Posted on 01/30/2014 5:00:06 AM PST by EBH
My being skeptic of the implausible sounding diabolical doomsday predictions has paid off so far. But its Rush's bread and butter.
I recall how many here in 2009 claimed my Chase MC would start charging me the monthly service fee again due to that Dems CC reform law, I kept posting ‘not happening, not a chance’
But I was wondering the same thing. One here pings me with ‘..are we supposed to sit around and let....?’ and I thought , ‘what does that mean??’
None of the comments are leading to actions.
Its just the ritual hand wringing and griping.
Those are easy :
1) Socialized medicine is progressives dream, and extension of SS and medicare. And to get enough Dems to vote for it they had to water down the personal mandate so much its a joke. And recall that Obama still won re-election after passing it.
2) Dems want amnesty for obvious reasons, many in GOP want it for their business donors and others are scared that Hispanics will vote on the issue.
In fact I don't see the current SCOTUS tolerating what Rush is claiming, now if a Dem replaced Kennedy then there is some small chance.
It isn't working that way. Do you have any idea how persuasive some of those salesmen are getting retirees to switch their bank retirement savings to annuities? To giving up that paid for asset, the house, on a reverse mortgage? On paying a real lot of money every month for mortgage plus fees for that retirement community? On paying the monthly premiums on Medicare parts B and D and then copays on medicines and procedures for everything? On having a day or more at the slot machines every month?
Those that aren't doing these things, except for the ones with decent pensions, are eating into those savings every month. The pitchforks haven't come out yet; they won't come out. And you know what? When those acquired assets don't enrich the next generation, there's no way the population will ever pull itself out of debt. It's getting much more difficult for people to accrue assets for their retirement and the next generation's enrichment. Those of us who are already retirement age will be exempt from anything that happens, since our assets can be taken in other ways.
The elite don't like it when they're more than a small percentage of the population. We get in their way. JMHO
You don’t have armies of folks out there protesting annuities and reverse mortgages and they aren’t being dictated to us by the Feds.
There will be war.
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