So basically, the bottom line is health insurance is very important and curtail to everybody. However, now a days it is hard for a lot of American to receive health insurance, leaving them on their own to find it themselves, which is usually to expensive for most of us to afford. So what were Obama’s views on this? Well he said that everybody should be covered, and that he would make it cheap and affordable to everyone. But what has he done yet? Well nothing.
What makes me even madder is the fact that some health places, such as dentists, doctors, and so on, are receiving money from the insurance, when they are not doing anything to get it. I have a major problem with my dentist I have been to them since November for the pain in my tooth, my first dentist said that he could not see anything, after taking an X-ray and waiting two weeks to hear back, so I switched dentists and the second one said that I would need a crown on the tooth, however, it was still a baby tooth so they had to do a root canal on it before they could even consider the crown. While waiting for the root canal I had an infection under the tooth and I specifically told them that, so they gave me a prescription for an antibiotic, the following week when I returned, they opened my mouth and took a look, did nothing and sent me home telling me that I still had an infection, after 4 weeks of pain killers and different antibiotics, I went back and they proceeded with the root canal. Then they stopped... in the middle of it... and said it was still infected. So the infection got out, and I swallowed it and then got really sick. Two weeks later, I went back for them to finish the root canal and they did, very painfully I might add. Then a week later I was scheduled for Prep for the crown. After getting the crown I saw a doctor because of a lump in my lower jaw, right around where the dentist was messing around, so he ordered a cat scan to rule out cancer, and thought it was just a basest. Turns out I had another problem with my mouth... my wisdom teeth was seen in the cats can and they were on the opposite side of my mouth and not causing me any discomfort, so anyways, my doctor referred me to a oral surgeon to take a look at my wisdom teeth, along with the lump in my jaw. When I visited the oral surgeon, he said that my dentist knew that he could not have saved the tooth, so why did they do ALL of the stuff they did? Each dentist appointment was at least $300 even when they didn’t do anything and sent me home rescheduling, how can you make money off of that? That didn’t seem fair. But that’s insurance for you..... You get insurance so that you won’t have a lot of medical bills if something happens to you... just think, if I didn’t have any insurance than I would probably be in debt for years just because the dentist was stupid...
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Ten Trillion Dollars
So I want to take a minute and ask, do you know how much money that the national debt really is?? It is so mind boggling, it’s hard to wrap a thought around.
Currently it would cost each household in the United States 33 thousand dollars just to pay off the debt that we are in…
There was this web page that I stumbled upon showing just how much money it really is… So brace your self, here it is…
All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...
A billion dollars...
A hundred billion dollars...
Eight hundred billion dollars...
One TRILLION dollars...
Lets start with a 100 dollar bill, we all have seen them and most of us have ad them. A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Believe it or not, $1 million dollars is 100 little packets of the 100-dollar bills containing $10,000 $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet... And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere... $1 billion dollars is 5x5 pallets with 100 million dollars on each. Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.Another way to look at this a little less visual would be: One trillion can pay for the military for every Nato country combined. One trillion dollars can pay for all the goods and services produced in Australia for one year. It can pay for every military intervention and war since 9/11, it is the marked value of the Toronto stock exchange. One trillion dollars can pay for the rent for every renter for three years, or the mortgages for every homeowner for 14 months. One trillion can purchase all the homes that foreclosed in 2007-2008. One trillion dollars can pay for an additional 11 weeks vacation for every American worker. One trillion dollars could pay 1/10 of the spending for current bailout.
Another way to look at this a little less visual would be:
One trillion can pay for the military for every Nato country combined. One trillion dollars can pay for all the goods and services produced in Australia for one year. It can pay for every military intervention and war since 9/11, it is the marked value of the Toronto stock exchange. One trillion dollars can pay for the rent for every renter for three years, or the mortgages for every homeowner for 14 months. One trillion can purchase all the homes that foreclosed in 2007-2008. One trillion dollars can pay for an additional 11 weeks vacation for every American worker. One trillion dollars could pay 1/10 of the spending for current bailout.
Currently it would cost each household in the United States 33 thousand dollars just to pay off the debt that we are in…
There was this web page that I stumbled upon showing just how much money it really is… So brace your self, here it is…
All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...
A billion dollars...
A hundred billion dollars...
Eight hundred billion dollars...
One TRILLION dollars...
Lets start with a 100 dollar bill, we all have seen them and most of us have ad them. A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Believe it or not, $1 million dollars is 100 little packets of the 100-dollar bills containing $10,000 $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet... And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere... $1 billion dollars is 5x5 pallets with 100 million dollars on each. Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.Another way to look at this a little less visual would be: One trillion can pay for the military for every Nato country combined. One trillion dollars can pay for all the goods and services produced in Australia for one year. It can pay for every military intervention and war since 9/11, it is the marked value of the Toronto stock exchange. One trillion dollars can pay for the rent for every renter for three years, or the mortgages for every homeowner for 14 months. One trillion can purchase all the homes that foreclosed in 2007-2008. One trillion dollars can pay for an additional 11 weeks vacation for every American worker. One trillion dollars could pay 1/10 of the spending for current bailout.
Another way to look at this a little less visual would be:
One trillion can pay for the military for every Nato country combined. One trillion dollars can pay for all the goods and services produced in Australia for one year. It can pay for every military intervention and war since 9/11, it is the marked value of the Toronto stock exchange. One trillion dollars can pay for the rent for every renter for three years, or the mortgages for every homeowner for 14 months. One trillion can purchase all the homes that foreclosed in 2007-2008. One trillion dollars can pay for an additional 11 weeks vacation for every American worker. One trillion dollars could pay 1/10 of the spending for current bailout.
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I think that the government is waisting a lot of money on these stimulous packages and bailouts... if the people are unable to pay for a house and know it, then they should not have gotten it in the first place, there is no reason that the government should have to help them for the mess that they got their selves into. they did nothing for the government and the government is not there to relay on, they are there to protect us, not from our own stupid decisions.
Government Assistance
The biggest problem I have with our government is where all the money goes… the government has a plan for where they have to spend their money, however, if they do not spend it the way they said they would, nothing happens, they don’t get in trouble, or they don’t have any consequences. The government is like their own little world, they have nobody there that they have to look up to, to make sure that they don’t screw up. We have three branches of the government, the judicial, executive, and the legislative, the thing is, they all work together, and instead of looking out for one another, they let all the crazy ideas through and get into more trouble. It’s not that I don’t like the government, because I really do, living here under their laws and rules is a heck of a lot better than living over in china in a communism community.
The government has helped me and my family out a lot, with FEMA and other government assistant programs during the flood of the summer of 2008. However, maybe it wasn’t enough. I find it mind boggling how the government is able to help all of the thousands of people who needed money for their mortgages and the government was able to take a billion dollars and bail them out, even though it was their own fault for getting into something that they should have known they could not handle. On the other hand, some of the flood victims had little to no assistance from the government, along with loosing everything from the flood. Now explain how that is fair!
The government has helped me and my family out a lot, with FEMA and other government assistant programs during the flood of the summer of 2008. However, maybe it wasn’t enough. I find it mind boggling how the government is able to help all of the thousands of people who needed money for their mortgages and the government was able to take a billion dollars and bail them out, even though it was their own fault for getting into something that they should have known they could not handle. On the other hand, some of the flood victims had little to no assistance from the government, along with loosing everything from the flood. Now explain how that is fair!
Friday, April 10, 2009
Home
My home for the last 18 years of my life was torn down Tuesday April 9, 2009. My family and I have been waiting for this day to come since the middle of June last year, when the decision was decide that we were not going to be able to rebuild. The house was ruined from the flood last summer. The foundation was washed out in the basement and very unsafe to even enter it afterwards. Leaving it hard for us to enter it and retrieve all of our belongings that were still okay. Even though most of our things were ruined and contaminated, everything on the second floor was fine. To watch my home that my father had built with his own hands by himself be demolished with in hours, made me sick, how could this happen, a house that took about three years to fully complete come down in a couple hours, to where it is almost like there was never anything there in the first place. Watching them hit the house with the claw I will never forget, it made an indescribable sound that made me sick to my stomach, as if some one was stabbing me… as the house was torn into, room by room, memory by memory flashed by. What made it worse was seeing things that I had forgotten about be picked up by the tractor’s claw and being dropped into a huge dump truck. It was almost as if I wanted to scream stop and run to get the left behind object.
I am not sure what is worse, the house not being there or the house still standing and not being able to live there. I know that I will never forget all the good times that have happened in that house in my childhood. Either way, it is still my home in my mind, and I will always just want to go home.
I know that a lot of people reading this is probably think that this really is no big deal because it is just a house and now that I have a new house because of this event, that I should be over to and move on. Well it really doesn’t work like that. It was more than just a house, it was a home that I and my four siblings all grew up in, it had its own stories to it, all the odd things that my father had built into it for reasons that nobody knows. I love that place.
I am not sure what is worse, the house not being there or the house still standing and not being able to live there. I know that I will never forget all the good times that have happened in that house in my childhood. Either way, it is still my home in my mind, and I will always just want to go home.
I know that a lot of people reading this is probably think that this really is no big deal because it is just a house and now that I have a new house because of this event, that I should be over to and move on. Well it really doesn’t work like that. It was more than just a house, it was a home that I and my four siblings all grew up in, it had its own stories to it, all the odd things that my father had built into it for reasons that nobody knows. I love that place.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
More Money, going, going, gone...
This is absolutely ridiculous on how much money the government is actually spending... with all the bailouts, and stimulus packages, yesterday the stimulus money started flowing to schools, which I guess is better than going somewhere where we will never see it, but really, where are we getting all this money? I found that other countries hold about 7% of our debt, meaning we have barrowed from them, leaving us the only option to repay them. I don’t see why we cant forget about all the money that the government is spending and just put all the money back into circulation, yes it would be wrong and unjustified, but think about how much easier that it would make everything.... instead of hearing about how much debt we're in we could be hearing how great our economy is doing and how we could be helping other people who really need it, especially not helping pay for those hundreds of thousands of people's homes that the government basically just bought for them. As well as the government just giving AIG Money to get back on their feet, but look what they did with the money, they gave it to the workers for their benefits and bonuses, don't get me wrong, that would be nice, however, that was so unnecessary, and the company is right back to where it was before, going down.
National Debt!!!
So I want to take a minute and ask, do you know how much money that the national debt really is?? It is so mind boggling, it’s hard to wrap a thought around.
Currently it would cost each household in the United States 33 thousand dollars just to pay off the debt that we are in…
There was this web page that I stumbled upon showing just how much money it really is… This is going to be really hard to try to explain without the pictures, however you still might be able to get the point.
I’m sure all of us have seen a 100-dollar bill, now imagine one hundred 100-dollar bills in a stack. That is just a ½ of an inch thick.
And one hundred of those can easily fit into a grocery bag and be carried around. Now, that just equals 10,000 dollars. Needing 999,000 thousand dollars which makes a million. Which would fill one pallet up to five feet. Then a billion would be a 5x5 pallets filled with one million dollars on it… then a trillion would be 100x100 double stacked.
Another way to look at this a little less visual would be:
One trillion can pay for the military for every Nato country combined. One trillion dollars can pay for all the goods and services produced in Australia for one year. It can pay for every military intervention and war since 9/11, it is the marked value of the Toronto stock exchange. One trillion dollars can pay for the rent for every renter for three years, or the mortgages for every homeowner for 14 months. One trillion can purchase all the homes that foreclosed in 2007-2008. One trillion dollars can pay for an additional 11 weeks vacation for every American worker. One trillion dollars could pay 1/10 of the spending for current bailout.
Currently it would cost each household in the United States 33 thousand dollars just to pay off the debt that we are in…
There was this web page that I stumbled upon showing just how much money it really is… This is going to be really hard to try to explain without the pictures, however you still might be able to get the point.
I’m sure all of us have seen a 100-dollar bill, now imagine one hundred 100-dollar bills in a stack. That is just a ½ of an inch thick.
And one hundred of those can easily fit into a grocery bag and be carried around. Now, that just equals 10,000 dollars. Needing 999,000 thousand dollars which makes a million. Which would fill one pallet up to five feet. Then a billion would be a 5x5 pallets filled with one million dollars on it… then a trillion would be 100x100 double stacked.
Another way to look at this a little less visual would be:
One trillion can pay for the military for every Nato country combined. One trillion dollars can pay for all the goods and services produced in Australia for one year. It can pay for every military intervention and war since 9/11, it is the marked value of the Toronto stock exchange. One trillion dollars can pay for the rent for every renter for three years, or the mortgages for every homeowner for 14 months. One trillion can purchase all the homes that foreclosed in 2007-2008. One trillion dollars can pay for an additional 11 weeks vacation for every American worker. One trillion dollars could pay 1/10 of the spending for current bailout.
Same Sex Marriage??
Yesterday at 8:30 the legislator held a meeting to discuss the debatable issue of gay rights, and if gay marriages should be allowed in the state of Iowa… After a unanimous discussion, the answer was yes. Iowa will be the third state in the United States to legalize gay marriage, Massachusetts and Connecticut. I believe that sooner or later all of the united sates of America will eventually legalize the same sex marriages. For Iowa to become the third state to legalize it, and the first state in the mid west, it will show the other states that it is okay to have this. The only confusions or problems that could arise out of this or that would make a difference is that the people will have to go else where to get married, then move back to where they were, they will think that they have the same rights as any other married couple. Not only does this rise the question of the different states stance on this issue, however it also changes the fact that other state are taking this into consideration and if the states all around the state that opposes the idea might just end up causing more problems. That is why I think that the federal court should be in charged of saying what states should have the rights for the same sex marriages, either make it fair through out all the states or set boundaries for the states, that way the same sex couple can live happy where ever they are and know their rights from one place to another. I am not saying that I am for or if I oppose the same sex marriage, however I think that this is too big of a decision for the states to make, I think that the federals should have more rules, or be more strict. That would make things more fair and less confusing to a lot of the same sex couples and they could decide for themselves if they want to get married or not, it should be up to them, not the state.
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