Entertainment My Ass

According to the clowns running the U.S. government, Social Security and Medicare are entitlements? My ass!

While the U.S. Congress clowns pay themselves outrageously exorbitant salaries and fringe benefits package all at taxpayers' expense for merely running their mouths during their 3-day work week and trying to "look important", they have the nerve to tell U.S. senior citizens that Social Security retirement and Medicare benefits are "entitlements" in spite of the FACT that senior had paid for those benefits in advance through Social Security and Medicare tax deductions from their weekly/monthly pay checks when they were still actively working.

Furthermore, while the USA has been running an ungodly $14.3 trillion deficit, the clowns have continued to also give themselves outrageous yearly pay raises ($10,000 per member per year!) and cost of living adjustments ("CoLA") --- again at taxpayers' expense, but starting in 2011 and until further notice, they voted that senior citizens will not receive any "CoLA". How GREEDY and THOUGHTLESS the clowns get!

There's definitely something the HELL wrong with the people who run the federal government.

To add insult to injury, there is also definitely something the HELL wrong with those who run the State government(s). Of the 50 States, Alaska is the only state with no deficit.

Recently, The Daily Bulletin published side-by-side on the front page the following two articles:

1) California's $20 billion budget deficit;

2) California Supreme Court's ruling to allow illegal immigrants and their children to attend public schools and receive social welfare benefits.

Another article in The Daily Bulletin published months ago also talked of the yearly costs to California taxpayers of illegal immigrants' use of California hospitals' Emergency Rooms as their "primary health care provider".

Under two federal government laws:

> the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA); and

> the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1986 (EMTALA), every person is entitled to receive the necessary emergency care and treatment FIRST, and then, LATER asked how the person is to pay for the services rendered.

If the patient is LATER found to have no insurance --and/or-- is unable to pay for the services in cash, the hospital/emergency room has no recourse but to "eat and swallow" the lost revenue.

"Thanks" to the Washington, D.C. clowns, who enacted and passed HIPAA and EMTALA.

In one California hospital alone, the cost to taxpayers and the loss of hospital revenue totaled over $25 million a year. Ouch!

Politicians and government bureaucrats have definitely abused and misused their "power" by enacting DUMB laws, and wantonly misappropriating and wasting billions of taxpayers' dollars on some of the most STUPID and UNNECESSARY projects. On top of it, they "borrowed" funds from the Social Security coffers (which they are NOT supposed to touch, to begin with) to finance many of their IDIOTIC schemes. And, of course, they have no intention of paying back what they "borrowed", either.

In the U.S.A., there are thousands/millions of:

> children who go to bed hungry each night;

> elderly who could not afford to pay for medications or medical care;

> mentally ill who are without treatment,

> veterans who could not get medical care for their service-related disabilities, et al. . . .These American citizens just "fall in between the cracks" and are left to fend for themselves.

Meanwhile, the US government nincompoops continue to pour out billions of tax dollars in "foreign aid" to Chile, Haiti, and many other countries in Africa, Asia, Central & South America, whose national leaders use the US tax dollars mainly to line their own pockets and enrich themselves, while the common masses remain impoverished. Also, many countries who receive US foreign aid literally hate America and are very anti-USA---yet, Washington DC continues to squander U.S. "foreign aid" tax dollars on them!

Just imagine the good it would do, if the U.S. government and the U.S.-based "charitable, humanitarian, religious organizations" were to pour out and render their aid to their truly needy fellow Americans instead, and let the foreign governments take care of their own people as they are supposed to do!

Supposedly, "charity begins at home!" Unfortunately, the U.S. government's misguided and warp-minded interpretation and understanding of it is:

fleece and rob the U.S. taxpayers, and waste U.S. tax dollars.

It is high time for all U.S. taxpayers to WAKE UP before the government clowns [federal, state, county, and city] fleece and rob us blind even more!

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