Posts Tagged ‘stupid government tricks’
Start Smoking, Help a Child
Want to help children have access to health care? Start smoking. If you already smoke, pick up the pace. Congress needs your help to fund the SCHIP program that provides government run health insurance for poor families who earn up to $44,000 per year. While a tobacco tax is a politically popular funding source, it has several significant [...]
Your Dental Dollars at Work
Ever wonder about how dental plans work? For some, they work too well. Many may not know it, but Medicaid covers dental care. This taxpayer funded program for low income people has pretty good benefits . . . if you can find a dentist willing to accept the low reimbursement levels. In Georgia the number that seems most accurate hovers around 4% [...]
AIG Bailout
Only this is of a different kind . . . Read the resignation letter of Jake DeSantis all the way through. Then ask yourself this. If folks like Mr. DeSantis will not be around to try and turn around AIG, then how will we, the taxpayer, get back our $170,000,000,000 or so? Will Barney Frank and Chris Dodd step in to save the day? Somehow I doubt [...]
Good News, Bad News
After trudging through deserts, swamps and steamy jungles for days, the troops were called to order and addressed by the Commander. "We have good news, and we have bad news. First, the good news. Everyone get's a change of underwear." Cheers go up from the crowd. "Now, the bad news. Joe, you change with Sam. Sam, you change with Bill. Bill you [...]
AIG – Where Did the Money Go?
Much has been said about the bonuses paid out to AIG employees. My take is, so what? The bonus dollars represent less than 1/10 of 1% of the taxpayer money funneled to AIG. Compare this to the recent omnibus spending bill which contained 9,287 earmarks totaling $12.8 billion out of $480 billion to keep Congress going until October. Where is the [...]
Sniper Fire . . . the Battle Continues
Georgia health insurance recently posted on a rumored plan to save taxpayer dollars by requiring Vet's to pay for their own health care. We were incredulous but somewhat comforted by the thought this plan will never get off the ground. Perhaps we were a bit hasty . . . "It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to [...]
Vet's Draw Sniper Fire
Marie Antoinette declared, "Let them eat cake". Apparently the new regime in Washington is taking their cue from the headless wonder. CNN reports that "the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance." Like a lot of other things in the news lately, [...]
