To Hello in a Handbasket on Healthcare

Well, now we have confirmation by the supreme court to the new Health care mandates. I can understand mandates for drivers to insure their vehicles, because that makes sense, fiscal responsibility if they are involved in a crash.  Healthcare mandates only affect those who won't qualify for medicaid including those just making it on low income and paycheck to paycheck. Companies are going to have to offer hospital only coverage, to cover those truly serious medical crises, in order to help people afford health insurance on low income. Give me a break! Even for older workers, many companies do not offer health insurance to their employees.  You cannot imagine what their insurance premiums will be! Totally dreadful. So insurance companies with HAVE to come up with policies for people who can ill afford any insurance. A hospital only, and NOT covering visits to the emergency room for a common cold, or the emergency room will see abuse and the premiums will go up. Better start getting training for jobs which can go well in other countries because this country is becoming a big government telling you how to live. Maybe Australia will be the new promised land. I'm too old to go but you young folks, take heed.

Hotter than hades

Well I strayed from Paradise to the hot humid Gulfcoast and it is sultry and miserable. Not the best place to be in the summer in Texas

Far reaching thoughts

I think beyond my lifetime, that in say 50 to 75 years that you will see an exodus of educated people who are the primary tax payers, business and personal, leave this country. We cannot sustain this runaway debt as you cannot spend more than you take in with good intentions. The social dependency and lack of effort to work, along with lack of ethics instilled in children, will eventually catch up to us. Do you not find it amazing a town had to ban cussing in town? Because teens had not gotten a proper upbringing? The government has taken God and ethics out of school, where most of us reinforced our behavior. Now young people run amuck because parents are so busy the don't have time to know their kids. This country will become an unruly, poorly educated, and dependent on Uncle Sam that there will be few left to work and be burdened by higher taxes. So that is why I see flight to a few other countries where ethics still exist

Uncle Sam's Plantation

I went to dinner last night and heard about a book called Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It by Star Parker (hardback). This is something I have been observing for quite sometime!


Getting America's poor and needy hooked on being taken care of by the Govt. Then they are indebted to Big brother.and Enslaved by him because they are accustomed to being 'taken care of' they loose their desire to do anything else. They are then 'slaves of the Government'.... And they go willingly to it and feed on this predicament. 


This is a Country being made Divided by Classes, just like it was Ages ago. We have come full Circle. 

Another hot but beautiful day!

Paradise found. I have lots of birds that come to my yard. Put out hummingburd feeder, hoping ot attract them soon. It's been dry lately, I am hoping the weather pattern changes and we can get some afternoon showers. Not looking forward to another drought. But we have the river here and you can just go sit in it, it's nice and clear water.

Politically incorrect again

of course, I listen to the tv news, and the woes of the federal government intake vs outflow of cash. And the ever present issue of illegal aliens. but the government has enabled the most ill educated to continually be on welfare, so why bother to work? Also they shack up with their boyfriends but dare not include them cause that would mess up their benefits.  Single mothers, who DO work get huge tax breaks that I as a single mother never got. I was in the older generation. Congress hadn't become so generous then, we had to work and did get some child care benefits. Alot of these "single mothers" maintain a household with their boyfriend, again, dare not admit that because it would mess up their head of the hosuehold status with all the great income tax refunds... gosh, why bother to get married and lose all that?