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| Baldo | Oct 8 2012, 01:53 PM Post #1 |
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This is an interesting article which brings up some points about who we are turning into. The majority of Americans seem OK with just waddling through life, accepting the lies and misinformation blasted from the boob tube and their various iGadgets by their owners, gorging themselves to death on Twinkies and Cheetos, paying 15% interest on their $10,000 rolling credit card balance, and growing ever more dependent on the welfare/warfare state to provide and protect them from accepting personal responsibility for their lives. A minority of critical thinking people have chosen to question everything they see and hear being spewed at us by the propagandist mainstream media, the corporate fascist government, and the powerful banking cabal that has an iron grip upon our throats as they choke the life out of the global economy in their never ending desire for more riches and more power. The decline of the Great American Empire cannot be attributed to one factor or one bogeyman. There are a multitude of factors, villains, and choices made by the American people that have led to our moral, civil, social, and economic decline. The kabuki theater that passes for our electoral process is little more than a diversion from our imminent fate. Neither candidate for President has any intention of changing the course of the U.S. Titanic. Our rendezvous with destiny has been charted, and there aren’t nearly enough lifeboats. Those who built the ship and recklessly navigated it into a sea of icebergs will be the 1st into the few lifeboats. The leaders we’ve chosen, the choices we’ve made, and our unwillingness to deal with facts and reality have set in motion a disaster that cannot be averted. It’s a shame the majority of Americans have the math aptitude of a 6th grader, because the unsustainability of our empire can be calculated quite easily. Math is hard for Americans, but denial and delusion are easy...snipped http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=41540 The article brings up the wide use of personal scooters. A recent report by Medicare’s inspector general also showed that 61% of the motorized wheelchairs provided to Medicare recipients in the first half of 2007 went to people who didn’t qualify for them. (Only people who cannot get around without one are supposed to be eligible.) The inspector general found that Medicare is billed an average of $4,018 for a motorized wheelchair that normally sells for $1,048. As a taxpayer, you will be shocked to find out that people are selling their “no cost” Rascal 600 B mobility scooters on eBay. I am all for personal scooters when they are needed. My father had one in his late 80's. It made a nice difference in his life. However he did not go easy into it. He fought the usage of it in his everyday life. He fought to walk. He didn't like succumbing to this device. As first he only rented it to be used when he had to go long distances at a convention hall in Las Vegas Finally when the time came he agreed, but we bought it. In fact we purchased a good used one. He used it until he died at 93. Now I find out The inspector general found that Medicare is billed an average of $4,018 for a motorized wheelchair that normally sells for $1,048 What the hell have we turned into? A govt out of control, people will to take whatever they can get and succumbing. |
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| LTC8K6 | Oct 8 2012, 01:59 PM Post #2 |
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Along a similar line... http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20121008_Stu_Bykofsky__Those_cement_bubbles_on_sidewalk_corners_are_costing_you_a_lot_of_money_.html |
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| Joan Foster | Oct 8 2012, 02:11 PM Post #3 |
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I dunno, Baldo...I'm runnning out of new words for my disgust. What is the rationale that the Government has to pay so much more? People really think it's money off a tree. |
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| LTC8K6 | Oct 8 2012, 02:25 PM Post #4 |
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I know that the requirements and specs, etc., one has to meet for selling equipment to the government can easily drive the cost up well past what anyone else would pay. I wouldn't think it would be 4X though, but it can be a lot, even though the equipment is basically the same. |
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