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David Hogg 🟧

@davidhogg111

Sep 12

I’ve learned a lot helping my family get my dad into hospice but one of the biggest realizations I’ve had is that our country is facing a geriatric financial time bomb. It is absolutely insane how much elder care costs. For my family if we were to have someone 24/7 it’s $450k a year

Oh AND to have him in a home with full time care it’s 13k monthly (AFTER negotiating it down from 20k a month) only to show up there and have them tell my family it’s going to be a 20k down payment plus a 5k deposit on our credit card. This is insane

The scary thing to me too is that we’re going through all this even as my dad has healthcare through the VA and from his former job in the FBI. And life insurance. Few people have the amount of support that we have. And as more people need to be put into homes because boomers have such a big population it’s only going to reduce the supply of elder care even more further increasing prices.

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David Hogg 🟧

@davidhogg111

Feb 23

We should not be charging people to use public transit when we rarely charge people to use roads that are way more expensive for tax payers to maintain and are significantly more environmentally damaging than transit. The state and federal government should do all they can to add incentives to use public transit and remove disincentives to using it. We also need to incentivize the building of way more high density housing around public transit centers. While I’m at it we need to reform parking minimums that have destroyed American cities.

We also need to take a serious look at our flawed transit model that mainly focuses on brining people to and from urban centers. People have lives outside of work. We should have metro systems that form beltways around our cities to connect communities more directly on opposite sides of a metro area.

Let me be clear- I am not saying that people should be charged to use roads. I’m saying that if we aren’t charging people to use roads then we also shouldn’t be charging people for using methods of transportation that are objectively better for the environment and tax payers.

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David Hogg 🟧

@davidhogg111

Aug 9, 2023

A few key points about Leaders We Deserve.

1. We want all Generations in government. Young people are vastly under-represented so we want to change that. In 2020, millennial and Gen-Z individuals only held 21% of State Legislative seats while representing 45% of the electorate.

2. 80% of our focus and resources will be spent on state legislatures like Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina to lead the fight against the far right. 20% will be spent on congress.

3.Right now, our focus is on open Democratic seats in these key state states legislatures. After the primaries we will help young people in more competitive races in the general election.

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David Hogg 🟧

@davidhogg111

Apr 5, 2023

Some folks come up to me and say: David, there’s nothing we can do. There’s no single policy that works. It’s true. There’s no single policy. It’s a multitude of solutions, all enacted in Massachusetts. The single best thing our government could do is federalize MA state gun laws

We can both substantially reduce the number of gun deaths and injuries in this country with out banning most guns.

You can still get most guns in Massachusetts. You just have to go through a process to do so. Is it as easy as buying a gun in many other state? No but it shouldn’t be. These are dangerous tools made to kill. They require a high level of personal and collective responsibility.

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David Hogg 🟧

@davidhogg111

Apr 3, 2023

Patience is a virtue and change is possible.

For those of you saying this account is fake it literally was created in 2013 and also it’s brave of you to assume I would take the time of day to write all these messages and fake this. But you do you.

@WalshFreedom

This is exactly what conservatives love to do say you don’t talk to the other side enough and then literally when I talk to the other side claimed that it’s fake. It’s not like I haven’t done this before. I was on @WalshFreedom podcast only a few months ago.

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