And no, in case someone asks – certain VA hospitals are ok, some are good in some areas – but like military hospitals on the whole they aren’t that great. At least during elections or when a Republican is in the WH, that’s what I hear.

A lot of people are going to be shocked if/when it (Messiah Care) happens. Tragically they will take us with them – as they preferred to quibble over American Idol and if Jon & Kate are going to stay together than even look at what their Idol in Chief was doing to their lives.

Banks, Mortgages, Insurance, car companies, bonus award caps, salary caps, outright disregard for the 10th Amendment and Rule of Law on Contracts, open borders, illegal amnesty, a racist anti-Constitutionalist gun grabber nominated to the Supreme Court, destruction of businesses through c(r)ap and trade(offs), and now attempting to shove Messiah Care down our throats.

Can We Call Obama a Socialist NOW?

Land of the Free, my ass!

There’s a little known feature of Social Security called a “do-over” (yes, that’s the name), that you may be able to exercise if you can recover financially in the next few years.

After you have collected SS for any amount of time, up to your age 70, you can pay back what you have received (WITHOUT interest), and then begin collecting payments as if you just filed. The difference between benefits at 62 and benefits at 70 is about 67% before cpi adjustments. With inflation, the difference could be 100%. In addition, if your wife’s payment is less than 50% of your new one, it moves up to be 50%. Overall, it’s an effective return of 9-10%. You aren’t likely to ever be able to get that kind of safe return in your life. Plus the new payment is still inflation-adjusted.

For those few people with enough assets at the later age (you would need in the neighborhood of 150-200K), this can be a very advantageous thing to do. Only about 1000 people have done it in the history of Social Security, but it is documented and legal.

Keep it in mind.

And I know how you feel about your financial situation. I was destroyed financially in October (for the third time in my life), and have been hell-bent since then to recover. Later this year, I’ll know if I my plan can work. If not, it will be onto plan c.

My wife has elected to work until full retirement age (66) as long as she can remain employed. She teaches in a small Catholic school and since salaries were frozen this year, she will receive the same pay next year as the one she just completed. We are together on her insurance plan, and this is the reason for her decision. The employee-contribution went up also for the coming year. The school had to eliminate three positions for next year to cut costs in order to remain open. We know she has a job (and a pay check) for the next 12 months. Beyond that, who knows? My construction business has been stalled since last October and I’ve been loaning it money from my personal savings to keep it afloat. I don’t think that’s the way it’s supposed to work. My accountant advised me to file for Social Security early, and that’s what I’ve done, but I have to continue to work to make ends meet. I intend to give it until tax time next year, and if things haven’t improved by then, I intend to liquidate my business assets and cash out. I refuse to continue feeding this “pig” of a government for no benefit to myself or my future.

What I find most disturbing, though, is that a great many of my countrymen are so devoid of any common sense that they’d put this asswipe in office in the first place. Disgusting whores!

This reminds me of a political cartoon I’ve seen:
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Democrats 1861-”I have a right to force other people to tend my fields! Y’hear me? A right!”
Democrats 2007-”I got a right to force other people to pay for my healthcare! Y’hear me? A right!”

“Democrats, seeking an easy life at someone else’s expense for 150 years”
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I think that about sums up the democrats’ delusion of self-entitlement.

You can prove anything you want with Excel and a few assumptions.

300 hundred million people at the mercy of idealogues with spreadsheets. Just as 1 small example….to sell the Depression Stimulus bill, they ran models to estimate unemployment for 3 years. Model A was “do nothing”. Model B was “implement the stimulus package”. Needless to say, with Model A, unemployment went up, but with Model B, wow, unemployment headed down immediately, and like a rock. So what has really happened? You guessed it…..employment is far above the “do nothing” model. But you will never hear that from the msm.

But I don’t really blame the spreadsheet nitwits. They aren’t the architects of this.

And neither is Obamastein.

Well, boys and girls, try this on for size. Those aforementioned who are doing just that–working in order to afford health care insurance–will cease to work once the care is “free”. When they do, they no longer contribute to….a) Social Security, b) Medicare, c) Federal Income Tax, d) State and local income tax, and other sources of revenue needed to meet the obligations of Medicare and SS, just to name two. Who gets to pick up the slack?

The total naivete of this moron defies description. If the health care we have now costs ‘X’, how can it cost ‘X’ minus ‘Y’ dollars after adding fifty million more people to the patient burden? If this is Obamalogic, then Obama is a dip-shit!

PS. You’ve got to love this quote.

…..”That would translate into $2,600 in higher income for a family of four in 2020….”

By the year 2020, due to Obama’s huge deficit spending, a loaf of bread will cost $2600. We won’t be able to afford lard to spread on it, either.

Even if it is free!!

and if Universal Health Care is passed, innovation won’t happen anywhere.

The pace of medical innovation will stop dead in its tracks.

But Universal Health Care isn’t required to make that happen. Anyone can make it happen and cut medical costs by more than 50% at the same time. Just refuse treatments that have been developed in the last 20 years. Those treatements are the ones that are “too expensive”, so don’t use them.

But Americans-with-Teddy-Bears absolutely want, no they DEMAND the life-saving advances that cost trillions to develop. They just want somebody else to pay for them