Posted on 11/17/2011 3:50:29 PM PST by rabscuttle385
He’s on FOX News every time you turn around! I wish they’d also get rid of Rove.
Active duty/Retiree Ping.
Retired pay must rise to control costs!
Put a sock in it Captain McCain.
This is a look at the future of medical care for the American people if we don’t get rid of Obama. I’ve been waiting two weeks for a referral for a simple service, I can’t imagine how difficult this is for older folks and injured guys.
Those that think we must wait for the clone of Reagan are just cementing this constitutional abortion in place.
You ask me a life time of all you can eat benefits is too much particularity for military vets.
I say that because any such plan invariably makes people a depended upon the provider(in this case the Goverment) both in that providers discretion in how to provide them benefits and in that providers continued existence at the preclusion of other destructive things that same provider might be doing.
That instead the most equable and fair way to compensate people for their service is in fact in direct pay or lumbsum pay at the end of their service. Thus leaving to the individual the choice how to allocate & store the resources.
He can lie forever and still retain the support of people in AZ.
“He can lie forever and still retain the support of people in AZ.”
Its called the power of incompetency, created by a number of factors perhaps most influence of them is the rules of the house and senate which award the longest office sitters with the most influence.
“Retired pay must rise to control costs!
Put a sock in it Captain McCain.”
That makes no sense, you raise the pay, and you get more resources competing for the same more or less finite supply.
You want to control costs abolish high barriers to entry and restrictions on practices to allow for more diversity and thus competition.
In the case of military vets allowing more of them control over their resources in the private market will improve their service time.
But ultimately your looking at a supply & demand problem. The Goverment by agreeing to pay for all of their healthcare needs has eliminated most all need to control demand by the only party that can control demand.
As this is of course untenable in any market, with no direct monetary constraints to control demand, demand from the users goes thou the roof while the cost of that demand are pushed upon the Goverment.
Because the Goverment can’t possibly cover this ever growing costs, invariably the users will begin to feel them costs both in deterring quality of service and waits, until such time that those costs control their demand.
Unfortunately in healthcare that means people have no option in life but to die. (They can’t pay more for faster more diversify service.)
The irony is that we put our military veterans into this abusive situation by giving them “benefits” only in the form of the Goverment run & controlled system instead of simply higher pay or lump-sum.
J.D. Hayworth ran a pathetic campaign. A stronger candidate would have toppled Rio Grande Juan without difficulty. Your other option was Rodney Glassman; Google him and see if you’d prefer that to McKennedy. Then there is the train wreck that is the AZ Republican party...that and demographics. Don’t be surprised to see AZ Californicated before too long.
We have not had a COL increase in three years. It is becoming difficult to control our costs considering inflation at nearly ten percent. This administration very much wants us to do or DIE.
I know the military must cut back on benefits and pensions etc...just like any other federal entity....
but why does Congress escape all the evil that they do?....why are they never "cut" or benefits aligned with what other Americans have?....
the Federales should all be cut before big cuts in military, period...
will we ever get control of this country?
but McCain has always been a little arrogant preak and one has to wonder why good people die everyday and yet the likes of him go on and on and on....
Then what you call the people in AZ are really Sheeple. God help us!
“We have not had a COL increase in three years. It is becoming difficult to control our costs considering inflation at nearly ten percent. This administration very much wants us to do or DIE.”
The problem with Federal “retirement” plans is they invariably demand more out of the goverment then the population can be taxed to provide.
The oldest and original retirement plan was in fact very simple and economically sustainable. It was called children but when we started abandoning that system em-mass particularly as exempted by FDR’s Social Security system. Our future became less the product of our own creation and more retaliate upon what everyone else provides.
The trouble is nobody works hard if they don’t have to, we are not wired to behave that way for one simple reason: We can never know what truly is productive unless we get the fruits of the same.
When the fruits of the same are not ours(as in a socialist system) working for them becomes wasted investments of time & labor that ultimately cost you more then you get.
The result of this natural math is very few people do more then the minimum in socialist States and this is as true of the Socialist economic model as it is of the demographic model.
If your kids are not the source of your retirement you wont wast as much time and effort having and raising as many of em.
This is a problem because ultimately everyone’s kids are the source of their retirements, because a retirement is, no matter how you do the math, “the storing of existing resources to trade for resources to be produced by other people WORKING in future time”.
Naturally the value of that labor & the products it produces is tied to the size of that workforce. If you have your own family workforce the math is simple, as it was for thousands of years of human history. But if you are(as in the case of modern retirement schemes) reliant upon other peoples workforce. Then the fate of your retirement finances will be tied to their collective behavior.
And as we have seen our collective behavior a generation with near sub-replacement level reproduction has been very bad indeed.
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