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Entitlement Spending Is Crushing Us/My Mom Is An Example.

Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:15 pm
Posted by Catchfalaya
Member since Feb 2018
2017 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:15 pm
Entitlement social programs is what will ultimately be our downfall. Half of the United States budget goes to welfare programs, stealing from the taxpayer, to pay for those unwilling to work. My mother is a 63 year old White Woman, she has always had a job, and in fact had a business of her own years ago. Recently she took a job that pays cash only. She struggles to pay bills here n there so I help. I found out she canceled her private health insurance, and got on Louisiana Medicaid (She pays zero) without my knowledge. To my surprise she said the private was just to much ($500 a month for just herself). Well about a year ago she discovered she had a malignant form of skin cancer on a part of her body. They had to go in and conduct a $20,000 surgery to remove the spot. Guess what boys Louisiana Medicaid paid 100% the bill. All the while we pay into Obamacare and know damn well if we got the surgery we’d still be on the hook for a deductible. We’re being robbed boys.
This post was edited on 3/18/23 at 1:17 pm
Posted by RTRinTampa
Central FL
Member since Jan 2013
5532 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:20 pm to
It's not people like your Mom that are killing us. It's those that suck at the tit from cradle to grave and there is a lot of them. Working the system is the only job they've ever had other than breeding as baby's mom for additional benefits. We need to start letting people, who don't even try to be productive, starve.
Posted by timdonaghyswhistle
Member since Jul 2018
19680 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:23 pm to
quote:

We need to start letting people, who don't even try to be productive, starve.



The dog you feed will never turn on you.
Posted by Catchfalaya
Member since Feb 2018
2017 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:26 pm to
That’s the dilemma politicians face. They assume if entitlement programs get gutted that riots would ensue. However, the collapse of our economy would equal the same result. They should gut entitlement spending quickly, and see if people conformed by it either riot/or start being productive.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
282590 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:27 pm to
Medicaid pays transportation and hotels for villagers who need medical care.

They come to town once a week, stay for two nights, and the taxpayer covers it.

Airfare/ferry cost, hotel cost, transportation to and from the facility...

All is covered.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
101835 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:32 pm to
Some dogs can be fed and treated well for their whole lives and suddenly snap under no provocation.

This is why people hate pits.
Posted by Old Sarge
Dean of Admissions, LSU
Member since Jan 2012
58122 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:32 pm to
Your mom has paid taxes her whole life


She is not part of the problem
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
101835 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:33 pm to
Shut down areas where rioting ensues. No public assistance for anyone caught rioting over the changes. EVER. But “rioting” means violence and not “someone let people in then ambushed them” a la Jan 6.
Posted by tjv305
Member since May 2015
12739 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:37 pm to
This is why republicans need to start buying votes . Nothing will get better in this country till we hit rock bottom . So why not give the republican voters something to enjoy as the country falls apart .
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
131377 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:38 pm to
quote:

Well about a year ago she discovered she had a malignant form of skin cancer on a part of her body. They had to go in and conduct a $20,000 surgery to remove the spot.
Hope she's okay.

Obamacare really shouldn't be the basis of your comparison. It is an unnecessary mess. Unnecessary because had it not been for bastard McCain, we'd be done with it. It's a mess by design. Obamacare was meant to be such a cost inefficient mess that it would transition us to a fully socialized system as the "only option."
Posted by Revelator
Member since Nov 2008
61051 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:41 pm to
Corporate welfare is a bigger problem than you know!
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
157425 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:43 pm to
You are correct I know someone who via a divorce. Had to go from very good HealthCare to -for a time- whatever your mom is on. She said it was damned good she paid nothing.
Posted by ChineseBandit58
Pearland, TX
Member since Aug 2005
46237 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:47 pm to
quote:

start letting people, who don't even try to be productive, starve.

the only solution

this is nature's way.

There is plenty of opportunity for charity and sympathy for anyone to meet their needs for compassion - unavoidable tragedies (acts of God) provide all the needs for generosity that is needed.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
101835 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:49 pm to
Puritan ethics need to come back.

If you are of working age and don’t work, you don’t eat. The numbers of “disabled” will drop drastically should that happen and the actual disabled can be taken care of.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
125894 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:49 pm to
Medicaid is great for patients because it pays for most everything

Awful for everybody else because it pays 10 cents on the dollar for everything

Thats why nobody outside of academic places accept it
This post was edited on 3/18/23 at 1:49 pm
Posted by DeafVallyBatnR
Member since Sep 2004
17660 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:50 pm to
Obama is the reason your mom has no insurance.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
101835 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:51 pm to
And yet the argument is always “Doctors see all Medicaid patients so they can get big payouts.”

More along the lines of “The process is industrialized to cater to those patients because no one else wants to fricking deal with the government’s bullshite and reimbursement issues.”
Posted by RTRinTampa
Central FL
Member since Jan 2013
5532 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 1:51 pm to
quote:

The dog you feed will never turn on you.


A lot of pit owners and their children have found out otherwise. So?

I know what you mean but those people contribute none of the wealth our politicians are grifting. Maybe we need to put the dog handlers down with the dogs.
This post was edited on 3/18/23 at 3:06 pm
Posted by tiger7166
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2007
2689 posts
Posted on 3/18/23 at 2:07 pm to
Businesses can’t get help and now the Dems propose a 32 hour work week. Which should require the need to hire more people, while more people find it more beneficial to not work. It should get better
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