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If you can’t find anything of interest today,you’re way too fussy
Category Archives: Medicare/Medicaid
Obama’s $8 Billion Dollar Bait-and-Switch Trick
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Chrissy’s Site Bites @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2015917380056011884RfDuPg
Here is how it works. HHS is allowed to spend money without specific approval by Congress on experiments aimed at increasing the efficiency and economy of health services. This 1967 statute has been properly used in the past to study the effects of new medical techniques or strategies aimed at lowering Medicare costs. Obama means to misuse it for a blatantly non-experimental and wholly political purpose. The Government Accounting Office recommends HHS cancel the project. If Obama insists on continuing, Congress should immediately launch a very public investigation.
Source: An $8 billion trick? Toying with Medicare to fix elex By Benjamin E. Sasse & Charles Hurt – April 23, 2012
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/an_billion_trick_ImTBFfz7MeuZLJY7JzXEIJ
H/t Pistol Pete’s Grudge Report
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Filed under Barack Obama, HHS, Medicare/Medicaid
THE HUMPDAY GRUDGE
Posted by Pistol Pete
GREAT COMMENTS YESTERDAY!
I am always glad to see people sharing their thoughts here.Hopefully it will get more lurkers to get off the bench and get in the game.
I promise I will try not to be whiny,grumpy,cynical,depressing or bitchy….no guarantees
OK,CHRISSY:HERE’S THE STORY
When I was about 23 my sister and her roommate(cute,as I recall)decided to have a Halloween party.The caveat was men had to be dressed as women and vice versa.Frankly,I never wanted my vice versa.I wanted to use one of my mom’s dresses(she was a big woman) but she talked me into putting on one of my sister’s dresses.She borrowed a wig from her neighbor and gave me one of her bras with the…uh… ‘foam rubber enhancements’.I think they were called “falsies.” I put on a pair of sis’ pantyhose,but they only came up to the top of my thighs so I had to keep reaching down to yank them up.Why did people give me funny looks when I did that?I was driving a 1971 Barracuda with vinyl seats and tried driving without sitting all the way down because they were cold as hell.
There I was,smoking cigars and shooting pool trying to look as macho as possible under the circumstances.It’s really a challenge to play nineball with foam rubber missiles always in your way.Anyway,sis’ neighbor staggers in not in costume,and starts watching me.As my grandma would put it,he was so drunk he didn’t know if he was afoot or horseback.Finally,he came over and said, ‘who are you,sweetheart?’
I told him I was twice the man he’ll ever be and more woman than he’ll ever get.I decided it would be better to leave the party early than to have this creep wake up the next morning thinking a girl beat his ass.Although I still appreciate a beautiful woman in heels,that was my first and only foray into the twisted world of crossdressing.That’s it.True story.
FIRST,THEY CAME FOR THE CATHOLICS
There was a discussion on the radio this morning about Bozo cutting off Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to non-compliant Catholic hospitals.Judging from the initial outrage Barky may have bitten off more than he can chew.
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2012/02/01/first_they_came_for_the_catholics
HEY,GOP–DID YOU HEAR YOUR FED-UP,FIRED UP BASE?
They’re doing the best they can to ignore us.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/hey_gop_do_you_hear_your_fed_up_fired_up_base.html
TALIBAN POISED ‘TO RETAKE AFGHANISTAN’ AFTER NATO PULLOUT
Mr. President,on behalf of our warriors and their families who have suffered and died,we’d just like to say:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/01/us-afghanistan-idUSTRE8100E520120201
MOOCH SAYS BARRY ‘SERENADES HER WITH AL GREEN,MARVIN GAYE,AND A LITTLE STEVIE’
He calls his penis ‘little stevie?’ How odd.
VIDEO:HATEFUL BLACK TALK RADIO HOST ORDERS BLACK REPUBLICAN WOMAN OUT OF STUDIO,REFUSES TO SHAKE HER HAND
I thought Barry was supposed to bring the races together.Must have meant the black race and the blacker race.
http://www.breitbart.tv/hate-talk-radio-host-refuses-to-shake-hand-of-black-republican/
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY,MR. PRESIDENT
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/02/happy_anniversary_mr_president.html
ALLEN WEST TO RUN IN DIFFERENT CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
A flanking move around the right of the GOP
THIS,MY FRIENDS,IS A MAN’S MAN
ROMNEY’S CHEAP AND EMPTY WIN
He paid $15M to buy the election.I wouldn’t call it cheap.
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/01/romneys-cheap-and-empty-win
OBAMA RAISED $5.3 MILLION FOR HIS 2012 CAMPAIGN YESTERDAY
So glad he has nothing better to do
TRUMP:IF YOU CRITICIZE OBAMA YOU’RE ALWAYS A RACIST
http://www.breitbart.tv/trump-if-you-criticize-obama-its-always-racist/
SARAH VS. THE ‘STALINISTS’ –PALIN TAKES ON REPUBLICAN POLITBURO
The GOP statists ignore this woman at their own peril
http://www.thenation.com/blog/165946/sarah-versus-stalinists-palin-targets-republican-politburo
ANOTHER BLACK HISTORY MONTH–THE LEFT’S FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR
THIS IS A 20 YEAR OLD VIDEO OF BARRY AS HEAD OF THE HARVARD AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LAW REVIEW
DEMOCRATS FULLY ENGAGED IN FAST AND FURIOUS COVERUP
Issa threatening Holder with contempt of Congress–who’s going to arrest him?
PRAYING AGAINST THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST
IIRC,Barry skipped this his first two years.What a difference an election year makes,huh?
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/01/praying-against-the-national-p
JAN BREWER VS. SHOE-TOSSING JOURNALIST
http://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/2012/02/01/jan_brewer_vs_shoetossing_journalist
OBAMA’S CALCULATED DECEPTION
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/01/obamas-calculated-deception
OBAMA RELEASES LIST OF TOP MONEY ‘BUNDLERS’
Includes Jon ‘I don’t know where the money went’ Corzine
http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/31/obama-releases-list-of-top-money-bundlers/
I made it this far without coming unhinged.Better not push my luck.
Biggest Lie of 2011
PolitiFact’s choice for Biggest Lie of 2011 is also the Biggest Surprise!
In 2009, PolitiFact selected Sarah Palin’s comment about “death panels” as the biggest lie.
- In 2010, they once again sprang to the defense of Obamacare, selecting a “government takeover of health care” as the year’s biggest lie.
So who could have ever guessed they’d choose “Republicans voted to end Medicare” for their Number One Lie of the Year 2011?!
From PolitiFact:
The Democratic attack about “ending Medicare” was a pervasive line in 2011 that preyed on seniors’ worries about whether they could afford health care.
Occasionally, Democrats and liberal groups were careful to characterize the Republican plan accurately, but far more often, they demonized and distorted it with lies.
For example:
• They ignored the fact that the Ryan plan would not affect people currently in Medicare OR the people 55 to 65 who would join the program in the next 10 years.
• They used harsh terms such as “end” and “kill” when the program would still exist, although in a privatized system.
• They used inflammatory and inaccurate pictures and videos of elderly people who clearly were too old to be affected by the Ryan plan. E.g., one video showed an old lady in a wheelchair being pushed off a cliff. Another featured an elderly man who had to take a job as a stripper to pay his medical bills.
In a blog post, the DCCC stood by its claim, saying the ad accurately stated Ryan’s plan would “abolish” Medicare. But even the Washington Post (hardly a fan of Republicans) agreed they were lying.
Sadly for the future of Medicare and for the future of substantive debate in this nation, the Democratic lies worked. Polls showed voters were skeptical of the Ryan plan and want Medicare to remain largely the way it is now. It’s got virtually no chance of passing in the Senate or getting signed by Obama.
Whoopee for Democrats!
- They demagogued and lied when Republicans said Fannie and Freddie were headed for disaster and disaster struck.
- They demagogued and lied when Republicans tried to reform Social Security and they’re doing it again about Medicare.
The unavoidable fact is that the post-WWII baby boomer generation is retiring by the tens of thousands and there is simply no way the remaining taxpayers can afford to provide so much for so many.
Democrats routinely demonize Republicans and lie about their plans whenever Republicans try to be responsible adults and take mature steps to stave off disaster.
We saw how well that worked in 2008, when the problems with Fannie and Freddie that Republicans had warned of caused the housing bubble, collapse and subsequent recession EXACTLY AS REPUBLICANS SAID THEY WOULD!
What did Democrats do? THEY BLAMED REPUBLICANS!
Social Security AND Medicare are headed toward total collapse. Anybody with half a brain can see that. Democrats have always and almost certainly always will continue to refuse to deal with the hard choices necessary to retool these programs so they can survive.
If Democrats stay in control and leave things as they are, the programs will collapse, but it will somehow be made to seem as if it is the fault of evil Republicans.
If Republicans take control of the government and do the hard things necessary to save the programs in SOME form, Democrats will demonize them and lie about everything, just as they did in 2011 with the Ryan Plan.
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SOURCES:
http://patriotupdate.com/16956/what-was-the-biggest-political-lie-of-2011
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/dec/20/lie-year-democrats-claims-republicans-voted-end-me/
Filed under Democrats, Medicare/Medicaid, Obamacare, Paul Ryan, Republicans, Social Security
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