a Mandatory....Retirement Fund no doubt.
Posted on 01/28/2014 2:54:37 PM PST by Lucky9teen
Edited on 01/28/2014 3:32:45 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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that will be confiscated soon enough to ensure that more startup solar companies get a Leg Up..FOLKS
THAT was painful
Woo hoo! The long dark night of SOTU is over. Now to turn the TV back on. :-)
I need to go see a chiropractor..POSTE HASTE.
.my back tightened up and I nearly gagged several times.
it was SO lightwieght he had to save COREY the wounded soldier for the finale...
this guy has ZERO SHAME!
I hear more applause is he gonna do ...an ENCORE???
Thank the Lord Barry has shut up.
I remember when the Billary was President, there was talk about ‘taxing the value of the house you own and live in as if you were renting it out’. I have no doubt the den of thieves will be out to take a share, if not the entire pie, of Retirement funds. After all, the Dear Leader knows what is best for us.
Listening to the Listener Veiwer FEEDBACK...on cspam was almost as bad as barry’s recycled jibber jabber.
The republican respondent on cspan isnt doing that well herself
Im sure she means well...
I’m believing that the “fix” is in. GOP-e is barely a whimper. One would believe that Nancy Pelosi is still speaker of the House. GOP, in 2010 “YOU WON”, now ACT LIKE IT.
I fear that the GOP is by and large still suffering from the whipped dog syndrome.
My repsonse to sad sack barrys State Of My Democracy....Union jive...would have been a point by point bonfire...followed by a few choice topics barry wont touch...like BENGHAZI...the muslims in Federal Government followed by Barrys BRO teaming up with HAMAS.
that should have done the trick!
Absolutely!
Castle was about finding a rouge super hero. Yup. Obama again.
HA!
No doubt. Congress and Barry/Administration have been drooling for years about this motherload that they haven’t been able to touch. The Executive Order President will just operate like a KIng with the gutless wonders of GOP-e assisting.
Anyone else think that the Republican response was cringe worthy?
After last night's hockey game between the Bruins and the Florida Panthers in Boston, Tim Thomas...former star goalie for the Bruins...got lit up for 6 goals in a 6-2 loss.
A notorious Obama hater, Thomas stated, "I'd have had more fun watching the State of The Union address."
LOL! Must have been a really bad game for him to say that. Yesterday I had an Endoscopy. I’ve had many of them before, but this time it took them four sticks to get the IV in me. I think I’d rather be a human pin cushion instead of watching that fiasco last night. Thankfully, I have plenty of other things to watch on my DVR, and my Roku, plus stacks of DVDs waiting to be viewed.
Got Alka-Seltzer? '-)
(Remember their ad, "I can't -- BELIEVE -- I ate the -- W H O L E -- thing!!" ?)
hope that’s covered by my OBCare silver plan
A post from John F. De Leo from another site. A real eye opener.
Here’s a fascinating piece that was forwarded to me at work. Haven’t had time to dig to find out who the author is, and I hate passing on articles without attribution, but it’s too interesting not to share. Depressing stuff, but a splendid analysis.
What ObamaCare is Really About
I’m a 54 year old consulting engineer and make between $60,000 and $125,000 per year, depending on how hard I work and whether or not there are work projects out there for me.
My girlfriend is 61 and makes about $18,000 per year, working as a part-time mail clerk.
For me, making $60,000 a year, under ObamaCare, the cheapest, lowest grade policy I can buy, which also happens to impose a $5,000 deductible, costs $482 per month.
For my girlfriend, the same exact policy, same deductible, costs $1 per
month. That’s right, $1 per month. I’m not making this up.
Don’t believe me? Just go to http://www..coveredca.gov/, the ObamaCare website for California and enter the parameters I’ve mentioned above and see for yourself. By the way, my zip code is 93940. You’ll need to enter that.
So OK, clearly ObamaCare is a scheme that involves putting the cost burden of healthcare onto the middle and upper-income wage earners. But there’s a lot more to it. Stick with me.
And before I make my next points, I’d like you to think about something:
I live in Monterey County , in Central California .. We have a large land mass but just 426,000 residents - about the population of Colorado Springs or the city of Omaha .
But we do have a large Hispanic population, including a large number of illegal aliens, and to serve this group we have Natividad Medical Center, a massive, Federally subsidized county medical complex that takes up an area about one-third the size of the Chrysler Corporation automobile assembly plant in Belvedere, Illinois (see Google Earth View). Natividad has state-of-the-art operating rooms, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, fully equipped, 24 hour emergency room, and much more. If you have no insurance, if you’ve been in a drive-by shooting or have overdosed on crack cocaine, this is where you go. And it’s essentially free, because almost everyone who ends up in the ER is uninsured.
Last year, 2,735 babies were born at Natividad. 32% of these were born to out-of-wedlock teenage mothers, 93% of which were Hispanic. Less than 20% could demonstrate proof of citizenship, and 71% listed their native language as Spanish. Of these 876 births, only 40 were covered under [any kind of] private health insurance. The taxpayers paid for the other 836. And in case you were wondering about the entire population - all 2,735 births - less than 24% involved insured coverage or even partial payment on behalf of the patient to the hospital in exchange for services. Keep this in mind as we move forward.
Now consider this:
If I want to upgrade my policy to a low-deductible premium policy, such as what I had with my last employer, my cost is $886 per month. But my girlfriend can upgrade her policy to the very same level, for just $4 per month. That’s right, $4 per month. $48 per year for a zero-deductible, premium healthcare policy - the kind of thing you get when you work at IBM (except of course, IBM employees pay an average of $170 per month out of pocket for their coverage).
I mean, it’s bad enough that I will be forced to subsidize the ObamaCare scheme in the first place. But even if I agreed with the basic scheme, which of course I do not, I would *never* agree to subsidize premium policies. If I have to pay $482 a month for a budget policy, I sure as hell do not want the guy I’m subsidizing to get a better policy, for less that 1% of what I have to fork out each month for a low-end policy.
Why must I pay $482 per month for something the other guy gets for a dollar? And why should the other guy get to buy an $886 policy for $4 a month? Think about this: I have to pay $10,632 a year for the same thing that the other guy can get for $48. $10,000 of net income is 60 days of full time work *as an engineer*. $48 is something I could could pay for collecting aluminum cans and plastic bottles, one day a month.
Are you with me on this? Are you starting to get an idea what ObamaCare is really about?
ObamaCare is not about dealing with inequities in the healthcare system. That’s just the cover story. The real story is that it is a massive, political power grab. Do you think anyone who can insure himself with a premium policy for $4 a month will vote for anyone but the political party that provides him such a deal? ObamaCare is about enabling, subsidising, and expanding the Left’s political power base, at taxpayer expense. Why would I vote for anyone but a Democrat if I can have babies for $4 a month? For that matter, why would I go to college or strive for a better job or income if it means I have to pay real money for healthcare coverage? Heck, why study engineering when I can be a schlub for $20K per year and buy a new F-150 with all the money I’m saving?
And think about those $4-a-month babies - think in terms of propagation models. Think of just how many babies will be born to irresponsible, under-educated mothers. Will we get a new crop of brain surgeons and particle physicists from the dollar baby club, or will we need more cops, criminal courts and prisons? One thing you can be certain of: At $4 a month, they’ll multiply, and multiply, and multiply. And not one of them will vote Republican.
ObamaCare: It’s all about political power.
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