Who died before they collected Social Security

The only thing wrong with the government's calculation of available social security is they forgot to figure in the people who died before they ever collected a social security check!!!

So... Where did that money go????

Remember, not only did you and I contribute to Social Security but your employer did, too.

It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. 

If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500.

Read that again.

Did you see where the Government paid in one single penny?

We are talking about the money you and your employer put in a Government bank to insure you and I that we would have a retirement check from the money we put in, not the Government. Now they are calling the money we put in "AN ENTITLEMENT" when we reach the age to take it back even though it’s historically been an “earned benefit”.

If you calculate the future invested value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% interest (less than what the Government pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working you'd have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit!

If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.

A quote from a retired woman: “Another thing with me.... I have two deceased husbands who died in their 50's, one was 51 and the other one was 59 before one percent of their social security could be drawn. I worked all my life and am drawing 100% on my own social security. Their S.S. money will never have one cent drawn from what they paid into S.S. all their lives.”

THE FOLKS IN WASHINGTON HAVE PULLED OFF A BIGGER PONZI SCHEME THAN BERNIE MADOFF EVER DID.

Entitlement my foot, I paid cash for my social security insurance! Just because they borrowed the money for other government spending, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!!

Remember Congressional benefits?

--- free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days.

Now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social security retirement payments entitlements?!?!?!?

We're "broke" and we can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, or Homeless. Yet in the last few months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile and Turkey. And now Pakistan...... home of bin Laden.

Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!

And they can't help our own citizens in New York and New Jersey!

They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives, and now, when it's time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place? It was supposed to be in a locked box, not part of the general fund. Sad isn't it.

Which side of the fence

If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!   If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one. If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.   If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat. If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.   If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life. If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

 
If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
If a Democrat is down-and-out he wonders who is going to take care of him.
 
If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
A Democrat demands that those they don't like be shut down.
 
If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
 
If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
If a A Democrat decides he needs health care, he demands that the rest of us pay for his

Living with Less

Welcome to the 21st Centry

• Our phones - wireless
• Cooking - fireless
• Cars - keyless
• Food - fatless
• Tires - tubless
• Dress - sleeveless
• Youth - jobless
• Leaders - shameless
• Relationships - meaningless
• Attitude - careless
• Wives - fearless
• Babies - fatherless
• Feelings - heartless
• Education - valueless
• Children - mannerless

Everything is becoming LESS, but still our hopes are - endless

In fact, we are - speechless

And Congress is - clueless

And our President is - WORTHLESS

A Poem Worth Reading

I wish I could take credit for this poem, but I’m no poet. This was sent to me by a fellow veteran and now I share it with you. All I ask is that you share this with everyone you know in memory of a veteran.

He was getting old and paunchy
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past.

Of a war that he once fought in
And the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies;
They were heroes, every one.

And 'tho sometimes to his neighbors
His tales became a joke,
All his buddies listened quietly
For they knew where of he spoke.

But we'll hear his tales no longer,
For ol' Joe has passed away,
And the world's a little poorer
For a Veteran died today.

He won't be mourned by many,
Just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary,
Very quiet sort of life.

He held a job and raised a family,
Going quietly on his way;
And the world won't note his passing,
'Tho a Veteran died today.

When politicians leave this earth,
Their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing,
And proclaim that they were great.

Papers tell of their life stories
From the time that they were young
But the passing of a Veteran
Goes unnoticed, and unsung.

Is the greatest contribution
To the welfare of our land,
Some jerk who breaks his promise
And cons his fellow man?

Or the ordinary fellow
Who in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his country
And offers up his life?

The politician's stipend
And the style in which he lives,
Are often disproportionate,
To the service that he gives.

While the ordinary Veteran,
Who offered up his all,
Is paid off with a medal
And perhaps a pension, small.

It is not the politicians
With their compromise and ploys,
Who won for us the freedom
That our country now enjoys.

Should you find yourself in danger,
With your enemies at hand,
Would you really want some cop-out,
With his ever waffling stand?

Or would you want a Veteran
His home, his country, his kin,
Just a common Veteran,
Who would fight until the end.

He was just a common Veteran,
And his ranks are growing thin,
But his presence should remind us
We may need his likes again.

For when countries are in conflict,
We find the Veteran's part
Is to clean up all the troubles
That the politicians start.

If we cannot do him honor
While he's here to hear the praise,
Then at least let's give him homage
At the ending of his days.

Perhaps just a simple headline
In the paper that might say:
"OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,
A VETERAN DIED TODAY."

PLEASE pass On The Patriotism! YOU can make a difference. If you are proud of our Vets, then send this to them. You'll be glad you did. Then send it to ALL your friends. Thank you and GOD bless you.

Obama's Scandals

I found this on the Tea Party’s Facebook page. I’m going to re-post this to my blog to make sure that this information doesn’t get lost in the Facebook shuffle of information. That and just in case the federal government tells Facebook to take it off.

Now I understand that there is a lot of information in this posting, but that just goes to show you how much scandalous information is out there that could/can be associated to Obama.

LET'S REMIND OBAMA WE ARE PAYING ATTENTION. WE ARE NOT ALL STUPID SHEEPLE!

It’s easy to forget that the three scandals currently swirling about President Obama are just the latest episodes of potential misdoings by the scandal-plagued­ Obama administration. As a refresher, here is a full list of the administration’s most egregious scandals. This is true. It’s easy to forget when Obama and his supporters try and throw other distracters in the way such as the gun control debate.

1. IRS targets Obama’s enemies

The IRS targeted conservative and pro-Israel groups prior to the 2012 election. Questions are being raised about why this occurred, who ordered it, whether there was any White House involvement and whether there was an initial effort to hide who knew about the targeting and when.

2. Benghazi

This is actually three scandals in one: The failure of administration to protect the Benghazi mission. The changes made to the talking points in order to suggest the attack was motivated by an anti-Muslim video. The refusal of the White House to say what President Obama did the night of the attack. What gets me is that we have plenty of military throughout Europe that could have gotten to Benghazi, yet they were told to stand down by the Obama Administration. His reasoning??? We needed to investigate what was going on before we could plan on any kind of rescue mission. Really? I think I’ve heard this somewhere before… Oh yeah… This was from Star Wars Episode I where Queen Amidala (Ambassador Stevens) wants the Republic Senate (the White House/Congress) to send forces (American military) to help protect her from the Trade Federation (Muslim radical terrorists). What’s the answer she gets from Supreme Chancellor Valorum (President Obama)? At first it seems he’s willing to take action, until politics steps in. At that point, he asks her to wait until a committee can be formed to ascertain the validity of her accusation. Sound familiar?

3. Watching the AP

The Justice Department performed a massive cull of Associated Press reporters’ phone records as part of a leak investigation.

4. Rosengate

The Justice Department suggested that Fox News reporter James Rosen is a criminal for reporting about classified information and subsequently monitored his phones and emails. Something that Obama berated Bush over, by the way.

5. Potential Holder perjury I

Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress he had never been associated with “potential prosecution” of a journalist for perjury when in fact he signed the affidavit that termed Rosen a potential criminal. Oops… That lie number 1 and strike 1, Eric.

6. The ATF “Fast and Furious” scheme

Allowed weapons from the U.S. to “walk” across the border into the hands of Mexican drug dealers. The ATF lost track of hundreds of firearms, many of which were used in crimes, including the December 2010 killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Oh… That’s strike 2, Eric.

7. Potential Holder Perjury II

Holder told Congress in May 2011 that he had just recently heard about the Fast and Furious gun walking scheme when there is evidence he may have known much earlier. Oh… That’s lie number 2 and strike 3, Eric. YOU’RE OUT! Sucks the umpire (Obama) is still letting you play the game. He should have sent you to the showers a long time ago.

8. Sebelius demands payment

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius solicited donations from companies HHS might regulate. The money would be used to help her sign up uninsured Americans for ObamaCare. Now shouldn’t that be considered unethical and a good reason to throw Sebelius out on her butt???? That would be like an employer soliciting donations from his/her prospective employees (interviewees) so that employer could turn around and use it for some business expense. Imagine how well that would go over in a court of law.

9. The Pigford scandal

An Agriculture Department effort that started as an attempt to compensate black farmers who had been discriminated against by the agency but evolved into a gravy train delivering several billion dollars in cash to thousands of additional minority and female farmers who probably didn’t face discrimination. OMG, this is like someone suing an employer for discrimination and winning while non-employees attempt the same thing and win! And we’re told by Obama supporters that he isn’t wasting our money like Bush did????

10. GSA gone wild

The General Services Administration in 2010 held an $823,000 training conference in Las Vegas, featuring a clown and mind readers. Resulted in the resignation of the GSA administrator. Again, I reiterate… And Obama supporters say that Obama doesn’t waste our money like Bush did???? Of course, if any of them were to actually read this, they’d spout off about how Obama wasn’t directly related to this and something about Bush’s illegal wars and I’m racists and blah blah blah…

11. Veterans Affairs in Disney World

The agency wasted more than $6 million on two conferences in Orlando. An assistant secretary was fired. Hey… I’m a veteran! Where’s my two $6 million vacations to Disney World!?!?!

12. Sebelius violates the Hatch Act

A U.S. special counsel determined that Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she made “extemporaneous­ partisan remarks” during a speech in her official capacity last year. During the remarks, Sebelius called for the election of the Democratic candidate for governor of North Carolina. I’ll admit that I had to look up the Hatch Act, hence the link for everyone else’s information. Hey now…. I don’t want to be a know nothing Obama supporter sheeple.

13. Solyndra

Republicans charged the Obama administration funded and promoted its poster boy for green energy despite warning signs the company was headed for bankruptcy. The administration also allegedly pressed Solyndra to delay layoff announcements until after the 2010 midterm elections. Another failed Obama attempt to create jobs, jobs, jobs, which the Europeans had already tried with the same exact results. "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein

14. AKA Lisa Jackson

Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used the name “Richard Windsor” when corresponding by email with other government officials, drawing charges she was trying to evade scrutiny.

15. The New Black Panthers

The Justice Department was accused of using a racial double standard in failing to pursue a voter intimidation case against Black Panthers who appeared to be menacing voters at a polling place in 2008 in Philadelphia. Of course they did. Duh… Had they tried, the NAACP would have been all over that case!

16. Waging war all by myself

Obama may have violated the Constitution and both the letter and the spirit of the War Powers Resolution by attacking Libya without Congressional approval. Oh, but let’s not mention this to the Obama sheeple because they’ll only throw “Bush’s illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan” back in your face. I know from personal experience!

17. Biden bullies the press

Vice President Biden’s office has repeatedly interfered with coverage, including forcing a reporter to wait in a closet, making a reporter delete photos, and editing pool reports. Do you know who the last person was to do that that we know of? Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Secretary!

18. AKPD not A-OK

The administration paid millions to the former firm of then-White House adviser David Axelrod, AKPD Message and Media, to promote passage of Obamacare. Some questioned whether the firm was hired to help pay Axelrod $2 million AKPD owed him. Didn’t the Obama sheeple berate VP Cheney for his association with Halliburton in regards to Bush going into Iraq? They said that Cheney stood to make millions through Halliburton because he was going to have his company handle all the oil in Iraq and that’s why Bush when into Iraq in the first place. Love how the left is so one way!

19. Sestak, we’ll take care of you

Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel used Bill Clinton as an intermediary to probe whether former Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) would accept a prominent, unpaid White House advisory position in exchange for dropping out of the 2010 primary against former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.).

20. I’ll pass my own laws

Obama has repeatedly been accused of making end runs around Congress by deciding which laws to enforce, including the decision not to deport illegal immigrants who may have been allowed to stay in the United States had Congress passed the “Dream Act.” I love how he tries to get around Congress, yet he still has sheeple in Congress that blindly follow him (Nancy and Harry to name a few).

PENTAGON PLANS TO SHARE MISSILE SECRETS WITH RUSSIA

Of course, you're not going to get this from the liberal media. This story comes from Fox News. This is just another example of how naive he really is, which ends up putting is in danger.

May 13, 2013

Washington Free Beacon

The Pentagon held internal talks on declassifying sensitive missile defense technology that it plans to share with Russia as part of the Obama administration's efforts to assuage Moscow's opposition to European defenses.

Republicans in both the House and Senate plan to block any technology declassification for missile defense technology in the current defense authorization bill and other legislation. Legislative mark up on the authorization bill begins this week.

Critics say giving Russia classified data would undermine the effectiveness of missile defenses, which have cost taxpayers more than $100 billion since the 1980s.

Vice Adm. James Syring, director of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA), disclosed during a congressional hearing Wednesday that the Obama administration has asked him about sharing sensitive missile defense data with Russia during talks over the past several years aimed at reaching a missile defense cooperation agreement.

"I have not been asked to declassify anything in terms of disclosing information to Russia," Syring said under questioning from Rep. Mo Brooks (R., Ala.) at a House Armed Services Strategic Forces subcommittee hearing Wednesday.

However, pressed for details, Syring revealed that there were discussions among senior policy officials, including Undersecretary of Defense for Policy James Miller, about "what is classified and what is not" in the context of data sharing with the Russians.

A Jewish View on Catholics

This goes along with something I've been saying for a long time now.

I’ve had people (mostly liberals) who have told me that attack on Christians and especially Catholics was something of legend and didn’t really happen and that I needed to be more open minded to have the ability to just coexist.

Yeah… About that…

It does happen and the liberal media leads the way. Just read the following article and you’ll see what I mean.

Excerpts of an article written by non-Catholic Sam Miller - a prominent Cleveland Jewish businessman:

"Why would newspapers carry on a vendetta on one of the most important institutions that we have today in the United States, namely the Catholic Church?

Do you know the Catholic Church educates 2.6 million students everyday at the cost to that Church of 10 billion dollars, and a savings on the other hand to the American taxpayer of 18 billion dollars. The graduates go on to graduate studies at the rate of 92%.

The Church has 230 colleges and universities in the U.S. with an enrollment of 700,000 students.

The Catholic Church has a non-profit hospital system of 637 hospitals, which account for hospital treatment of 1 out of every 5 people - not just Catholics - in the United States today.

But the press is vindictive and trying to totally denigrate in every way the Catholic Church in this country. They have blamed the disease of pedophilia on the Catholic Church, which is as irresponsible as blaming adultery on the institution of marriage.

Let me give you some figures that Catholics should know and remember. For example, 12% of the 300 Protestant clergy surveyed admitted to sexual intercourse with a parishioner; 38% acknowledged other inappropriate sexual contact in a study by the United Methodist Church, 41.8% of clergy women reported unwanted sexual behavior; 17% of laywomen have been sexually harassed.

Meanwhile, 1.7% of the Catholic clergy has been found guilty of pedophilia. 10% of the Protestant ministers have been found guilty of pedophilia. This is not just a Catholic problem.

A study of American priests showed that most are happy in the priesthood and find it even better than they had expected, and that most, if given the choice, would choose to be priests again in face of all this obnoxious PR the church has been receiving.

The Catholic Church is bleeding from self-inflicted wounds. The agony that Catholics have felt and suffered is not necessarily the fault of the Church. You have been hurt by a small number of wayward priests that have probably been totally weeded out by now.

Walk with your shoulders high and your head higher. Be a proud member of the most important non-governmental agency in the United States.

Then remember what Jeremiah said: 'Stand by the roads, and look and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.’

Be proud to speak up for your faith with pride and reverence and learn what your Church does for all other religions.

"Be proud that you're a Catholic."

A Very Simple Explanation of Sequestration

A man stopped at a local gas station and after filling his tank, he paid the bill and bought a soft drink.

He stood by his car to drink his cola and watched a couple of men working along the roadside.

One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on.

The other man came along behind him and filled in the hole. While one was digging a new hole, the other was 25 feet behind filling in the hole.

The men worked right past the guy with the soft drink and went on down the road..

"I can't stand this," said the stranger, tossing the can into a trash container and heading down the road toward the men.

"Hold it, hold it," he said to the men. "Can you tell me what's going on here with all this digging and refilling?"

"Well, we work for the government and we're just doing our job," one of the men said.

"But one of you is digging a hole and the other fills it up. You're not accomplishing anything.

Aren't you wasting the taxpayers' money?"

"You don't understand, mister," one of the men said, leaning on his shovel and wiping his brow.

"Normally there's three of us: me, Elmer and Leroy.

I dig the hole, Elmer sticks in the tree, and Leroy here puts the dirt back.

The sequester caused Elmer's job to be cut...

so now it's just me an' Leroy.

Obamacare

I was going through some old files on a thumb drive and I came across what I am now posting.

This was an assignment in one of my college classes that I took for Medical Insurance Billing and Coding. The assignment was to write about Obamacare and what impacts it would have on healthcare in the United States. As with any good college paper, I have left my references so you can see where I got my information.

Please keep in mind that I wrote this some time in the summer of 2010. Now that we are learning the horrible truths of Obamacare, I found it interesting to see how much we knew then as compared to now.

And in case you cared to know... I got an A on this assignment.

      On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law H.R. 676, which affords the federal government more control over the American health care industry, specifically the medical insurance portion of health care. The idea was to provide medical insurance coverage for those Americans who do not have coverage. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 46.3 million Americans reported that they had no medical insurance for the year 2009.

      It is well known that some Americans cannot afford private medical insurance, some cannot obtain coverage due to current or past health problems, and yet others do not want coverage for whatever personal reason. So the real questions are who will pay for this, can everyone be covered, and will everyone be forced to have coverage?

      The general belief is that H.R. 676 will be paid for via cuts in other government ran programs such as Medicare, an increase in taxes and even the possibility of new taxes (such as the Value Added Tax or VAT). This is believed to be true because other countries that have socialized medicine use taxes to pay for their government ran health care, but is it true that our new health care program will be paid this way? It is a logical conclusion since the only way the government can earn money is through taxes.

      According to the news agency, MSNBC, H.R. 676, “...includes more than $400 billon in higher taxes over a decade, roughly half of it from a new Medicare payroll tax on individuals with incomes over $200,000 and couples over $250,000.” (House sends health care bill to Obama's desk) The bill also includes a $500 billon cut to Medicare payment to facilities that treat Medicare patients.

      The other issue, in my mind, with financing this new health care legislation is that the federal government is rife with instances of fraud, waste, and abuse over financial matters. This, in my opinion, is what has been keeping us from properly financing our socialized medicine programs better known as Medicare and Medicaid. Our federal government has been and continues to spend money on things that they probably should not in light of other issues such as our ability to pay for President Obama’s new health care law. Spending such as:

• $25 billion that is spent every year on federal properties that are not being used
• $123 billion spent annually on government programs that have been found not to work
• $2.6 million that is being sent to China to train their prostitutes on how to drink more responsibly on the job
• improper purchases such as home gaming systems, jewelry, liquor and vacations on government credit cards; our tax money at work
• $3.9 million spent recently on rearranging desks and offices at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s headquarters
• $146 million spent annually on upgrades to flights for federal employees who refuse to fly coach
• $350,000 spent to sponsor David Gilliland who is a NASCAR driver
• $500,000 given to Alaska Airlines so they could paint a Chinook salmon on a Boeing 737
• $100 million in unused travel tickets initially purchased by the Department of Defense (DoD) that were refundable tickets, but that the DoD had never gotten refunded
• $60,000 per hour to take pictures of Air Force One in front of national landmarks
• $50,000 for paintings painted of high-ranking government officials; that is for each piece, not a total amount
• $1.3 million per month in rent for a medical lab that cannot be used by the federal government
• $2.4 billion on new jets for the Pentagon that it says it does not need and will not use
• $1.8 million spent to build a private golf course
• $2 billion that is paid annually to farmers not to farm their land

      Just within the above examples over this past year, which is only a sampling, the total bill of fraud, waste, and abuse comes to a total of well over $152 billon; $152 billon that could have been used to help fund Medicare and Medicaid.

      The aforementioned total does not cover the amount of money the federal government distributes to people who could work, but choose not to. They exist totally on the government paying them an income. They believe they are owed by the federal government just because they exist. In reality, they are only causing a financial strain on a system that is being overly strained as it is. They take money that could otherwise be spent on other social programs like Medicare and Medicaid as well as for those who are disabled and cannot work. The obviously hard part in this is: 1) Do we take away from the needy even if their need is under false pretense and 2) If we do, who gets to decide? Do the ends really justify the means?

      Continuing this idea of “being owed”, can everyone be covered under Obama’s new heath care law?

      The simple answer to this question is yes, but another question arises. Are there any negatives with this new health care law?

      According to Shawn Tully of CNN, yes there are. There are actually five freedoms we could end up losing.

      The first freedom is the freedom to choose what we want in our plan. The bill includes wording that makes it to where a person has to purchase insurance based on standard benefits. The problem with this is that no one package will contain overlap. That is, services that will be paid for will be included in only one certain package, but not all. For example, you could not choose between more than one package that covers heart problems because only one package will cover heart problems. This leaves less of a chance for real competition in health care coverage.

      The second freedom is the freedom to be rewarded for healthy living or to pay for your actual medical expenses. This means that a person who is healthy would have to pay just as much for medical insurance as a person who lives a more unhealthy life. The deviousness of this is the actual reason, according to Tully, that younger Americans do not have health insurance. Typically, younger people have less income than older people do. This means that younger people have less money to spend on their health care as compared to older people. Young people with little money will have to pay just as much as older people with more money. As Tully says, “It’s as if car insurers had to charge the same rates to safe drivers as to chronic speeders with a history of accidents.” (Tully)

      The third freedom is the freedom to be able to choose coverage with a high deductible. In the past, those who worked were able to deposit money tax free into Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) where employers can even match contributions. Then, employees were able to use this money to purchase insurance with high deductibles for services such as major medical costs. Other visits to the doctor would be paid using the money in the HSA. With the aforementioned standard benefits plans, the federal government can choose what they believe deductibles should be. This means that the federal government could lower deductibles meaning that HSAs could be eliminated.

      The fourth freedom is the freedom to be able to keep your current insurance plan. In a nutshell, the new health care law states that once you lose your current insurance, such as employer provided insurance, you must be put on the federal government’s insurance plan. Also, if your insurance coverage changes in anyway, the insured must drop their plan for the government’s plan.

      Finally, our freedom to choose what doctor we see will disappear. The new health care plan is like a HMO in that the government will assign you a provider and that provider decides what specialist, if any, you will be able to see.

      So we now have an idea of who will pay and who will be covered, but will everyone be forced to have coverage?

      This is the basis of this new law, coverage for everyone. It will be mandatory that everyone have some sort of medical insurance, like it or not, but those effects will not be totally felt until 2014.

      According to Gary Bauer, a Presidential candidate himself, it has already been reported that 1.5 million Americans run the risk of losing their current health care coverage this year. Current estimates now include the possibility that tens of millions might lose their current coverage in 2014. Why? According to Bauer, “...the federal government is going to dictate what kind of coverage you must have.” (Bauer)

      Included in the bill, as also stated by Tully, is the fact that once your current insurance plan changes in anyway, in actually, you end up losing it and being forced onto the government’s plan. A simple adjustment in a co-pay could cost an individual their current insurance plan. Worse yet is that there is verbiage in H.R. 676 that actually gives businesses incentives to drop their employee medical insurance plans, according to Bauer.

      Even healthy, young people will be required to carry some sort of medical insurance under the new health care law. “In 2014, premiums for young adults who get coverage on the individual market will rise by an average of 17 percent, or roughly $42 a month, according to an analysis by the Associated Press.” (Bauer)

      On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law H.R. 676, which affords the federal government more control over the American health care industry, specifically the medical insurance portion of health care. The idea was to provide medical insurance coverage for those Americans who do not have coverage for whatever reason. Now we know that everyone will have to pay, everyone can be covered and that everyone will have to have coverage, like it or not.

Works Cited

50 Examples of Government Waste. 8 October 2009. 29 June 2010 <http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/08/50-examples-of-government-waste/>.

Bauer, Gary. Obamacare's Broken Promises. 20 June 2010. 14 July 2010 <http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37561>.

House sends health care bill to Obama's desk. 22 March 2010. 13 July 2010 <http://www.msnbc.com/id/35961584/>.

Reynolds, Denise. CDC: Number of Americans without Health Insurance Coverage Increases. 17 June 2010. 13 July 2010 <http://www.emaxhealth.com/1506/cdc-number-americans-without-health-insurance-coverage-increases>.

Tully, Shawn. You'll lose 5 key freedoms under Obama's health care plan. 24 July 2009. 13 July 2010 <http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_care_reform_obama.fortune/>.