{"id":2564,"date":"2015-03-30T05:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2015-03-30T08:06:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T18:06:56","slug":"were-all-going-a-bit-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=2564","title":{"rendered":"Insanity is knocking at your door"},"content":{"rendered":"

I try to stay away from politics because it makes me want to walk up to everybody I see, shake them real hard and say, “Wake up!! We’re all going to hell and you’re letting it happen!”.<\/p>\n

I’d much rather discuss sex but at my age that’s a theoretical conversation based on hazy and probably flawed memories of my younger years.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

I shall dip my toe in the political cesspool just once this week.<\/p>\n

T\"insanity-sized\"<\/a>he popular, but somewhat inaccurate definition of insanity…<\/p>\n

Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.<\/p>\n

Shall we?<\/p>\n

The U.S. House has voted 56 times to repeal Obamacare.
\nAnd failed.<\/p>\n

\"obamacare\"<\/a>It finally passed number 57 last week but it will never make it through the Senate.<\/p>\n

So, we wait with interest for #58 which is included in a new budget working its way through Congress and repealing Obamacare is part of it.<\/p>\n

It won’t make it – and if it does President Obama will veto it and there’s not enough votes to override that.<\/p>\n

I’m sure #59 is not far off.<\/p>\n

Insanity.<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives passed the so-called “doc fix”.
\nFor 13 years Medicare doctors faced getting their payments cut by 21 percent.<\/p>\n

\"doc-fix-sized\"<\/a>The medicare payment law went into effect in 1997.<\/p>\n

The problem is it’s based on a flawed formula for calculating Medicare payments.<\/p>\n

For 15 years Congress had just kept passing short-term solutions instead of fixing the stupid formula.<\/p>\n

Last week\u00a0they finally did.<\/p>\n

You probably didn’t hear about this because no one expected anything to be done.
\nAgain.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/a>Insanity.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is talking about running for President.
\nAgain.<\/p>\n

What’s this – the 10th time?<\/p>\n

Insanity.<\/p>\n

The Department of Defense spent $80 million on a real-life “Iron Man” suit.<\/p>\n

It won’t work because it requires 365 pounds of batteries to power it.<\/p>\n

No one can move it’s so heavy.<\/p>\n

\"Monkey<\/a>Insanity.<\/p>\n

The National Science Foundation spent $171,000 to teach monkeys how to play video games and gamble in order to “unlock the secrets of free will”.<\/p>\n

Insanity.<\/p>\n

I’m having cold pizza for breakfast.
\nThat probably makes me the sanest person around.<\/p>\n

But I’m still grumpy.
\nYou should be too.<\/p>\n

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