What Happened To My Country?

I wonder if any Member of Congress, Representative or Senator, remembers why he or she is there. With the election over, all of the Representatives and a third of the Senators are already out raising funds for the next election. There is just no rest for the wicked.

Congress has saddled the American tax payer with a monumental load of debt. The Republicans don’t want you to remember how they ran up the debt with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at a cost of about one Trillion dollars (and a lot of American lives) and they tried to convince you it was a good thing. It was a massive give away program for America’s defense industry. Then the Democrats gave away a trillion or so to Americas banks and auto industries and tried to convince you it was a good thing. And then the Democrats committed suicide and passed an outlandish health care bill with no thought to how it would be paid for.

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This latest health care nightmare from Washington is beginning to look more and more like income reassignment to me. No one has explained this bill (actually 2 bills) but it would seem that the government is demanding that everyone have health insurance and those that have “too much” (as defined by Washington) will help pay for those that have none by being taxed on those “excessive” benefits. I wonder if that includes members of Congress who have some of the best benefits in town?

Add to that the decrease in government support for Medicare Advantage Plans. Many of these plans were perfect for seniors on a small, fixed income and basically combined Medicare Parts B and D into an affordable package. As government support decreases, senior expense increases. Of course, our masters in Congress will not call this a tax, merely an expense.

How will this affect state Medicaid programs and are there provisions that will affect the Federal Medicare program?

It would be nice if someone would interpret these new laws for ordinary people so that we can understand how this will affect us at all stages of life. Is this in fact more debt that my great grandchildren’s great grandchildren will have to pay for.