12/24/2009

12/24/2009

So some money came through and we will have Christmas dinner and even now we are all up eating carnitas burritos from pork I cooked all evening at about 200 degrees-grand daughter Courtney finally pulled the pot out of the oven and turned off the heat. Wonderful delight and the healthcare bill has passed,

I imagine that the fight has only now begun and the money will keep people riled up and preventing any change. I think that there is reason for the retired people of means to feel attacked and frightened. I don't know so much because as a low end income person I will somehow be subsidized. I know that the management folk from where I worked may be worried-those who make more in retirement than they earned while working delegating everything. So I imagine that those with incomes of $100,000 and more may be very anxious and I don't like that but there it is. I am sure that the bill will be adjusted and changed but I hoe that it stays AND that we change the anti-??? can't get that term up again but I am referring to the change in the law that protects the insurance companies from competition,etc. if the insurance companies weren't so fat and spoiled things might work out for those of us who have to pay more for our medical insurance now. I know that if this affects the very well-off they will doom it.

I read someone who explained why there is the early shut-off on the FICA tax-$82,050 right now (I think)-because Social Security is considered a "working man's" program. I never "thought" of that the why for the arbitrary cut-off, that is why I worry about any of the taxes and programs that tax the wealthy the wealthy can bring to bear immense pressure against what they don't like-the wealthy and the government.

What am I rambling on about? Well realizing that all this Teabag/fancy traveling buses is from the wealth that many folk have access to now and they have been very effective, really frightening folk because one) they look like what these folk are accustomed to seeing and 2) they are paying attention to people who are ignored and feel ignored. I have always understood Sarah Palin's attraction : she looks and sounds like the "salt of the earth" folk and she addresses their values and questions and understands their fear. I am hoping to give an example here of how emotion is used now in 2009 just as crude as it was in 1909 and 1809.

If the wealthy are able to prevent the changes needed the entire effort may be destroyed.