Or maybe I should say lack of common sense. You may wonder why I haven't been ranting more on the gummint takeover of health care. Make no mistake about it, that is the goal of the rat bastard commies in Congress and our rat bastard commie in the White House. Anyone with the intelligence of a third grade pissant can see what this will do to us and our economy and why it is a bad idea.
Right now, the Dims are cooking the books to try to bring this monstrosity in under one trillion dollars. Some thoughts.
Even if the CBO scores this bill to cost one trillion dollars think of this. Can you name one gummint program that has come in under budget? Me neither.
Medicare is broke. It cost a lot more than Lyndon Johnson said it would. I'm shocked! So where is Jug Hussein Ears and the Dims gonna get money for JHEcare? From Medicare, which is broke. Makes perfect sense to me.
Medicaid is broke. It is killing the states.
Our gummint is broke. Social Security is now paying out more money than it is bringing in. It's time to hit the ol' trust fund. Guess what? There ain't no money in the "trust fund". It's all gone. The politicians of both parties have spent it. All that's in the "trust fund" is some IOU's from the federal gummint.
Dear Social Security:
We owe you a shitload of money.
Signed: Congress
So we're in debt, it is increasing daily, and we're in the midst of the worst recession in my lifetime, and our politicians have decided to initiate a multi-trillion dollar entitlement that we cannot afford. Are they truly that stupid? I know Maxine Waters and Barbara Boxer are but what is going through the minds of these idiots? Don't they realize the state our country is in? We are on our way to becoming Greece.
Common sense. It is what is really lacking in our elected leaders. It looks like it is what is lacking in our electorate as well since they put these buttheads in office.
Don't blame me. My congresscritter is a Republican and I voted for the old white guy. At least I showed some common sense unlike the 53% who voted for JHE.
I doubt things would be much diffrent with Mc Rino. He was selected by the anticapitalist press to be the republican choice, not by the conservatives.
Posted by: Jeremy on March 18, 2010 02:42 PMI heard today that Walgreens has announced that their 121 stores in Washington (state) will stop taking Medicare on April 1. They are the second chain pharmacy to do this in WA in the past few months. The state's Medicare fund is so broke that they are paying less for meds than the pharmacies can buy them for, so that the pharmacies are losing money. So like good little capitalists, they are getting out of the business. I can't blame them. It's common sense. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589610,00.html]
My concern is that JHE and his thugs will turn around and 'force' all pharmacies to accept whatever government programs are in place. The pharmacies will be forced out of business because of the hit to their profit margins. They will be 'deemed' (there's that word again) 'too big to fail', and become government-owned-by-way-of-bailouts. All part of the master plan, methinks.
Posted by: MorningGlory on March 18, 2010 02:59 PMTo quote the late great Tex Antoine:
If rape is inevitable.....
Lay back and enjoy it!
I'm on Social Security and have been collecting since I turned 62. I'm gettin as much as possible before Obama and his Dumbocrats sink the boat and sic the "death squads" on me!
Posted by: Toejam on March 18, 2010 03:47 PMWe've been hearing a trillion dollar price tag for so many things lately that the number is sounding almost mundane. Ho, hum, what's another trillion dollar program?
Posted by: TalkinHorse on March 19, 2010 06:34 AM