Posted on 11/07/2013 6:34:18 AM PST by SmileRight
A Texas single mom whose “thank you” letter to President Obama went viral was merely venting the frustrations of many Americans struggling to pay bills in a down economy, she told BizPac Review.
“Sometimes I’m at the store, and I may have $25 worth of groceries to get through the week,” Yolanda Burroughs Vestal said. “Then you see the person in front of you with nicer things and more food, and they’re swiping the EBT card. It’s hard.”
Vestal attracted the attention of hundreds of thousands of Americans when she wrote a letter “thanking” Obama for forcing Obamacare on hard-working citizens at a time when many are “rob[bing] Peter to pay Paul” just to get by.
She told BizPac Review in an interview Wednesday...
(Excerpt) Read more at bizpacreview.com ...
She’s right to be p*ssed.
However we need AMERICAN jobs now.
The GOP isn’t for American jobs. So the GOP isn’t offering any solution.
Bring back AMERICAN jobs.
Letter from 0bama to Texas Mom: "I couldn't care less about you. I'm dictator and I'm going to run this country the way Marx told me it should be run. Socialism is the perfect form of government. No matter how many common people it impoverishes it provides great benefits for the government ruling class. To hell with you peasants."
No... it's INFURIATING.
Ding ding ding! Congratulations!
Most irrelevant reply of the day!
Not going to far out on a limb here, not being much of a betting man, but I’ be willing to bet “Yolanda” voted for the SOB.
Hardly.
The GOP is in bed with the globalists. As are the democrats. Everyone is in bed with globalists.
Bring back jobs to America. How difficult is this to understand?
For over an entire generation, we have been selling off American companies and sending American jobs to other countries.
Go in any major store in any city, in any state in all of America.
A majority of what is sold in that store, now comes from China.
China is now out-exporting America. And growing fast.
Further, China is still a communist country, where everyone still operates to advance the Communist Party.
Bring back American jobs.
Now.
DITTO. There are GOP for American jobs. Pat Buchanan and his American first philosophy was booed off the GOP stage decades ago. GOP made their bed with NAFTA, WTO etc etc and lost the Reagan blue collar Dems. Now the GOP wants to stamp out the Tea Party. Talk about stupid once and stupid twice just to cater to their corporate Wall Street masters to the point of making themselves a permanent minority party. I guess it is better to lose and be well paid, then be in power and Wall Street/corporate America offer nothing.
She didn’t vote vote for him. Says so in her letter.
I HOPE SHE NEVER FINDS OUT WHERE HER TAXES ARE GOING: Half of all US households receive some type of government benefit. Now a CBS 21 News investigation has enumerated the govt freebies available......paid for by taxpayers. Reporter Chris Papst worked with a single mom who had two children. The mother turned down a raise because the extra money would decrease her government benefits.....she admits living a life off the government. “If you’re going to get something for free, are you going to work for it?” Cogan explained. “It kind of like sucks you in.”
Here are some of the horrific details For this story, CBS 21 researched government programs available to a single mother of two making $19,000 a year. Incredibly, govt freebies available to her include:
<>>< $14,976 in free day care,
<><> another $13,400 for Head Start and Early Head Start,
<><> $7,148 in housing vouchers,
<><> $6,500 for weatherization projects,
<><> $400 to pay heating bills,
<><> $480 a year for a cell phone,
<><> an extra $230 for a land line,
<><> $182 in free legal advice.
The family would get:
<><> more than $6,028 in food assistance
<><> another $6,045 in medical assistance.
<><> The needy mother is eligible for $5,500 school Pell Grants,
<><> an additional $12,000 for Education Opportunity Grant; SMART Grant; and TEACH Grant.
<><> $6,800 in tax credits,
<><> $1,900 in withholding would be returned.
That adds up to $81,589 in free govt assistance....paid for by stuggling taxpayers.
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The endless govt freebies available---enumerated above ----does not stop vote-crazed pols from devising new ways to suckup for votes. MORE BELOW
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Senator Harry Reid Supports Giving Illegal Aliens Tax Credits for Kids Not Even Living in US .....Townhall.com
U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, left, wants to end the practice of giving illegal immigrants tax credits for kids, but U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., won’t let the House-approved measure H.R. 556 through the Senate.
"The System is Working Fine" says Senator Harry Reid, even though the Joint Committee on Taxation calculates that enactment of H.R. 556 would save taxpayers $24.4 billion over the next decade.
“The IRS has been doling out the credit to tax filers claiming children who do not even live in the country,” Johnson charged.
Tax preparers agree that the system is broken — and that the IRS must fix it. They say the agency has to stop disbursing ACTC refunds based on Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, which are available to undocumented residents.
Tax preparers told Watchdog they have seen clients from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua claiming Mexican children as dependents.
A 2009 TIGTA audit concluded that the child tax credit “appears to provide an additional incentive for aliens to enter, reside, and work in the U.S. without authorization, which contradicts Federal law and policy to remove such incentives.”
Johnson’s bill would impose a 10-year ban on tax filers who commit fraud and a $500 penalty on tax preparers who knowingly bilk taxpayers through the ACTC program.
Reid sad: “I just think the child tax credit is working just fine, and there’s no need to punish children,” the Democratic leader told the Associated Press in February.
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An anonymous Indiana tax consultant revealed that several returns filed by illegal aliens were successfully claiming ACTC tax refunds of as much as $1000 for as many as a dozen dependents. “Here’s a return right here: we’ve got a $10,300 refund for nine nieces and nephews,” he said. “We’re getting an $11,000 refund on this tax return. There’s seven nieces and nephews,” he added, pointing to another set of documents. “I can bring out stacks and stacks. It’s just so easy it’s ridiculous.”
A single illegal alien living at a southern Indiana home used by four more illegals who didn’t live there. Despite that reality, those workers claimed 20 children as dependents—and the IRS sent them checks totaling $29,608.
(snip) a single address in Atlanta, GA had 23,994 ITIN-related tax refunds sent to it. In another instance, 8,393 ITIN refunds were deposited into a single bank account. http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58561
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ACTION NOW--CALL YOUR REP---The House repeatedly has passed an IRS bill that could save U.S. taxpayers up to $24.4 billion but Harry Reid’s Democratic Senate will not hear it. The Refundable Child Tax Credit Eligibility Verification Reform Act, or H.R. 556, would require tax filers to provide Social Security numbers to claim child tax credits.
Currently, the IRS allows undocumented residents to collect the $1,000 credits for dependents not even living in the country. Watchdog reported that illegal immigrants received $4.2 billion from the tax agency in just one year.
Though the GOP-controlled House has passed Rep Johnson’s measure three times, Senate Majority Leader Reid, D-Nev., refuses to allow the bill to come up for a vote in his chamber. ////Below is just a scintilla of the massive multi-billion healthcare fraud in existing programs......sap-happy O/Care's got huge pots of money and very little oversight...ready and waiting for fraudsters.
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Medicare paid millions to illegal immigrants, dead patients, probe finds
By Stephen Dinan / The Washington Times
Medicare paid $23 million for dead patients in 2011 and $29 million for drug benefits for illegal immigrants from 2009 to 2011, according to a report Thursday from the Health and Human Services inspector general.
The investigators said Medicare has safeguards to try to stop payments to dead patients, but it still ended up sending out the $23 million anyway.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) — the same agency that is struggling to fix the broken Obamacare website — acknowledged the problems and said it will try to take steps to fix them.
“We agree that in cases where the information indicates an individual is not lawfully present in the United States, that individual should not be permitted to enroll or to remain enrolled in a Part D plan during the period where he or she is not eligible to receive federal benefits,” Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of CMS, said in response to the report about illegal immigrants getting benefits.
The payouts aren’t large — they amount to just a fraction of a percent of what Medicare pays each year in benefits. Still, the investigators said the agency should take steps to crack down.
In one of its reports the inspector general said 4,139 illegal immigrants were able to make 279,056 drug benefit claims.
The investigators said that while CMS has policies to prevent illegal immigrants from getting most Medicare benefits, it didn’t have such a policy for the prescription drug program, which was added under President George W. Bush and expanded by President Obama’s health law.
As for dead patients collecting benefits, the investigators said the problems were often related to missing or incorrect dates of death.
Dead doctors also were paid $25 million over a three-year period.
Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican (a doctor), said the report was worrying because CMS had been warned of the problems five years earlier.“Every individual wrongfully awarded benefits, be it the deceased or undocumented, diverts scarce resources away from those who need it most,” he said.
SOURCE http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/31/medicare-paid-millions-dead-patients-illegals/#ixzz2jK6Gu1dx
China does not have to be Communist to do what they do today in global competiiton. Throughout China’s political experience (Imperial, Early Republic, Nationalist and now Communist) each dynasty fell due to two factors, one fighting wars that deplete the gov treasury and two economic depression/famine. ALL Chinese leaders know that a fully employed and fed society means stable domestic security. That is their historical experience. The US gov and corporate leaders never faced a workers revolt in its short 237 years of history. Since they never suffered, they continue to be disconnected by such prospect and are careless on how their decisions affect average Americans.
Well put.
I disagree strongly with throwing America’s future into a basket, pushed by a People’s Republic of anything.
Otherwise thanks, a very good post.
Agreed. What puzzles me is that not a single politician, left or right, will run with this issue. Not even one. You would think that at least one presidential hopeful would talk about this, if only to gain attention and stand out from the crowd.
Back before the 2012 election, Obama was at a town hall meeting. Someone asked him what he was going to do to bring industry back to America. His answer: those jobs are gone, get used to it. He didn't even try for a squishy noncommittal answer! That's very, very, disturbing.
The only person who makes any noise on this issue is Donald Trump. And he's dismissed as just a showman. Which he is, but he's more than that. He knows what he's talking about, and the damage that is being done.
Good luck with that when the globalists in both parties unspoken objective is the reduction of America to a “more fair level” with the rest of the world.
You’re wasting time demanding those in office bring jobs back here, their whole objective in getting into office was to accomplish getting rid of them in the first place...
Nearly EVERYONE in office needs to be replaced. Then the replacements need to fire all of the CFR/Trilateralist/secret society douchebags infesting the bureaucracies.
Even Palin and Cruz seem hesitant.
It is infuriating. I agree 100%.
Yep it’s called changing fundamentally.
I like your continuing focus on American jobs. It is true. Repubs. want cheap labor, Dems want the votes. People like this letter writer and us lose in the end. Have u ever read about Japan and how business views its workers? They have low immigration, offshoring, problems because of it. Interesting read. (I am not saying it is an answer to all problems, just another option...wish I could link u to the article I read about it).
I still support both of them, strongly.
(just thought I should explain)
I am enthusiastically supportive of both Palin and Cruz.
But they of all people are in a position to strongly support American jobs.
I don’t see that. Even from them.
“When the people find they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic.” Ben Franklin.
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