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Old Feb 14, 2009 | 08:29 AM
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stimulus and health care

this is just a short bloomberg article from during the week but it gives a sense of what we will be getting. work hard and contribute only to have the money given to some newcomer or someone that hasnt put in a dime.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aLzfDxfbwhzs

this is scary, since we will all be old someday.

Elderly Hardest Hit

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2009 | 10:08 AM
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We've hashed this one out a little already...

https://www.f150online.com/forums/ge...ealthcare.html
 
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Old Feb 14, 2009 | 10:19 AM
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worth repeating. The USSA is a new country. We are still realing from the stupidity of this administration... and it has been less than a month. Wow... what will it look like in 4 years? Pretty scarry stuff.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2009 | 10:30 AM
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4 years from now we will be in the middle of our 'lost decade'. Higher taxes to try to pay the interest on our gigantic national debt will be the norm. No one with any sense of basic economics can honestly say we will not be paying higher taxes in the future. Couple that with more 'redistribution of wealth', aka: stimulus plans which will have minimal effects (see Great Depression). Couple that with the 'hidden' tax of inflation and you have stagflation.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2009 | 02:57 PM
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theres a solution to all of this. put a "dr kevorkian" in every hospital. then when you are retired and go in for something that you are entitled to get since you paid for it all your life and then they tell you that you arent going to get it because the money was spent on some illegal instead - you could stop and see dr k on the way out.

our country is being given away by these idiots in DC.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2009 | 07:51 PM
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Get your insurance policies now so you will be grandfathered in when any changes do occur.
Also, start an HSA with a fixed interest rate if you can. Contribute what you can, it will pay off.
 

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Old Feb 14, 2009 | 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Frank S
4 years from now we will be in the middle of our 'lost decade'. Higher taxes to try to pay the interest on our gigantic national debt will be the norm. No one with any sense of basic economics can honestly say we will not be paying higher taxes in the future. Couple that with more 'redistribution of wealth', aka: stimulus plans which will have minimal effects (see Great Depression). Couple that with the 'hidden' tax of inflation and you have stagflation.
Yeah.. isn't it funny how Bush was lambasted for big deficits? How that was going to ruin this country. That is what the democrats kept saying.. now they make the biggest deficit spending in history in the name of... saving our economy. Talk about wanting it both ways.
 
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