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There’s a new disease for long-term marijuana smokers called scromiting where you vomit and scream at the same time. Supposed to be rather painful.

Im trying to get there.

It’s like living in Columbia….only without the Mexicans.

I’m only in pain if I’m awake.

Reminds me of being poor and having sleep for supper instead of food.

There’s a new disease for long-term marijuana smokers called scromiting where you vomit and scream at the same time. Supposed to be rather painful.

Sounds like the Chinese have found their new Covid. Oh yeah and why have those little fake commies Not been prosecuted in the international courts? Oh yeah I remember. It is easier for Mark and his commies to attack Jews.

This is a disgrace. GM declared bankruptcy and screwed this old guy out of his pension and then the government bailed them out with tax money

88-year-old veteran becomes social media sensation as thousands rally to help him retire

"BRIGHTON, Mich. (WXYZ) — An 88-year-old veteran working as a cashier at a Michigan Meijer store has become an unlikely internet sensation after his story touched millions of people worldwide, leading to a fundraising campaign to help him retire for good.

Ed Bambas works at the Meijer in Brighton, a job he took after being retired for more than a decade to help pay his bills. His story caught the attention of social media influencers who are now helping spread awareness about his situation...."


"Bambas retired from General Motors in 1999 and expected to live in comfort together with his wife Joan.

"I felt comfortable. I felt I had a stable financial footing. I owned my house," Bambas explained. "We didn't have any major worries.”


"But as a former salaried employee at GM, Bambas says he lost his pension in 2012 when the company went bankrupt. Then his wife became ill and Bambas became her full-time caretaker. She died 7 years ago, but the long illness accumulated significant medical bills.

"Once my wife died, I didn't have enough income to pay for this place or all the other bills I had accumulated because of my wife's illness," Bambas said."

With debt to pay and his pension gone, Bambas knew he had no other option but returning to work, first at an Ace Hardware then as a cashier at Meijer.

“It wasn't hard for me to do it because I knew I had to do it,” Bamabs said. "I'm fortunate God gave me a good enough body to be strong enough to stand there for eight, eight and a half hours a day."


https://www.wxyz.com/news/88-year-old-veteran-becomes-social-media-sensation-as-thousands-rally-to-help-him-retire




For Bambas, this has all come as a surprise. He doesn't know the total amount raised so far but says throughout his life, his wife has always been by his side.

“I just try to be myself, with one exception. I think my wife sits on my shoulder and helps me do the right thing,” Bambas said. "I try very hard to go to her gravesite every day and say hi... It helps me get through my day — it really does," Bambas said.

When I was a kid in Detroit it was incredibly easy to make money. You could find a job in hours, you could start a business in days. There wasn't as much regulation and it was more active factories - industrial production. It still goes on but at a vastly reduced scale. The auto companies seem like background noise now. Oh well. 'Rust Belt'.