Thursday, March 27, 2008

Hillary always in some mess!!!!

I make no secret that I am for Barack Obama. I liked Hillary ok, she wasn't my first choice because of her War vote in 2003. But, I would have given her the benefit of the doubt being that the Clinton years were very good to our family. The primaries started, some of us were waiting for Al Gore come and "rescue" party I was one of them. As time went on that didn't happen, so I was resigned to believe that this was a coranation of Hillary Clinton and everyone else were just back drops.

Then Iowa happened. To say the least I was stunned. I remember William Bennet on CNN that night stating to the Obama camp "watch your knees!!!." I laughed, oh it'll be just some polictical jousting but nothing earth-shattering. Boy was I wrong!!!!! What I witnessed is what Keith Olberman states as "Democrat on Democrat crime." Every week since South Carolina primaries, she been not only throwing the kitchen sink she threw the whole damn house at him.

I started looking, like what the hell is the matter with her and Bill. They have no dignity, no sense of anything...Damn y'all!!!! Come on people!!! Do they not realize what they are doing. They are tearing the party to pieces. Several events come to mind and here is how I translate events.

1. Bill Clinton stating that Senator Obama won SC basically because Jesse Jackson won in SC 1984 and 1988. Translation: We voted for him because he was black.

2. Nevada caucas law suit. Translation: All you waiters and cooks don't need to vote. Git ya asses back ta work!!!!

3. Michigan and Florida "Disenfranchisement". Translation: So what if my name was the only one on the ballot, My name is the only one that counts, bitches!!!!

4. Letter to Speaker Pelosi. Translation: Do you know who you fuckin' wit ho!!!

5. Bosnia, I mispoke. Translation: So what I lied, KICK ROCKS!!!

6. Carville called Richardson a "Judas" Translation: Ey esse, you betta watch yo back homes...

More to come...hope not ....

Peace

Sunday, March 2, 2008

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Single Payer Healthcare in the US

Do you think that obtaining Single Payer or Universal Healthcare in the United States seem far fetched? Out of reach? I thought so too, but not any more. Here's why, I started to take a look at my paycheck statements. Once I did that, I did some calculations, here's what I discovered.

I spend for example 230.00 on medical care on an epo plan at work, 83.00 on an Flexible Spending Account. 230.00+ 83.00= 313.00 for a family of four BI-MONTHLY.
My workplace subsidized my plan approximately 2000.00-3000.00 bi-monthly per person.
I make 26,500.00 annually, I spend 8,138.00 annually on coverage. (313.00*26).


I have worked with health care benefits for three years. There is a way in which you could fund Universal/Single Payer health care with out garnishing wages. A payroll tax of 100.00 a month for health care. The average person has 26 pay periods a year. This is how a sample of the table would appear.

1. 19,000-25,000 = 50.00 bi-monthy
2. 25,500-35,000 = 75.00 bi-monthy
3. 35,000-50,000 = 100.00 bi-monthy
4. 50,500-65,500 = 150.00 bi-monthly
5. 65,500 + = 200.00 bi-monthly

Once again I stress this is the average of what most people are paying give or take 50.00 to 100.00 depending on family size. If you take a 50.00 health care tax bi-monthly that would give the average working person back 250.00 per pay period!!!
Now, this is based on just what I and my co-workers pay, but I will be obtaining more concrete numbers here in the coming weeks, I will be envolved in the following:

1. Conducting a survey of democrats, asking how they pay on health care costs on their statements

2. Giving a scale of pricing that one would be willing to pay for health care.

These are some of the thing that I thought of that would help in the health care debate. I will attempt to start on polling in the coming weeks.... I hope you enjoy this blog