Facts, Common Sense and Outright Lies
I personally prefer facts because common sense is not all that common and is sometimes based on outright lies.
A case in point is medicaid/medicare fraud. I don’t know the percentage but when I googled medicaid/medicare fraud I found that the bulk of it was not individuals who claimed to be disabled and were not, but providers of care and services to the disabled. People claim though that these fraudulent receivers of disability benefits are a cause of our national debt.
When I worked for the State of Louisiana, for a few years my job was to build cases against people who received foodstamp and welfare benefits by falsifying information provided. I was quite good at my job and so were most others in Louisiana and we annually got bonuses from the federal government for the good job we did. I never in one year saved the government the amount of money that I was paid in wages.
When we turn ourselves to the upcoming political battles in 2012 we must realize that we never vote an idea into government. We vote for people. Sometimes we get pissed at Joe Doe because he voted against a couple things that we really wanted and forget that he voted for 98 things we agreed with. So come election time we push the button for John Doe to get even. Now John Doe votes for 100 percent of the things we disagree with. We constantly do it to ourselves.
People who blog and claim they are using common sense need to give us links to verify what they say is true. Often times their common sense is based on invalid information.
Please when you make a claim, do some research and base it on facts not common sense and provide us with links that will verify your facts.
My husband used to work for Social Security as a transcriber for the SS Judges. He knows first hand just how hard it is to get disability from the government. I do know of a couple of people that did small odd jobs for cash to supplement their income. Really, truly, nobody gets rich or even out of poverty by getting disability. Of course it could and can happen, but it’s not as prevalent as some people like to proclaim.
I spend quite a bit of time trying to find some “facts” tonight that I saw someone throw at the wall today. I couldn’t find ANYTHING to back it up as it slid down the wall.
Great blog, John. I’d pay a lot, if I had it to pay, to watch some of these nutcase people try to survive six months on nothing but SS or disablity and food stamps.
It goes both ways. I think most times I’ve talked about fraud I’ve put up articles on doctors and care providers. That’s the big fraud in the social programs.
But on a lot of blogs when you put ‘fraud'(any fraud) and ‘social programs’ in a sentence you get attacked for being against the programs. But there is individual fraud that needs stopped in the programs…social security and prisoners for instance.
That’s just it. Sense that OUGHT to be common ISN’T. And it’s based on assumptions, scare tactics, and what ever else they can muster up. I believe it that most of the fraud is from that end, not from the disabled end, because the health care system doesn’t get reimbursed the way they want. So they charge for extra procedures that were never performed, just to get paid what they feel is “fair”.
I read in Reader’s Digest a couple years ago, that doctors who have exorbitant amount of student loans may keep defaulting on it, and will try to get it back from the employer which is the clinic they work for, and if they don’t pay all of it, they put it on the medical school they graduated from. So, who ends up paying the price? It’s the patients and new students… which is also adding to the extra cost of medical care, and up to a third of the doctors do this…
But anyway, unless I have some credible source, or know beyond a shadow of a doubt, I will usually say it’s my opinion…
I have an extra resource for fact checking which most people don’t have. My Uncle Paul is a Professor Emeritus in American History at TCU. His book, Presidential Anecdotes, was on the New York Times Best Seller list for weeks and weeks. So when I want to know about something, I just call him up.
Recently, he appeared on a segment of the PBS program, The History Detectives. During WW2 he learned Japanese for working as an interpreter. When we dropped leaflets on Japanese cities warning them that we were likely to blow the town off the map, and it would be a bad idea for them to be there when we did, he wrote those leaflets.
Well, what he did, was go to his prisoners of war, and explained the situation to them, and what he wanted them to write. No torture here, just talking with them. So the POWs wrote the warning leaflets, and we dropped them on the Japanese cities. In a number of those towns, the civilians decided to get out of there, and when they got back, they found a smoking ruin, which of course, they could rebuild after the war, since they were still alive.
I agree john.
What I have a real problem with is that Social Security and Medicare did not cause the problem and ending them will not fix the problem of our National Debt and Budget Deficits.
There hasn’t even been a conversation about the Real Problems.
What Upsets me about the Democrats is they don’t even try. A counter proposal with deeper cuts should have been made that did not touch Social Security and Medicare.
I predict Rising Home Invasions.
The end product of military pork spending, is lots of dead people, places that got blown up, plus the interest of new enemies.
The end product of government infrastructure spending, is increased economic activity, and a higher standard of living for the public in general.
Conservatives complain about Tax and Spend Liberals, but when in office they Borrow and Spend. So Liberals tend to generate Surpluses, and Conservatives tend to create Deficits. Conservatives say they want to practice fiscal responsibility. I wish they had, since they are no good at it….
John, I can think of two people to whom you maybe referring to. And both of them swing to the political right. Right or left, folks should check the facts before opening their mouths.
Had left my notes on the screen this morning without posting them. . and ere reading them now took another look at. . common sense? it came to mind just what it is to the full extend of what it is. . quite and eye opener . . as I read some of the notes on the way down . . .
love the understanding and comprehension . . grasping the essence of the who, what and how we are. I would say that each and every one of run on ou own particular brand of common sense. . say “brand” on how our psyche is branded. IMPrinted with the sound and tone of each and every note since the moment of conception.
I don’t know about how your brains or minds work. . do know. . . that all at once your ears perk up to some give or your eyes catch. . but it them words. . till the music states. . heard nuff of them lets make music as we pine on now beginning to follow the trail of what came to you in life to your mind of I wanna go swimming or this or that . . what ever stop us short. . shrink back from or on the other hand found the spunk to . . what ever we pick up on, commingling with the thoughts on any given subject you already have . .
how much of our youth is spend doing as told. . that what school’s all about, is it not? wasting the most precious years of life. Those we awaken to the wonders of the universe. letting our minds spirits and bodyes relish in the fragrancess of the gardens blooming show this the medicine which works most wonderfully well
breath of my being showering every cell of my being with its invigorating vitality. .
if there is a fount of youth , it is indeed that, be breathing in the air of the plants U’ll be eating. and how long will it take to take the work out of living. . it all creation is about. . never seen so many fight so hard against having a miracle happen.
dismmiss every fairy take and sci fi . . . common sense? belongs to those whose sense of being has never been corrupted by . . oops, there’s a whole other dimension coming into play here. . for there are the thoughts which come to mind good as in a flash, or those you wake up to, be it nap, long sleep . . wow, Tesla was born in thunderstorm . . ah . .maybe I was born in a hail o bullets from the automatic rifle fire . . common sense? that all we got. and just a bet we don’t make any sense to any of you or have ya all give up on reading our notes? the last line would not be a good playce to share it. . .
common sense? every cell of your being is predisposed programmed from within. why wouldn’t the whole of us be that. how does the music of creation surface through a instrument. . once you’re in the zone. . you don’t need teachers. . you go exploring on your own . . at least eye did. not out of books. . never read one till i was twelve . . last year i learn any in school too. . .
with life a continuous outgrowth and constantly working in all its compLEXifying cosmic consciousness absorbing all and making all available . . to all. . .
we continually have the mind assimilate and build on what it all ready knows. . maybe the question ought read. how can we program people differently than sit them down for the first near 2o years of their life. . they have no experience. . . in dealing with their own truth. . we continually hand them a line of bull. . so since the bull is the cosmic thread . . . thoughts are like burrs. . . those in tune with ours, stick like glue in support of your beind. now if you have been brainwashed . . or even when not. . what ever the habits and customes of your people. . an ours . . is so dismissive of the brains of children. .
common sense . . go ask kids. . how would you fix what’s ailing us in this world. .
let them loose. . . the depression’s hey this is never gonna happen to my kids who the got a good education and learn play monopoly around the kitchen table and does now in the boardroom of the nations. .
anyways. . off will post what I tune in on this morning . . next cheers and thanks for my having had it come to mind. . . that’s hwo I get educated. . how about you?
every think humanity is about, are thoughts and concepts which first came to some one’s mind and were acted upon. instilled us with our ideals. . be they dreamed of, woke up to or were showered by our cosmic reality.
common sense
instinct and intuition. . . the intrinsic duality does it stem from the Gaelic “dual” of love and hope?
the cosmic fast forward the whole universe works on with all its checks and balancess
Its a nursing baby who puckers its lips when its had enough.
put a bottle in its mouth, and it has you be in control
is to me the inner reticence at the resistance we encounter or have us go with the flow till having had nuff and it time for a rest .
now I cannot share links. . in regards to this phenomena. . or aspect of reality
they may be lies to you my friend but it is the trail of the thoughts which found a home in our mind. . made sense to us. . . no need or how can it even be your common sense . . . what? one size . . . on truth, fits all?
my perception of lies. . a child who is asked are you lying
will in variably state they are not. . . has anybody else ask why not?
or is it that till we lose it . . . . have the meaning of life close in on us
is that our body talk. . . much like the tone of your voice registers at over 80% compared to actual words you share and. . so their whole body is revolting from admitting they’s lying. cause they are standing up and body talk is stronger . . than the mind belittling dressing down . . like why do you even bother. . who give a hoot about who done it. . . operate as nature does. . go in instant fixing mode. .
who has common sense in this world. the mum who fix any give with a hug and a kiss . .the past from our present through the music we make
or man, who cannot even imagine of operating from a free will and pitch in where needed. . be a do as spirit moves you. . when you see a need do. . . do it. . . and in having done my thinking . . . on not liking the answers I got. . book learning is second hand. . some body bought your line. . . me? I’s not for sale nor for following. . every body got a mind to celebrate life with. . stop to enjoy. . . what can you fashion with your hands . . or is it time to say adios . . to busyNess and productivity. . it don’t take all that much .
it time we practice the art and act of being . . dig up a lawn and plant a garden. . or a tree . squirrel some nuts in the ground. . . and watch them grow
*2 Kudos*
An entry that contains so many quotable quotes within the comments [in addition to my usual load of tl;dr’s] has gotta be worth at least 2 kudos. But to be honest with you I can’t really remember too much about your entry, after spending the last hour or so here writing my own entries, or whatever the hell they are.
So I’m just gonna give you the benefit of the doubt, and let the kudos ride. I don’t get online much these days… when I do… well .. tl;dr comments, man. But I only comment whore on the best entries to be found, if that helps any, lol 😳