Posted on 05/28/2011 3:17:10 PM PDT by bray
Enough Braying
Private accounts would be much better. The Ponzi scheme did not work.
Anyone here really expect Americans to sit quietly as their SSI and Medicare are cut while simultaneously sending 1.3 billion a year to Pakistan?
First cut the bloated Federal government to the bone. ALL USAID nonsense. ALL NEA nonsense. ALL La Raza funds. ALL Planned Parenthood nonsense. Dissolve Homeland Security, ATF, the Dept of Education, and HHS. Cut it completely to the bone.
THEN show the American people the bone and start talking about SSI and Medicare.
If you do not follow this specific plan of attack...you’ll only get more Democrats.
Americans will not sit still for cuts in programs they have contributed to while wasteful spending continues in DC.
My area has free clinics, with donated time from nurses, doctors once a week, and even a free dental clinic once a year. There is another clinic, which charges based on income for the uninsured. It is used consistently by illegals.
Medicare itself is not the real problem, it is the ‘unlimited use’ of it, for everything known to man as a disease etc. It should be used only as ‘hospital admitted surgeries’ with limits. For example: a stage 4 cancer patient should not get a half million dollars worth of chemotherapy, as they know they will not live anyway, it only provides about a year more of life...it’s unproductive, and that half million dollars could do a lot of cataract surgeries, or remove a lot of gallbladders.
There should be limits on what it can be used for, and we should establish more free clinics, or at least income scaled charges in clinics for things like flu, minor falls, or infections. Abuse has created this mess!
Couldn’t agree more. It all needs to be attacked.
Pray for America
Harassing innocent Americans at airports while trying to cut their Medicare and SS is not a winning strategy either.
Not to worry, the Fuhrer, Pelosi, Reid, and the RAT party will institute Death Panels for one and all. No need for Medicare. Just take a pill ordered by Big Bro and Big Sis and all your worries will be over.
When your number is up. Its up.
No, however most of those who vote democrat and don't know what Pakistan is due to low I.Q. and public education will sit quietly by.
Yikes! I think I’ll go eat worms, then shoot myself.
Socialism is the idea that we each can live at the expense of each other. At least that is the idea. In practice it is always implemented using deadly force because far too many otherwise free people refuse to allow their property to be seized to make socialism work. So socialism is always bloody. But the fact that the peace and love crowd are such strong supporters of socialism should tell you what their idea of “peace and love” is.
Further, anyone who loves God’s Law should easily see how a Christian cannot support socialism because it violates the Commandments that forbid lies, coveting and theft. And with respect to the last two, he should further realize that he does not have authority to seize and redistribute the wealth or possessions of anyone else.
Sadly, this has not stopped some Useful Idiot Christians from seeking “social justice” by using the armed agents of the government to do their dirty work.
Medicare is not economically sustainable exactly because of its socialist structure. It is a program that has the goal of making senior citizens be dependent upon government for their health care. So, of course they will support the party that promises to protect that benefit irrespective of how much damage it otherwise does to the national economy.
Rationing,huh?
Maybe you could volunteer on the neighborhood council that determines that stage 4’s don’t get treated...hey wait...stage 3’s are kinda shaky too.....
Its a slippery slope,my FRiend.
Definitely no to illegals...if we would deport them, that problem would be solved.
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Tell the person who wants to live longer that they can pay for it instead of asking someone else to. I have other priorities as do my kids and likely their kids.
“Soooo, you’re a one man death panel. WTF gave you the right to decide someone’s life or death?”
What gives them the right to take from me to pay for anything ?
Why do I (or my kids) have any obligation whatsoever to pony up money so some greedy SOB can cheat the Grim Reaper out of his due for an extra year when they have already lived 75 years or more? I don’t, much like I feel no obligation to pay for one of Eric Holder’s people’s baby mommas or Juanita the Illegal Invader’s healthcare.
I will accept your judgement that I am a cold S.O.B. if you are willing to accept my judgement of you as a big government socialist.
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