Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 123: “Mediscare Tactics ”

Had a dream last night took a time travellin' ride
Back to my childhood where those monsters reside
They snack on innocence and dine on self-esteem
But I like to be in touch with what makes me scream

Vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost
These are the things that terrify me the most
No aliens, psychopaths or MTV host
Scares me like vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost Vampires, Mummies and the Holy Ghost, Jimmy Buffett

Democrats are employing their tried and true tactics that have worked for years scaring hell out of the old folks about the demonic Republicans who want to kill Medicare and Social Security so they can give more tax breaks to their greedy wealthy friends, criminal oil companies and immoral Insurance provider cheats and scoundrels. The warm hearted, compassionate, socially conscience liberals would have us believe if the GOPR’s had their druthers every elderly individual would be called home to Glory way before reaching the age of eligibility for these social welfare programs.

To advance and promote this absolutely dishonest, misleading, and just downright Marxist/Socialist leftist propaganda President Obama and his Democrat comrades will say and do most anything, the truth be damned, to advocate their disingenuous position on the subject. No lie is to audacious, scare tactic too unscrupulous, exploitation of our senior citizens too demeaning for our pointy-headed liberal brethren when it comes to advocating these massive entitlement programs.

A current Democrat National Committee political advertisement goes as far to depict a Paul Ryan, the GOP Budget Chair who is proposing significant changes to Medicare in his 2012 Budget to reverse the course of this soon to be insolvent social welfare give away the farm Federal subsidy, look alike literally rolling Granny off the cliff in her Medicare issued wheel chair. Can’t be certain but Granny sure enough has a strong resemblance to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dressed in drag.

Sadly far too many seniors succumb to the President and Democrat’s scare tactics and buy into the great lie that they can save the program, keep current benefits, and control cost by maintaining the status quo. No way, no how, no sir.

If you consider two simple facts about significant changes to the program since its implementation over 50 years ago it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know Medicare as we know it just ain’t sustainable:

(1) When first started there were over 10 workers paying into the program for each beneficiary. The current ratio is less than 1 – 1.
(2) The life expectancy of Americans has increased by more than 10 years.

These two variances alone dictate major revisions to keep both Medicare and Social Security viable. White House scare tactics for political expediency are just another example of this gang’s class, economic, and race warfare strategy for the 2012 elections.

A few historical points about the two social welfare programs that are literary sucking this country dry with the enthusiastic support of the Obama regime and their Congressional Comrades follows:

• The Social Security Act of 1965 was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to existing Social Security legislation
• Medicare is financed by payroll taxes. The tax is equal to 2.9 of compensation in connection with employment
• The costs of Medicare doubled every four years between 1966 and 1980. Medicare cost were $256.8 billion in fiscal year 2002
• Total Medicare spending reached $440 billion for fiscal year 2007 or 16% of all federal spending and grew to $599 billion in 2008 which was 20% of federal spending.
• According to the 2008 report by the board of trustees for Medicare and Social Security, Medicare spent more than it brought in from taxes for the first time in 2008
• The Republican controlled House of Representatives recently passed legislation converting Medicare to a voucher based payment system that also subsidies lower income participants
• President Obama and his humongous government cohorts have offered no viable alternatives and true to form have also made claims scaring seniors senseless including the GOP changes will result in untold disasters and catastrophes of Biblical proportions. The standard Granny relegated to surviving on dog food; Grandpa being denied of medicine, food, and shelter; and tales of roving bands of Republicans roughing up old folks have been told early and often.
• FDR, America’s first Socialist in the White House, started Social Security back in 1930’s. Initially participation in the Program was completely voluntary. That changed quickly once Uncle Sammy realized the untold potential trillions of other people’s money to be confiscated
• For starters participants only had to pay 1% of their first $1,400 of annual Income. That amount has increased to 7.65% on the first $90,000
• Income subverted into the Program was deductible for
income tax purposes, That ain’t the case no more
• Money put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the
general operating fund was only to be used to fund the Social Security
Retirement Program, and no other Government program. Under LBJ the money was moved to the General Fund and Spent
• The annuity payments to the retirees weren’t supposed to ever be taxed
as income. This changed under Clinton & Gore with up to 85% of Social Security income now being taxable
• Led by Jimmy “the Peanut” Carter the Congressional Socialist/Democrats started providing SS benefits to criminal illegal immigrants. A truly unconstitutional and immoral act carried out by our Government

We might need to seriously consider adding the Obama regime to the list of things that scare us the most - mummies, vampires and the Holy Ghost. As for their dishonesty in spooking all the seniors it’s high time to bring an immediate halt to this despicable behavior.

As for all us rapidly approaching old geezer status and for those already there no one, including those wild eyed demonic Congressional Republicans as they are so lovingly referred to by their Democrat counterparts, is gonna touch even a frog hair’s worth of our Medicare or our precious Social Security neither. Why any of us even support these Socialist initiatives is sure enough great fodder for future columns.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes