I guess many people don’t understand this but, the first mandate in Medicare was forced onto the public via George W. Bush’s love fest with the insurance companies, when they made Medicare recipients start paying insurance to get into the Medicare Prescription drug plans, whether they were taking medicines or not. How’s that for a Republican Mandate?
I still wonder why we have to pay insurance company premiums in order to buy needed medications.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
North Dakota/ Alaska-- Random thoughts
The people of North Dakota will soon regret the oil fracking boom when they can no longer drink the water or wash themselves and their clothes in it. Their state will be uninhabitable eventually.
If the people who live in the so called Pebble Mine proposed area do not stop that mine from operating, they too will emulate North Dakota and they won't have any fish to eat
and/or sell either.
How can the very people who have government jobs (Senators, Representatives), stand in front of us and say that the government can't create jobs??
If the people who live in the so called Pebble Mine proposed area do not stop that mine from operating, they too will emulate North Dakota and they won't have any fish to eat
and/or sell either.
How can the very people who have government jobs (Senators, Representatives), stand in front of us and say that the government can't create jobs??
Anchorage Assembly
Kudos to the Anchorage Assembly for wasting time and energy and exhibiting their own stupidity for keeping people from sitting on the downtown sidewalks, when they should be looking at ways to help the homeless from having to sit on those same sidewalks.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Random thoughts
No matter what she did, I believe that the Mississippi judge who viciously beat his 16 year old daghter with a leather belt, ought to be kicked off the bench and then be given the same treatment he gave to her.
All I know is that Murky is as murky as her dad. She is a bona fide liar. She voted against teachers and First responders and now she has voted against
buying steel from Americans for American infrastructure. She is just a slimy sneak who kisses the Indians behinds so that they don't realize what a skenk she is
and they keep voting for her. The American populace is so stupid and gullible that I really fear for this country.
Anita Hill really did tell the truth but the "old boys network" did her in and now the truth about Thomas has come out and there is no way to get him off the Supremes.
I am still so disappointed in Obama. I had such high hopes for him until on his first week in office he refused to prosecute the War Criminals. I just wish he would get off his high intellectual butt and start helping the people he professes to want to help. He could make a start by visiting all the "Occupiers" and denouncing the banking criminals but since most of them are in his cabinet, I guess he won't do that.
I cannot get excited about any of the so called health care bills being bandied about now. There will be no changes until after the next election and if we do not elect a majority of democrats and get rid of those idiot teabag representatives then you can kiss your butt goodbye. The states that elected these Repub governors, and what they are doing to Women's rights are just disgraceful and are taking this country back to the middle ages.
I for one, would not like to live here if they do away with Roe vs Wade. because that will be the end of our so-called democracy. Our Supreme Court is a travesty of justice and our only hope is that Roberts, Scalia and Thomas all die, because that is the only way to get rid of them no matter what they do. Thomas is the worst and no matter what corruption he fosters, he cannot be removed.
I am glad I will not be around to see the end of our country.
All I know is that Murky is as murky as her dad. She is a bona fide liar. She voted against teachers and First responders and now she has voted against
buying steel from Americans for American infrastructure. She is just a slimy sneak who kisses the Indians behinds so that they don't realize what a skenk she is
and they keep voting for her. The American populace is so stupid and gullible that I really fear for this country.
Anita Hill really did tell the truth but the "old boys network" did her in and now the truth about Thomas has come out and there is no way to get him off the Supremes.
I am still so disappointed in Obama. I had such high hopes for him until on his first week in office he refused to prosecute the War Criminals. I just wish he would get off his high intellectual butt and start helping the people he professes to want to help. He could make a start by visiting all the "Occupiers" and denouncing the banking criminals but since most of them are in his cabinet, I guess he won't do that.
I cannot get excited about any of the so called health care bills being bandied about now. There will be no changes until after the next election and if we do not elect a majority of democrats and get rid of those idiot teabag representatives then you can kiss your butt goodbye. The states that elected these Repub governors, and what they are doing to Women's rights are just disgraceful and are taking this country back to the middle ages.
I for one, would not like to live here if they do away with Roe vs Wade. because that will be the end of our so-called democracy. Our Supreme Court is a travesty of justice and our only hope is that Roberts, Scalia and Thomas all die, because that is the only way to get rid of them no matter what they do. Thomas is the worst and no matter what corruption he fosters, he cannot be removed.
I am glad I will not be around to see the end of our country.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
"Entitlements"
According to Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, an "entitlement" is the right to receive something. It is my contention that Medicare and Social Security are not entitlements because you cannot receive them until you have paid for them. You are not entitled to receive Social Security until you have paid into the program, in order to recive the benefits. It may be just semantics but "entitlement" seems to be connoted as "welfare", which it is definitely NOT.
Social Security is not bankrupt, after all it is a Trust Fund that many President's sticky fingers have latched onto. However Social Security can be enhanced if high income earners were made to continue paying into the fund after they have reached the magic number of $106,800. For people to receive Medicare, they have to make a monthly payment (taken out of their SS check) of anywhere from $96.40 to $369.10; and that payment goes up every year depending on the annual cost-of-living. So that is not an entitlement, but is a paid for benefit.
Do you want your Social Security benefit income cut? If not, remember that "elections have consequences". If you vote for dogs, you will get up with fleas. Call your congress persons and the White House and tell them to stop fooling around with your income. Leave Social Security and Medicare out of the mix, and make the very rich pay their fair share.
Social Security is not bankrupt, after all it is a Trust Fund that many President's sticky fingers have latched onto. However Social Security can be enhanced if high income earners were made to continue paying into the fund after they have reached the magic number of $106,800. For people to receive Medicare, they have to make a monthly payment (taken out of their SS check) of anywhere from $96.40 to $369.10; and that payment goes up every year depending on the annual cost-of-living. So that is not an entitlement, but is a paid for benefit.
Do you want your Social Security benefit income cut? If not, remember that "elections have consequences". If you vote for dogs, you will get up with fleas. Call your congress persons and the White House and tell them to stop fooling around with your income. Leave Social Security and Medicare out of the mix, and make the very rich pay their fair share.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Health Insurance
If you don't want to pay for health insurance, then don't get sick
and expect the rest of us to pay for your ER and/or hospital bills.
and expect the rest of us to pay for your ER and/or hospital bills.
WHAT I WOULD DO IF I WERE IN CHARGE OF THE WORLD !!
1. I would put people to work by starting a WPA (Works Project Administration)
A. Repair bridges and tunnels
B. Build railroads to criss-cross the country
C. Build Solar, Wind and Hydro- power equipment
D. Investigate thermal power
2. Stop making gasoline powered engines
3. Stop drilling for oil & mining for coal
4. Educate people to become medical providers, pay for education if they pledge 5 years of government service
5.Educate children to want to become public servants
6. Prosecute bankers and brokers who have ruined our economy
7. Fix New Orleans
1. I would put people to work by starting a WPA (Works Project Administration)
A. Repair bridges and tunnels
B. Build railroads to criss-cross the country
C. Build Solar, Wind and Hydro- power equipment
D. Investigate thermal power
2. Stop making gasoline powered engines
3. Stop drilling for oil & mining for coal
4. Educate people to become medical providers, pay for education if they pledge 5 years of government service
5.Educate children to want to become public servants
6. Prosecute bankers and brokers who have ruined our economy
7. Fix New Orleans
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Affordable Health Care
How in the world do the newly empowered in our Capitol think that they can get away with eliminating a program that is now helping millions of people?
They say they want to put a stop to the rise in the deficit and yet they want to kill a program that is said to decrease the deficit by $230 Billion within the next few years. They talk about “death panels” but the only “death panels” we have had have been the ones the insurance companies have given us when they refuse to authorize certain medical procedures, which have been proven to save lives.
Have you heard about the newly ensconced congressman who became irate when told he would have to wait three days before his new health care program kicked in? Does he understand how the millions of people who have no insurance and no prospect of ever getting insurance feel?
They say they want to put a stop to the rise in the deficit and yet they want to kill a program that is said to decrease the deficit by $230 Billion within the next few years. They talk about “death panels” but the only “death panels” we have had have been the ones the insurance companies have given us when they refuse to authorize certain medical procedures, which have been proven to save lives.
Have you heard about the newly ensconced congressman who became irate when told he would have to wait three days before his new health care program kicked in? Does he understand how the millions of people who have no insurance and no prospect of ever getting insurance feel?
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