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The fiscal cliff: How to screw ordinary Americans again
The stage show in the District of Criminals about the fictional fiscal cliff, is in full production. Democrats are busy agreeing to cut Social Security and Medicare to appease Republicans who have now “evolved” to the point where they will support [comprehensive immigration reform]. Both factions of the one party system are trying to rephrase Medicare and Social Security as “Entitlement” programs. That word swap is really important. If they can convince the general public that Social Security has somehow become a welfare program instead of an invested insurance program, it will be far easier to rob people
of their retirement investments they have been funding all of their working lives.
The Republican faction has now decided that they just have to give in on immigration reform. Neither faction of the one party system has mentioned enforcement of our laws which, as it turns out, neither faction is interested in.
Of course if you would allow the government to privatize your Social Security investments somehow that would be just peachy. You could throw at least a portion of your SS taxes into the black hole that is Wall Street and then watch it disappear into the pockets of the thugs and thieves who robbed the country blind in 2008 and 2009. In the interim, we can stand by and watch as our retirement investments are doled out to illegal immigrants.
In that sense, Social Security has become an entitlement program. If you are here illegally, and if you can prove you worked here a minimal amount of time even under a false identity, you can collect from Social Security.
GAO report
“Under the Social Security Act, all earnings from employment in the United States count towards earning social security benefits, regardless of the lawful presence of the worker, his or her citizenship status, or country of residence. Immigrants [both legal and otherwise] become entitled to benefits from unauthorized work if they can prove that the earnings and related contributions belong to them. However, they cannot collect such benefits unless [or until] they are either legally present in the United States [hence the Administration’s Guest Worker Program], or living in a country where SSA is authorized to pay them their benefits. [Hence an SSA office in Mexico City] Mexico is such a country.”
Democrats sell out
The offer now has morphed into “carving out sections of Medicare”. In other words…..the District of Criminals will collude to reduce your Medicare benefits, raise your rates and reduce quality of care and access. This will be done to avoid addressing the actual problems with the program. There will be no discussion on capping insurance rates, allowing negotiation of drug prices or of closing the “donut hole” that was created specifically as a gift to the insurance industry so that they could profit from selling worthless gap insurance. There will be no earnest investigation and prosecution of fraudulent claims by medical industry providers of all kinds where services never rendered are added to billing, hospital bills are padded, and other fraudulent activities go on as “business as usual”.
The well-known fraud that occurs in Medicare by unscrupulous medical providers and suppliers along with other industry players has cost Medicare billions if not trillions. Obamacare will add 540 billion in administrative, record keeping, data basing over the next ten years, to Medicare. More
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