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To: RetiredNow who wrote (539373)	12/29/2009 2:41:52 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574798

Note the paragraph here that says that the 10-year cost projection is fully a half trillion below estimates from 3 years ago. usnews.com According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the total costs for the Medicare Part D prescription drug program based on actuary estimates will be $37.2 billion in 2008 and $46.4 billion in 2009. When the drug benefit was being debated in Congress, however, the actuary estimated the benefit would cost $68 billion in 2008 and $74 billion in 2009. Based on these estimates, Medicare Part D is currently operating at 37-45% under initial projections. drugtrendstoday.com The problem with the legislation is it was a camel's nose. Once the door was opened, we're 4 years into it and the Democrats are already killing the success by closing the donut hole. They can't leave well enough alone. Right, it doesn't totally relieve seniors of paying ALL drug costs, but it works and it is fiscally responsible. If conservatives take anything away from this experience, it should be that you can never, ever give the liberals an opening like this. Don't even TRY to implement a social program, even if done responsibly. Because within 5 years, the liberals will grab it and corrupt it and destroy what's good about it.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (539373)	12/29/2009 2:51:36 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1574798

Jihad poverty Erick Erickson remembers. At his popular Red State site, Mr. Erickson quoted extensively from a Sept. 19, 2001, column by Barack Obama, in which the future president blamed the previous week's terrorist attacks on "a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair." Muslim jihadists "see poverty all around them and they are angry by that poverty. They may be suffering under oppressive and corrupt regimes and that kind of environment is a breeding ground for fanaticism and hatred," Mr. Obama wrote in the Hyde Park Herald. "In his Cairo speech, Barack Obama did not directly mention 'poverty,' but instead went with the white man's burden — an indirect way of saying the same thing — pontificating that 'tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims,'" Mr. Erickson wrote, before going in for the kill. "Contra Obama, it turns out that yet again, the Al Qaeda terrorist who tried to blow up a Delta jet on Christmas Day was another rich kid," Mr. Erickson wrote, linking to a report in the British newspaper, the Independent. "With his wealth, privilege and education at one of Britains leading universities, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab had the world at his feet — able to choose from a range of futures in which to make his mark on the world," Independent reporters Andrew Johnson and Emily Dugan wrote. The moral, according to Mr. Erickson: "Some people want to kill us. They need to be rooted out and killed first. And we should perhaps consider that the 'War on Terror' we are no longer allowed to refer to continues even if we choose not to participate."

To: RetiredNow who wrote (539373)	12/29/2009 2:55:40 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1574798

Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft noted another irony in the new rules. "It's an Obama World … Up is down, big is small, losing jobs is creating or saving jobs, and heroes are asked to be seated. Yesterday, Jasper Schuringa, a video director and producer from Amsterdam, told CNN how he helped the cabin crew to subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old who reportedly ignited a small explosive device on board the plane Friday as it prepared to land in Detroit. … In response to this courageous act of heroism, the Obama Administration enacted new policies today. The new rules will force heroic passengers to stay in their seats for the final hour of their flight before landing." Or as conservative blogger Sister Toldjah put it: "Heckuva job, Janet