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January 18th, 2009

gailcalled said :

lataylor privately said :
..... The Madoff ponzi is sad. Madoff should be in jail awaiting trial. But if medicare and social security could be saved if costs were decreased by not allowing the wealthiest 1% to withdraw, shouldn’t it be done? Why should middle class Americans like me making under $100,000 today pay more than necessary into these programs so millionaires like my parents get a monthly check?

All true; I suppose that if those who were really rich and did not need SSS and Medicare and then lost their money, I would like to see something in place for them to get the benefits.

Now, as I am sure you know (are you an MD?), if one puts off signing up for Medicare benefits, there is a monthly penalty.

I am retired and living on 20 acres in the country. My real estate and school taxes are 1/5 of my annual gross taxable income. Luckily my 94 yr old mother, who IS rich as Croesus, gives us all the allowable gift every year.

A friend up the road just had to arrange for 24 hr. care for his 84 year-old mom, who does not want to move out of her apartment. That is a significant chunk of change that comes out of her hide.

Madoff should be doing heavy lifting five days/week for Habitat or road improvement.

My family practioner of 24 years just quit his local practice and 1600 patients because the paper work was so onerous that he was not making money. Now he is a locum tenens at several regional hospital (and was spotted at a Tai Chi class recently.

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• April 21st, 2009

  Should we be increasing the number of military troops in the Greater Middle East?

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• April 21st, 2009

  Will you read Dan Brown's new book?

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• April 19th, 2009

  What is the best place to stay in Maui?

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• April 1st, 2009

  Does the 62 cent per pack tobacco tax hike by the Obama administration violate his promise to not raise taxes on people making under $250,000.00 per year?

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• March 20th, 2009

  Is anyone else worried that The Fed has just purchased $300 billion dollars of Treasuries?

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• April 23rd, 2009

  What would happen if everyone in the world went vegetarian tomorrow?

  There would be a huge increase in Vitamin B12 and iron deficiency initially, then everyone would take supplements.
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• April 22nd, 2009

  Why would abolishing the Federal income tax be a bad idea?

  Data does not lie. The data shows that more work is directly related to more income.
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• April 22nd, 2009

  Should the Bush team be prosecuted for approving torture?

  Prosecuting a former administration for waterboarding and depriving combatants of sleep would be the most damaging act ever done towards our own government. It is a laughable idea. This is all a big distraction. The current administration wants to keep Bush in focus, while the spending skyrockets, government grows to levels not seen in 60+ years, more control and restrictions are placed on Americanas and taxes raise slowly but surely in discrete ways. If Obama lets the sun set on Bush, then his radical policies will get more scrutiny and polling shows that his policies are not what mainstream America desires.
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• April 22nd, 2009

  Should we be increasing the number of military troops in the Greater Middle East?

  But there are still casualties, like these five just the other day: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/11/iraq-suicide-bomb-attack
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• April 21st, 2009

  Should the Bush team be prosecuted for approving torture?

  @Garebo – I agree with you. Prosecuting former leaders is what developing third world countried do. Check this: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/21/obama.memos/index.html And since Obama released a select few classified documents, he should now release all the documents, including those showing the averted attackes, such as the Brooklyn bridge bombing, the lA attacks, teh London attacks, that were averted due to dropping water on rags over people’s mouths, forcing them to not sleep and listen to loud music, all things that some consider torture. Sounds like my medical residency to me, which is the system promoted by Medicare in order to provide cheap healthcare to the uninsured. Ridiculous.
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