Social Security and Medicare entitlements
Someone please tell me what in the world is wrong with all the people that run this country! Story: Obama’s full address on debt ceiling impasse The Social Security’s retirement program has been a basic part of American life for more than 65 years. Suddenly, we’re broke and can’t help our seniors, War Veterans, Orphans, and Homeless etc.? Over the years, you save up more money and earn ‘credits’. Then after you retire, these savings are paid back to you, depending on how many credits you earned. Medicare is our country’s health insurance program for people age 65 or older. (That no entitlement)
They call Social Security and Medicare entitlements, even though most of us have been paying for them all our working lives. I have been paying into SSI (1.45% payroll) for over fifty years and it not over yet. It also is financed in part by monthly premiums deducted from Social Security checks. Every single month all Social Security recipients (around 30 million) pay for their own Medicare through deduction of $96.50 from this so call entitlements. Do the math. Where does that money get used along with Medicare part D, paid to the drugs company by the Government? And remember each prescription require a co-pay. And now, just when it’s time for us to collect, the Government is running out of money. Why and who authorized the Government to borrow from our Social Security in the first place? That money is supposed be in a lock box. (That no entitlement)
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Today’s Health Care Court Cases
Today’s Health Care Court Cases
The people of this Country apparently are not aware of the changes made after the passage of the Affordable Care Act. It is clearly making it better for those who want the get busy helping our selves. Those who claim that the “individual responsibility” provision exceeds Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce because it penalizes “inactivity” are simply wrong. The real shameless are those among us who refuse get health care for themselves and their love one; perhaps love is too strong a word. When if ever will we learn to care for those we love so dearly? Individuals who choose to go without health insurance are actively making an economic decision that affects all of us. Effetely the emergency room care has nothing left; even leaving some dead just waiting. That is the true death panel that one must accept should we as a nation refuse do our part. I’m reminded of the word of a great scholar: ”As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air–however slight–lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.”
Justice William O. Douglass
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Barack Obama and Birthers
Barack Obama and Birthers
Article first published as Barack Obama and Birthers on Technorati.
Barack Obama is an American citizen! Enough already with the kooky birthers and their insane charges leveled against President Obama. Perhaps they would be happy if the state of Hawaii could produce pictures or video showing Obama as he came out of the womb with the placenta attached and Don Ho in the background playing Hawaiian music on his ukulele.
We have three wars going, a fragile economy, nuclear disaster in Japan and air traffic controllers taking siestas placing us all in danger. Come on people, we have much bigger fish to fry. Given the hand Barack Obama was dealt, he is doing an admirable job, all things considered.
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February Black History Month
February is Black History Month and is a good time to recall the vast contributions African-Americans have made throughout the nation’s military history. The Black Awakening of the 1960s dramatically expanded the consciousness of African Americans about the importance of black history, and the Civil Rights movement focused Americans of all color on the subject of the contributions of African Americans to our history and culture.
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Repealing the Affordable Care Act will hurt the Economy
Posted by Stephanie Cutter on January 07, 2011 at 01:36 PM EST
The House Republican Health Care Plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take away all the new freedom and control it gives the American people over their health care and give it back to insurance companies will not only raise costs for individuals and businesses, but it will hurt our economy.
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