Doing with less 2009
Everyone is cutting back now a days to afford just to survive. City’s, States and companies are doing the same to stay in business.
People are asked to do with less and take a cut in pay. Working fewer hours no matter how you look at it is a cut in pay. Some of us are asked to except a lesser health plan. We as consumers are spending less which controls the stock market and that controls our retirement (pensions&401K’s).
Us who are getting closer to retirement can’t afford it now. We have to get jobs in Wal-Mart to supplement what we receive. Social Security is not nearly enough to live on and Medicaid does not cover all the medicine a lot of the seniors have to take.
We as a country could and should do better for our citizens.
Staring by cutting back on what we give the World Bank and other counties. Let’s keep some of our money right here in the USA where it belongs. Maybe then we could afford healthcare and other service that should have.
Last but not least I haven’t heard the people who run this country talking about cutting their pay or benefits. Lets start with our dear old President. Senators, Congressman all along down the line, lets give all of them the same healthcare the give have and us them pay into the Social Security fund. Have them play by the same rules we have to play by.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Obamanation called Obamacare
Page after Page of Reasons to Hate Obamacare
By Alan Caruba Sunday, July 26, 2009
Here are just a few very good reasons to hate Obamacare:Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)Page 42: The Health Choices Commissioner will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules in order to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliensPage 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No judicial review is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payrollPage 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payrollPage 167: Any individual who doesn't have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.Page 203: The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax. Yes, it really says that.Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you will all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)Page 253: Government sets value of doctors time, their professional judgment, etc.Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited from owning and investing in healthcare companies!Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on community input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patients health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.A tip of my hat to my friend, Ben Cerruti, for providing this look at the Obamanation called Obamacare. Write, email, fax or call your Senators and your Representative and tell them to vote NO!
Here are a few links to look at Judge for yourself
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574298661486528186.html
http://patientsunitednow.com/?q=node/233
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23162.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/help-analyze-obamas-health-care-bill-2009-6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16180589/Full-Bill-Now-Searchable
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per
Page after Page of Reasons to Hate Obamacare
By Alan Caruba Sunday, July 26, 2009
Here are just a few very good reasons to hate Obamacare:Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)Page 42: The Health Choices Commissioner will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules in order to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliensPage 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No judicial review is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payrollPage 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payrollPage 167: Any individual who doesn't have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.Page 203: The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax. Yes, it really says that.Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you will all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)Page 253: Government sets value of doctors time, their professional judgment, etc.Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited from owning and investing in healthcare companies!Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on community input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patients health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.A tip of my hat to my friend, Ben Cerruti, for providing this look at the Obamanation called Obamacare. Write, email, fax or call your Senators and your Representative and tell them to vote NO!
Here are a few links to look at Judge for yourself
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574298661486528186.html
http://patientsunitednow.com/?q=node/233
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23162.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/help-analyze-obamas-health-care-bill-2009-6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16180589/Full-Bill-Now-Searchable
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per
Social Security 2009
I just received this article in an email. Maybe we should all pass it around and call our representatives and let them know that we want them on an even playing field with us. This way that would have the same healthcare and benefits that we get. Ha Ha I really don't think they would agree.
Social Security 2009
LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON
"PEOPLE POWER" AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS.
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!KEEP IT GOING!!!! Propose this in 2009: START A BILL TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOCIAL SECURITY ----------------- ----------------- SOCIAL SECURITY: (This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it. You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan. In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan. For all practical purposes their plan works like this: When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die. Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments... For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7, 800,000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), with their wives drawing $275, 000..00 during the last years of their lives. This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries. Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives. Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. NADA!!! ZILCH!!! This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds; "OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"! From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into, every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer), We can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month after retirement. Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator Bill Bradley's benefits! Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made. That change would be to Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen.. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us Then sit back..... And see how fast they would fix it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.. How many people can YOU send this to? Better yet...... How many people WILL you send this to ?
Social Security 2009
LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON
"PEOPLE POWER" AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS.
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!KEEP IT GOING!!!! Propose this in 2009: START A BILL TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOCIAL SECURITY ----------------- ----------------- SOCIAL SECURITY: (This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it. You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan. In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan. For all practical purposes their plan works like this: When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die. Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments... For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7, 800,000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), with their wives drawing $275, 000..00 during the last years of their lives. This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries. Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives. Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. NADA!!! ZILCH!!! This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds; "OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"! From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into, every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer), We can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month after retirement. Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator Bill Bradley's benefits! Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made. That change would be to Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen.. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us Then sit back..... And see how fast they would fix it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.. How many people can YOU send this to? Better yet...... How many people WILL you send this to ?
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