Texas Drifter: Do Not Make Old Eat Granite

Library Entry # 880

Marshall’s Law Dateline - So what are your future objective reality choices for old people? 1) Abandon your parents to diminishing government “quality health care programs” for middle class elderly citizens. 2) Watch the government confiscate all of your parent’s property while turning your parents into paupers.

Why, American government likes to warehouse old people as “helpless” absentee voters in public subsidized rat infested nursing homes, staffed by minimum wage employees who are only working to subsidize their welfare benefits.

Sooner or later, Reader’s surviving parent or parents will probably need nursing home care. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that one of the Ten Commandments says: honor thy father and mother; it does not say honor thy father and mother until it becomes inconvenient for your pop culture life style.

Obligations to your parent or parents is only beginning, not ending when you “dump” them off at a nursing home. If you want to fulfill this obligation, depend on no one but yourself.

Do not be surprised when some of your siblings fail to do their part. Show no anger towards these siblings, as their actions are between them and God; for it is his Commandment that they are breaking not yours.

Do not be surprised when the least grateful siblings make the biggest scene at your parent’s funeral, and are the first to want their largest share of your parent’s assets after the funeral.

As for support from churches, most take the position that they only care “for their own” meaning they only minister to church members who continue to tithe. Isn’t it ironic that God’s messengers will not perform funeral rites until receiving their in advance “gratuity”?

Be advised that if you take your parent to a hospital be careful what you sign. Hospitals have a policy of taking advantage of distraught middle class children by getting them to sign agreements to guarantee payment for all of their parent’s hospital bills.

One example, a middle class resident we1ll call Mr. Smith saw his neighbor collapse while mowing his yard. Mr. Smith took his neighbor to the hospital and signed his neighbor into the emergency room. When the neighbor could not pay his hospital bill; the hospital placed a lien against Mr. Smith’s home and eventually seized the home for failure to pay his debt. Bottom line watch what you sign in emergency rooms.

Priority parental bills you must expect to pay to insure your parent’s nursing home care include: medications, dental services, body doctor bills, mind doctor bills, supplemental insurance, and other incidentals.

Distinguishing between body and mind doctors, because if your parent has dementia or Alzheimer’s you will need both a medical doctor and possibly a psychiatrist. Why to avoid problems caused by “prescription cocktails”. Make sure each doctor prescribes medications limited to their area of expertise.

Some suggest that a great many patient behavior and health problems in nursing homes result from medical doctors prescribing mind medications which can cause bad reactions to body medications.

Also, when dealing with body doctors, make sure treatments start with least drastic treatments; for example, perhaps vitamins instead of exploratory surgery.

All factors considered, unnecessary depending on amount of prescription drug bills. Reade can expect to need about an additional eight hundred to thousand dollars a month out of you own pocket, in addition to nursing home expenses per parent.

When the time arrives for dealing with government bureaucrats to place your middle class parents in a private sector nursing home the first requirement is infinite patience. The general rule is about thirty telephone calls cumulating in “not eligible” before you find a worker who takes the time to give you a correct response. Once you find a competent case worker, take care of the relationship.

It only took me twenty one calls to find such a professional. It would not be prudent to reveal the name as government has a way of getting rid of good employees. If you are not successful after thirty or so eligibility inquiries, try to locate a private company to help you start the application process.

Another problem middle class citizens, encounter is constantly changing government eligibility standards. The little known secret is that governments change regulations on a daily basis to deny senior middle class citizens earned benefits. Why, two reasons: first, “balance the budget” for long term program viability projections.
Second, make sure that life long career welfare recipients and illegal immigrants are entitled to “one hundred percent” care and benefits. Politicians who say anything different are liars; I probably should not have wasted you the Reader’s time by stating the obvious.

When it comes to selecting a nursing home for your parent/s; here are just a few tips:
1) Check with appropriate state agency for ‘~complaints’ history”;
2) Check with children who have or had parent’s in the nursing home;
3) Remember smaller is better (avoid ware houses);
4) Make several visits to nursing home at random times BOTH before and after parent is admitted
5) Observe whether nursing home staff smile and greet visitors, or look like they would rather be someplace else
6) Come up with your own check list

Never forget that the quality of care in any nursing home depends on frequency of family visits. Make frequent random visits. I go twice a day every day. Get to know the administrators and staff. These people are caring for your parents, and should be viewed as “monitored” friends, not adversaries.
Be prepared to defend the nursing home from government bureaucrats who are often more interested in exaggerating problems for personal merit raises than rewarding good patient services.

Remember older people occasionally fall down and hurt themselves; so don’t be looking to increase your bank balance with frivolous law suits. Other than yourself, it is quality nursing home staff that will be helping you make sure your parents receive quality care.

Reader should be aware that based on experience guestimate based on experiences in Rio Grande Valley, Mexico Texas only one in five doctors seems to be both honest and competent. Beware of doctors trying to get “non-involved” sibling or relative involved in trying to ignore your parents’ D.N.R. (do not resuscitate) document. Why, as one physician satirically said, “Caring for vegetables provides high return long term income opportunities.”

As for the government, let me tell you about the government, my father volunteered to serve his country and by the grace of God escaped physical injury while serving in the Navy in the Pacific. He worked his entire life and was always active in his community and church. It is doubtful that you will find anyone of any race or cultural background that says he did not treat them honestly and with respect.

While trying to locate additional resources for his care, I was told that his combat experience had earned him (after a twelve month wait for benefits) the equivalent of one cheap can of dog food a day.

My father’s home was near an airport, and it wasn’t that long (months before he went into a nursing home) that he would relive his combat experiences by telling me that he was worried about the Japanese planes hitting his ship and costing friends their lives. The man who never complained and volunteered to serve his country was offered fifty cents a day (can of cheap dog food) by the government he always honored.

Perhaps somebody should explain to the aristocracy that middle class veterans need food, medicine, and dental care; not a general’s monument Then again, maybe the aristocracy has not figured out that veterans cannot eat granite. Then again, what else would you expect from people who do not understand that altruism for publicity is self-serving advertising not benevolent conduct.

As for this author, “Anything for God, country, Bill of Rights, family, friends, good neighbors, clients and team members; and not a damn thing for America’s anti-Christ government”. Time to move on to few questions.

Question. One quite often used least recognized scams to deprive old people of their health, lives, liberties, and properties (other than Obama Care); involves “original signature on last page”. Most readers cannot identify scam. TRUE or FALSE

Clue if reader cannot figure out how scam works, I will share investigative process; providing reader is not serving America’s anti-Christ government.

Truth about Obama’s Muslim Islamic terrorist threats to America.
1. There are estimated 1.6 billion Muslims on planet
2. If only ten percent of 1.6 billion hate all things Western and American; that suggests that there are estimated one hundred sixty million Islamic terrorists on planet
3. Muslimpopulation.com suggest there are estimated six million plus Muslims on American soil confusion exists as to number of legal and illegal Muslims on American soil
4. Pew survey suggest that seventy percent of Muslims sport Obama’s Democrats
5. Center for Security Policy reported on June 23, 2015 following:
Nearly one-fifth of Muslim respondents said that the use of violence in the United States is justified in order to make shariah the law of the land in this country.
Center for Security Policy President, Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., observed:
The findings of the Center for Security Policy’s survey of Muslims in America suggests that we have a serious problem. The Pew Research Center estimates that the number of Muslims in the United States was 2.75 million in 2011, and growing at a rate of 80-90 thousand a year. If those estimates are accurate, the United States would have approximately 3 million Muslims today. That would translate into roughly 300,000 Muslims living in the United States who believe that shariah is “The Muslim God Allah’s law that Muslims must follow and impose worldwide by Jihad.” (End excerpt)

Conclusion – based on total numbers used; multiply six million by 20%; there could be over million waiting and ready Muslims "standing by" to murder American citizens in terrorist style attacks. Reader should run their own security risk threat analysis numbers. TRUE or FALSE

Bonus question, following public American officials might be considered accessories of Islamic terrorist attacks on American soil: Marxist-fascist Progressive Democrats and corporate fascist Mussolini Republicans. TRUE or FALSE - Just asking not accusing.

Clue 1 - Some of Islamic terrorist accessories might include: Obama; H. Clinton; J. Biden; L. Lynch; J. Johnson; Paul Ryan; J. Bush; other Republicans eating Republican 2016 Presidential Candidates like Rubio, and others Reader can name. One question yet to be answered, does FBI represent Obama’s FBI or America’s FBI? TRUE or FALSE - Just asking not accusing.

Clue 2 - Reader can decide if Mussolini Republicans are closer to Obama and Obama’s allies, or American Judeo-Christian middle class conservative patriotic citizens. TRUE or FALSE

Bonus thought question – More Americans than your parents may end up having to eat granite unless Americans decisively without compassion stop threats of Islamic terrorists on American soil. TRUE or FALSE

Just fun question – If there is no “second chance” salvation for Islamic terrorists. Satire of truth, since Islamic terrorists reportedly believe that if they are killed by a woman; they will be sent directly to hell and not land of the virgins. Perhaps Islamic terrorists receiving death penalty after due process sentence to death penalty should by executed by feminists? TRUE or FALSE