Posted by
Brandon O'Neal Wright on Sunday, October 11, 2009 9:28:59 PM
We're almost there America! We have almost achieved the dream that those good hearted Democrats have been working on for sixty years!! National health care is within our grasps, and all we have to do is sit back and tell ourselves, yes we can! I don't know about you, but I look forward to the days when I can sit in a waiting room for hours on end reading three month old issues of National Geographic and watch all those precious little children scream at the top of their lungs. Before the Obama care bill passes though, there are a few things you should know about it, like.....
1. Credits for low to middle income wage earners, that will disbursed by your friendly government, will not start arriving until the year 2013. 2013 you ask? You got it, the government thinks that health care for everybody is so important that they are going to take three years just to get you, I mean your unemployed neighbor, the money, I mean your money to make it happen. Makes you wonder if there is another motive. Read on.
2. Tax increases and cuts in Medicare, yes cuts for Medicare are in the bill, will take effect immediately. Oh good, another government program that takes our money now and promises to give us something in the future! I love those programs!! You know, kind of like the social security payments that the people of my generation will never see! I can hardly hold my excitment in any longer. YES WE CAN!!
Just a second, I am singing a pro Obama song with my daughter.
3. OK, song is over, on we go. Why the immediate tax increases and Medicare cuts but the delayed benefits? Simple. By increasing the revenue that will be used for the health care for all program and delaying the benefits, the Democrats will be able to keep the program within the $900 billion limit. That tricky little fellow. My question is, how can all of these Democrats figure something of this magnitude out, but somehow get confused when using Turbo Tax? My good friend Wiecek is a tax guy, maybe he can answer that!! But the scary part to the three year wait is the exact reason that there will be a three year wait.........
The waiting period will give families time to save for the change. You know the change that I am talking about don't you, or do I have to say it out loud. OK, I'll say it, but off the record, right? OK, here it goes. I hope nobody has my computer tapped. It will give people time to prepare for the penalties that they will incure if they do not purchase coverage. Well, that's awfully nice of the government isn't it? A closer look will reveal the fact that those families who are going to incure a penalty under this bill will not have to pay that penalty until AFTER the 2014 midterm elections. But what are they scared of? Didn't they tell us that all of America wants this change? We wouldn't allow a pesky little fine from Uncle Sam determine who we vote for, would we? But remember, they have YOUR best intrest at heart, don't they?
Get ready America, for some good times ahead. I just hope that nobody grabs the February 2004 edition of National Geographic before I get there!!!