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ThinkProgress » REPORT: The 46 Year-Long Republican War On MedicareIt should truly come as no surprise that the GOP has always set its sights on Medicare. After all, it is a single-payer health care system has little involvement from the private insurance industry that is both incredibly efficient and remarkably popular among the general public. It completely violates the conservative mantra that the market should be the arbiter of all things.
Polling shows that the public, including even most Republicans, are overwhelmingly opposed to cuts to the Medicare program.
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The Congressional Budget Office concluded in its study of Ryan’s plan that if it was enacted, seniors would have to pay the majority of their income on health care. In its 46 year-long war on Medicare, the GOP is not only fighting the public health insurance program, but the very idea that we are our brother’s keeper — that we should care what happens to our elderly in the last years of their life, and that no one should spend the last days of their lives fighting with insurance companies just to survive.
Florida GOP Rep. Allen West says he stands by his statement that President Barack Obama exhibited Third World dictator-like arrogance in his speech last week on the budget and Americas skyrocketing debt, and he is sick and tired of the presidents Marxist demagogic rhetoric.
I do stand by those words and perhaps one of the things that many people need to understand is that the truth needs to be said, West Thursday said on Fox News, referring to a comment he made Tuesday on Laura Ingrahams radio show. When I go around and I talk to people down here in my district, and we get phone calls, that speech that was given last week Wednesday was absolutely beneath the statesmanship, or the atmosphere, or the aura of the personality that the president should show.
I am sick and tired of this class warfare this Marxist demagogic rhetoric that is coming from the president of the United States of America, he told Greta Van Susteren. It is not helpful for this country, and its not going to move the ball forward as far as rectifying the economic situation in our country and Im not going to back away from telling what the truth is.
West said it is time to stop playing games when it comes to discussing Americas deteriorating fiscal situation.
I don't think it's very presidential when Barack Hussein Obama refers to my colleague, [House Budget Committee Chairman] Paul Ryan, as a simple little accountant, either, he said. So I think that when you look at what a community organizer [Obama] is turning out to be, it does seem to be like a low-level socialist agitator.
Allen West: Tired of Obama
Ok Digger, how many trillion has he put us in deficit since he took office? Or, do you want to blame Bush.......
So he hates rich people. Okayyyyyy....so now we are in the biggest deficit ever, how long will it take to recover because he hates rich people. Sad to say, but it's the poor and middle class people that will suffer in the long run.
Obama is rich. He made $1.7 Million last year.So he hates rich people. Okayyyyyy....so now we are in the biggest deficit ever, how long will it take to recover because he hates rich people. Sad to say, but it's the poor and middle class people that will suffer in the long run.
Obama's original 2012 budget purposed only 1 trillion in cuts over 10yrs get it through your head. He changed his budget after Ryans budget came out and even in his new speech he did not address entitlements. Wake up man you're falling into a Obama demagogue haze
So he hates rich people. Okayyyyyy....so now we are in the biggest deficit ever, how long will it take to recover because he hates rich people. Sad to say, but it's the poor and middle class people that will suffer in the long run.
Presi-fraud Obama sends the bombers into Libya, ups the troops in Afghanistan and now we may go into Egypt and Syria. There's a new country song about it: TAKE THIS PEACE PRIZE & SHOVE IT. Obama said "Our future is brighter if more people can live under the bright light of freedom." Ya know, ever since the CEO of G.E. became his advisor, everything the President says sounds like a lightbulb commercial. Meanwhile, Egypt says it's all set to announce a new working constitution. To which Obama replied, "Uh ... what's a Constitution?"
Ok Digger, how many trillion has he put us in deficit since he took office? Or, do you want to blame Bush.......
No he did not lay out a plan......Stating that you're going to cut 3 trillion, and then failing to lay out exactly how, is not laying out a plan, as Ryan fully has. As the republicans fully did.So what is it now Jester? Obama didn't present a plan? Or you don't like it? I'm not going to bother finding the specific points in his speech where he lays out his plan. You seem to be able to discuss it well enough to at least realize that it exists. But you still haven't shown me where he insulted anyone. The only insults I see here are flying in the other direction.
That's right. Obama's plan cuts $3 trillion in spending, $2 trillion less than Ryan's plan does. But Obama's plan adds $1 trillion in taxes, while Ryan's plan cuts taxes by another $1 trillion. Both proposals end up with $4 trillion in deficit reduction, although Obama's plan takes 12 years instead of Ryan's 10.
The difference is pretty stark. $2 trillion dollars in spending cuts vs. $2 trillion in taxes. Simple to understand. No reason to call Obama a socialist. No reason to say he doesn't have a plan. No reason to say the he insulted anyone. There's a lot of hot air around here.
Pink would suit him, though what makes you think it's his bike? Anyone can post a picture of anything and use it as an avatar. I see Mr. Shaman on a Chinese made scooter, maybe 50 cc's or maybe in a YugoBut the concept of paying for social net programs that prevent crime and poverty make no sense to you at all do they?
What were those oil company profits again...anyone? The true Welfare Queens in Cadillacs...
Exxon operates on a 8 to 9% profit margin. Microsoft's is about 31%. Who's making too much money?
Hey Ernie................
Some on here think that Shaman photoshopped his bike from pink to black. What do you think?
Why didn't Rdean, Chris, or truth doesn'tmatter warn us that you, their lil' brother, was coming up here?So he hates rich people. Okayyyyyy....so now we are in the biggest deficit ever, how long will it take to recover because he hates rich people. Sad to say, but it's the poor and middle class people that will suffer in the long run.
Oh great.. We have another brilliant Conservative poster who adds so much to the conversation.
Stephanie.. Willow.. Why didn't you warn us your other sister was coming?
But the concept of paying for social net programs that prevent crime and poverty make no sense to you at all do they?
What were those oil company profits again...anyone? The true Welfare Queens in Cadillacs...
Exxon operates on a 8 to 9% profit margin. Microsoft's is about 31%. Who's making too much money?
And who's business is it? Government, or the shareholders?
