TW Shannon's US Senate Announcement

I will be broadcasting the T.W. Shannon Senate Announcement LIVE!
If you can't join us at the Tulsa Historical Society Mansion, near 21st & Peoria Ave, you can watch it here:
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The Obama Abandonment of the Poor & Sickly

  Oklahoma is one of 27 states which have stated a clear intent NOT TO expand Medicaid [Forbes]. This is a clear 'brinkmanship' maneuver where Obama is going to try to stare down the Governors and when millions of poor people are priced out of the market (a 60 yr old Oklahoman working part time may have to pay 75% of his gross income to buy a required policy), Obama will call the governors 'heartless' and the governors will either hang together or buckle under separately.

The poor don't make enough to be given subsidies

 What makes the situation even worse is that many current insurance programs designed by states for the self-employed and lower-income individuals, will cease to exist at the end of 2013. Why? because they were designed with the support of George W. Bush's presidency and receive federal Medicaid grants. Obama sees these programs as a threat to his preferred version of socialism and he ordered his HHS secretary to de-fund all of them.
  This chart shows the projected 2014 typical cost for a single 60 year old Oklahoma man or woman. Notice how those part time workers making less than $11,400 annually will be forced to go without any insurance and pay a federal fine. Oklahoma currently has over 5000 people in this income bracket buying coverage from Insure Oklahoma but Obama is forcing it’s closing.
   Most Oklahomans would be surprised to find out that Medicaid coverage is only available for individuals who make less than $3,492, annually (unless a successful federal disability claim has been deemed). But ObamaCare subsidies are only given to individuals who make at least $11,400, annually.  So what happens to those who only made between $4 - 11 thousand? This would include college students, injured people, laid off workers, and those of diminished stamina.

   Sadly, so many citizens of very limited means who have done their best to at least pay for part of their health coverage, will soon be reverting back to exploiting the emergency rooms or suffering the ravages of calamity and disease. Oklahoma public health leaders have worked so hard to find solutions for universal coverage goals. It is intolerable that a pig-headed socialist in the White House is willing to create so much suffering and lie with a straight face, calling his opponents heartless.

  The Henry J Kaiser foundation has developed an online personal insurance rate forecaster which people can use to determine the likely cost for their own mandated insurance coverage

Your Social Security Code Tells On You

Although SSNs are issued in some order,
there is no simple way to tell a person's age based on his Social
Security number.

What do the numbers mean?

SSNs are not assigned consecutively; the first was not the lowest number, and the most recent is not the highest. They are assigned regionally and in batches.

The nine-digit SSN, which has been issued in more than 400 million different sequences, is divided into three parts: area numbers, group numbers and serial numbers.

• Area numbers - The first three numbers originally represented the state in which a person first applied for a Social Security card. Numbers started in the northeast and moved westward. This meant that people on the east coast had the lowest numbers and those on the west coast had the highest. Since 1972, the SSA has assigned numbers and issued cards based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the original application form. Since the applicant's mailing address doesn't have to be the same as his residence, his area number doesn't necessarily represent the state in which he resides. For many of us who received our SSNs as infants, the area number indicates the state we were born in. You can find out which area numbers go with each state at SSA.gov: Social Security Number Allocations.
• Group numbers - These two middle digits, which range from 01 through 99, are simply used to break all the SSNs with the same area number into smaller blocks, which makes administration easier. (The SSA says that, for administrative reasons, group numbers issued first consist of the odd numbers from 01 through 09, and then even numbers from 10 through 98, within each area number assigned to a state. After all the numbers in group 98 of a specific area have been issued, the even groups 02 through 08 are used, followed by odd groups 11 through 99.)
• Serial numbers - Within each group designation, serial numbers -- the last four digits in an SSN -- run consecutively from 0001 through 9999.

California's State Swindlers

California's liberal government says the citizens don't save enough for the future. They want to pass a law that lets them take funds from your income and save it for you.

In reality, they want to raid the fund in the same way they raided the other pension funds.

If a bank did this, they'd send the bankers to prison!

Read more on this corrupt money-grab at Fox News.

Putting The 1960s Behind Us

Racial harms still exist, but the current forms may surprise you.

  Okay, let's talk about yesterday's Supreme Court ruling. My take is; "Affirmative Action" and other govt. interventions are only just when applied to current inequities.
  To force preferential treatment for discrimination of past generations, is 'court-ordered reckless vengeance!  The person or group seeking relief for wrongs, must identify the entities specifically responsible for the harm.
  The Supreme Court got it right when they declared yesterday, that current data must be used, rather than the findings of 40 years ago.  Racial harms still exist, but the current forms may surprise you.