 of us were living on. And my rent was about $700 back then.

Oh and here's the part that you'll like best: Back then I was a brainwashed liberal Democrat!

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Hello Aaron!

Thursday May 08 2025 04:31, you wrote to Bj”rn Felten:

about $1600 gross pay. After taxes and automatic child support

Child Support? So you knocked someone up and just left? Typical Trump supporter, model citizen.

garnishment it was more like $1000 per month that 3 of us were living
on. And my rent was about $700 back then.

Did you consider finding a better job, better than driving trucks and work as a janitor?

Oh and here's the part that you'll like best: Back then I was a brainwashed liberal Democrat!

And what did Republicans do to your life after you converted, gave you some cash?

People who converted to the Republican Party are mostly losers, they were halfway to being human but couldn't handle it, so they downgraded to primates.

I'm not a big fan of Democrats, but Republicans are mostly idiots.

I came to the U.S. when I was 20, I achieved much more than 99% of Republicans with ZERO help from anyone. You guys are just idiots and you voted for one like yourself, but Trump thinks of you as garbage.

Alex

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about $1600 gross pay. After taxes and automatic child support

Child Support? So you knocked someone up and just left? Typical Trump supporter, model citizen.

What's worse are the people who evade child support. There's no proving anything to you though because your mind has already been made up for you.

garnishment it was more like $1000 per month that 3 of us were living on. And my rent was about $700 back then.

Did you consider finding a better job, better than driving trucks and
work as a janitor?

That was $10.80 an hour in 2011. It's was considered good pay back then.

Oh and here's the part that you'll like best: Back then I was a brainwashed liberal Democrat!

And what did Republicans do to your life after you converted, gave you some cash?

I'm still a Democrat, just not a brainwashed liberal one.

I came to the U.S. when I was 20, I achieved much more than 99% of Republicans with ZERO help from anyone. You guys are just idiots and you voted for one like yourself, but Trump thinks of you as garbage.

You should probably be leaving about now then. 1-866-DHS-2-ICE Call this number for information about free airfare.

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Don Vally -> BJ”RN FELTEN skrev 2025-05-08 05:31:

Wow, you have an opinion! Good thing we all have opinions. Sometimes
people who are stupid have stupid opinions and make bad assumptions. Of
course this is only my opinion. Good thing we all have one.

Thank you for your eloquent reply. Unfortunately, I don't see anything about the issue in question: How does a family of four survive on $13 per day?

But then again, that was not your objective, was it? All you tried to do was help a fellow Cult Member out of the web of crazy statements that he is no longer able to untangle himself from. Right? Just shoot the messenger, and all is well.

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Thank you for your eloquent reply. Unfortunately, I don't see
anything about the issue in question: How does a family of four survive
on $13 per day?

But then again, that was not your objective, was it? All you tried to do was help a fellow Cult Member out of the web of crazy statements that he is no longer able to untangle himself from. Right? Just shoot the messenger, and all is well.

I don't have anything to untangle. That's how the money was for a while. There was this thing called the Roadrunner Food Bank and they gave me tons of free food. I made it work until my wife was done with college and then once she started working again we finally had money to buy better food.

Why are you such a miserable old man? Have you ever tried being grateful for what you have? I thank God every week for all the blessings that I can count.

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Don Vally -> BJ”RN FELTEN skrev 2025-05-08 05:31:

Wow, you have an opinion! Good thing we all have opinions. Sometimes
people who are stupid have stupid opinions and make bad assumptions. Of
course this is only my opinion. Good thing we all have one.

Thank you for your eloquent reply. Unfortunately, I don't see
anything about the issue in question: How does a family of four
survive on $13 per day?

You are apparently an expert on the subject. You must have lived in the
same area as everyone in this echo and know exactly how to calculate
expenses and know exactly what it takes to survive in every area and in
every situation. I wasn't aware we had someone as special as you in this
echo.

But then again, that was not your objective, was it? All you tried
to do was help a fellow Cult Member out of the web of crazy statements that he is no longer able to untangle himself from. Right? Just shoot
the messenger, and all is well.

You presume to know what my objectives are. The simple language you use
gives you away. Par for the course, if someone doesn't agree with you
and answer 150 badgering questions to your obsessive compulsive
satisfaction you immediately assume they belong to the Hare Krishna and
are spouting crazy talk.

I really don't think you are making any crazy statements. I don't
presume to know what your objectives are, I just wonder why you think
you know the answers to all the questions before they are asked. I don't
think you are part of a cult.

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is you're stupid
and make bad decisions.

I try to let people speak for themselves and it appears you have
according to the sentence above. You can tell if someone is ugly inside
by the words that come out when they 'try' to communicate.

I would like to sit down with you sometime and discuss things over a
cup of coffee or tea so I could determine if my first impressions are
correct. Really.

Have a great day BJ”RN!

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Don Vally wrote to BJ”RN FELTEN <=-

You are apparently an expert on the subject.

He's an 'expert' only because he's out, standing in his field.
(Read this thinking of 'The Wizard of Oz' song "If I only had a brain...")

every situation. I wasn't aware we had someone as special as you in
this echo.

One of the problems with the Ignorant Elitists like our resident Swedish Meathead here, is that they think the being an "expert" in one area, immediately makes
them an expert in another, completely unrelated, area.

Look up Thomas Sowell and Noam Chomsky on YouTube for some fun videos.
Quick overview: Noam is an expert in linguistics, but tries to pass himself off as an expert in politics.


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Quoting Dr. What to Don Vally <=-

Don Vally wrote to BJ”RN FELTEN <=-

You are apparently an expert on the subject.

He's an 'expert' only because he's out, standing in his field.
(Read this thinking of 'The Wizard of Oz' song "If I only had a
brain...")

every situation. I wasn't aware we had someone as special as you in
this echo.

One of the problems with the Ignorant Elitists like our resident
Swedish Meathead here, is that they think the being an "expert" in one area, immediately makes
them an expert in another, completely unrelated, area.

Look up Thomas Sowell and Noam Chomsky on YouTube for some fun videos. Quick overview: Noam is an expert in linguistics, but tries to pass himself off as an expert in politics.

Hey Beavis... He said Meathead... Heheh!

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Hello Aaron!

Friday May 09 2025 05:28, you wrote to me:

Did you consider finding a better job, better than driving trucks
and work as a janitor?

That was $10.80 an hour in 2011. It's was considered good pay back
then.

I forgot to respond to your message back in May.

$10.80/hr in 2011 was considered good pay? Dude, you are living in some parallel universe.

I was making $11/hr in 2003 in Omaha, NE with just a work permit (no green card) and some very crappy English.
In 2011 I was making like >$30/hr.

How come you were born in this country and still made less money than I did?

In America, we say: 'If you're really smart, it shows in your bank account'.

Kick rocks, hobo.

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Hello Aaron!

Friday June 13 2025 04:27, you wrote to me:

$10.80/hr in 2011 was considered good pay? Dude, you are living
in some parallel universe.

It was good pay for a person with no degree.

I have no degree - just a Soviet elementary school education with all F's.

The United States is the best country in the world, because none of the employers ever asked me about my degree - they asked about actual knowledge.

In Russia, I was nobody because I had no "papers" and no "connections." I refused to deal with the mafia and bullies.

U.S. is my real country now and I won't let you MAGAs destroy it!!!

Alex

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$10.80/hr in 2011 was considered good pay? Dude, you are living
in some parallel universe.

It was good pay for a person with no degree.

I have no degree - just a Soviet elementary school education with all
F's.

Who is the sysop of the BBS you're on? Tell him these messages are being duplicated in multiple message bases.

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Hello Aaron!

Friday June 13 2025 06:15, you wrote to me:

Who is the sysop of the BBS you're on? Tell him these messages are
being duplicated in multiple message bases.

How about you go fuck yourself?

Alex

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