Fire Medicare

Government Health Care

Retrieved this from my “Editorial” file after hearing Mitt Romney’s comment about “Firing People”. (see fourth paragraph).

This is a message to those who think old folks who are opposing new government nationalized health care should just shut up or turn in their Social Security and Medicare Cards. You know who you are. You think you are smarter than us, know what’s best for us, and call us idiots if we dare to protest.

I tried to opt out of Social Security when I started my first real job. I appreciated that my employer would match my contribution. I didn’t want to participate because our contribution would not have an account in my name, did not accumulate interest, would not be paid to my heirs if I died before age 65, and would have the excess of paid in versus paid out “loaned” to the Treasury.

When I became eligible for Social Security I asked for a lump sum payment of my forty five year “contribution” (and my employers matching payments), with 2% compounded interest. I can imagine the reaction to that letter. I then requested just a lump sum payment without interest. I’m still waiting for a reply.

When I became eligible for Medicare I again asked to opt out. I asked for a yearly government voucher that would pay my non-government Health Care Insurance provider. I wanted to be able to negotiate cost, payments, disputes or differences and change (2012 note: replace “change” with “fire”) providers if necessary. That request failed but I was able to opt out of the government Rx program. The RX program “donut hole” provision is typical of government thinking.

That’s my set up; this is my message to those that want me to shut up:

I will provide you with the lump sum figure of my (plus my employers) total contribution to SS, adjusted to a value if invested in a safe Mutual Fund for 40 years, less the amount paid to me by Social Security and paid Medical bills by Medicare. Write me a check for that amount and I will send you my monthly Social Security check. Put Up Or Shut Up.

And while I’m at it, stop telling me to stop sending my kids to public schools or government funded colleges and driving on government highways.

I haven’t had anyone in grades 1-12 since 1970.  I have been paying school taxes since 1950!

I paid for my children’s college education. My children paid for my grandchildren’s college education. I worked full time and earned an engineering degree after eight years of night school.

Every time I buy gasoline I pay 40 cents a gallon in taxes.

This is a message from a member of “The Greatest Generation” to the “Gimme Generation”, respectfully, get your head out of your butt and wise up!

Today’s Ponderism:

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?