Good luck on keeping your healthcare

There are 20 more examples at “Obama’s Broken Promises” at National Review Online—sent by real Americans. http://nationalreview.com/article/360689/obamas-broken-promise-andrew-johnson/page/0/4?splash=

American the beautiful and closed

Thanksgiving is coming

Useful tips I should remember

http://sarcasticcharm.com/99-life-hacks-that-could-make-your-life-easier

Important things to know about Medicare

1) “Medicare is essentially compulsory. People who refuse to join Medicare Part A are not allowed to receive their earned Social Security benefits. On June 30, 2011, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint and 12 GOP colleagues introduced the Retirement Freedom Act to decouple Medicare from Social Security. On February 7, 2012, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held that ‘because plaintiffs are entitled to Social Security benefits and are 65 or older, they are automatically entitled to Medicare Part A benefits. The statute offers no path to disclaim their legal entitlement to Medicare Part A benefits.’”

2) “Medicare patients cannot pay cash for care. A 1997 law (Balanced Budget Act, section 4507) forbids private contracts between patients and doctors.” This means that “Medicare recipients cannot pay cash for a Medicare-covered service that Medicare DENIES until the doctor has opted out of Medicare.” (My Caps) So Medicare patients must first find a fee for a service doctor or specialist and then HOPE he will be willing and able to treat them! It is incredible that it makes no difference that Medicare has DENIED their claim. (Remember that illegals may well get this same treatment free of charge simply by walking into the nearest Emergency Room.)

3) “Initial refusal to enroll in Medicare Part B leads to costly penalties. Seniors are automatically enrolled in Medicare Part B. Those who refuse and later change their minds will pay a premium for the rest of their lives that is 10 percent higher for each year they were not enrolled.”

Seventy seven million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 are currently becoming eligible for Medicare enrollment. The number of Medicare beneficiaries will grow “…from 50.7 million in 2012 to 81 million in 2030.” During the next 17 years, doctors and hospitals will be reimbursed at a lower rate for Medicare services with each passing year. At the same time, the number of qualified physicians is expected to decrease dramatically as the number of older patients requiring care skyrockets. The left were hardly unaware of these facts when they rammed the Affordable Care Act through Congress.

In 2012, approximately 56% of Americans 65 or older voted for Mitt Romney. As weak and disappointing as this Obama-lite candidate was, he received a strong majority of the senior vote.

So the question becomes, in addition to acquiring the power of life and death over the American people, has the Affordable Care Act provided Democrats a method of “cancelling out” the Republican edge among future senior voters?

from http://www.westernjournalism.com/obamacare-death-panels-will-begin-work-medicare-recipients/#ZYZTohgzoUWfeKVX.99

Don’t look up

How’s your food supply?

We are now seeing how an angry, power hungry, petulant President can freeze up a nation to get his way. The Federal Government owns nearly 650 million acres of land - almost 30 percent of the land area of the United States (NV, CO, UT, WY, AZ over half), and right now, the President through his appointee in the Dept. of Interior can decide to close a road, a store, a hotel, a business, a home or even an Indian reservation on federal land (our land). Maybe those people learning survialist skills and storing food had the right idea?

Sally Jewell, head of Department of Interior (and the NPS) which is kicking people out of national parks and denying access on federal land (which we own, btw) reports directly to President Obama. She'd really like to kick out the oil and logging companies that are on federal land. Tourists are small potatoes. As usual, the leftists have us looking somewhere else.

Balloons pollute

If you’re happy or celebrating, don’t release balloons.

Four Presidents on Mt. Rushmore have a message for President Obama

“The federal government shutdown has closed access to some popular Black Hills area tourist spots, but the regional tourism association says some are still visible.

Direct access is closed to Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Badlands National Park, Wind Cave National Park, Jewel Cave National Monument, Minuteman Missile National Historic Site and Devils Tower National Monument.” Huffington Post

“Blocking access to trails and programs at South Dakota’s most popular attraction was one thing, but state officials didn’t expect Congress’ budget stalemate to shut down a view of Mount Rushmore.

The National Park Service placed cones along highway viewing areas outside Mount Rushmore this week, barring visitors from pulling over and taking pictures of the famed monument.” Argus Leader, S.D.

The Shutdown

Mike Huckabee on the lack of common sense

Chalk up some another victim of our school officials’ zero common sense policies. In Cobb County, Georgia, 17-year-old Cody Chitwood was charged with bringing weapons into a school zone. It all started when drug-sniffing dogs detected gun powder from his ...car. That turned out to be residue from a firecracker that had been in the car since the Fourth of July. That suspicion led to a search that uncovered knives. You see, Cody is an avid fisherman, and out in his locked, parked car, he had his tackle box, which had fishing knives in it. He’s now facing a felony charge that could send him to prison for up to 10 years and destroy his hopes of joining the Air Force. A similar arrest happened to another senior at a nearby school. Luckily, this was so over-the-top, state legislators are finally considering changing the laws to restore some common sense to school weapons policies. It will leave me with fewer idiotic news stories to comment on, but I guess if it stops the destruction of kids’ lives for no good reason, then that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. From the FaceBook site of Mike Huckabee.

Shame on the President for his pettiness

Shame on the President for denying death benefits to our soldiers killed since Oct. 1. He never did like the military and from declaring Ft. Hood "work place violence" to keeping his military base golf course open during the shutdown to blocking WWII vets at the Washington Mall to see the memorial to denying these benefits he's flying the flag, "Mission Accomplished."

A private foundation, Fisher House Foundation, has stepped forward to cover death benefits for the families of troops who've been killed in combat after the Pentagon confirmed the payments have been suspended as a result of the partial government shutdown. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced Tuesday that the Maryland-based Fisher House Foundation has offered to cover the $100,000 payments that the government typically pays out to families within three days of a soldier's death.

These government functions are still going during shutdown—Michelle’s web page

#1 According to U.S. Senator Rand Paul, 85 percent of all government activities are actually being funded during this "government shutdown".

#2 Approximately 1,350,000 "essential" federal employees will continue to work during this "government shutdown".

#3 Overall, 63 percent of the federal workforce will continue to work during this "government shutdown".

#4 The U.S. Postal Service will continue to deliver our mail.

#5 U.S. military personnel will remain on duty and will continue to get paid.

#6 Social Security recipients will continue to get their benefits.

#7 Medicare recipients will continue to get their benefits.

#8 Medicaid recipients will continue to get their benefits.

#9 Food stamp recipients will continue to get their benefits.

#10 Those on unemployment will continue to get their benefits.

#11 Federal retirees will continue to get their pensions.

#12 The federal school lunch program has enough money to go through at least the end of this month.

#13 Public schools all over the country will continue to stay open.

#14 Almost all federal law enforcement officials will continue working.

#15 The Federal Reserve will remain "completely functional".

#16 The Supreme Court will continue to operate normally and federal courts have enough money to keep going for at least two weeks.

#17 TSA employees will continue to molest travelers at our airports.

#18 Air traffic controllers will continue to monitor traffic at our airports.

#19 Hopelessly outmanned border patrol agents will continue to try to stem the tide of illegal immigration.

#20 Visas and passports will continue to be issued by the State Department.

#21 The Veterans Administration will continue to offer substandard medical services, and it will be able to continue processing benefit payments at least for now.

#22 The Obama administration apparently has plenty of money to spend on closing open-air memorials that are usually open to the public 24 hours a day.

#23 The Department of Defense announced the awarding of 94 new contracts worth a combined total of more than 5 billion dollars on September 30th - the day right before the "government shutdown".

#24 The "government shutdown" has not prevented the new two billion dollar NSA spy center from opening up.

#25 Federal prisons will continue to operate normally.

#26 Amtrak trains will continue to run.

#27 The Patent and Trademark Office will be open.

#28 The Consumer Product Safety Commission will continue to issue product recalls if the products "create an immediate threat to the safety of human life".

#29 The National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center will continue to track weather patterns.

#30 If the federal government needs to respond to a natural disaster, this "shutdown" will not affect that. #31 NASA will continue to support the Mars Rover and the two American astronauts up on the International Space Station.

#32 All city employees of the D.C. government have been deemed "essential" and will continue to go to work.

#33 Even though the Obamacare exchanges are not working properly, people will still be able to access them.

#34 The IRS will continue to collect taxes, but it will be suspending punitive audits of conservative organizations.

#35 Barack Obama will continue to get paid for the full duration of this "shutdown".

#36 The U.S. Congress will continue to get paid for the full duration of this "shutdown". -

 http://www.worldviewweekend.com/news/article/government-shutdown-36-facts-which-prove-almost-everything-still-running#sthash.yVwdl8GF.dpuf

Congress’ gym is open, but there’s no towel service. What a shame.

Leadership Failure is his legacy

Home of the Redskins (athletic team name)

About 99% Native American (Navajo).

Red Mesa High School is a high school in Teec Nos Pos, Arizona. It is one of two high schools under the jurisdiction of the Red Mesa Unified School District, along with Red Valley/Cove High School. It operates an FM radio station, KRMH 89.7.

http://www.rmusd.net/education/components/sectionlist/default.php?sectiondetailid=86&

Tax legislation has to originate in the House; the health-care law didn’t.

"[The Supreme court ruled] Obamacare could be upheld only as a tax. Not that Obamacare is necessarily a legitimate tax. To be a legitimate tax measure, Obamacare would have to have complied with all the Constitution’s conditions for the imposition of taxes. Because Democrats stubbornly maintained that their unilateral handiwork was not a tax, its legitimacy vel non as a tax has not been explored. Indeed, it is because Obamacare’s enactment was induced by fraud — a massive confiscation masquerading as ordinary regulatory legislation so Democrats could pretend not to be raising taxes — that the chief justice was wrong to rebrand it post facto and thus become a participant in the fraud." Tax bills must originate in the House, but Obamacare originated in the Senate.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/360460/obamacares-unconstitutional-origins-andrew-c-mccarthy#!

New words in our political vocabulary

New words coined in October 2013--both developed from the pettiness and meanness of Barack Obama. 1) Barry-cades, those obstacles placed to keep elderly veterans in wheelchairs away from privately funded memorials in the mall, the same mall that is open to SEIU immigration demonstration, 2) Spite House, a house the people own and the president and his family temporarily live there, now a symbol of Chicago thuggery instead of freedom.

Is the spending spree over?

“Government spending is taxation, now or later, and cuts in government spending are pro-growth tax cuts. Beyond the essentials of our government—roads, courts, schools, police and fire services, our military—government spending doesn’t create productive resources, especially when it comes on top of the $3.8 trillion a year already spent. The federal government’s main activity now is to redistribute resources, mostly from producers to non-producers. When the money the government takes from workers and producers is used to pay people and companies not to work—food stamps, unemployment benefits, bailouts, Solyndras, Obamacare health subsidies—it’s a double-whammy. Raising taxes on workers and increasing payments to non-workers is why we had the Great Recession and the lousy recovery in the first place.”

From American Spectator, October 2013

To an accusation about not being caring and noble

I was reading a medical newsletter, Medpage “Gupta Guide,” on how the shutdown was affecting medical conferences, and found out the government had actually called people back who were to speak at or attend a medical conference—flights, hotels, registration already paid for.  Burning up bucks to save a penny.  The comments at the article got pretty heated as some thought others too progressive, who in turn thought conservatives were not being caring  and noble.

I already get one viewpoint and one viewpoint only from all of the mainstream media, Hollywood, TV, movies, "comedy shows", academia... the "progressive" socialist/communist left-wing viewpoint. I am so sick of it. I should be able to read medical related articles without the indoctrination continuing ad nauseum. They redistribute tax dollars in exchange for votes, which is the farthest thing from "caring and noble".

They send billions of dollars and 20 F-16 fighter jets and 200 Abrams tanks to Muslim Brotherhood terrorists in Egypt. Sent billions of dollars and were running guns to the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya and got 4 Americans killed there and many injured. And now this Presidential Administration is giving arms, weapons, and US military support and our blood and treasure boots on the ground to Al Qaeda Muslim terrorists in Syria. And purposely leaving our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel, hung out to dry and be annihilated. It is insane. None of that is "caring and noble".

They use it to fund wasteful, corrupt, power-hungry government agencies (IRS, EPA, OIG, OSHA, etc.) and the President told them to use their tax-payer-funded POWER to target, attack, and destroy their political opponent American citizens using mob gangster terror tactics. Not American...not noble or caring. . . 

It is not caring or noble to indoctrinate and teach people that they are not capable of being responsible for themselves and that big daddy government must step in and be their father or husband at the expense of the tax-payer who can't afford anything but peanut butter and is working their rear off.

Beckoning illegal aliens to come here with ads and billboards in Mexico in order to get them on welfare and GET THEIR VOTE is not caring and noble for those of us who are picking up the bill, but can't afford to pay for our kid's college. So don't lecture others about not being caring if they do not subscribe to your "progressive" viewpoint, because you have had the wool pulled over your eyes.

Whose budget—guest blogger Nancy Junker

The US House and US Senate are suppose to pass a budget bill. The Senate, under Harry Reid, has not done so since Obama took office. Why is this? I can only imagine that it is because with the spending levels they want, and the economy in the tank producing lower tax revenue, it would be sooooo out of balance. The progressives do not want the voters hearing about this.

Bills may be initiated in either chamber, but spending bills originate in the House. We have not had a budget in 5 years, so it is difficult to put any spending bills in perspective. Just rack them up!

Bills that originate in one chamber and are passed go to the other chamber. That chamber either takes it up as is, or creates its own bill on the same subject. When this bill passes, a conference committee consisting of members of both chambers meet to negotiate the differences. A compromise version then goes to both chambers for a vote. Almost every bill that the House has passed in the last 5 years has been dead on arrival at the Senate. They simply do not take it up. Harry Reid demands that the House send him a bill that only contains items that he agrees with. There are no votes on the Senate floor. There are no conference committees to negotiate differences. It is his way or nothing.

This is what is being done with the CR and the Debt Ceiling. The Democrats are not willing to negotiate at all. They know full well that if and when the Republicans cave, there will be no bargaining chips left for them in the budgeting process.

But why have we been funding the federal government with CR’s for the last 5 years anyway? Remember the good ole days when we had appropriation bills for each department of the government? There would always be a scurry near year end to get them all done. Many would end up being combined in the haste. When the Republicans had control, the Democrats would berate them for not getting the business of the government done in a timely fashion. Now the Democratic Senate won’t consider an appropriation bill from the House is it is not in total agreement with it and we don’t have conference committees to negotiate differences, we just pass continuing resolutions to keep spending levels the same with I would assume the automatic percentage increases that are always included in the”baseline” budgeting process. And that baseline has increased enormously over the last 5 years. Remember all the stimulus money that was added?

This is no way to run the government.