FIXING MEDICARE

You want to fix Medicare? More in a moment.

Fixing Medicare seems like a monumental task. How can you repair such a monstrous bureaucracy? To me it is so very simple.

Do you know that none of our nationally elected Senators and Congressmen are required to go on Medicare when they turn 65? They are exempt. Let me repeat that. NONE OF OUR WASHINGTON SENATORS OR CONGRESSMEN MUST GO ON MEDICARE WHEN THEY TURN 65. When you and I turn 65 we must go on Medicare, we have no choice. Well that is not true, we do have a choice of NO HEALTH COVERAGE. But our elected officials get "golden healthcare coverage" paid for by the government (that's our tax dollars) until they die.
How can you expect them to fix something that they have no vested interest in?

Call your Washington Senators and Congressmen and ask them why they do not have to go on Medicare when they turn 65. How fast do you think Medicare would get fixed if they had to go on Medicare?

And as a side note. Do you think then they will have to go on National Health Insurance when they pass that?

Just a thought, for what it's worth.

HAVE AND HAVE NOTS

What do you have and have not? More in a moment.

I have my life.
I have seen life lost.
I have my children.
I have seen children lost.
I have my God.
I have my demons.
I have love.
I have lost at love.
I have my job.
I have lost a job.
I have my health. (see RECIPE FOR LIFE NOV 2007)
I have happiness. (see above.)
I have been unhappy.
I have been lost.
I have been found.
I have freedom.
I have seen no freedom.
I have done right.
I have done wrong.
I have lived!
Life is good!

What? You thought I was going to talk about "STUFF"?

PERSPECTIVE

What percent of your income do you spend on gasoline? More in a moment.

While complaining about the high cost of gasoline to my better half, she made a very profound statement. "Put it in perspective." And then she began to throw figures at me. When you started working it cost you, what? $2.50 to drive one hundred miles. (based on .25 cents for a gallon of gasoline, at 10 mpg in my auto of the time) and I was making $50.00 per week, so the gasoline cost me 5% of my income. Today, with gasoline at $4.50 per gallon, that one hundred miles costs me $22.50. But, with my current income and the fact that my current auto averages 20 mpg , that is 2.25% of my income.

Perspective! For what it's worth.