{"id":27527,"date":"2012-02-23T21:50:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=27527"},"modified":"2012-02-23T21:50:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:50:26","slug":"what-137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/what-137\/","title":{"rendered":"What do I think?"},"content":{"rendered":"

thinker.jpgComputer Crisis, I Hate Politics, and Medicare
\nby Barry Bauer
\nRight in the middle of writing this column last week my desktop went down \u2014 more viruses they say \u2014 second time in two months. No, I don\u2019t get on porn sites. It\u2019s something else I\u2019m opening that gets me into trouble. Of course they all look like normal sites or e-mails but obviously they\u2019re not.
\nI knew my computer was acting strange and I was in the process of downloading that unfinished column to my small external drive so I could finish it on my laptop but it was too late.
\nI need to re-learn how to start my computer up in the \u201csafe mode\u201d which means it boots up with the only the necessary programs needed to run and gives me a better chance to find a solution.
\nBecause some of the stuff I wrote last week is outdated this week I started all over again. I also bought a new anti-virus program to replace the one that doesn\u2019t appear to be working.<\/p>\n

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I hate politics, and distrust all politicians but no doubt there are some of them who don\u2019t deserve that from me. These self-serving people are taking this country down an evil path of no return \u2014 just like Greece. If it was my decision to make, I would have term limits and greatly reduce their influence in our lives. Quite frankly, I don\u2019t like the way some of those people think. In addition I\u2019d reduce the government benefits they receive when they retire. I\u2019d give them something similar to what our senior citizens get on Social Security and the shrinking Medicare coverage. That seems fair to me.
\nThat\u2019s why we need to ask the question, who does our government serve, themselves or the people?<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been on Medicare for a few years now and I still don\u2019t understand why it became my primary health insurance when I still have insurance through my former employer.
\nThey keep cutting back on what they pay the doctors and I\u2019m starting to see that I\u2019ll have to make up the difference out of my pocket some day soon. That\u2019s because Oblama intends to rob Medicare to help pay for his \u201cObamacare,\u201d which will be a nightmare for the nation.
\nThere again government is reneging on the promise given to those who worked all their life and paid into Medicare just like the Social Security tax. Government treats it like it\u2019s a gift they gave us and that\u2019s not true. Anyway the money\u2019s all been mismanaged by the government and all we got was an i.o.u.
\nRight now the government is making money off from me. This year I will pay over $1200 in Medicare premiums and fortunately for me I don\u2019t have more than three office visit a year.
\nThat makes it a losing proposition \u2014 I keep paying but I don\u2019t really collect. On the positive side I hope I never have to.<\/p>\n

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Short thoughts:
\nIs actor Jim Carrey human or alien?
\nWhy don\u2019t we know more about Oblama\u2019s background?
\nOur problem today is not the situation we find ourselves in. Our problem is that our government refuses to do anything about it. They know what the problem is.
\nIf George W. Bush set up Oblama for the economy to fail, didn\u2019t Bill Clinton set up George W. Bush for 9-11?
\nUntil the next time . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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