I found this interesting: A friend of mine who recently retired sent me the message below. Some background on this person: Her and her hubby were lifelong bankers who earned pensions as well as very lucrative retirement plans at their banks, and have amassed over $1MM in retirement assets (marketable stocks and bonds) and not including their home and vehicle. The hubby gets medicare, but the wife hasn't met that age yet, so she was looking for new healthcare and here are her results due to the new healthcare rules:

Wealth redistribution from the middle class to the low and mod as well as the income poor but wealthy retired gentry!

That is our government in action.

I don't see how all these subsidies are being paid for. A small increase on medical devices isn't going to cover it all....

When the books don't have to balance, anything is possible.

And when an entity gets large enough and all of the parts and pieces cannot be reconciled, numbers become subjective and can be manipulated into whatever result one desires.

Stop the world, I want to get off......!!!