US in even worse shape than Greece - Pimco founder Bill Gross (America's largest Bond Investor)

American Thinker ^ | 06/14/2011 | Rick Moran

[algernonpj]

Yap, yap, yap.

I have yet to hear even one of the “smart” people suggest bringing back American manufacturing.

Until then, they’re not smart. Just stuck on old scripts.

You just reminded me of something to add to post #17.

Tariffs ala Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter II:
1. When a nation to whom one exports, imposes a tariff on one’s exports. Because the short term increase cost of goods, will be offset by long term advantages.
2. When the industry is necessary for national defense.
3. When domestic production is subject to an internal tax.

[Osage Orange]

Ding, Ding, Ding.....

We have a winner!!

[Grampa Dave]

“What seems to constantly get lost in the Social security and Medicare issue is that for years they have been drained by people who paid nothing in: anchor babies, illegal aliens, and brand new immigrants along with their extended families. We’re talking hundreds of billions per year. This is an issue neither party has addressed.

I’d remove all freebies from these people before I’d pull it from those who worked all their life and as a condition of employment had a portion of the ‘sweat of their brow’ confiscated and redistributed.”

Decades ago in many of the doctor offices in Gay Frisco and the counties around them, the offices were often loaded with elder Asians with MediCare Cards. These so called MediCare Patients couldn’t speak a word of English.

I got to know one of the Asian MDs, who had a problem with this. He said that newer Asian American Citizens would bring their parents into America. Supposedly pay them money/salaries and contribute to the SS system. As soon as they turned 65, the new comers would go on SS and MediCare.

Since then, millions of Mexican newcomers, Russian, Iranian, Eastern Euror Trash, and from where ever were brought into this country under the same bs. We know of a few English/Americans who did the same with their UK parents.

This bs has gone on for decades with many medical offices, ers and hospital clinics looking and sounding like minature UN enclaves.

Add to this bs, the problem of MediCaid like MediCal putting all new comers on Medicaid and hospital ERS becoming free walkin clinics for the illegals here for the welfare, food stamps, WIC programs and other tax payer bennies.

This so called free care drives the medical costs for the doctors, hospitals, clinics and us.

One of our friends went to the local hospital for an outpatient upper GI Xrays. The bill from the hospital was just under $2000. Medicare paid just under $100 with no payment due from the patient. So American citizens with insurance or minimal insurance get the $2000 bill. Many hospitals are now requiring the legal payers to use a credit card for payment for Out patient procedures and same day surgery or to put up cash before the procedure. Of course this doesn’t apply to the Illegals milking our health care system.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Illegal immigrants, and white collar unions(caused by then Gov. Brown in the late 1970’s) have all but destroyed California.

[Liz]

For decades doctors' offices in and around Gay Frisco were loaded with elder Asians with MediCare Cards.....who couldn’t speak a word of English. One Asian MD said newer Asian-Americans would bring their parents over, supposedly pay them money/salaries to get into our SS system. As soon as they turned 65, the newcomers would go on SS and MediCare. Since then, millions of Mexican newcomers, Russian, Iranian, Eastern Euror Trash, wherever, were brought into this country under the same bs.

The way they keep sucking up benefits is by hyphenating themselves---forming "voting blocs"---they then get vote crazed politicians on all fours sucking up for votes and campaign donations.

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE: Recent news report say L/E closed down three California upscale townhouses operating as a maternity center for Chinese mothers---the mothers paid $35,000 to stay there. Their families back home paid their fare so they could have their babies born in America; to have the children automatically gain US citizenship.

You have to ask: why would they fork over thousands of dollars to give birth here?

B/c it's an investment for the lucrative future--- when the US tax dollars start rolling in. Those "anchor babies" give the mother, father, and extended family, free entry into the US---- they then get on the US gravy train, and suck-up benefits from here to eternity.

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Russian emigres are THE WORST---they come here whining about "asylum" ---- a well-used scam to get on SS (which has a special category for "asylum seekers"). They never paid a dime into the system. When Congress tried to turnoff the SS faucet, one of the scumbags actually sued. The new Ruskis also get job set asides (jobs taken from born Americans), welfare, food stamps, etc, etc, etc. These are not "impoverished" people. They are professionals. eternally riding the gravy train.

Some of them DO work--- ripping off Medicare.

NY POST---July 2010---EXCERPT A Brooklyn medical office used a Soviet-era propaganda poster to silence Russian immigrants about getting kickbacks for letting doctors submit thousands of bogus Medicare claims in their names....... the poster hung in the "kickback room" of the medical office where Russian immigrants lined up for illegal payoffs. Also busted were Medicare "mills" elsewhere in Brooklyn, and in Miami, Detroit, Houston and Baton Rouge, La.

By Paul Martinka

Russian poster shushed immigrant partners in Medicare fraud. Insert pic is
a Russian immigrant not too happy about being nailed---getting a fee for allowing
doctors to submit her Medicare card for 3,774 medical services over six years.
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SOURCE: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/hushin_russian_in_klyn_med_fraud_dwMigEMJQtPhYzWlvvIGpM

[Scotsman will be Free]

The way I figure it we can have riots now while saving the economy and therefore the nation or we can wait until the economy and nation are destroyed then have riots. I’m in favor of the former.

[Condor51]

Of all those Moochers mentioned, the only ones to worry about when The Feces Hits The Ventilator are the Russians. But not the 'Russian Mafia' (snicker). But any ex Spetsnaz Soldiers who scammed their way here. They are REALLY 'Trained Killers' and one of them could prolly take out Ten MS-13 all at the same time, and without using a gun₍₁₎.

So when the riots start, those are the guys I'm looking for. To say something nice in Russian like, 'Let's Have Some Vodka' :-)
Препятствуйте нам выпить некоторую водочку совместно

The rest can pound sand, and better stay out of range, especially our 'visitors from the south'. AND, 'Holders' People'.

(1) The Spetsnaz training is so tough they expect to die during it -- and many do. And they can Kill with anything they can get their hands on.