None of them have done their jobs or we wouldn't be trillions of dollars in debt and our health system a nightmare. Wake up and stop idolizing these men.
@@lalagardenia6500In lots of cases your correct, hopefully this changes with Trump's election, he's working for big changes with his appointments of so many outsiders. I hope the country continues with getting rid of the long standing Democrat rats that have bloated their bank accounts with lies and unkept promises the last 45 years. Senator Kennedy is getting something done, and has since he first took office.
@catfrigames yes - watch their actions despite saying all the right things. They complain and point out issues but then nothing is ever fixed, no one is held accountable. It's a clown show!!
Well I think they all need a pay cut. If they are an office employee, then their butt better be at the office during business hours. The president shouldn't have to fight with a civil servant union to eliminate redundancy, or inefficiency. Schedule F implementation should reign in the rest. I don't think congress or senate should receive a pension. They should pay into ss just like the rest of us. Their salaries shouldn't be tied to a fixed dollar amount like it is currently. Their salaries should be determined by their constituents average wages, plus 10%. No more. We already fund their transportation to DC and home. We fund their offices in both DC and in their districts. They shouldn't be able to trade any stocks/financial instruments while in office, and for 10 years after leaving office. Nor should their immediate family members. Especially if they pushed through laws, funding, or have other insider information that is not public, that will effect the financial markets.
Since money is created by government, its obvious that your education is questionable. Try creating your own money and spend it and see where it gets you.
I agree. They borrow/take from Social Security to pay for wars, give to illegals and other unintended costs and promise to pay it back but never do and then talk about entitlement reform like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid is the problem. Screwing over the average American citizen.
Senator Kennedy is an honest and ethical man. The only thing I wish he'd do is have a second display board with the names of the Treasury staffers that aren't cooperating. Not only can we return money to the people but, knowing who to fire will save a few dollars too.
Thank you, Senator Kennedy for all your services to the American people, who is so in need in this most difficult time. Please investigate, dept.of justice for all the refunds that is so needed at this time 🙏
I freaking love you Sen. Kennedy. Cant wait for you to help 47 MAGA!! Hope Pete gets to speak for himself and defend himself innocent until proven guilty.
There is no spending problem. We've paid down 120% debt to GDP before. We did it while creating Medicare and fully funding two trust funds that covered the program until this decade. Income over $200,000 was taxed at 90%. Businesses did everything they could to minimize their taxable income, which included spend, spend, spend, and employee bonuses. The federal reserve was never worried about recessions because the previous quarter was TWENTY PERCENT GROWTH. Inflation matched wages increases. Reagan cut the highest tax rate in half, subsidized demand with government debt, and employers increased wages at half the rate of inflation. We know what the right thing is. Do it.
@@blondiemyhorse6257That “welfare” comes from that individual’s account that the government has traded, so that is the individual’s “money” that is being paid to them. I put “money” in quotes because that is not the true definition of money, but it is what people think of money. Real money is gold or silver coins. Dollars are federal reserve notes.
Child support is not LAW! The program has NEVER been enacted by the US Congress nor is it mandatory for any State to participate in the illegal practice. Someone show when the Public Healthcare Act was signed into Law and I'll back off. 😐 I'll wait.... The US Government collects 66% of all child support while states absorb 34% illegally. The only FEDERAL Laws practiced in states are immigration Laws. This program violates the rights of citizens paying into the illegal practice by way of driver license suspensions and accumulations or FALSE DEBT in the name of "child support arrears." Your inalienable rights are being violated when someone limits your movement , falsify documents in the manner or affidavits and restrict your ability to work by license suspensions. No matter ho we slice this, this government has no right to impose false debt and financial castration upon men who become BANKRUPT over policies and "acts" meant to subjugate and bend into financial submission. If you have been harmed by child support, you deserve FULL RESTITUTION end of story.
My wife and I are from Louisiana. Back when Senator Kennedy was the tresurer for Louisiana, I found my wife's name on his list of people that were owed money. Mt wife had changed jobs a year earlier and her final pay check for a couple of weeks was there. Apparently the enployer's accountant did not think it was needed to send the check to her by mail. Anyway, we got the money. Had we not made the claim after a period the state could have claimed the money. John Kennedy is right, the United States government has dropped the ball here. It is time to make it right.
My husband hasn’t had a raise in 4 years. (His boss got 600,000 in ‘PPE loans’) Our disabled son has his SSI garnished because of a paperwork error when he was a foster baby. We are trying to sell our home before we lose it …and these guys are getting a wage increase EVERY YEAR?!
@ he had a friend make homemade masks for all the guys (construction crews) and they were offered bottles of hand sanitizer but I don’t think any of them wanted it. I’ve been told the PPE loans were for the most part, forgiven.
You have to FIND them first. Many of them are dead. They stopped selling Series E bonds 45 years ago. My dad had some but he had the receipts so we kids cashed them in.
@@publicdomain3378 Greenbacks (named as they were printed black and white on the front and green on the back) were created as emergency paper currency during the civil war, even though it was never based upon anything tangible like gold or silver reserves nor created by private banks, but rather a "promissory" (or Demand Notes and United States notes) from congress to promise to pay in coin. The fight after control of the countries financing is what led to such a long civil war and to Lincolns assassination. It was after that the "Greenback" was voted by congress in 1866 to be backed by gold and began to have real value in trade and finance. As well the birth of Chase Bank.
@@publicdomain3378 Yeah...made of gold and silver, which had vanished from circulation in 1862 (which by happen stance is when the note was created). In 1862, the greenback dollar could not be directly traded for gold coins. However, by December 1878, the silver dollar, gold dollar, and greenback dollar were freely interchangeable at the same value on the open market. If the fund ran out of allocated money to honor that note, you had to wait until the next allocation approval from congress to be reimbursed. That is why they backed the greenback with what is in the reserves, so it continues to hold value. Its just a form of trade.
The Treasury Direct needs to start needs to send out monthly or quarterly statements out instead of telling the consumer to just login to look at what you have, and they needs to make it more easy for you to transfer your money more efficiently and faster instead of all these forms that you have to fill out and send to them.
AMAZING! My girlfriend has a bunch of matured bonds given to her by her deceased parents and trying to jump through hoops and get a copy of their death certificate etc has made it pretty much impossible. This is great news and we thank you for all you do!
Yeah, getting a death certificate is rarely difficult. But there can be issues, like the office that is supposed to issue it was closed due to budget and so there is no issuing authority for that county or its neighbors. No health departments, either.
Thank you Senator Kennedy. One of the major issues- one of many, are that the people put in the positions to manage astronomical amounts of money, have no idea how to balance a check book, let alone manage there own yearly salaries, and surely have no idea what to do with billions of dollars. It would not surprise me if the bond money was already spent and laundered and that is just writing on paper. And then the American people suffer.
Last summer I went to Indiana's unclaimed money website and received $1800 I had no idea I had. I sent a copy of my drivers license and social security number and boom $1800. Thank you it couldn't have come at a better time.
I have a saving account, and I thought I would just save it for a rainy day, and it would be there! If or when I needed it. I think it was about 3 years later when I went to withdraw it, they said they had to turn it over to the state of Minnesota! Now they had my old address and my new address, my ss number, my driver's license number, but they still tried stealing my money. I had to download a form, fill it out, send in a copy of my driver's license and birth certificate, and it all had to be notarized and I had to drive down, and it cost me $7,00 dollars, even though they knew it was my money. They will make you jump through hoops and hope you will just give up and let them keep it!
Please investigate those who did not cooperate. When the bureaucracy refuses to cooperate with their bosses and the law it makes me question if something unlawful is going on.
When you make 200k ish in Congress and Senate and most Americans make about 50k, there's a huge disconnect. Justify AOC going from bartender to that? I have a bond my step dad setup for me when I was like 9 years old, at 53 years old the bond is only worth 2,000 dollars and they tell me I can't get it because my step dad has to sign on it and I haven't seen him in over 30 years and no idea if he's alive.
Great idea senator Kennedy. Hope this happens. With unclaimed property you usually have to give your address at that time. I will not remember my addresses from 40, 50, 60 years ago, but believe i did buy a US Savings bond many years ago. I knowthe city but not specific address.
Thank you for keeping after this, Senator! I've followed you since you first talked about this big Easter egg the government was sitting on. And I'm glad you not only didn't give up but found a way to get the information posted without reinventing the wheel or letting the swamp run out the clock, as is their wont. It is stunning the energy the state will expend, to avoid expending energy! Now just imagine what could be done if we had more people trying to find efficiencies instead of trying to hide money!
What I can't figure out is when I was working a job I'd get a reward for doing a good job in regards to completing tasks or maybe we're filling out all the orders that came in that would be where I would get a raise how come it is the Senate feels like to get a raise for over budgeting our country raising the deficit to such an extent that's going to take 4 years just to get it back under control why should the Senate get a raise?
You are very much appreciated, Sen Kennedy. You are known for doing the right thing when some are not. My only wish is that I could someday live in your state. You give Louisiana a good name.
The hourly employee do not receive a percentage increase so why does Government and State employees feel like they deserve that amount of increase? Shouldn't theirs be based on the same as ours by their performance based raises. If they fail to inprove and help our countries finances they should feel it too.
10 years ago I was cleaning out some old boxes and found 2 $25 savings bonds from the 1970s. Turned them into my bank and got $144. They continue to earn interest for quite a while. Paid $18.75 each originally. 😊
These government agencies will spend,spend, spend. When the end of the fiscal year is approaching. They say if they don't use it, they lose it. That's why they get a bigger budget every year. The American taxpayers are truly being used in a certain way as slaves. God's government is happy with 10% tax compared to taxed to nothing. Some people are literally living paycheck to paycheck, and that has to be very scary.
My parents got me several bonds when I was young, my husband’s did too. My mom found them in her basement lol so I tried to cash mine a few weeks ago & they wouldn’t let me. They said I had do all kinds of things, including mailing it to the Government. And I was thinkingggg yeah right, they will claim they never got it. Sooo I’ve just kept it as a collectable.
LAW OF THE LAND The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the ap- pearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The U. S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for a law which violates the Constitution to be valid. This is succinctly stated as follows: "All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void." Marbury vs. Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803)
@TimTestifies I started working at 16. I've been driving trucks since 2005. I'm not physically capable of working anymore and now I'm filing for disability and hoping for table scraps. I sacrificed my body for absolutely no reason.
I'd say that most people do not understand savings bonds first of all a double EE savings bond is not taxable. And a lot of people don't know how to cash them in because they afraid that they're going to be taxed.
The credit unions do not accept them. And to cash in my oldest childs bonds the Bank made us open a bank account to cash them, cause they would not cash unless had acct with them. We got fhe money and quickly closed the acct. All for a couple hundred $. Luckilly she was using for college otherwise it was taxed. My other kids not cashed in you cause such a hassle. And theirs would be taxed.
Thank you Senator Kennedy for following through in this matter for the American people. You are a man of the people and may the good Lord bless you and yours! You are a good citizen/man.
I didn’t know this was a thing. I just checked my states unclaimed property listings and scored $25 Some overpayment on a utility bill from 15 years ago. Thank you Senator 😂
I hate these percentage raises. 3% of my 16.00/hour is a whole lot less than 3% of 60.00. The rich get richer the poor are lucky to keep up with inflation.
Federal employees automatically getting annual pay increases even if their performance doesn't deserve it, is insane. The private sector might only get 2.5% and that's based on performance or they might not get a raise at all.
What about a 4% wage increase for companies. It forces growth by injecting cash into the spenders (workers) and stops greedy ceos constantly taking pay raises in lieu of the workers. Im sure it would need limits but i think it would work
What is even worst, the interest on that bond is taxed by the government.
Not if you have a trust
Interest on government bonds should be tax free. State and Federal, because they are the taxing authority.
do you realize that "worse" is a word in English as well?
Tax free on the state and local level.
@@blanksender7808president of your local neighborhood spelling crime stoppers on the job. On the HOA board as well?
We are severely OVER TAXED!
Because usury. The enslavement of mankind.
how else could we be constantly at war? Think of the wars before you talk
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Can't mention Usury, huh?
only if you make $100,000 or less
Flat tax, 10% max on income. NO personal income tax would be better, why would any sane person tax someone for working?
Senator Kennedy does his job. I wish there were more like him.
None of them have done their jobs or we wouldn't be trillions of dollars in debt and our health system a nightmare. Wake up and stop idolizing these men.
I feel like they say the right things but nothing ever changes happens 😢
@@lalagardenia6500In lots of cases your correct, hopefully this changes with Trump's election, he's working for big changes with his appointments of so many outsiders. I hope the country continues with getting rid of the long standing Democrat rats that have bloated their bank accounts with lies and unkept promises the last 45 years.
Senator Kennedy is getting something done, and has since he first took office.
Might wonder why he voted to send 95 billion to ukrain. So caring!
@catfrigames yes - watch their actions despite saying all the right things.
They complain and point out issues but then nothing is ever fixed, no one is held accountable. It's a clown show!!
Wouldn't hurt them to skip a pay raise.
And stop working from home
Have you seen the price of eggs lately?
Yep. Govt employees were never supposed to make more money than the people they serve - yet, now they do. So yes they need big pay cuts.
@@imheck
I don't care if they work from home (less vehicles on the roads is a good thing). As long as the work they do at home is necessary.
Well I think they all need a pay cut. If they are an office employee, then their butt better be at the office during business hours.
The president shouldn't have to fight with a civil servant union to eliminate redundancy, or inefficiency. Schedule F implementation should reign in the rest.
I don't think congress or senate should receive a pension. They should pay into ss just like the rest of us. Their salaries shouldn't be tied to a fixed dollar amount like it is currently. Their salaries should be determined by their constituents average wages, plus 10%. No more. We already fund their transportation to DC and home. We fund their offices in both DC and in their districts. They shouldn't be able to trade any stocks/financial instruments while in office, and for 10 years after leaving office. Nor should their immediate family members. Especially if they pushed through laws, funding, or have other insider information that is not public, that will effect the financial markets.
No Money BELONGS to the government. NOT A SINGLE PENNY.
Lmao dumb take
Since money is created by government, its obvious that your education is questionable. Try creating your own money and spend it and see where it gets you.
Damn strait
It cannot “ profit off the institution “ you must have an evil overbearing and corrupt government to acquire money from it’s citizenry
@@nonyobussiness3440 Its the only proper take
Thank you Senator Kennedy.
well your taxes will go up who going to pay for this he votes for his own raise lol what a hypocrite
You can call it waste, you can call it inefficiency....YOU CAN CALL IT CORRUPTION!
Awesome remedy, Thank you Senator Kennedy!!!
They are telling you about 1/10 the truth. They owe us the entire national debt and then some.
And this 1/10 is what they will use to try and shut down programs people have to have to survive.
I agree. They borrow/take from Social Security to pay for wars, give to illegals and other unintended costs and promise to pay it back but never do and then talk about entitlement reform like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid is the problem. Screwing over the average American citizen.
Exactly 💯
Yes!!!
Senator Kennedy is an honest and ethical man. The only thing I wish he'd do is have a second display board with the names of the Treasury staffers that aren't cooperating. Not only can we return money to the people but, knowing who to fire will save a few dollars too.
Thank you, Senator Kennedy for all your services to the American people, who is so in need in this most difficult time. Please investigate, dept.of justice for all the refunds that is so needed at this time 🙏
I freaking love you Sen. Kennedy. Cant wait for you to help 47 MAGA!! Hope Pete gets to speak for himself and defend himself innocent until proven guilty.
There is no spending problem.
We've paid down 120% debt to GDP before. We did it while creating Medicare and fully funding two trust funds that covered the program until this decade. Income over $200,000 was taxed at 90%. Businesses did everything they could to minimize their taxable income, which included spend, spend, spend, and employee bonuses. The federal reserve was never worried about recessions because the previous quarter was TWENTY PERCENT GROWTH. Inflation matched wages increases. Reagan cut the highest tax rate in half, subsidized demand with government debt, and employers increased wages at half the rate of inflation.
We know what the right thing is. Do it.
Trumpy was proven guilty, how bout them apples? Turdlican rules for everybody else?
Child support money DOES NOT belong to the federal government!
GIVE THAT BACK, Sir!
If the recipient is on welfare, the child support should belongs to the state in my opinion
@@blondiemyhorse6257That “welfare” comes from that individual’s account that the government has traded, so that is the individual’s “money” that is being paid to them. I put “money” in quotes because that is not the true definition of money, but it is what people think of money. Real money is gold or silver coins. Dollars are federal reserve notes.
@ agree, however they are living in that matrix
Child support is not LAW!
The program has NEVER been enacted by the US Congress nor is it mandatory for any State to participate in the illegal practice. Someone show when the Public Healthcare Act was signed into Law and I'll back off.
😐 I'll wait....
The US Government collects 66% of all child support while states absorb 34% illegally. The only FEDERAL Laws practiced in states are immigration Laws. This program violates the rights of citizens paying into the illegal practice by way of driver license suspensions and accumulations or FALSE DEBT in the name of "child support arrears." Your inalienable rights are being violated when someone limits your movement , falsify documents in the manner or affidavits and restrict your ability to work by license
suspensions.
No matter ho we slice this, this government has no right to impose false debt and financial castration upon men who become BANKRUPT over policies and "acts" meant to subjugate and bend into financial submission.
If you have been harmed by child support, you deserve FULL RESTITUTION end of story.
What sane employer would let employees determine their own salary and benefits?
My wife and I are from Louisiana. Back when Senator Kennedy was the tresurer for Louisiana, I found my wife's name on his list of people that were owed money. Mt wife had changed jobs a year earlier and her final pay check for a couple of weeks was there. Apparently the enployer's accountant did not think it was needed to send the check to her by mail. Anyway, we got the money. Had we not made the claim after a period the state could have claimed the money. John Kennedy is right, the United States government has dropped the ball here. It is time to make it right.
Make the wealthy pay their share
Mr. Kennedy obviously is caring for the country and this country is the people…❤
$38 billion divided by 335 million people is $113. That's a tank of gas and a cup of coffee.
My husband hasn’t had a raise in 4 years. (His boss got 600,000 in ‘PPE loans’)
Our disabled son has his SSI garnished because of a paperwork error when he was a foster baby.
We are trying to sell our home before we lose it
…and these guys are getting a wage increase EVERY YEAR?!
My question.Where did the PPE go.
@ he had a friend make homemade masks for all the guys (construction crews) and they were offered bottles of hand sanitizer but I don’t think any of them wanted it. I’ve been told the PPE loans were for the most part, forgiven.
@auntlizzy1308 many businesses required to pay back.. mm? Free money at the top end..
@ I know of 2 others that didn’t have to pay it back. I’ve seen articles about them being “forgiven”.
boohoo
And they haven't notified the people.
What's up with that . They should be notifying these people
The swamp thinks it owns the money. The swamp also thinks you work for them and not vice versa.
You have to FIND them first. Many of them are dead. They stopped selling Series E bonds 45 years ago. My dad had some but he had the receipts so we kids cashed them in.
Had one Dad bought WW2 DDs held them until they would not renew them any more with out paying the taxes 80s
Close the Federal Reserve and instead print US Notes. Debt free just like Lincoln did with Greenbacks
Move the dollar away from the petro-dollar and return to gold standard.
Greenbacks had value cuz you could trade them for gold
@@publicdomain3378 Greenbacks (named as they were printed black and white on the front and green on the back) were created as emergency paper currency during the civil war, even though it was never based upon anything tangible like gold or silver reserves nor created by private banks, but rather a "promissory" (or Demand Notes and United States notes) from congress to promise to pay in coin. The fight after control of the countries financing is what led to such a long civil war and to Lincolns assassination. It was after that the "Greenback" was voted by congress in 1866 to be backed by gold and began to have real value in trade and finance. As well the birth of Chase Bank.
@applianceman6194 yeah so when one recieved "coin" for their greenbacks, what were they really getting? Gold and silver.
@@publicdomain3378 Yeah...made of gold and silver, which had vanished from circulation in 1862 (which by happen stance is when the note was created). In 1862, the greenback dollar could not be directly traded for gold coins. However, by December 1878, the silver dollar, gold dollar, and greenback dollar were freely interchangeable at the same value on the open market. If the fund ran out of allocated money to honor that note, you had to wait until the next allocation approval from congress to be reimbursed. That is why they backed the greenback with what is in the reserves, so it continues to hold value. Its just a form of trade.
THIS IS ALL OUR MONEY , NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S 🤬🤬🤬
The Treasury Direct needs to start needs to send out monthly or quarterly statements out instead of telling the consumer to just login to look at what you have, and they needs to make it more easy for you to transfer your money more efficiently and faster instead of all these forms that you have to fill out and send to them.
I can't even locate my daughters savings bonds from when i was in military. Its merely impossible
Senator was state treasurer La for 19 years we have unclaimed money laws returns.
Get rid of the Federal Reserve.
I can watch and listen to you every day, Senator Kennedy. You speak what Americans think. God bless you.❤🤍💙
AMAZING! My girlfriend has a bunch of matured bonds given to her by her deceased parents and trying to jump through hoops and get a copy of their death certificate etc has made it pretty much impossible. This is great news and we thank you for all you do!
The state I live in you can get a birth certificate or death certificate from the health department for 15$ each.
Yeah, getting a death certificate is rarely difficult. But there can be issues, like the office that is supposed to issue it was closed due to budget and so there is no issuing authority for that county or its neighbors. No health departments, either.
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GODBLESS YOU SENATOR KENNEDY. A TRUE PATRIOT ❤❤❤❤
Kennedy Strong one of very few that truely fights for americans
Aren’t we at the point where we give over half of what we earn and spend to the government? When will all of us stand up and say this is enough!
I had some savings bonds in early 60,s...never cashed in. I could really use it. I'm a 70 year old handicapped Vet.
So entitled
@@TimTestifies who's entitled?
I want Kennedy for president after Trump.
Thank you, Senator Kennedy, for putting this out to the public. Hopefully DOGE will start with Treasury Department with their job search.
... looked at him like he farted and didn't claim it . Senator Kennedy is the best !
Fart smeller Kennedy? Yep!
Thank you Senator Kennedy. One of the major issues- one of many, are that the people put in the positions to manage astronomical amounts of money, have no idea how to balance a check book, let alone manage there own yearly salaries, and surely have no idea what to do with billions of dollars.
It would not surprise me if the bond money was already spent and laundered and that is just writing on paper. And then the American people suffer.
Give back the money congress stole from social security over the years.
Always a pleasure .. Mr Kennedy
josh hawely , jim joordan , kennedy the goverment needs you.
Last summer I went to Indiana's unclaimed money website and received $1800 I had no idea I had. I sent a copy of my drivers license and social security number and boom $1800. Thank you it couldn't have come at a better time.
I have a saving account, and I thought I would just save it for a rainy day, and it would be there! If or when I needed it. I think it was about 3 years later when I went to withdraw it, they said they had to turn it over to the state of Minnesota! Now they had my old address and my new address, my ss number, my driver's license number, but they still tried stealing my money. I had to download a form, fill it out, send in a copy of my driver's license and birth certificate, and it all had to be notarized and I had to drive down, and it cost me $7,00 dollars, even though they knew it was my money. They will make you jump through hoops and hope you will just give up and let them keep it!
Please investigate those who did not cooperate. When the bureaucracy refuses to cooperate with their bosses and the law it makes me question if something unlawful is going on.
Shut up
I was taught growing up if i payed extra into my taxes i would see that returned.
That never happened.
IT'S ABOUT TIME -
Recipients of Social Security should get the same COLA as federal workers.
I had a 100,000 in saving bonds when I retired from the military. I had to jump through hoops to cash them in. Give those people their money back.
This is why I love senator Kennedy
How about all those FICA taxes that were paid by the parent and now the parent is deceased, it needs to be returned to heirs.
I love this guy he has some teachings that need to be brought out again.
When you make 200k ish in Congress and Senate and most Americans make about 50k, there's a huge disconnect. Justify AOC going from bartender to that? I have a bond my step dad setup for me when I was like 9 years old, at 53 years old the bond is only worth 2,000 dollars and they tell me I can't get it because my step dad has to sign on it and I haven't seen him in over 30 years and no idea if he's alive.
The federal government should also pay interest on tax refunded money since they charge on owed.
How do we prove we lost our bonds? The is completely disingenuous.
Great idea senator Kennedy. Hope this happens. With unclaimed property you usually have to give your address at that time. I will not remember my addresses from 40, 50, 60 years ago, but believe i did buy a US Savings bond many years ago. I knowthe city but not specific address.
Thank you for keeping after this, Senator! I've followed you since you first talked about this big Easter egg the government was sitting on. And I'm glad you not only didn't give up but found a way to get the information posted without reinventing the wheel or letting the swamp run out the clock, as is their wont.
It is stunning the energy the state will expend, to avoid expending energy!
Now just imagine what could be done if we had more people trying to find efficiencies instead of trying to hide money!
Need more people in Congress like this man!!!
SS recipitents deserve the true increse not government!
America need 100% of Congress to do what Kennedy has been doing. ⚖️🇺🇸⚖️🇺🇸⚖️🇺🇸
What I can't figure out is when I was working a job I'd get a reward for doing a good job in regards to completing tasks or maybe we're filling out all the orders that came in that would be where I would get a raise how come it is the Senate feels like to get a raise for over budgeting our country raising the deficit to such an extent that's going to take 4 years just to get it back under control why should the Senate get a raise?
The poor hardworking Americans deserve better leadership from the incompetent leadership in Washington DC now.
He should teach courses at the white house on what public service should be like. Its warms my heart watching someone exude grace and dignity ❤
You are very much appreciated, Sen Kennedy. You are known for doing the right thing when some are not. My only wish is that I could someday live in your state. You give Louisiana a good name.
Senator Kennedy is the best!
Durbin sure is a waste of oxygen and space.😢😢
I say it send it to them.. its theirs..
What about adoption cases?
Thank you Sen
The hourly employee do not receive a percentage increase so why does Government and State employees feel like they deserve that amount of increase? Shouldn't theirs be based on the same as ours by their performance based raises. If they fail to inprove and help our countries finances they should feel it too.
10 years ago I was cleaning out some old boxes and found 2 $25 savings bonds from the 1970s. Turned them into my bank and got $144. They continue to earn interest for quite a while. Paid $18.75 each originally. 😊
That's all???
originally they would mature to 5 times their face value. but that changed when they redid the EE bond. Now its a straight 20 years. Full stop.
These government agencies will spend,spend, spend. When the end of the fiscal year is approaching. They say if they don't use it, they lose it. That's why they get a bigger budget every year. The American taxpayers are truly being used in a certain way as slaves. God's government is happy with 10% tax compared to taxed to nothing. Some people are literally living paycheck to paycheck, and that has to be very scary.
Many people don't have employment due to the recession.
@BlueAvians Many Many people don't have a job because they won't lower their standards.
My parents got me several bonds when I was young, my husband’s did too. My mom found them in her basement lol so I tried to cash mine a few weeks ago & they wouldn’t let me. They said I had do all kinds of things, including mailing it to the Government. And I was thinkingggg yeah right, they will claim they never got it. Sooo I’ve just kept it as a collectable.
Oh yay does this mean I’ll finally get the money?!?! Thank you Kennedy!
Nobody wants to step on anyone's toes. Politicians created the wasteful spending. If it was a business it would be bankrupt, oh that's right we are..
Awesome, I believe that there's money out there for me.
Not just you think about all your deceased relatives
So much going on you never hear about...Senator Kennedy is the best at digging up the crap, Jim Jordan is another allstar.
Senator John Kennedy you are a great man, blessings from southern California
Thank you!! for your integrity and tenacity!
5:00 yeah, provided inflation over the life of the bond doesn't surpass the interest of the bond.
Exactly $400 won’t buy what $200 would 20 years ago and once you pay the taxes you would have been better off putting the $200 in your pillowcase.
Where’s the Accountability at each level of government?
I like to listen to Senator Kennedy's voice, it calms me. Wish God could have made me his daughter.
I love my Senator. Houma La.
Me, too, from B.R., La
Thank you
Either way it's not simple as you think it is, especially with all the bullllllshitttttttt and red tape that comes with it
LAW OF THE LAND
The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the ap- pearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The U. S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for a law which violates the Constitution to be valid. This is succinctly stated as follows:
"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void." Marbury vs. Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803)
👍 We want Interest
And payments in gold and silver …
I want all the money I forked out in taxes back. Sales, income, federal.
I want a million dollars. Go work and stop crying
@TimTestifies I started working at 16. I've been driving trucks since 2005. I'm not physically capable of working anymore and now I'm filing for disability and hoping for table scraps. I sacrificed my body for absolutely no reason.
I am not an American but I follow Senator John Kennedy the country needs more like this man in fact many countries need men like this man. 🙏
I'd say that most people do not understand savings bonds first of all a double EE savings bond is not taxable. And a lot of people don't know how to cash them in because they afraid that they're going to be taxed.
You are taxed on the interest earned. No government money is free.
The credit unions do not accept them. And to cash in my oldest childs bonds the Bank made us open a bank account to cash them, cause they would not cash unless had acct with them. We got fhe money and quickly closed the acct. All for a couple hundred $. Luckilly she was using for college otherwise it was taxed. My other kids not cashed in you cause such a hassle. And theirs would be taxed.
Running deficits because SPENDING too much by GOVT!
Thank you Senator Kennedy for following through in this matter for the American people. You are a man of the people and may the good Lord bless you and yours! You are a good citizen/man.
These days, we're all taxed to death and can't afford to buy savings bonds for our kids.
I like bonds. Especially James Bond!
Sean Connery BOND..
I didn’t know this was a thing. I just checked my states unclaimed property listings and scored $25 Some overpayment on a utility bill from 15 years ago. Thank you Senator 😂
Thank you, Sen Kennedy and all who cooperated with him on this issue.
Love Kenndy...Always Country ❤❤❤
Always read the fine print when investing
I hate these percentage raises. 3% of my 16.00/hour is a whole lot less than 3% of 60.00. The rich get richer the poor are lucky to keep up with inflation.
I tried to get my $200 matured bond cashed and filed paperwork decades ago. Not a response. I gave up nearly 25 years ago.
Federal employees automatically getting annual pay increases even if their performance doesn't deserve it, is insane. The private sector might only get 2.5% and that's based on performance or they might not get a raise at all.
A Smart honest man had to share this. There is allot of waste I am Positive of it.
Why the hell is he talking about pay raises when the house in the Senate vote their own pay raise in the people don't have a say and they should
They are on the fixed federal COLA.
Should we have a national election on that too every 4 years?
@bobearl7859 Congress as federal employees have a federal COLA. During most of the years of the recent recession, they declined their increase.
Thank you sir. It's certainly good to know that someone in DC is trying to do right by the American citizens.
The incoming Secretary of the Treasury will simply dive out his second story window head first on his first day in office .
What about a 4% wage increase for companies. It forces growth by injecting cash into the spenders (workers) and stops greedy ceos constantly taking pay raises in lieu of the workers. Im sure it would need limits but i think it would work
This is pointless and inflationary. This effectively is a lottery for olds. Should be more focused on cutting govt and spending. Not giving more away.