What Would Don Draper Say?

Alas, Michael, speaking of “farm-grown ingredients”, we’re already seeing Frankenfoods™ grown on Megafarms™, not a delicious thought. Hopefully you, Jay, or MC can grow vegetables in the back yard or in pots on the condo deck. If not, maybe you three can poach some from Tumulty (or Michelle Obama) if she grows her own. Or find a foreclosed home with a big yard on HGTV’s “House Hunters.” Imagine:
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“Michael, a dashing front row White House correspondent and frustrated poet, is looking a home right in the middle of DC’s swinging scene, but with a big yard to grow organic foods.…”
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“Jay, a lovely award-winning reporter and media starlet, is looking for her permanent home. Option #1 is an overpriced, underfurnished POS in suburban hell miles away from any shopping, restaurants, and bars… but it has a built-in spa, spacious party room, and HUGE back yard for her dog and vegetable garden….”

This is a very good ad. I hope it does the trick. We don’t need anymore nutjobs in the Congress. And Rand Paul=nutjob.

I don’t know what Don Draper would say but I’d be interested to know that positives and negatives of a $2K deductible. Mine is $5K for me and $10K for my young family so part of me thinks the olds should suck it up and take one for the team.

Campbell’s use farm-grown ingredients in their product. They are aware that the ingredients project a wholesome image for their product, so they use it in their ad. What’s wrong with that? And a $2000 deductible would give a lot of Medicare recipients pause. What’s wrong with driving that fact home in an ad if you are Ron Paul’s opponent?

Of course people who are on Medicare have paid into it while they were working and in many cases much of their current income is from Social Security from which Medicare premiums are deducted.
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Last year $3,700 of Medicare premium was deducted from my SS benefit. For many people, this is a lot of their income and then they must also have a supplemental policy to cover what Medicare doesn’t. Or find a way to pay for that.
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Then there are drugs… And, if they are lucky, they are also paying for Long Term Care insurance.
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It’s not so easy to just suck it up if your total income isn’t much more than $2,000 per month.
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As opposed to “ingredients”.

I don’t know a single senior who would be able to afford a $2K deductible. Most of the seniors I know also get PA medicaid, which pays their premiums and deductibles because their incomes are less than $1K a month.
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It seems Rand Paul is an out of touch elitist who doesn’t have a clue.

Since some conservatives seem to think a “sexy looking woman” is a indication of worthiness to be elected to higher office, I would like to share my opinion based on that qualification.
Conway is hot, Paul is not. Even with his wobbly toupee, Paul does not meet the “sexy” criteria.

Some people can afford a $2,000 deductible and some can’t, be they old or young. As usual, the question is whether we make those pay who can pay. To some extent we are already doing so. The amount withheld from Social Security for Medicare Part B is partially means tested, so the more you earn overall, the more you pay for Part B.
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Mrs. bobell and I are old enough to be on Medicare and drawing SS, but we both continue to work (we’d go nuts if we didn’t, and it supports a fine lifestyle), so we have more than enough income to be subject to the maximum Plan B deduction. It’s probably a couple of thousand more per year than the minimum Plan B deduction (I haven’t looked it up lately, but that’s as I recall it), but we can afford it — and it does chip away every so slightly at the deficit.
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But I have to agree that taking $2,000 from every oldster as some sort of Medicare “premium,” without regard to the condition of their finances, is a stupid idea, and Paul deserves the blowback he’s getting. The solution, already implemented to some extent, is as described — progressively larger premiums for progressively larger incomes. But we are told that progressive taxation is somehow unfair. Unfair to whom? The rich, of course, though few are dumb enough to say so.
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Rand Paul really is an outlier, even in a year of outliers. Electing him to the Senate would give us six years of entertainment, but I think we need serious governance more than we need amusement.

“We don’t need anymore nutjobs in the Congress.”

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Nutjobs? You mean like Alan “Die Quickly” Grayson?
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How about the ad he has done against his opponent, Michael Scherer? Have you researched into how his most recent ad completely distorts his opponents’ words in the Ad? How Grayson’s ad LIES about what exactly Webster said in the ad?
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I really do believe people would love to know exactly what kind of snake, and LIAR Grayson really is Michael.
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Or is this as usual, you only go after and sensationalize the Democrats in this election?

newfreedom…unlike you I am non-partisan. Grayson has crossed the line too.