Giving thanks for small blessings

I am almost there...at the end of 2011. It's been a year of discovery for me.
I'm retired, and saw MY inflation numbers rocket into the stratosphere, primarily via food and fuel costs. I never had to worry, though, because the phony president and the phony Congress "fixed" the way inflation is calculated to eliminate those two "meaningless" costs. How nice of them. So, can I have my money back?  I should be able to get a refund, which would come to thousands of dollars. Then I can add the thousands of dollars more that the "NO INCREASE TO CURRENT MEDICARE RECIPIENTS" should return to me...that actually WAS an increase in Medicare costs to me. If all goes well, and Congress is honest about this, I should receive a tax/inflation/medical expense refund of well over $10,000.

As a stock owner, I should also receive refunds via the SEC, which continues to fail to do its job, of tens of thousands of dollars, lost due to rampant stock manipulation and Chinese company stock fraud. Let's start with FUQI, a fraudulent Chinese company that cooked the books, then continued (and continues yet today) to postpone the inevitable "we screwed you American suckers", that Chinese companies are know for. Let's not forget the criminals who screamed foul in order to tank certain stocks, like MED, right after they sold thousands and thousands of shares short. Of course, the SEC got right on that and threw those bastards in jail! Oh! They didn't?!?! Thank you SEC. Thank you Congress...

2011 was quite the experience. I watched Nancy Peeelosi continue her 'leona helmsley' act, even though she lost control of the House of Representatives..or did she?. My o my...what salacious dope does she have on all those Democrat lemming Congressmen and Congresswomen that they simply pee themselves when she snaps her whip. Oh, of course, they are 'the little people', who cringe upon hearing the footsteps of the queen bitch... Hmmm, must now add "criminal" to  "queen bitch" now that her stock dealings have been made public.

2011 is ending with the psychotic episode promulgated by House Republicans over the payroll tax extension. For this alone, John Boehner should be excoriated and removed from Congress, like you'd remove an infected cyst from your butt. Boehner is an abomination for: golfing while freshmen congress folks were choking and panicking about the payroll tax bill...for not watching over his flock....for not being responsible in his communications with Mich McConnell...for not knowing where the heck his flock was with regard to their votes. Boehner gets my vote as "loser of the year" in the 2011 Congress.

2011 is disappointing because Peelosi and Reid have not been killed in multi-vehicle/plane wrecks. I guess that was too much to ask for, even if it would lead to a return to sanity in our government. I guess THAT will not happen until 1) the fascist Muslim is out of the presidents office; 2) all RINOs are out of Congress; and 3) George Soros and his ilk are removed from this solar system.

With everything that did not happen in 2011, well, this should make 2012 a fascinating year. The only sadness I feel is that, if the current monsters are run out of Congress this coming year, then the idiotic, moronic, brainless students and "union lemmings", may avoid suffering from what they almost brought about, the complete destruction of the American Republic.

God Bless America! God Save America!

Memo to Rick Scott...

I just finished reading an article by the Education Action Group. The group supports student education and is definitely anti-union extortionists.

I assume the article is based on correct information regarding Scott's current education vs Florida Medicaid proposals. So....my memo to Rick Scott: "Dance with the one's that brung ya". Florida education must be totally revamped in order to cut out all the waste and union based corruption.

But look at you, Rick. You allowed your head thug at the Florida Lottery change the odds on winning the "pick 5" EZ Match. I guess your head of Lottery had a wet dream and decided that nobody would notice when winning "EZ MATCH" tickets dropped precipitously. I did, so I asked around. Hundreds of fellow Floridians also noticed.

I used to purchase an EZ Match ticket on a daily basis. Now I may buy one in a week. I also cut back on my other Florida Lottery ticket purchases....way back. I don't like being scammed, Rick, and somebody in your lottery department decided that it would be 'cool' to scam the Florida citizens who play the lottery.

Rick, you were voted in....by folks like me....to be a reformer, yet it is beginning to appear as though you are becoming just another politician. Too bad....I used to like you.

My advice? Straighten up; squeeze the unions until they flee the state, whimpering. Start communicating with your constituents and continue keeping the promises you made to US CONSERVATIVE VOTERS. You know...the ones, like me, who voted you into office.  Keep your promises!

God Bless America! God Save America!

If you are retired and have a medicare supplement, bend over

Like many recent retirees I received all the gobble-de-gook literature from my and competitive providers. Last year I used the AARP "Secure Horizons" which is a huge plan here in Florida.

I spend a few weeks going over the plan options as enumerated on the Medicare website. I reluctantly chose to retain my (above) plan, even though the costs were going up dramatically. I did so mainly to keep my PCP, who won my loyalty with his and his PA's level of care. I have both high blood pressure and diabetes, which came on while I was a caretaker for my father.

This past Saturday, December 3rd, I received an "open immediately" letter from my provider---which told me---'oh, by the way, two of the meds you are taking are going up a little (must have forgotten to tell me this earlier). Yes, these two out of over ten medications I take for these conditions are going up....ready for this?...$150....per month. I was so stunned and outraged at this last minute "gotcha" that I couldn't get out of my chair. If you live on a fixed retirement income, this kind of news is like being told you are dying, by a doctor who then walks away from you as a patient.

I have some things to do this week: Call Medicare and complain, Call the state and make some noise; go back to reviewing all other, non AARP medicare supplement options; Calling the offices of Marco Rubio and Connie Mack. Beyond that, I have to sit down and see what else I can cut out of my already minuscule budget.

This is ObamaCare. This is "If you are elderly, or retired, screw you!". This is what over regulation does to the voters, many of whom are too stupid to have the right to vote in ANY ELECTION!

I have my work cut out  for me today, and my stress level is high. I am very angry, and you, the voter, should be, too. We currently have an administration made up of psychopaths, and you liberal idiots put them in office! It's time for another American Revolution...for the very same reasons we had the last one over two hundred years ago. Nobody should remain a member of the AARP---that organization has shown its true colors, and they are Marxist RED.

God Bless America! God Save America!

Krauthammer's December 1 "OP ED" nails it.

I listen to what Charles Krauthammer says on FoxNews, and I read his editorials. Mr. Krauthammer is a very smart man. He should be. He's got more degrees than a thermometer, plus other assorted titles, like... 'doctor'. His education was won at a time when being educated actually had value and meant something. Not like now, with phony degrees being 'sold' to phony students.

But I digress. In his December 1 column (you can go to 'THE DRUDGE REPORT" and scroll down to the contributor's links and click on his name) Krauthammer details the 'problems' that the Republican voters are being faced with while selecting "their" candidate, their 'gladiator', to fight Obama and what appears to be the rest of the world (opinion, though that's changing).

To sum up Krauthammer, we are being forced to choose one of two much flawed conservative candidates.

For me, the Krauthammer article was enlightening. I always defined myself as a Conservative, but do not consider myself a far right wing Conservative. Jokers like Carter and Obama have forced me further to the right due to their psychotic terms in office,  but I feel more comfortable being between the 20 and 50' Conservative 'yard lines', so to speak.

Krauthammer's article nudged me closer to Romney, but I have to say: Somebody needs to grab that guy by the shirt collars and shake him up. Romney has to drop the arrogance of defending his past. It's simple. Since Romney CHOSE to run as a Republican, he has to loudly remove himself from his past. I won't even add "mistakes". Romney's past catered to centrist and liberal voters in a centrist/liberal part of the country. OK, we know that. Now we must hear that 'OOPS" directly from Romney. Hopefully we all change over time. Romney can take charge by putting his past on the table, showing how and why he 'changed' into a more conservative person, define his conservatism, maybe saying his conservative beliefs lie around the proverbial right wing '30 yard line'. He can act flustered about the constant assault on his past, but he must counter with his positive conservative solutions for our future. At the very least, he'd be diffusing all the political left-wing nut rhetoric against him.

Romney must begin sounding presidential. He's running out of time. When he snipes at journalists like Brett Baier, who is only trying to help Romney over this "past" hump, he looks more like Obama, arrogant to a fault, than a Conservative candidate for the United States presidency.

If Romney remains to arrogant or self-contained to get real with his conservative voting base, I'm for choosing Rick Santorum. He may look like a book-worm, but he's more gladiator inside that either Newt or Mitt.

God Bless America! God Save America! God...please wake up Europe...!