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Shocking News: Dems Want New “Revenues” (Why Is This Shocking?)
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| November 17, 2013
| Bruce Bialosky
Posted on 11/17/2013 7:15:05 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
That would work only IF: The unions are kept off of anyone brave enough to try and the socialist monster of the Government is rolled back into it`s Constitutional cage.
The era of morons handling "widgets" on some assembly line is dead and gone so any REAL manufacturing has to be heavily automated, a simple fact of economics. New adage for the 21st century: "Get trained or get lost."
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posted on
11/17/2013 7:55:49 AM PST
by
nomad
To: Cringing Negativism Network; A_Tradition_Continues
China is rapidly building up a global military, and has approximately 5 TIMES AS MANY PEOPLE as America. You are making a political argument to override an economic process. It won't happen. We are driven by profit. The USA is now driven by benefits at someone else's expense. Over the long term decline is inevitable. We will not turn this trend around because the nanny state will not force children to become adults. In order to do this the govt will keep taking more and more from the productive till we end up like Europe, static economies with very little movement between economic classes.
I'm sorry if I seem so negative, but I don't believe the American people are willing to be personally responsible for their lives.
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posted on
11/17/2013 7:57:41 AM PST
by
wmfights
To: Kaslin
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posted on
11/17/2013 8:06:55 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
Just saying, eventually the Chinese will control it, if it is being sent to China.Not just China. The BRIC's are all operating with arrows pointing up. They all have problems, but their business environment is looking up.
Bring back American businesses.
How?
The American people are unwilling to pay for what they want. The American people are taxing the productive into extinction. When you see the trend and it comes down to patriotism vs. providing for your family it's a simple choice. There is a reason we prioritize GOD first, Family second, Country third.
I am a small businessman involved in real estate. Over the last 5 years I've had to eliminate most of our full time people and either work with them as independent contractors, or take on the work they did before with our remaining in house staff. My personal taxes keep going up. My business taxes keep going up. My property taxes, water bills, other utility bills all keep going up. The water, gas and electricity have not risen dramatically, but the local taxing bodies keep increasing their taxes.
So, I have sons coming into the business and I see the trend will make it impossible for us to grow and prosper. What do I do, just wait to be put out business? No! I've begun the process to move our profits and equity to another market where they are looking for the benefits that come with economic expansion.
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posted on
11/17/2013 8:22:48 AM PST
by
wmfights
To: SES1066
Only idiots and the evil voted for Obama, or ANY of the Democrats.
They've lied to us, constantly, and really are
"Collapsing the System". And now, these "Useful IDIOTS" who voted for them, are buying the lies that "Obamacare was designed to work." ?
It was designed to fail from the start.
THEN ... THEY GO TO THE
"SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM".
They've been sucking our wallets dry for over four years now on the "Obamacare" LIE.
AND NOW THEY WANT MORE TAXES ?
Our Founding Fathers would have hung them already!
Lets review:
Who was it that cut future funding for Medicare by $575 billion?
...the president and the Democratic Party successfully bamboozle voters... The 2012 election could turn on this falsehood.
The truth is that the Obama health law reduces future funding for Medicare by $575 billion over the next 10 years ...
Mr. Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius frequently make that false claim.
Indeed, even Medicare's mailings to seniors repeat the claim that reducing spending on Medicare will make it more financially secure for future years.
The fact is that Mr. Obama's law raids Medicare.
Who was it that moved Medicare Trust Funds out of the "trust box" and into the General Revenue, replacing them with Government I.O.U.s?
Who was it that expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?
The History of Medicare
In 1965, the Social Security Act established both Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare was a responsibility of the Social Security Administration (SSA), while Federal assistance to the State Medicaid programs was administered by the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). SSA and SRS were agencies in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). In 1977, the Health Care Financing Administration was created under HEW to effectively coordinate Medicare and Medicaid. In 1980 HEW was divided into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The first U.S. President to propose a prepaid health insurance plan was Harry S. Truman [DEMOCRAT]. On November 19, 1945, in a special message to Congress, President Truman outlined a comprehensive, prepaid medical insurance plan for all people through the Social Security system. The plan included doctors and hospitals, and nursing, laboratory, and dental services; it was dubbed "National Health Insurance." Furthermore, medical insurance benefits for needy people were to be financed from Federal revenues.
Over the years, lawmakers narrowed the field of health insurance recipients largely to social security beneficiaries. A national survey found that only 56 percent of those 65 years of age or older had health insurance. President John F. Kennedy [DEMOCRAT] pressed legislators for health insurance for the aged. However, it wasn't until 1965 that President Lyndon B. Johnson signed H.R. 6675 (The Social Security Act of 1965; PL 89-97) to provide health insurance for the elderly and the poor.
On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Bill (Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act) in Independence, Missouri in the presence of former President Truman, who received the first Medicare card at the ceremony; Lady Bird Johnson, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, and Mrs. Truman also were present. President Johnson remarked: "We marvel not simply at the passage of this Bill but that it took so many years to pass it."
Medicare extended health coverage to almost all Americans aged 65 or older. About 19 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare in the first year of the program. Medicaid provided access to health care services for certain low-income persons and expanded the existing Federal-State welfare structure that assisted the poor.
The 1972 Social Security Amendments expanded Medicare to provide coverage to two additional high risk groups disabled persons receiving cash benefits for 24 months under the social security program and persons suffering from end-stage renal disease.
...(continued at link)
So Democrats,
Sen Mark Kirk's
statement Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 ...
"There are 55 million Social Security beneficiaries that will see little or no extra cash from this 2012 tax holiday; instead, the dedicated payroll contributions meant to pay for future benefits are being diverted from the Trust Fund
and replaced with Treasury debt that does not even have a AAA credit rating.
Social Security was designed to be independent and free from the danger of Congressional manipulation,
and maintaining the firewall between the Social Security Trust Fund and general government funding is the best way to maintain the solvency of this important program.
Neither bill protects the Social Security Trust Fund
so I voted no. "
It's not our fault that
DEMOCRATS raided the Social Security Trust Fund. Let's remember ...
Not ALL are to blame for the empty lock box.
It's the Democrats Communists.
Let's take a deeper look.
Okay, then the DEMOCRATS need to shut up!!!
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posted on
11/17/2013 8:27:30 AM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: wmfights
Well I think you’ll find your destination market, will eventually be closed to you.
America needs to wake up, and enact some serious protection for American workers.
Or we will simply eventually collapse.
And I don’t at all believe it will be the sort of collapse which will bring conservatives to power, either.
It will be ugly. And probably bring about Chinese supremacy.
America needs to get with it, work together and build back our own economy.
For an entire generation we have done everything else.
We need to look out for America now.
Bring back American jobs. But protect America also. We are the only country in the world, which has our markets wide open.
The result is, we are losing everything.
Start by enacting a 10% tax on everything (everything) imported.
Then we’ll take it from there.
What we are doing now, is simply collapsing.
To: Kaslin
thanks, for the post.
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posted on
11/17/2013 8:57:16 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
To: Kaslin
jobs are there...approve the pipeline...more fracking...keep coal as a viable source....Use windmills...not in a row...but for low development areas.
Here in Upstate NY...most of our stoves are electric....time to frack and insist on gas stoves.
To: Kaslin
And how will the rats make this happen? They and their leader have been proven liars to the American public, and their are now awakened to the lies.
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posted on
11/17/2013 1:51:19 PM PST
by
Hotlanta Mike
("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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