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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on September 15, 2011, 10:36:57 AM
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Raven (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-15-11 11:03 AM
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I got what I paid for. (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1944308)
After almost 50 years of paying taxes and contributing to Social Security and Medicare, I am now a "recipient". I consider it a return on my investment, BTW. I signed up for SS and Medicare last winter and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to do and how very nice the "bureaucrats" I dealt with were. Yesterday I had my annual physical and presented my Doc's office with my medicare card and my medigap card half expecting some red tape. Not a beat missed and no copay. This is what happens when government gets involved in your life...things go pretty smoothly.
:whatever: :bs:
Yeah, right.
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Too bad she didn't pay for an abortion.
Well, at least the Johns got what they paid for.
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No, DUmmies. They're only smiling and happy because they know you're going to die soon.
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Hmmmm.
I'm sure if the primitive had their way, and social security retirement were "means-tested," the mother of the Bostonian Drunkard would be dropped from the rolls right away.
I wonder if she, an alleged liberal, feels guilty about taking money she doesn't need.
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Someone must have read Paul Begala's column yesterday. ::)
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Well, I'm covered by Blue Cross Blue Sheild but Social Security, without me doing anything, started taking out for Medicare a year ago and I still haven't gotten a Medicare Card....I think it has something to do with the color of the decorations in their office....I'm white and I guess I clash with the office decorations.
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Someone must have read Paul Begala's column yesterday. ::)
Well, of course we on this side agree that if someone's played by the rules and paid into something, one's eminently deserving of collecting.
But the primitives don't think that way, and I'm curious as to why she diverges from the party-line on this, and gets away with it.
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That's great, she's lucky to of found a Doctor who's still taking Medicare, she would never be able to see Sonia Sotomayor's Brother though, he doesn't accept Medicare.
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After almost 50 years of paying taxes and contributing to Social Security and Medicare, I am now a "recipient".
Not something I'd brag about, personally.
I consider it a return on my investment, BTW.
Not good with numbers, either, I see.
I signed up for SS and Medicare last winter and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to do and how very nice the "bureaucrats" I dealt with were.
Wait until a problem occurs and you need out of the ordinary "assistance". Won't happen.
Yesterday I had my annual physical and presented my Doc's office with my medicare card and my medigap card half expecting some red tape. Not a beat missed and no copay. This is what happens when government gets involved in your life...things go pretty smoothly.
Unless you go to the doctor one day to find out he's stopped accepting Medicare, which a growing number of doctors are doing. My wife's arthritis doctor simply posted a note in his office about 6 months before his early retirement that specifically stated he was retiring because Medicare cut the reinsurance rates 35%. He told us he'd rather just retire early than keep working to break even. Being an arthritis doctor, most of his patients were elderly, now they're doctorless (at least within a 4 hour drive).
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I hear that. It's hard enough in NH just finding a doctor who will take new patients, period, to say nothing of new Medicare patients.
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Not much of a 'return' on her 'investment' unless she lives another 50 years.
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Not much of a 'return' on her 'investment' unless she lives another 50 years.
Wee Willie wouldn't like her spending his "deserved" inheritance by selfishly living that long. :fuelfire:
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So, The fairly well off Raven, maternal ancestress of a drunken sot, and of European descent got hers. And promptly to hell with anyone else, eh Raven?
What of all the poor white men, the black men and women, and the hispanic men and women whom you are only to happy to step on for your social security and medicare? What's that? You don't care about all the poorer folks who didn't live to ever see a dime they were forced to put in? I'm sure their families could have put the money you had confiscated from them to good use.
The old rich white women deserve to be kept. Especially if their liberal and failed at parenting.
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Well, I'm covered by Blue Cross Blue Sheild but Social Security, without me doing anything, started taking out for Medicare a year ago and I still haven't gotten a Medicare Card....I think it has something to do with the color of the decorations in their office....I'm white and I guess I clash with the office decorations.
I haven't mentioned this on here before because I have no proof that it's the truth, but since DU really doesn't care about proof of truth I guess I'll post it now.
Several months back someone told me that he knew a person that used to work at DFACS or some such government office and that they had been instructed to answer any questions that a white person who comes in happens to ask but were not to volunteer any information. On the other hand, if a minority were to come in they were to tell them all of the options and programs available to them even if they didn't ask.
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Raven (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-15-11 11:03 AM
Original message
I got what I paid for.
After almost 50 years of paying taxes and contributing to Social Security and Medicare, I am now a "recipient". I consider it a return on my investment, BTW. I signed up for SS and Medicare last winter and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to do and how very nice the "bureaucrats" I dealt with were. Yesterday I had my annual physical and presented my Doc's office with my medicare card and my medigap card half expecting some red tape. Not a beat missed and no copay. This is what happens when government gets involved in your life...things go pretty smoothly.
So I suppose all the problems my dad had with SS and Medicare were because he was dealing with someone who only pretended to work for the government? Damn! Somebody needs to catch those frauds dad dealt with. They were sneaky. They had government letterhead and phone numbers and everything.
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So I suppose all the problems my dad had with SS and Medicare were because he was dealing with someone who only pretended to work for the government? Damn! Somebody needs to catch those frauds dad dealt with. They were sneaky. They had government letterhead and phone numbers and everything.
And they probably were union members and voted for demonrats.
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I haven't mentioned this on here before because I have no proof that it's the truth, but since DU really doesn't care about proof of truth I guess I'll post it now.
Several months back someone told me that he knew a person that used to work at DFACS or some such government office and that they had been instructed to answer any questions that a white person who comes in happens to ask but were not to volunteer any information. On the other hand, if a minority were to come in they were to tell them all of the options and programs available to them even if they didn't ask.
No lie here...it's not government sponsored but the black politicians here hold meetings to teach the blacks how to get every last dime they can out of governmental and private organizations.
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No lie here...it's not government sponsored but the black politicians here hold meetings to teach the blacks how to get every last dime they can out of governmental and private organizations.
I've said this on here before, but I've had two friends who have always worked for a living get in a situation where they needed help. Both were white. Both were refused. One's husband had gotten laid off and she applied for assistance until he could get another job. They told her she couldn't get any help because she owned a car. I have no idea why that matters. The other case involved a guy who worked construction. He had five kids. His job ran out. He had new job lined up, but it would be a couple of months before it began. He tried to get food stamps to feed his kids until the new job started. He says that he was told he was an abled-bodied white male and needed to just get a job.
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So I suppose all the problems my dad had with SS and Medicare were because he was dealing with someone who only pretended to work for the government? Damn! Somebody needs to catch those frauds dad dealt with. They were sneaky. They had government letterhead and phone numbers and everything.
Same here. Medicare sucks. VA less so but they did their damnedest to kill him. From giving him 200mg blood pressure meds when it was supposed to be 20mg to od'ing him on insulin the last time he was there. Then Mom and I damn near went broke paying for the care Dad recieved in the last year of his life. I really think he gave up and passed when he did cause he knew the stress it was causing Mom.
**** medicare.
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After wallduding herself out of that cushy gig working for the city of Rindge, NH, DUmmy Raven needs any government dole she can find.
I wonder if there's a way she can squirm herself into her drunken son's trust fund stash.
Maybe she'll post about that.