New Jersey's Governor Christopher Christie stated he would double the Homestead Rebates IF someone could get the state employees to contribute 30% to their medical costs. That is not even funny.
The rebates for 2009 which were not rebated still have not been credited to the property taxes as promised. So the people of New Jersey are in for double zero, as it now stands. And they are not the ones responsible for setting the benefits or lack thereof for state workers. Guess who is? Apparently, the Republicans seemed to imply it was formerly Governor Corzine and alluded that a relationship with Karla Katz, who at the time headed that union, prevented this very thing. Now it's the General Public's job? I don't see how.
And cutting back Medicaid is a sadistic, cruel, and not grounded in reality very, very, very bad joke. Medicaid for year has failed to pay doctors, pharmacies, labs and hospitals. They are the biggest tax loss those entities can claim. Especially so if a person has both Medicare and Medicaid. In those instances, Medicare is the primary payor. Medicaid is the secondary, responsible for the copays of 20% or less which Medicare doesn't cover. They don't pay it. Many docotrs refuse to accept patients with Medicaid insurance because they don't get paid. Other providers carry the patient with a "non-paying secondary" notation. People in need of medical care, unable to keep gainful employment due to illness, are periodically kicked off the Medicaid rolls anyway, for any excuse their flim-flam artists can conceive.
A balanced budget is a fine aspiration for us all. But who has achieved it? Now that Mr. Christie has the people paying his bills, his aversion thereto has carried over into the government. I know where the money ia that should be going to the Constitutionally demanded "general welfare of the public". It's going into private pockets. Consultants who glory in how much more they can get on a government consulting job than the public sector pays, especially in computer applications. A lot of it is going into the pockets of slackers and incompetents and the flim-flam scam artists who get paid a pretty penny for figuring and applying unrealistic mathematical equations which have nothing to do with reality or actual cost of living. And in sending ou the same notices month after month which have nothing to do with the actual person to whom they are sent. Meanwhile, benefits are coming out late, but the people who are being "kicked off" food stamps and Medicaid have no such delay or period of grace to provide documents.
Unlike other political people who use town hall meetings to adress real constituent concerns, mr. Christie glories in the spotlight which the news channels are all too happy to provide. Apparently it is meant to absolve them of having to researcg actuality and reality; to get off their butts and actually meet with real people.
All this bruhaha about the t.v. shore "Jersey Shore"? I watched it once and never a second time. How immature and ungrounded can people supposedly over the age of 21 be? Why on earh would anybody want to watch a whole bunch of nothings become celebrities because some network said they are? Change the channel, people. Or are you all too brainwashed to change the channel? You must be. You're all too brainwashed to stand up against incompetent government. You just allow and whine. You can recall him out of office by petition, you know. Or are you planning on leaving the state?
My parens bought their New Jersey home in 1959. After 52 years, the entire family will be leaving New Jersey by year's end. That consists of 5 households. Maybe New Jersey would be best off becoming a ghost town. They certainly don't deserve the citizens who live here, have lived here for years, have built this state and are primarily up in years. They can't afford this economy and they certainly can't afford a Governent who does nothing but demand and take. I'm not sure of the averge age of those who have some kind of government job, but their actions seems to fall into the "gimmee" generation. You know, the latchkey kids whose parents threw money instead of time and guidance at them and now they think "the law of supply and demand" means they demand money and we fork it over? In that atttitude, in this Capitalist economy where nothing is controlled except the poverty-that's enforced-there is no way to balance a budget unless we all want to go thru starving again. And I think we did too much of that when we were young. And for it we got osteoporosis, heart problems, hypertension, strokes, various cancers because we breathed in a life-long of non-cigarette pollution.
The time to leave is long past. We had for a few years some hope of a good life after retirement. Forget about it. You'll lose your investments, your houses, everything you worked for just to pay for your old age care. Does the Government help pay for that? NOPE. So before you lose it all or get too star struck with Governor-Now_i-Can't-Eat-What_i-Want, so you can't have what you need, start planning your exodus to someplace that either gives a damn or doesn't suck you off for every last cent you've got. If you find that in the USA, I'll be stunned.
Good luck. And please pardon my typos. I've never been competent at typing. But that never stopped anyone from hiring me to do it. I used to wonder where I'd be if I ever had actually had a job doing something I was really good at. I found out. My pay doubled first job out.
It involved Math. Something else I really hate. I wonder where I'd be if they ever hired me for my abilities rather than what suited their payroll needs. I know why the US is so far behind other developed countries. But I'm tired of giving them the answers they don't have the brains to come up with to be told that I can't even get a ride to a doctor while my car is broken when I bear that expense 99% of the time on an income of $932. a month due to what other people did to me. It makes me emotionally sick. All of it. There is no justice. But forget me entering politics. I have no patience for trying to teach grown ups who don't have the sense to get all the real information by themselves and receive no worthy compensation for it. I volunteered for a while. But it's useless. People here continuously resort to stupid. Like every time there's an election.
Prinzessin Hohenzoller
The rebates for 2009 which were not rebated still have not been credited to the property taxes as promised. So the people of New Jersey are in for double zero, as it now stands. And they are not the ones responsible for setting the benefits or lack thereof for state workers. Guess who is? Apparently, the Republicans seemed to imply it was formerly Governor Corzine and alluded that a relationship with Karla Katz, who at the time headed that union, prevented this very thing. Now it's the General Public's job? I don't see how.
And cutting back Medicaid is a sadistic, cruel, and not grounded in reality very, very, very bad joke. Medicaid for year has failed to pay doctors, pharmacies, labs and hospitals. They are the biggest tax loss those entities can claim. Especially so if a person has both Medicare and Medicaid. In those instances, Medicare is the primary payor. Medicaid is the secondary, responsible for the copays of 20% or less which Medicare doesn't cover. They don't pay it. Many docotrs refuse to accept patients with Medicaid insurance because they don't get paid. Other providers carry the patient with a "non-paying secondary" notation. People in need of medical care, unable to keep gainful employment due to illness, are periodically kicked off the Medicaid rolls anyway, for any excuse their flim-flam artists can conceive.
A balanced budget is a fine aspiration for us all. But who has achieved it? Now that Mr. Christie has the people paying his bills, his aversion thereto has carried over into the government. I know where the money ia that should be going to the Constitutionally demanded "general welfare of the public". It's going into private pockets. Consultants who glory in how much more they can get on a government consulting job than the public sector pays, especially in computer applications. A lot of it is going into the pockets of slackers and incompetents and the flim-flam scam artists who get paid a pretty penny for figuring and applying unrealistic mathematical equations which have nothing to do with reality or actual cost of living. And in sending ou the same notices month after month which have nothing to do with the actual person to whom they are sent. Meanwhile, benefits are coming out late, but the people who are being "kicked off" food stamps and Medicaid have no such delay or period of grace to provide documents.
Unlike other political people who use town hall meetings to adress real constituent concerns, mr. Christie glories in the spotlight which the news channels are all too happy to provide. Apparently it is meant to absolve them of having to researcg actuality and reality; to get off their butts and actually meet with real people.
All this bruhaha about the t.v. shore "Jersey Shore"? I watched it once and never a second time. How immature and ungrounded can people supposedly over the age of 21 be? Why on earh would anybody want to watch a whole bunch of nothings become celebrities because some network said they are? Change the channel, people. Or are you all too brainwashed to change the channel? You must be. You're all too brainwashed to stand up against incompetent government. You just allow and whine. You can recall him out of office by petition, you know. Or are you planning on leaving the state?
My parens bought their New Jersey home in 1959. After 52 years, the entire family will be leaving New Jersey by year's end. That consists of 5 households. Maybe New Jersey would be best off becoming a ghost town. They certainly don't deserve the citizens who live here, have lived here for years, have built this state and are primarily up in years. They can't afford this economy and they certainly can't afford a Governent who does nothing but demand and take. I'm not sure of the averge age of those who have some kind of government job, but their actions seems to fall into the "gimmee" generation. You know, the latchkey kids whose parents threw money instead of time and guidance at them and now they think "the law of supply and demand" means they demand money and we fork it over? In that atttitude, in this Capitalist economy where nothing is controlled except the poverty-that's enforced-there is no way to balance a budget unless we all want to go thru starving again. And I think we did too much of that when we were young. And for it we got osteoporosis, heart problems, hypertension, strokes, various cancers because we breathed in a life-long of non-cigarette pollution.
The time to leave is long past. We had for a few years some hope of a good life after retirement. Forget about it. You'll lose your investments, your houses, everything you worked for just to pay for your old age care. Does the Government help pay for that? NOPE. So before you lose it all or get too star struck with Governor-Now_i-Can't-Eat-What_i-Want, so you can't have what you need, start planning your exodus to someplace that either gives a damn or doesn't suck you off for every last cent you've got. If you find that in the USA, I'll be stunned.
Good luck. And please pardon my typos. I've never been competent at typing. But that never stopped anyone from hiring me to do it. I used to wonder where I'd be if I ever had actually had a job doing something I was really good at. I found out. My pay doubled first job out.
It involved Math. Something else I really hate. I wonder where I'd be if they ever hired me for my abilities rather than what suited their payroll needs. I know why the US is so far behind other developed countries. But I'm tired of giving them the answers they don't have the brains to come up with to be told that I can't even get a ride to a doctor while my car is broken when I bear that expense 99% of the time on an income of $932. a month due to what other people did to me. It makes me emotionally sick. All of it. There is no justice. But forget me entering politics. I have no patience for trying to teach grown ups who don't have the sense to get all the real information by themselves and receive no worthy compensation for it. I volunteered for a while. But it's useless. People here continuously resort to stupid. Like every time there's an election.
Prinzessin Hohenzoller
