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To: willyone
" This whole problem could have been fixed thirty years ago by converting Social Security to private accounts that the govt. could not touch. Even CDs and six percent interest over forty years yield alot of money"

Congratulations for being able to "see" the problem most clearly. Only it should have started much, much earlier. The "masters" took good, hard earned money away from working people by law. The Reserve has inflated the money supply so that the dollar now buys almost nothing by comparison; it is unrecognizable by comparison. Had the "geezers" you malign been given the right to invest for themselves instead of the government raiding the fund for your benefit you might have the moral right to turn your back on them. Unless, of course, you were the recipients of their scrounging for your college education or health care, cars or fancy weddings.

My parents both paid the SS bill and scrounged to save for the "rainy day'. That meant that they lived very frugally and took care of their parents and children. No vacations, little clothing and raising food. When retirement came the government decided they had "too much" so they received nothing for what they put into the SS fund. The same government benefactors dictate that they cannot use just any doctor they choose, it must be a medicare man who uses high priced pharmaceuticals which field side affects worse than the original problems. They cannot go to a doctor who will "first, do no harm" and even pay him out of their pocket for his services in orthomolecular medicine or homeopathic medicines (used by the Royal family of Great Britain). If a doctor tried to treat them outside of the medicare regimen he would be prosecuted and relieved of his license. Do you know that many "geezers" don't do medicare for this reason, so that they get gouged by doctors who have them help pay for other, less able patients and "charity" illegals? That "extra" should rightly go to help their children pay for medical care for their grandchildren, but we won't talk about that.

I figure we don't have to worry. They will shortly approve euthanasia and the "useless eaters" and handicapped (like perhaps our FR host and his wife) will be flushed. Many children will be brought up, benefitting by the increased largess, more selfish than the generation which brought them up and they will deny you the right to live or breathe in their turn whether or not you are useful.

Perhaps the most vile organization there is is AARP. They are government lackies and if you do a study on what they espouse and where their money goes you will understand that it is as bad as the NEA or worse. Many "geezers" thoroughly disagree with them. However, that is the government anointed power base which, along with the politicos, deserves your approbation. This double-harnessed pair foisted on "the geezers" the loss called Social Security care.

26 posted on 07/21/2002 10:05:57 AM PDT by Spirited
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To: Spirited
Do you know that many "geezers" don't do medicare for this reason, so that they get gouged by doctors who have them help pay for other, less able patients and "charity" illegals?


Thats funny. Medicare reimbursement is so low ( and by the way going lower by I believe 5% this next fiscal year) that many doctors are now refusing to take any NEW Medicare patients as the cost of seeing them is more then the payment.
43 posted on 07/22/2002 6:19:56 AM PDT by Kozak
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