And he is using the cases of steroid abuse by athletes as a reason to destroy our freedom to choose our own health needs. This senator is dangerous to our health!
McCain, please leave us alone.
Ping to McNasty’s Health supplement bill
Off subject, just more McCain, being McCain...
In Case You Missed It (McCain Edition)
Josh Marshall | March 1, 2010, 2:07PM
In case you missed it, Sen. McCain went on Meet the Press yesterday and doubled down on his laughable claim that he was lied to about TARP. He says he thought it was to bail out homeowners rather than Wall Street. See the video here.
Now, it is true that Henry Paulson used the TARP money differently than he initially said he would. He originally said he would use the money to buy the toxic assets from the troubled banks. Later he just invested money directly in the banks, never mind the “toxic assets”. For what it’s worth, even though Paulson, said one thing and later did another, it’s hard for me to see how option two wasn’t greatly preferable to option one. But however you see that, no one ever thought the money was going to go to homeowners or to help people not get their houses foreclosed on. It was always 100% clear that the money was going to shore up the big Wall Street banks. I’m surprised McCain hasn’t caught more flack for this obvious fib.
This is actually the second time McCain has peddled this howler. This time McCain tries to muddle it a bit more. But he’s still saying the same basic thing which is that he was told the money was going to be used to shore up the housing market and prevent people’s mortgages from being underwater, which is complete nonsense. It was always a 100% clear this money was going to prop up the big financial institutions to prevent a cascading collapse of the financial system. He can’t change his story now just because he didn’t know he’d be running against J.D. Hayworth.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/03/in_case_you_missed_it_mccain_edition.php
Juan MUST take care of us as we are just ttttooooooo stttuuuppidddd to do it ourselves!!!!
Government IS the problem!
OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121
Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins.
(DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake. http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Friday, February 19, 2010
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts
SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2461394/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
Help J.D. Hayworth run this bum out of town!
https://www.jdforsenate.com/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1
GO J.D.!