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Obamacare: The Social Security Fix
Posted by: | CommentsI’m writing this to go on record concerning this subject. In a few years when what I am going to predict is beginning to happen, I can point to this post and say: “I told you so!” That is, if I’m still alive. If Obamacare becomes law it will be the method by which the bankrupt social security system will be fixed. How is this you ask?
The impending doom for Social Security is found in the huge numbers of baby boomers who will go on Social Security/Medicare over the next 5 to 25 years. Because the abortion-on-demand movement has murdered over 50,000,000 babies since 1973, we are missing 1.5 generations of Americans who should be working and paying taxes, particularly FICA employment taxes. When the boomers retire there will not be enough people paying FICA taxes to support their Social Security payments. Big problem.
There are only two solutions to fix this potential disaster. The first is to drastically raise FICA taxes on the working population. The second is to reduce the number of people drawing Social Security checks. I predict that the people paying the FICA taxes will prefer the second method. I also believe Obamacare will provide the means to accomplish the reduction in the number of people receiving social security. How? It’s very simple: Administrative Volutary Euthenasia!
When Obamacare is in effect, the Government is going to gradually decide who deserves certain kinds of care. A 70 year old person suffering cancer will be provided hospice care, rather than expensive Chemotherapy. As the aged get sick, they will be thinned out by being denied the expensive care and treatment that might help them live a few more years. Instead they will be offered Administrative Voluntary Euthenasia. This will be Dr. Kervorkian on steroids, from coast to coast!
I am 67 as of this post. I fully expect the day to come when I am going to get sick with something and the government is going to disapprove the treatment I need based on my age and the expense of the treatment. Obamacare will prohibit me from buying it out of my own pocket and the government will help me exit this world as painlessly as possible. When you multiply this scenario millions of times it won’t be long until the Social Security recipients are drastically reduced. The result will be a ‘fix’ for Social Security.
Call me a conspiracy nut if you like, but I believe this is inevitable if Obama and the Democrats have their way.
Send In The UN!
Posted by: | CommentsDear Jim Bob,
I just heard that the United Nations is going to investigate what they describe as the US Housing Crisis. What’s this about Jim Bob?
Curious in Cleveland
Dear Curious,
I looked into this and discovered you are correct! Evidently the UN (located in New York City) is dispatching a person they identified as Raquel Rolnik, the “UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing” to investigate the housing situation in New York City and other American cities.
I learned that Ms. Rolnik is an architect from Brazil and made her name there as an Urban Planner. I am sharing a video at the end of this post wherein Ms Rolnik expresses her opinion that affordable housing is a right. When you see Ms. Rolnik all of this will become very clear to you.
I also learned that one of the groups helping Ms. Rolnik with her NYC investigation is an outfit called FUREE (Families United For Racial and Economic Equality). If you’ve never heard of FUREE, just think of them as a little ACORN. One of the main concerns of FUREE is combating something called “gentrification.” Now, what is gentrification you ask? I’ll make it easy for you. Have you ever seen a slum area that is blighted, riddled with crime and generally unsafe? Then, have you ever seen a bunch of business people come in and buy up all that dangerous real estate and clean up the area? They tear down the worst, repair the salvagable parts and make the area nice and safe -- to the extent that people who actually work move back into the area and it once again becomes a thriving community.
We used to call this process Urban Renewal and it was considered a good thing. Today, it is called “gentrification” and is considered evil! Why? Because when an area undergoes ‘gentrification’ property values go up and rents increase. The destitute, unemployed people who formerly lived in the area can no longer afford to live there and are displaced.
Since the UN Special Rapporteur, Ms. Rolnik considers affordable housing a “right”, and is being led around by the FUREE group, we will no doubt hear more about this in the days ahead. The big question is this: What will the UN do when it finishes their investigation? My guess is that they will send a big report to President Obama and his ACORN roots/genes will come to life in sympathy. A logical Obama solution will be to introduce some good legislation that will force developers and others who produce “gentrification” to rent their properties at depressed rates to accomodate the rights of the displaced.
HEY! Isn’t this the same approach that caused the home loan mortgage crisis that tanked our economy? I just love liberals, don’t you?
Video of UN Special Rapporteur, Raquel Rolnik
The Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives
Posted by: | CommentsDear Jim Bob,
When I ask people about the difference between liberals and conservatives I get a lot of different answers. What’s the best way to understand this Jim Bob?
Interested in Iowa
Dear Interested,
I think the best way to understand the difference between liberals and conservatives is to take a look at their behavior. After all, behavior is the result of what we think and what we think is driven by what we believe. So, if you can simply describe what liberals do and what conservatives do it might help you understand what separates them. Here is what I’ve observed over the years.
WHAT LIBERALS DO: Liberals usually create problems where they don’t really exist. They are always trying to fix stuff that isn’t really broken. Even if something is slightly broken, their approach is to throw the whole thing out and start over with something that always involves the government doing it. It gets even more complicated when you understand that liberals will decide something SHOULD be broken even if it isn’t and try to fix that too. The Global Warming Hoax is like that. Finally, liberals rarely, if ever, trust fixing things to individuals, because they want the government to do it through taxes and more regulation. Why liberals do this is another subject.
Now, it’s important to understand that for something to be broken in the mind of a liberal, all that needs to exist is an opinion that its broken. Liberals are rarely restrained by actual facts. What they do is assemble a lot of anecdotal information and portray it as a dominant trend. They also twist facts to fit the agenda they have created to fix whatever they believe is broken. Our current health care controversy is a perfect example of how liberals operate. American health care has some problems and they are very specific problems. The liberal approach is to completely replace the entire system with a government controlled environment.
WHAT CONSERVATIVES DO: Conservatives do not try to fix things that are not broken. When something is actually broken or looks like it might become broken, a true conservative first examines the extent of the problem based on the actual reality and facts of the situation. Then, a conservative will create solutions that deal with the actual problem. Conservatives will always try to preserve the best parts of whatever they are trying to fix. Conservatives strive for improvement, not destruction. A conservative will never throw the baby out with the bath water.
So, that is basic difference between liberals and conservatives, as I see it. Hope that helps.
The Obama Schoolchild Indoctrination Furor
Posted by: | CommentsIf you haven’t heard about this volitile issue, just watch the UTube clip below. Shawn Hannity does a great job focusing the issue.
What Can be Done About Congress?
Posted by: | CommentsDear Jim Bob,
There’s a lot of things going on in America that drive me nuts, but my biggest beef is with the United States Congress. It seems these people are from a different planet. They don’t understand what it means to be an American and they pass legislation like a bunch of drunks at an endless party. Is there anything that can be done to fix that place Jim Bob?
Going Bonkers in Yonkers
Dear Bonkers,
Actually, the solution to this is very simple. Only two new laws need to be passed and the entire mess would be fixed in nothing flat. Here are the two laws that are needed:
1. The Congressional Reform Act: This law would require that Congress Persons must live under all the laws they pass for the rest of us. There would be no congressional exemptions for any legislation passed by Congress. This would eliminate their windfall retirement plan (100% of full pay for life and fully covered healthcare) and require them to retire under Social Security and Medicare like the rest of us. Included in this law should be other rules for what they can do with left-over campaign contributions (which can be millions of dollars). This money should go into the general treasury to be applied to the deficits Congress creates.
2. The Congressional Term Limits Act: This law would limit Congressional term limits to no more than ten years. This law alone would do more to fix the place that just about anything else. This new law coupled with the Reform Act, described above, would make them accountable where it matters: In their own pocket books!
So, Bonkers this is not a complicated issue. It’s very simple. The only problem is that the laws must be passed by the very same group that needs reform. Only a huge grassroots demand for this kind of legislation would give it a chance of passing. Personally, if a person running for President made these two laws a key piece of their campaign strategy they would attract a huge public following and support for their proposal.
Moon Water! Just what we’ve been waiting for.
Posted by: | CommentsDear Jim Bob,
I just read that India sent an unmanned probe to the moon with some sophisticated water detection instruments on board. They think they have found water on the moon Jim Bob. Isn’t this just great?
Dee Lirious in Delaware
Dear Dee,
I think this is just thrilling and I’m not talking about the actual water they think they found. What is thrilling is all the fuss that we are going to hear about this for years to come. People are already talking about how to harness this resource and frankly, water on the moon is about as useful as a Democrat in Texas.
Let’s say there is some water on the moon. Since the temperature up there is about 400 below zero we can safely assume its frozen solid. My question is why do we have to go the moon to get this ice. Antarctica (The south pole and vicinity) has more ice than we know what to do with and nobody has seen fit to go down there and start hacking off big chunks to float back to the dry regions of the planet. So, why are all these folks getting excited about finding water on the moon? Listen carefully and I will explain.
Liberals love to make discoveries and postulate all kinds of possible good things that can be done if they can just get enough tax money to fund their optimism. This effort by India proves that their country has as many unrealistic intellectuals as the rest of the world. The Indians are very interested in capitalizing on their big discovery and they want to take the lead in the continuing pursuit of water on the moon. I can see it now: Bollywood on ice!
I hope we have enough sense to let the Indians take on the entire responsibility for this project, but they will probably figure out a way to get our Democrat leaders to help them fund their expenses. The big question is this? What will the highest and best use for all this water on the moon be?
It is no secret that India has been looking for a new location to house all of the tech support and customer service phone banks it provides for American businesses. Now that water has been discovered on the moon, they can move those facilities where they belong.
The Best Global Warming Carbon Reduction Strategy
Posted by: | CommentsDear Jim Bob,
I know the Democrats want to pass a big carbon tax bill to help stop global warming. Is that the best strategy Jim Bob?
Gullible in New Jersey
Dear Gullible,
As you know, most Americans go to sleep each night in total fear of the Global Warming Threat. It’s real important that we do what has to be done to stop this beast in its tracks! Hardly a minute of my own life goes by that I am not fretting and wringing my hands over the threat of climate change. I keep a thermometer with me at all times to monitor hourly changes as they occur. Yesterday, for example, the high temperature was 1 degree higher than it was the day before. I am terrified of this trend.
Fortunately, I recently read what I believe to be the most effective idea to halt the global warming threat. It was published by the United Nations, so it must be the right approach. Essentially, they recommend that human beings stop reproducing themselves! Since Global Warming is caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and human beings exhale carbon dioxide in the course of breathing, the simple solution to Global Warming is to eliminate human beings from the equation. What a simple solution. Only the United Nations could come up with such a brilliant idea.
Roger Martin, chairman of the Optimum Population Trust at the LSE, said: “It’s always been obvious that total emissions depend on the number of emitters as well as their individual emissions – the carbon tonnage can’t shoot down as we want, while the population keeps shooting up.”
Amazingly, the Democrat Socialized Medicine Act of 2009 will work well with the new UN strategy. As healthcare for the elderly is carefully rationed and their numbers are in accelerated decline, the population will be decreased significantly. No doubt increasing the number of abortions will also help reduce the population in the future. I mean, abortion on demand since the 1970’s has already spared us the extra carbon emissions of almost 50,000,000 people who don’t exist today. How wonderful is that?
So, the Global Warming threat will be unexpectedly reduced under the Obama/Democrat health strategies. The next step is obviously to copy the China policy of government enforced family size limits.
Don’t you just love this? Here’s a UTUBE CLip by Glen Beck on the Global Warming hoax:
Watch out for liberals chewing on your fingers!
Posted by: | CommentsDear Jim Bob,
I read on the news that some liberal chewed some guys finger off at a healthcare promotion event. Why do liberals eat fingers Jim Bob?
Curious in California
Dear Curious,
Well, I looked into this and what you say actually happened in California! A bunch of Moveon.org supporters got together for a public rally to support ObamaCare and one of them got involved with a man who didn’t share their favorable opinion of the legislation. Seems like there were about 100 ObamaCare liberals outside on the street carrying signs in support of socialized medicine government control of Doctors. Across the street there was a small group of Americans who did not agree with the liberals position. Both groups started yelling things at each other. One of the liberals came across the street and confronted a 65 year old man who was part of the opposition group. He started calling the old guy a lot of names and being very aggressive. The old guy popped the liberal in the nose! Unfortunately, the liberal went nuts and attacked the old guy physically. Somewhere in the conflict, the liberal bit off one of the old guy’s fingers!
What the news media has not reported about this is that the severed finger was subsequently stolen from the scene by the Moveon.org people. What did they do with it? They had it rigged up with a USB port! Now all they have to do is plug the old guy’s finger into any PC and they can control his mind. I was able to get a picture of the finger which shows the USB port mounted into the finger in question. Here it is:
This raises lots of questions. Senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snow have introduced a bill to give Obama control over the internet in the event of a cyber-attack. People are worried about who will determine what constitutes a cyber-attack and how that will further degrade our freedom. This liberal, finger chewing/USB incident may be a prototype of what Obama and liberal might want to do. What if they can require everyone to donate one of their fingers to the government to receive the USB attachment? I wonder if the news media would report that? Would media members give up one of THEIR fingers?
Is Obama Right? Did we vote for all this?
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Dear Jim Bob,
I just heard an ad on the radio that Obama and the Democrat’s created. It said we are getting what we voted for. I don’t remember Obama saying anything about Nationalizing the banks, the car industry and the health industry during the election. What are they saying Jim Bob?
Carl Marxalot
Portland, Oregon
Dear Carl,
What’s going on right now with these Democrat Ads? Well, it’s like this Carl. When Obama and the Democrats were running in 2008, they were purposely trying to make people believe they are like the rest of us who work and pay taxes and care about our country. Of course, the truth is they are not like the rest of us, but they couldn’t admit it during the election. They would have lost.
The Obama domestic agenda has now unfolded in plain view of anyone who cares to recognize it and it’s pretty ugly. As people’s eyes are opening to Mr. Obama’s true character and intent, opposition is beginning to form and the last thing the Democrats want is an honest debate about anything they want to do. So, they are now running attack ads against YOU! After all, they say, YOU voted for change and we’re delivering it! Anyone who doesn’t like it is probably a radical- right -wing -nut -conspiracy –community -organizer. So, Carl, Americans are the problem, not the congress or the programs this bunch of hacks is trying to pass.
This health care thing is a perfect example of how dangerous they are. Let’s compare our healthcare system (now) to a person who has discovered they have a non-malignant polyp in their colon. The simple solution is a minor out-patient procedure that just snips the polyp away and the patient goes home to live a great life. What if that same person went in to their Doctor and was told that they would get rid of the polyp by removing the entire colon and routing it outside the body into a bag you would excrete into the rest of your life. In addition, they would also be amputating your left leg in the event it might be related to the polyp, although they can’t prove it. To make sure everything is done to fix your polyp problem they are also going to give you a heart and liver transplant at the same time.
Our current healthcare system has some problems. Like the polyp described above. What Obama is giving us with his “reform” is the heart and liver transplant, the leg amputation and the colon removal all in one nice package. And he doesn’t want us to discuss it. Just lay down and take it like a good American Carl. After all , you voted for change.
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