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COVID RELIEF: TAKE TWO, CALL TUBULARSOCK IN THE MORNING!

 

Now here is the bottom line for you.

By this time in your life if you haven’t figured out that when it comes to self serving the one CON-STANT example is how BOTH the Democraps and the Republican’ts just ALWAYS protect themselves …… FIRST! And more often than not, seldom you.

Well, when it comes to helping you ……. “where will the money come from?”

And Tubularsock knows that none of our congress-people will miss a meal but many Americans’ will. And they REALLY want to help but ……… “where will the money come from?”

But whatever you do make sure you get your 4th Federal Tax Return installment mailed off before the January 15th deadline.

Ohhhh ………. That’s where they get the money …….. YOU!

Now with all the last-minute legislating over the coronavirus relief bill and with all the hand wringing over, “where will we get the money” there was just enough spare change to pass a $5 MILLION addition to the Office of Attending Physician which in essence DOUBLED their existing budget.

There wasn’t enough money for hazard pay for essential workers and emergency funding for local governments but really …… “where will we get the money?”

And fortunately they found the money for OWNERS OF RACEHORSES to get a tax break and a full expansion of tax deductions for business meals which of course working class people don’t really need anyway because they don’t have any money for food. Problem settled!

BUT we are going to get a $600 check which is something or at least Tubularsock has heard people say that. ARE THEY FUCKING STUPID?

And Tubularsock heard a Representative say out loud that the $600 will be a “bridge” until the next stimulus package. What planet does she reside? Tubularsock would gladly take the check and shove it up her fucking asshole with Tubularsock’s fist but knowing how Congress people are she’d like it! The Corporations do that regularly with their campaign contributions!

Oh, do you know what the Office of Attending Physician that Tubularsock mentioned above happens to be?

Well it has been described as “some of the country’s best and most efficient government-run health care”.

And who does it service with several physicians and nurses to provide on-call treatment?
CONGRESS! That’s who.

How CONvenient, don’t you think?

And this new funding is justified because of the new services needed to deal with the pandemic! AND we DO have money for that!

And to put an explanation point on this, this is the THIRD budget hike for the Office of Attending Physician. They hiked it in December 2019 ($3,868,000) and then again in March Congress appropriated an additional $400,000 under the CARES Act. And now an additional $5 MILLION!

So as Congress has been in a stalemate over the expansion of low-cost health care services for you THEY HAVE COVERED THEMSELVES!
And Tubularsock has a feeling that the majority of American citizens don’t even know this.
Great to have a free press owned “buy” the corporate interests that continually buys the Congress. Don’t you think?

 

 

 

HEALTH MY ASS!

Now this is the part that Tubularsock, each time, has to step back and ponder why the American population is so dense.

It is not that it is so complicated and it is literally exposed RIGHT OUT IN PLAIN SITE.

It isn’t that it is covered up in some tricky way or anything but there it sits like a cougar on an overhanging rock SINGING IN ENGLISH, ALOUD.

WOULDN’T YOU’D THINK THEY WOULD NOTICE?

Oh. And it doesn’t have to do with political party affiliations either. Both Republicans and Democrats don’t even think twice about it. They always AGREE and just VOTE YES.

Yet the American population just seem not to care or if they do care they don’t do anything about it. It really is a remarkable mystery when you stop and realize that there are 322,762,018 of us VS only 535 of them in Congress.

So with ALL HEALTH LEGISLATION whether it was pre-Obama-Care, Obamacare, or TrumpDon’tCare Care the same thing is agreed upon.

Now you know this. Everyone knows this. And when it is brought up in any conversation it is ALWAYS dismissed with “well that’s government for you”.

Tubularsock has been sent chain-emails about it.

Tubularsock has been sent petitions to be signed against it.

Tubularsock has been sent protest gathering information to stand in opposition to it.

Even in this last election cycle at a town hall meeting when this topic came up a Congressman’s answer was to suggest that if you have a problem with this THEN RUN FOR OFFICE if you want good quality health care.

And he even got some laughs.

Well, Tubularsock wasn’t at this town hall meeting. If Tubularsock had been at this town hall meeting Tubularsock would have said:

 

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CARLY’S DEAD STEP-DAUGHTER

If you watched the 2nd Republican Debate (debate being a misnomer) you found all the same boring, empty minded drivel as per usual. No surprises there.

But what really stood out to Tubularsock wasn’t Donnie Trump and the Art Of The Bull Shit or the Sad-Sack monotony of Jeb Bush’s my brother “kept us safe” in contrast to the twin towers and building #7 coming down in a controlled demolition as George the Stupid spent his time reading about a goat.

No, what took the cake for Tubularsock was Carly Fiornia’s MY DEAD STEP-DAUGHTER!

Now Tubularsock would be compassionate but Carly is totally and completely FULL OF SHIT and she had the nerve to display her total lack of concern and caring for Lori, her dead step-daughter, by lying to the American public about Lori’s death.

Lori died in 2009 and yes it is sad and yes compassion is due but to use her death as an example as a call for opposition to marijuana is plain disingenuous on Carly’s part.

Here is the truth:

The death of Lori HAD NOTHING to do with marijuana! PERIOD!

Lori died from an addiction to “. . . abusing prescription drugs, alcoholism and bulimia.”

Now if Carly had come out and said that the pharmaceutical companies and the alcohol producers were to blame for her daughter Lori’s death at least she would have identified the correct substance abuse Lori suffered from.

But no Carly LIED! She said earlier this year that she was against recreational and medical marijuana legalization because it “. . . lands very personally . . .” to her step-daughter’s death.

But forty-four people die from prescription drug abuse A DAY in the United States but marijuana has NEVER resulted in an overdose fatality!

THAT IS NEVER! But you didn’t see Carly call for more oversight on handing out prescription drugs now did you.

Carly also said that we are “. . .  misleading young people when we tell them that marijuana is just like having a beer. It’s not.” And THAT is true. It is worse. Almost 90,000 people a year die abusing alcohol! But you didn’t see Carly calling out for more restrictions on alcohol now did you.

No Carly Fiornia, used her supposed loving daughter’s death to gain false political points for an issue that has nothing to do with her step-daughter’s death.

TALK ABOUT WALKING ON LORI’S GRAVE! Which may be some insight why Lori was so lost.

And then all that “gateway drug” bull shit and all that “. . . the marijuana they smoke today isn’t like the marijuana Jeb smoked forty years ago . . .”!

No, the marijuana one smokes today in places where it is legal has been tested and separated into different types of “highs”. So as in the past one could never be sure what they were buying off the streets under legal pot smoking that risk has been removed.

So in truth, smoking legal pot is safer than 40 years ago!

BUT PRESCRIPTION DRUGS WITH DOCTORS AS PUSHERS ARE FAR MORE RISKIER TODAY THAN 40 YEARS AGO. And that is due to the fact that the FDA is in bed with big-pharma and profit wins over safety.

And as for that factious “gateway” drug argument, did you know that EVERY person who drinks water dies sometime during their lifetime?

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