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August 21, 2009 12:00 AM
“Stop and Think
The mindset behind Obamacare seeks to create a new America.”
By Thomas Sowell
SNIPPET: “The serious, and sometimes chilling, provisions of the medical-care legislation that President Obama has been trying to rush through Congress are important enough for all of us to stop and think, even though his political strategy from the outset has been to prevent us from having time to stop and think about it.
What we also should stop to think about is the mindset behind this legislation, which is very consistent with the mindset behind other policies of this administration, whether the particular issue is bailing out General Motors, telling banks whom to lend to, or appointing “czars” to tell all sorts of people in many walks of life what they can and cannot do.
The idea that government officials can play God from Washington is not a new idea, but it is an idea that is being pushed with new audacity.”
OBSERVATION: If the post office is affected by Obama’s economy, and Medicare and Social Security is affected by Obama’s economy, and other government programs are affected by Obama’s economy; WHY WOULD WE WANT ANOTHER GOVERNMENT PROGRAM — HEALTHCARE “REFORM?”
Since I am not stuck on stupid; I must say “NO” to Obama’s healthcare “reform.”
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No Social Security raises for two years (Medicare deduction to increase)
HeraldNet/AP ^ | 8-24-09 | Stephen Ohlemacher
Posted on August 24, 2009 1:00:01 AM PDT by STARWISE
Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise.
The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there won’t be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the next two years. That hasn’t happened since automatic increases were adopted in 1975.
By law, Social Security benefits cannot go down. Nevertheless, monthly payments would drop for millions of people in the Medicare prescription drug program because the premiums, which often are deducted from Social Security payments, are scheduled to go up slightly.
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