What’s on your mind this Saturday?

Can you give us a recap of your Christmas?

What we’re most interested in hearing about (besides how good the food was) are the political bits that came up in conversation.  Do you have any Utopians in your families?  Are they still kneeling before their Lightbringer, awaiting unicorn delivery, or are they questioning “The Golden Age of Hope and Change”?

How angry were your relatives at Ben Nelson, the shameless whore of the Senate?

Please share.

We’ll have our own holiday roundup ready sometime today, so you’ll get all the scoop on what Christmas was like here in Boystown. No surprise here, we’re sure, but there were indeed Naughty Elves and Holly-Jolly Strippers.

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Here’s something that should get a lot of 20-30 something Utopians up in arms:  their Lightbringer is taking away their Flex Spending Health accounts.

Few of us have ever worked anywhere with Flex Spending accounts, but in the rare instances when we worked in offices full-time and had benefits packages, this was our favorite perk.  Flex Spending accounts let you buy over-the-counter health items without having to pay income tax on that.  It’s amazing, really.  Some companies let you allot up to $5,000/year into your Flex Spending account.  You get a little Flex Spending credit card that you then use to purchase whatever you need from the drug store, pay for doctor visits, cover your dental procedures, etc. You can also pay with cash or another credit card and then fax your receipts into your Flex Spending provider and have them covered.

It’s, in a word, wonderful.

You still pay the tax on the products at the point of purchase, but the money you put into your flex spending account is deducted from your pay BEFORE income tax is taken.  So if you put $5,000 into your Flex Account and spent it all in a year, and you made $30,000, then at income tax time you only show $25,000 for the government to pillage.  We’ve known people who had their teeth fixed (as braces aren’t covered in any plan we’ve seen after age 19), had other medical procedures they needed that insurers also weasled out of covering, and who have families that break the bank in over-the-counter eye and allergy purchases save themselves a great deal of money in this program.

But, the White House is now taking this away.  Only insulin and prescription medication will be allowed in Flex Spending Plans.  That means no braces for you, snaggle-tooth.

Remember:  Republicans who sat out the 2008 election because “McCain wasn’t good enough” need to accept responsibility for what happens when a radical socialist takes power who wants to snatch as much of your money as possible and make it harder and harder for you to live a decent life.

This is the change that was promised; hope you like it.

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Nevadans are asking Harry Reid:  “Where’s our Christmas present?”.

If shameless whore of the Senate Ben Nelson bent over and smiled big for Reid, abandoning whatever principles he had regarding abortion funding, after getting an ETERNAL exemption from Medicaid increases for Nebraska (which is unconstitutional, by the way), then what has Reid brought home for Nevada?

We hope Sue Lowden really, really clobbers Reid with this one.

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