Before we begin, you should know: We don’t believe in vaccination; we’re going to remove these sweaty masks, and Biden stole the election. Any questions before we inject the hydroxychloroquine?
Self-proclaimed “moderate,” but in reality, coal whore, Sen. Joe (Global warming? What global warming?) Manchin demanded cuts to the Democrat’s “Build Back Better” program.
Here is just one of the proposals that had to be cut in order to receive Manchin’s blessing.
From AXIOS AM, By Mike Allen, Oct 29, 2021
Manchin’s vote is necessary because 100% of Republicans have vowed to vote against ANY program proposed by Democrats. (That’s called “Making America Great Again” aka “Trump Before Country,” and “Trump Before World.”)
With paid family leave OUT of the Build Back Better framework released by the White House yesterday, the U.S. remains one of seven countries without paid leave for new moms, Bloomberg reports.
The others: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea and Tonga, per UCLA’s World Policy Analysis Center.
Congratulations Manchin and Trump Republicans. You have helped America to join the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and Tonga.
What an honor. It demonstrates how great we have become. A true world leader.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary SovereigntyTwitter: @rodgermitchellSearch #monetarysovereigntyFacebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO IMPROVE AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
Ten Steps To Prosperity:
The word “need” too often is used as a synonym for “want,” as in, “I need a hug,” or “I need a drink.”
I may need oxygen, but I don’t need a hug. I may need a blood transfusion, but I don’t need a drink, at least, not a drink of alcohol.
It happens, however, that we are ruled by language, so we tend to believe the synonyms literally are true. So, for instance, when a loved one dies, you may proclaim, “I needed her,” when in fact, you merely wanted the feelings you had when she was with you.
The face that began a 67-year love story.
My loved one didn’t “give” me those feelings. I created the feelings within my own mind and body. The feelings were mine, not hers. She gave me a platform for them.
Way back in 1953, I met Phyllis, the woman who was to become my wife. I fell in love with her face at the proverbial first sight. (It probably wasn’t real love so soon, but it felt like love, and it soon turned into real love.)
Anyway, three years later we married and remained married and in love until she died this year. So, for 67 years I was smitten.
She was the finest human being I ever have known: She was both wise and intelligent, compassionate and loving, beautiful, and talented in so many different ways.
I often wondered how one person could be so gifted.
I loved her with all my heart and soul, and when she died, I experienced the worst pain of my life.
But I did not need her. That is, I did not burden her with the obligation to make me happy. I did not assume that her job was to provide my contentment. She only could be herself, and it was up to me to be happy with that.
My two daughters idolized my wife. Their personal maxim, when faced with an important, or even not so important, decision, is “What would Mother do?” WWMD: What Would Mother Do
I too, follow that script to the degree that one of my grandsons made a medallion for me to wear. It contains my wife’s initials, and on the other side, the letters “W W M D.” What Would Mother Do?
We all respected, loved, and followed her advice, even to some degree worshipped her. But we did not need her.
The terrible sorrow we felt at her death was not for a loss of our personal needs, but rather the grief we felt for her loss, that she did not manage to live longer, though she tried so hard and wanted to so much.
Our sadness was sympathy for her struggle, not for our loss. Can you see the difference?
She desperately wanted to live longer. We were sad that she didn’t see her grandchildren marry. She didn’t see any great-grandchildren. She had so much life left to live and enjoy.
In short, it was good that we felt heartbreak for her, but let us not confuse that emotion with pity for ourselves.
For that is what “need” really means: Pity for ourselves.
My wife has been gone for nine months. My life has gone on. My daughters and I miss her terribly, but mostly we have continued as before.
Some things have changed, but not a great deal. There is a massive irony in the fact that because we no longer worry about her failing health, our total worries have lessened.
We loved her and miss her. But we didn’t need her in order for us to be happy. We have retained for ourselves, the right to continue living and to feel joy.
True story: I knew a girl who was in love with a boy. She knew him in high school, and for years they had planned to be married. They went through college together, and after graduation, when the girl thought they would marry, the boy dropped her and married another woman.
The girl was traumatized because she believed she needed the boy. Her hopes for a happy life had evaporated.
She was wrong.
She was a smart, healthy, attractive person, who could have continued her life without this man. Instead, she placed the responsibility for her happiness on his shoulders, and believed that because he left her, she never could be happy.
She fell into a funk from which she did not recover for many years — perhaps ever. She never married.
She did not understand that ultimately her job in life is the same as all our jobs: To create our own happiness. It was utterly wrong to lay that responsibility on someone else.
If she failed to create her happiness, that was her own error. It was not the boy’s fault.
He could not implant happiness into her brain. He could not “make“ her happy. The common phrase, “You make me happy” is incorrect.
You can be kind, gentle, thoughtful, sexual, generous, humorous, and helpful, but you cannot make someone happy.
So long as I am gifted with the ultimate blessing — life — I must assume responsibility for my life.
Considering the trillions of sperms and the billions of eggs, I already have won the life lottery. And with that victory comes a responsibility: To make my life good in my own view.
Others can take away some of the things I love. They can give me pain. They can cripple me. They can take my money and my possessions. They can disappoint me.
But when I was born, I was granted the special gift of life, along with the responsibility to safeguard it.
When my parents took me to Kiddieland, and I cried because I didn’t want to go home, did my parents ruin my life? No, I still had my life, my most precious possession, and the memory of Kiddieland, and the joy it brought me.
My life was not spoiled because I “needed” Kiddieland. I am in charge of my attitudes.
It is rare for anyone to need another person. Even a baby doesn’t need its mother. A baby needs care, but that care could come from another person or persons. The entire adoption process relies on that truth.
And this is the point. When faced with the loss of a loved one, no matter how emotionally devastated I may be, I have a choice: I can blame my grief on the other person’s leaving me, or I can choose to survive. I can choose happiness.“Need is a selfish emotion.” My need is all about me. Need has nothing to do with love or compassion. My need is created within me and under my control.
My single most important need is to live. Without life, nothing else is possible. And no one can give me life. I have been given the most precious of all gifts for which I have paid nothing. I didn’t earn it. It simply was given to me.
Sometimes, when a person loses a loved one to death, they feel guilty about their emotions. They think, “What would people say of me if I laugh, now? Don’t I need to wait for three months, six months, a year, five years before I can feel and display happiness?”
So they mourn as some sort of false penance, though their mourning benefits no one.
All forms of public morning — wearing dark veils and black clothing, sackcloth and ashes — all are performance mourning, done strictly for the ego of the mourner. All are meant to announce, “Admire me for my strength and pity me for my loss.”
They are a waste of our most treasured asset: Our remaining time.
I was given life for only a limited number of years. I can try to make good use of those few years or bad use. I can try to be happy or I can allow myself to be sad. I can choose to live my life as I prefer or choose to live it as I think other people prefer.
No one can live my remaining few years for me. Only I can do that. So if I give away my three months (or six or sixty) to mourning, only because I believe that is expected of me, the fault is mine.
There is nothing I can do for my wife. No amount of my mourning will help her. My mourning only will waste my precious remaining days.
A mourner is not to be admired any more than a person who burns down their own house. Years of life are irreplaceable, and to waste them in performance mourning is arson.
If a woman’s husband dies, and a week later she is seen dancing at a party, and taking home a man with her, some might sneer, “He’s not even cold in his grave, and she’s out having a good time.”
Those people could not be more wrong. When a loved one dies, you have but one job: To resume your life and to create your happiness as soon as you can.
If you mourn, will the others give you back your wasted months or years? Will they return your lost happiness? Will they help the dearly departed?
You owe the others, nothing.
To some, this may sound cold. We all feel sad at the loss of a loved one. And yes, it is cold, just as reality is cold, and truth can be cold, and the waste of your limited years is cold.
Life is not easy. Considering the harshness of the universe, life is a miracle that must fight for existence every second, and even then, loss is inevitable. That is cold.
I treasure my memories of Phyllis, and I treasure my few remaining years like a once-wealthy, newly impoverished man treasures his few remaining dollars.
More, even.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary SovereigntyTwitter: @rodgermitchellSearch #monetarysovereigntyFacebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO IMPROVE AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
Ten Steps To Prosperity:
The purpose of government is to improve and protect the lives of the governed.
Is the Medicare Advantage plan an admission that Medicare itself is unnecessarily incomplete?
Free, but with strings.
A story: You receive a call from the wealthiest man on earth. He owns an infinite amount of money.
He tells you he’s in the mood to do a good deed.
He has picked your name randomly, not based on anything but the luck of the draw, and he is giving you a free, no-strings-attached, Rolls Royce automobile.
Well, actually, there are two small strings. You must choose between two Rolls.
One has no heater. The other has no air conditioning.
And you must wait until you are 65 years old before you pick your car.
This puzzles you, so you ask him, “Why would someone having infinite money decide that when does his good deed, he gifts you a car that is missing either a heater or air conditioner?”
And why must you wait until you’re 65?
What’s his purpose?
While you ponder that question, consider this: The federal government, being uniquely Monetarily Sovereign, has infinite dollars. It never can run short of its own sovereign currency.
The government provides you with Medicare, which comes in two basic “models,” Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage.
And you typically must wait until you are 65 to join (with certain exceptions).
But Medicare and Medicare Advantage have different options depending on many of your personal factors.
WHY? Why doesn’t Original Medicare simply cover all medical conditions for everyone?
The American Association of Retired People (AARP) published “8 Reasons to Change Medicare:
1. My prescription costs have jumped. That happens usually due to one of two scenarios: You’ve been prescribed a new drug your Plan D policy doesn’t cover, or your current medicines have fallen off your Plan D’s formulary (list of covered medicines), Neuman says.
Each September, Part D prescription plans will send out a list of changes to drug coverage, giving you time to make sure your medicines are still covered.
If not, you can shop around for another plan or ask your doctor to apply for an exception in covering your favored medicine.
WHY? Why must a person pay extra for Part D, and why must that person shop around for a plan that covers all his medicines?
2. I’ve decided to spend my winters (or summers) in a different state. Advantage plans typically charge more to go to doctors outside of their networks; in some cases they won’t cover any charges if it’s not an emergency.
So a Midwesterner might have to pay more to see out-of-network doctors while in Florida.
You need to read the details of your plan, or talk with a representative, to know where you stand. If you’ll be living a dual-residence existence for years to come, you might consider a switch to original Medicare, with the usual caveats.
WHY? Why the “in-network, out-of-network” rigamarole?
3. I need surgery and prefer a specific doctor. Original Medicare allows patients to choose any doctor or hospital that accepts Medicare.
But if you’re in a Medicare Advantage plan and its surgeons don’t meet your needs, you may need a different MA planor to switch to OM.
The people who really need to focus on whether doctors are in network are those who’ve suffered major problems like cancer and heart attack, says Joseph Antos, health care expert at the American Enterprise Institute.
“A specialist may be key to their treatment,” he says.
WHY? Why does one Medicare plan cover any doctors or hospitals that accept Medicare and the other plan doesn’t?
4. I’m super healthy and rarely need a doctor. If you’re in original Medicare, all should be well: As a “pay-for-service” arrangement, not seeing the doctor isn’t costing you anything extra beyond your mandatory parts B and D monthly insurance premiums.
If you’re in an MA plan in which you’re paying a monthly premium on top of your standard Part B premium, that may be for a plan that offers lots of extras , such as gym memberships.
Consider switching to a lower-cost MA plan that doesn’t offer services you don’t plan to use in the coming year.
WHY? Why are there any premiums, and why does one plan not cover the “extras?
5. I’ve been diagnosed with a chronic condition. A serious medical change should trigger a full review of your Medicare coverage. Make sure your Plan D policy pays for new prescriptions.
Consider the care you’ll need . If you want disease-specific programs, find an MA plan that offers them.
But if you will need lots of specialists, there’s an argument for OM. Making critical changes early can “really affect your pocketbook and save you money,” says Gretchen Jacobson, a vice president with the Commonwealth Fund.
WHY? Why the difference in plans? Why doesn’t one plan cover everything?
6. My income has dropped sharply. If you are in original Medicare, your Part B monthly premium is locked in, but your Part D drug plan isn’t.
And there’s a chance you can find a lower-cost policy that covers the medicines you are on.
If you’re in an Advantage plan, consider a switch to a plan in which there is no extra paymenton top of the mandatory Part B premium.
And you might qualify for help. Ask your state Medicaid office about Medicare Savings Programs. Find the state offices here or call 800-MEDICARE (800-633-4227).
WHY? Why is there a monthly premium? Why does one plan not even lock in premiums? Why the difference in costs?
7. My former employer is changing its retiree health benefits. Some companies provide retirees with Medigap supplemental insurance, which covers many health costs not covered by OM.
If you have changes to your retiree benefit coverage, or for some reason that coverage no longer is offered, contact Medicare’s Benefits Coordination & Recovery Center (855-798-2627).
Someone can tell you whether you fall in the window in which Medigap insurers cannot deny you coverage based on preexisting conditions.
WHY? Why are some retirees not covered by Medigap supplemental? Why is there even a need for supplemental?
8. My regular doctor is no longer in network for my plan. If you deeply want to stay with a doctor, ask directly whether he or she is moving to a different MA plan, accepting OM patients or dropping out of Medicare completely.
If you decide to make a change, make sure a short-term decision won’t affect your long-term coverage (for example, switching to original Medicare to temporarily stay with one doctor but sacrificing Medigap coveragefor the long term).
It might be safer to ask your doctor to recommend a colleague in your current plan.
I’m in need of serious dental care. Original Medicare doesn’t cover routine dental care costs, but many Medicare Advantage plans do.
If you don’t have your own dental insurance and can’t afford dentistry costs out of pocket, consider finding an MA plan that will cover a portion of the costs of your needed work.
Antos warns that figuring out what portion of your dental bills an MA plan will cover is complicated, so it helps to know what services you will use in the coming year.
WHY? Why does a person need to consult a crystal ball to guess what medical coverage will be needed at some unknown time in the future?
Thus, the federal government has the unlimited ability to fund comprehensive, no-deductible Medicarefor every man, woman, and child in America. There is no financial reason why you, your family and everyone you know does not have free, total healthcare protection.
But . . .
At the behest of the very rich, who run America, our information leaders promulgate the Big Lie that taxpayers fund federal spending, and that the federal government is in danger of running short of dollars if spending increases without tax increases.
You have been sold the bill of goods that “there is no such thing as a free lunch,” and that federal spending causes inflation, and that the phony Medicare “trust fund” is running short of money.
The rich do this to widen the Gap between the rich and the rest, for it is the Gap that makes them rich. The wider the Gap, the richer they are.
Better “Medicare for All” plans have been proposed, but they have been rejected supposedly because tax dollars are needed to pay for it.
They aren’t. It’s the Big Lie, the sole purpose of which is to make the rich richer.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps: Ten Steps To Prosperity:
From AXIOS AM, By Mike Allen, Oct 29, 2021
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