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Trump’s Economic Era

she’s stealing things without realizing it and hearing
noises that are not there. Paula begins to question her
reality.

Whether you accept the official story of 9/11 or
you believe it was a false flag incident, there is no
dispute about what happened afterward. The occurrence
led to the Patriot Act, which empowered the federal
government while trashing personal liberties. The
enormity of the incident and the fear of a foreign
aggressor made Americans give up some of their
freedom for more security.

PART-TIME WORK and OBAMACARE
The way Americans finance health care changed
when the U.S. Congress passed the Affordable Care Act
in 2010. Many businesses, to avoid penalties, fired full-
time employees and hired part-time workers who work
less than 30 hours a week. The Internal Revenue Code
defines part-time employees as those persons who work
1,000 hours or less in any 12-month period; this
equivocates to 30 hours a week. These events have led
to a decrease in covered employees, full-time
employees with full benefits, and an increase in non-
covered employees, part-time employees without
benefits. As more Americans work part-time, living
standards diminish.
Meanwhile, health insurance companies are
pulling back from Obamacare. Anthem, which sells
Blue Cross and Blue Shield, has announced a
retrenchment from the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Aetna has exited most states, Anthem Insurance has left
the Obamacare exchange in Ohio, and Humana Inc. is

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