Politics Made Simple

Anytime you hear a politician say “free” or “affordable”, you can be absolutely certain that politician is promising to accelerate the pace of our inexorable collapse.

Immaculate Contraception

When I saw The Dim Messiah announce this on TV this morning, I was half inclined to believe it was a parody. Only Obama could announce something so profoundly dishonest and still keep a straight face.

Quoting The Wall Street Journal
(emphasis is mine, I inserted the link):

“The government will now write a rule that says the best things in life are ‘free,’ including contraception…

The reality, as with all mandated benefits, is that these costs will be borne eventually via higher premiums…

Who was it again who claimed that if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan?”

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Our Inexorable Collapse

The trends depicted in the two charts below document the unstoppable march towards our inexorable collapse.

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A Nation of Moochers

Quoting John Nolte at BigGovernment.com:

“we are on the march to becoming Greece. Not just a European welfare state, but the kind of welfare state where the populace has been engineered by a nanny state to riot at the very thought of not being able to mooch the life to which they have become accustomed…

we’re losing that all-American pride that used to make the very thought of accepting a handout unbearable — even if we truly needed it… what Sykes sees (and meticulously documents) is a growing market of those willing to be purchased, and that’s something a country simply cannot survive.”

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Click here & examine who gets what in the USA welfare state.

NPR's Nina Totenberg is a Bald Faced Liar

The entire “Progressive” ideology is PURE MYTHOLOGY!
No lie is too big or too small if it helps to sell their snake oil.
And, they wonder why we have contempt for so-called “journalists”.
The so-called “profession” of so-called “journalism” has DESTROYED the USA.

Quoting NPR’s Nina Totenberg:

“there were more people on food stamps under George W. Bush”

The federal government reports that the peak rate of food stamp usage under President Bush was 31,624,844 (in 2008).

The federal government reports that -- in October, 2011 (the most recent data available), 46,224,722 people were receiving what used to be called food stamps (in 2008, it became known as SNAP).

The Far Left Huffington Post and other sources acknowledge that more people (by FAR) are on what used to be called food stamps than ever before.

The Millionaire on Food Stamps

This millionaire thinks he deserves food stamps.
The government bureaucrats allegedly agree:

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The entitlement disease is taking us down.
Our nation will NOT survive it -- we’re DONE!
Click here for more on our fatal entitlement disease.

Dims promote their Medicare mythology

The entire “Progressive” ideology is PURE mythology.
There is NOTHING factual about it.

Here, Dims promote their Medicare mythology.
It’s just a flat out lie from start to finish:

1) Think Medicare serves the poor?
Medicare robs the poor & gives to the rich.

2) PolitiFact.com leans hard to the Left.
But, even they admit this ad is a bald faced lie.

3) Paul Ryan’s plan is the best chance we have to save the nation.
The truth is that if we instantly and totally eliminated every entitlement program, every American would be far better off. The economy would take off like a rocket. The stock market would soar. And, those who truly need assistance would INSTANTLY be FAR better served by the private sector generosity of the most generous people on earth.

But, decades of bald faced lies such as this one have indoctrinated far too many Americans into believing the welfare state is actually a good thing. Pity, that.

Think Medicare Serves the Poor?

Think Medicare serves the poor?
Medicare robs the poor & gives to the rich.
(See the chart below.)

It also inflates health care costs
(robbing everybody a second time).

The Mafia robs everyone a third time
(exploiting the easiest scam of all).

Scamming Medicaid
is a piece of cake too.

Massive Medicare bureaucracy
robs everyone a fourth time.

Worst of all,
Medicare is bankrupting the nation.

Medicare will go broke in 2024
(5 years EARLIER than was estimated just last year).

Click the image for the CNN calculator
which produced this net worth by age chart:

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'Death panel' provision out of Obama Medicare policy

Quoting The Hill:

“The Obama administration will remove a brand-new Medicare policy that had reignited the ‘death panel’ debate from last year's healthcare fight.”

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First it’s in.
Then, it’s out.
Then, it’s in again.
Then, it’s out again.
What tyrannical SCUM!
Reminds me of the video clip in a previous post!

Click here for the REAL death panel language.
Click here for the facts on ObamaCare.

Dire poverty or expansive entitlements?

Seen the reports of swelling food stamp rolls?
Does that reflect dire poverty in the USA?
Or, merely the pervasive expansion of entitlements?

You decide:

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British Welfare State Run Amuck

Quoting The Daily Mail:

“A family of former asylum-seekers from Somalia are living in a £2.1million luxury townhouse in one of Britain's most exclusive addresses at a cost to taxpayers of £8,000 a month…

Mr Nur said his former five-bedroom home in the Kensal Rise area of Brent, which cost £900 a week in housing benefit, was suitable for the family's needs but he said they had felt compelled to move because they did not like living 'in a very poor area' and were unhappy with the quality of local shops and schools…

Rules allow anyone who is eligible for housing benefit to claim for a private property in any part of the country they wish.”

Got that?
If Buckingham Palace was for rent, welfare bums could live THERE!
Their new landlord previously asked £1,050 per week in rent.
But, taxpayers are paying £2,000 per week to the landlord!

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UNBELIEVABLE!

Why the Democratic Party Cannot Survive

Quoting Monty Pelerin
at American Thinker:

“Political parties are not immortal. They are born and eventually die…

The Democratic Party is unlikely to survive…

In the two most recent elections, each political party was soundly, sequentially rejected, but for different reasons. Simply and bluntly:

* The Republicans were tossed out because they did not govern according to their principles.

* The Democrats were tossed out because they did govern according to their principles.

One party lost because it misbehaved; the other because it revealed itself.”

Update: Factual errors in the original article have been corrected.
The author deserves credit for his response.

The author makes an interesting and compelling case.
Commenters at American Thinker also make interesting arguments.

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Hopefully, we can now begin to reverse the
ENORMOUS damage done over the last century.

French (and USA) Entitlement Insanity

French Entitlement Babies violently reject retirement at 62:

H/T to Chris at Boulder is a Stoopid Place.
I submit that -- if FDR were alive today -- he would set the retirement age at somewhere ABOVE age 84. Here’s why:

FDR signed Social Security into law in 1935. At that time, Social Security “benefits” were set to begin at the age of 65. In 1930 (five years before Social Security was signed into law), the average life expectancy was 59.2.

In 2003 (seven years ago), the average life expectancy was 77.5. So, the most likely retirement age which FDR might support today would be something HIGHER than age 84 (do the math).

Click here for source data on life expectancy.

The data suggest that even the uber-Socialist FDR would not support the current incredibly extreme (and outright suicidal) level of entitlement expectations in the USA, much less France.

Doctors Are Opting Out of Medicare

I thought I had previously posted this story -- apparently not.

For those who think government does a great job with health care -- take note.

Click here and here to understand why our health care costs are spiraling out of control.

Quoting The New York Times:

“Many people, just as they become eligible for Medicare, discover that the insurance rug has been pulled out from under them. Some doctors — often internists but also gastroenterologists, gynecologists, psychiatrists and other specialists — are no longer accepting Medicare, either because they have opted out of the insurance system or they are not accepting new patients with Medicare coverage. The doctors’ reasons: reimbursement rates are too low and paperwork too much of a hassle.”

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Click here for more on Medicare.

Deficit Spending - Cause & Cure V2.0

The Cause
(Hint: Defense spending is not the problem.)
Quoting the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office:

“under current law, federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid measured as a share of GDP will rise from 4 percent today to 12 percent in 2050 and 19 percent in 2082—which, as a share of the economy, is roughly equivalent to the total amount that the federal government spends today…

Federal spending on programs other than Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—including national defense and a wide variety of domestic programs—is likely to contribute far less, if anything, to the upward trend in federal outlays as a share of GDP.”

Click here and here to understand why our health care costs are soaring.

Click here to examine recent deficits.

Further substantiating the CBO quote:

According to The Washington Post, these are the trends in defense spending as a percentage of GDP:

World War II - “nearly 40 percent”

Korean War - “15 percent”

Vietnam War - “10 percent”

Currently - “less than 5 percent”

From the Congressional Budget Office
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From Heritage.org
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Again quoting The Washington Post (emphasis mine):

"The enormous sums committed to mandatory federal programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid dwarf all other aspects of the budget. Left unchecked for a decade or two, they will consume a larger share of the nation's GDP than all our federal programs today combined. Coupled with increasing interest payments on the government's rising debt, they will either force up taxes or produce dangerous deficits."

From the Congressional Budget Office
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From Heritage.org
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The Cure
(Hint: Higher taxes will NOT solve the problem.)
Higher income taxes will NOT produce higher revenues.
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Higher corporate taxes mostly just drive jobs offshore.
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Government spending (at every level) is out of control.
The answer is NOT higher taxes, but lower spending.
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Representative Paul Ryan has a workable plan.
I would prefer far deeper spending cuts.
But, this is a good start.
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Predictably, Dims prefer the path to certain destruction.
ObamaCare is guaranteed to take us there (even faster).
Click here & examine the entire Heritage.org presentation.

Medicare is bankrupting the nation AND the Mayo Clinic

Quoting Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe:

“PRESIDENT OBAMA is a great admirer of the Mayo Clinic. Time and again he has extolled it as an outstanding model of health care excellence and efficiency…

So perhaps the president will give some thought to the clinic’s recent decision to stop accepting Medicare payments at its primary care facility in Glendale, Ariz. More than 3,000 patients will have to start paying cash if they wish to continue being seen by doctors at the clinic; those unable or unwilling to do so must look for new physicians. For now, Mayo is limiting the change in policy to its Glendale facility. But it may be just a matter of time before it drops Medicare at its other facilities in Arizona, Florida, and Minnesota as well…

Why would an institution renowned for providing health care of ‘the best quality and the lowest cost’ choose to sever its ties with the government’s flagship single-payer insurance program? Because the relationship is one it can’t afford…

But if you think that sounds grim, wait until Congress enacts the president’s health care overhaul. A central element of both the House and Senate versions of ObamaCare is that Medicare reimbursements to hospitals and doctors - already so low that many providers lose money each time they treat a Medicare patient - will be forced lower still.”

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Even the NYT knows this is a national trend.

The CBO knows as well as anybody that the big three entitlements (Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid) are bankrupting the nation. Contrary to Dim propaganda, it is an objective, quantitative FACT that these entitlements are -- by far -- the primary driver of Federal deficits and ever growing fiscal crises at the state level (Medicaid is an unfunded Federal mandate which the states have to pay for -- except, of course, for those states represented by scumbag Senators -- like Nelson -- who sell their votes).

And yet, the moronic Dim proposal for improving upon what is quantifiably the BEST health care system in the WORLD is to INCREASE the role of the Federal government in 1/6th of the nation’s economy? Are they NUTS? The filthy, stinking, scumbag politicians are -- as ALWAYS -- the ones who created whatever imperfections we now face!

Who -- other than moronic Federal bureaucrats -- could simultaneously bankrupt the nation with skyrocketing costs AND bankrupt the single MOST efficient health care provider with plummeting reimbursements? It seems that organized crime (both in the Congress AND in the streets) is the ONLY real beneficiary here.

Listen up! These goddamn tyrants are not the LEAST BIT interested in improving upon ANYTHING! They are ONLY interested in a fucking power grab!

FUCK ‘em!
I’m PISSED!
And, I will NOT take it anymore!

CBO Busts Dim Accounting Fraud

Quoting Fox News:

“Republicans, emboldened by a new letter from the Congressional Budget Office, accused Democrats on Wednesday of ‘Bernie Madoff accounting’ for double counting the savings from Medicare as a means to pay for the Senate health care bill.”

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Click here for quotes from bald faced liars.
Click here for the CBO details.
Click here for more on the accounting fraud.
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60 Minutes Exposes Medicare Fraud

Click here for the primary post on this topic (and, follow the links back to this post).

The Dims keep telling us health care nirvana is merely a matter of putting the entire nation on Medicare (aka the Single Payer “solution”).

But, consider the following excerpt from the transcript of the embedded video below:

“KROFT: Look, I'm sure that you're aware of these problems. But it doesn't seem like you're doing a very good job. I don't mean you personally, but I mean, the government. This is still like a huge problem, and getting worse, right?

BRANDT: Well, it really does come down to the size and scope of the Medicare program, and the resources that are dedicated to oversight and anti-fraud work. One of our biggest challenges has been that we have a program that pays out over a billion claims a year, over $430 billion, and our oversight budget has been extremely limited.”

So, the problem is Medicare is too big, the “solution” is to throw even more money at Medicare and doing so will “save” enough money to put the rest of the nation on Medicare? Yep! That sounds like our “beloved” Federal government!

The REAL problem with Medicare is that NOBODY has ANY incentive to control costs -- AND, nobody EVER WILL!

But, Dims live in a fantasy world where everybody is altruistic and incentives are irrelevant. Well, okay, Dim politicians are just plain evil and naïve Dim voters live in the fantasy world which Dim politicians invent.

In the world of the Dims, (purported) good intentions are all that’s needed for heaven on earth.

Watch it and weep:

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Let's Fix Medicare with More Medicare - NOT!

The CBO reports:

“Federal spending on programs other than Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—including national defense and a wide variety of domestic programs—is likely to contribute far less, if anything, to the upward trend in federal outlays as a share of GDP”

The frontpage of that report makes it visually obvious how badly government bureaucrats have managed the fiscal “health” of the big three entitlements -- Medicare in particular.

Yet, the Dims have the audacity to suggest that the solution to the looming disaster they created with Medicare is -- MORE MEDICARE!

How STUPID do they think we are?

The CBO asserts Obamacare adds over $1 TRILLION in new entitlement spending and $583 BILLION in new taxes with a net ADDITION to the debt of $239 BILLION.

The Dims have already taken us off a fiscal cliff!
Click here to view the source data (before I added the shading).
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Click here to verify control of Congress.
In that URL, substitute the Congress number you want to verify.

Why on EARTH would we do ANYTHING
that digs us even DEEPER into a bottomless pit?

Click here & examine MASSIVE Medicare fraud!

Robbing the Poor to Give to the Rich

Increasingly, both Social Security and Medicare
rob the poor to give to the rich.

Tell me again who thinks this is a good idea?

Oh yeah, it’s the same thugs who, ever since FDR,
thought government should engineer the housing market
and let the tax payers suffer the consequence:

Click here for the rest of this animated series.
FDR created both the Federal Housing Administration (aka FHA) and the ponzi scheme called Social Security.

LBJ created both the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, (aka HUD) and the ponzi scheme known as Medicare (along with Medicaid).

But, what is depicted in the above animation is FAR from the worst of it! WHEN will we learn? My prediction? We WON’T (not until the NEXT house of cards, once again, crashes down around our idiotic collectivist ears)!

Click here to learn about a looming fiscal disaster which will make our current mess look like a walk in the park on a sunny day.