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Medicare Bankrupcy but War Machine Not?
cobalt123
21:56h
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-medicare-social-security,1,2870337.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Now take a look at the public television story: "DARREN GERSH, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: The good news in the trustees report is that Social Security`s financial deficit did not get worse. The bad news is that Medicare is on fiscal life support, projected to exhaust its trust fund in 2019, seven years earlier than projected in the trustees report last year. That is the worst deterioration in the trust fund on record.And this, far more detailed than the Chicago Trib and the NY Times report: "GERSH: Over the next 75 years, the trustees report puts traditional Medicare`s unfunded liability at a staggering $19.6 trillion. Add to that the new drug benefit passed by Congress, which carries an unfunded liability of more than $8 trillion, and you get a total unfunded liability of $27.7 trillion. By contrast, Social Security`s $3.7 trillion unfunded liability seems cheap. In 20 years, Medicare costs are projected to overtake spending on Social Security, and the health care program will eventually dominate the federal budget."Is this yet another example of major public and commercial US media shielding the American public from the actual impact such news carries? ... Link
What a Tangled Web, TweedleRum
cobalt123
00:20h
Images worth a thousand of my words. "What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive". I heard that somewhere... Tweedledee and TweedleRum?
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Please Watch Out for Spam Referrers
cobalt123
01:16h
I've had a number of "referrers" show up in this blog that are all of the XXX variety. I've been to the Help forum and gotten no help. One person suggested that having any "robots" or javascript running enables the spammers to try to use their linking to increase search engine ranking in Google. Who knows. Anyway, this is just a quick entry to let firends who visit know that this is a problem I will find an answer for and remove that crappola. ... Link Next page |
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