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Deja Vu

Posted on July 29, 2014 | Leave a comment

all over again, ha ha. For years I’ve taken care of pets for free, a sort of barter system for the past ten years. The first time I did this I probably did 1,000 dog visits and got one in return. Some barter system as everyone was busy or away for the weekend. I should have made it a business.

Second time went OK because we were friends and exchanged dinners and/or got gift bags and became hooked on Pro Bars and especially SmartWool socks. I miss those gals and their pup.

Now we’re entering phase one again. My husband is away on business, herding dog of 10+ years is at my side and I thought I was going to die. I contacted my doctor. Thirty hours later his practice finally called and said he no longer takes a major insurance provider and that they can get me in ten days from now with someone else.

I said I’d heal myself (I am doing so), go to the emergency room, or die at home alone and leave a note blaming them. And no, they don’t get the dog. This woman, instead of saying “have a nice day” actually said “have a nice nap.” Yes, it was nice to finally get an hour’s sleep. Please forgive me for reporting these medical professionals through the appropriate channels.

The thing is that both my husband and I, and even our dog, see the good in people (and dogs) and trust them until they cannot be trusted. If that is a weakness, let me die having that weakness. The moment I become a bigot or a hater is the moment I cease to live anyways.

Last night with my legs swelled up twice their size I asked God to let me live because I’ve still more of His work to do here. I do not believe in organized religion but believe in God and know he sends me places for reasons. Sometimes I figure them out, sometimes not. Hey, I’m alive and now have to go because the dog just vomited all of today’s food under the dining room table. She even trusts old dead stuff she scarfs up in the park! I just know that when I’m sick no-one comforts me or takes Zoe out. I just get the strength to make it work and go on with life. Dee

 

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Health Care

Posted on May 31, 2014 | 2 comments

General Shinseki resigned as head of Veterans’ Affairs. Why? Manipulating the numbers and long wait times that resulted in the death of people who have fought for our country.

I see health care as one, two, three, now four cards in my wallet. They let me go to a doctor or hospital.

We should do the same for our veterans. Give them a card, one that allows special access for war-related injuries, PTSD and prosthetics and go to a regular hospital. A card is a lot less expensive than billions in hospitals.

Get rid of the VA as it is today. Keep Bethesda for the president and a few others for specialty care. Sell off the others and keep their staff, especially in rural areas where there are no other options.

The folks who keep us safe deserve more than to be on a waiting list for treatment while they die.

I ask that the federal government place our military personnel and vets on the same ticket other Americans have, and put our President and Congress on it as well. That way we’ll be assured good health care.

Everyone deserves quality health care. We pay for it in so many ways and insurance is but one. God bless the USA. Dee

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De-Fund Congress

Posted on October 8, 2013 | 1 comment

They have better healthcare than us, for life. They don’t care that much if the federal government is out of work because they’re still being paid.

I know a way out of this. We, the American People, will cut off their pay, return it to us for the length of the shutdown and sue them for damages. It will be the biggest lawsuit the Supreme Court has ever seen.

As a part of the settlement we will make them have the same health care we do.

Sounds like a plan to me. Dee

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Taxpayer

Posted on October 4, 2013 | Leave a comment

Congress: Taxpayer, taxpayer give me your coat, I have your shirt and I’ll be ready to vote.

Voters: The government has laid us all off, just because they have time off to scoff.

Their money and health care is better than ours, they made it that way, on purpose they say. They’re better than voters so let’s have our say, let’s not re-elect today.

They used to be teachers and fathers and such, not so much today, as these lawyers play.

Not by book but hook and crook, We must make our say to carry the day. Won’t it be a perfect day.

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All to the tune of Matchmaker from Fiddler on the Roof. With dearest apologies to the director and other music artists from Dee

ps Don’t make me do “If I Was a Rich Man.” Heaven forbid “Sunrise, Sunset” which I always wanted my Dad to dance to with me at my wedding. We eloped.

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Business as Usual

Posted on September 21, 2013 | Leave a comment

No matter what party has the majority (today it’s Senate and President) in election years politicians of every stripe pick at any sores the opposition might have and try to drive the message home.

Unfortunately the Tea Party Republicans have nothing to do but try to de-fund their constituents from getting health care. I have worked in politics and do not now but I can say this is the equivalent of shooting oneself in the foot, politically.

In case I need to remind Congress, we live under a Constitution in a representative democracy.

For years I’ve never seen elected person representing or working for me or my neighbors, only for themselves to make them more powerful and have more money.

This Republican/Tea Party offensive to keep the elderly and poor and those with pre-existing conditions from buying health care is offensive and driven by insurance and health care lobbyists.

What is business as usual is that they use issues like this so they can bargain down and get pork barrel projects in the federal budget. This, and a supreme health care package for life, is what you elect Congress to do for their “constituents.” Oh no, we can’t get their health care package. We have to deal with what we get from employers, who are already cutting back.

Why don’t we all run against these guys and gals and get our own supreme health care package for life? Sounds like a plan to me. Enough. Dee

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Bailouts

Posted on July 20, 2013 | Leave a comment

People don’t think taxpayers pay a burden when our government bails out banks, investment and insurance companies. We do.

Now the Motor City, Motown, Detroit has gone bust and is going to look for funds from us, the taxpayers of the USA.

No-one in the music industry has initiated a concert to raise funds for Motown. They’re $18-20 BILLION in debt. When the Grand Ole Opry is in trouble, country musicians kick into gear.

All the financiers have said “no.” Towns die, mainly for a reason. Why aren’t the auto manufacturers stepping up to the plate? You let your town go bankrupt and now we all have to pay the price. Because you didn’t help out, you’ll be next. Both my husband and I own older foreign cars.

We pay enough taxes as it is to bail out financial institutions but once cities go down, it’s a bit much to ask from all of us to pay even more. Congress, please take that pork off the table and also stop digging into our health care. Mr. President, please lead. Supreme Court Justices, know that while you allowed states to allow gay marriage you did a supreme injustice to Blacks in southern states regarding voting rights.

It seems as if we’re all over the place and the lobbyists are controlling the people we elect and they appoint. We must do better voters, otherwise we cannot avoid the responsibility of being wrong time after time.

We must get involved. Volunteer. Register  to vote. Vote above all else. Ask questions of your candidates. Most will promise you something and lie when elected. Think about if you were a candidate and what you would do for the cause you love most.

Don’t put your faith in politicians. Instant polls, tweets, negative ads, it’s a slippery slope and a mind-set that allows people to be disingenuous and glib.

These people we elect do bailouts for the people who give them the most campaign contributions. What would it take to buy us? To take us from our homes and kids to curry favor and take “junkets” around the world?

Not me. I’ve seen enough and quit when I was making $26, 400 per year. I was rich, but not nearly as rich as my co-worker who started years later and made more than me “because he has three kids.” That’s also why I got to man the desk 18 hours a day as a single gal because I didn’t “need” to sleep or be at home, just cover for them.

Covering is what our government is doing. Let’s stop it. Early morning, sun’s up at 4. Dee

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Open The Floodgates

Posted on March 25, 2012 | 2 comments

We have no health care. If something happens in the next week we have to pay for three months of COBRA because my husband was laid off with 1/3 of his cohorts in a bizarre turn of events.

Luckily, if things go well we will have health care the day after our last day to elect COBRA. This is how Americans are dealing with day-to-day life.

People who are for or mostly against the nation’s health care plan, which people who denigrate our President and Commander in Chief call “Obamacare” now sit before the Supreme Court.

One person today asked who “deserves” health care. When there is employment, our employers foot part of the bill as an incentive to work there. But everyone deserves decent health care.

The problem is that Congress and the President have their own health care for life. We don’t. They don’t understand how it is to be laid off and have no money to pay for COBRA for 18 months trying to get a job when they need to house and feed a family.

I believe the conservative interests in our country don’t care about working class families and how their lives are impacted by either layoffs or family farming not being able to make do against government subsidized agricultural giants.

Heck, my family runs a ranch in Texas and my mother-in-law works for the federal government and gets health insurance for her and her husband. It shouldn’t be that way.

Do I believe that every person living in the US of A should be forced to have health insurance or be penalized? No. That is a scam of the insurance industry who pretends to hate this law.

For hundreds of years, since Lloyds of London was established, insurance schemes were perpetrated on the public so insurers could make and invest their money and never give it back.

That continues at least in the USA today because insurers make sure they’re regulated state-by-state, and not federally like banks. But the SEC is lax on a lot of things, too. So insurance can run things by state and make more money if the laws are looser, if they serve more champagne and Oysters Rockefeller to seal the deal, with a check in hand.

Are there a few problems with this law? Yes, there are with all of them. But our founding fathers didn’t have a problem with saying that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was our right. Newt amended that yesterday to assure that only “young” Americans had that right.

If people want to put aside millions for their own private insurance and “conceirge” medical care that’s fine. Just give the poor and middle class a chance. Dee

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