Things are getting worse

I am sure things are getting worse. I thought when all the talk of failure in everything money wise was talked about that surely appropriate guards would be put in place to keep it from happening. Well, I think things are worse now than they were at the beginning. Advertisements I see and hear on the television and radio tell me that the scam artists got out of the pen, that the gate has been opened wider.

This has a lot to do with health care costs. Just the other day I saw an advertisement that affects Medicare in a very negative way. Don't remember the product, but the advertisement went something like this: It used to be that Medicare only paid for four (of these) per month. Now, they pay for 200! Wow. The adv was to the effect, just call us, we can send you 200 a month, and Medicare will pay for it. Imagine that!

I watched just yesterday C-SPAN, which was covering a Senate committee looking into Medicare fraud, and I did not hear a thing about the situation of Medicare paying for 200 when they used to pay for just four. Yet, I wanted to scream through the television set, Hey, you guys! Watch a little TV and you will know why our costs are going through the roof.

There are so many of these kinds of advertisements. If not health care, something else. There is one advertising that the IRS has decided to be lenient with collections, and now they will take ten cents on the dollar. Just call us, we will fix it for you, the adv says. I can't imagine that, and I doubt seriously that the IRS is going to take less that what is rightfully owed. The poor people who owe and going to wind up paying huge sums for someone to say, but, but, it is not you, but, but, we can fix your problem in some way, which is not to say the the IRS is going to take ten cents on the dollar.

And, there are still the car dealers who advertise, no credit, bad credit, no problem! The cable new I watch that talks about all kinds of problems in our government has advertisements that follow, much like I have mentioned above at every news break. Imagine that.

This commentary just touches the helm of the garment if that much. It is much worse. I know it is.

So, have we gotten so big that nothing can stop the stealer's of our money? Maybe so. I do know that we must do something, but what?