Listen to this, for it will make your head spin.
CNN’s latest Republican slam piece by Tami Luhby attempts to paint the difference between Obama’s and the House of Representatives’ respective Medicare plans in “plain and fair” terms (I’m sure).
When it comes to deciding who pays to reduce runaway Medicare costs, President Obama and House Republicans have very different views.
The president would make the health care industry bear the brunt of containing costs.
And just who are those dastardly, partisan, nationalist, neocon, fascist Republicans ambushing in their evil, non-comprehensive, extensive, imperialist power-grab? (Vomiting strings of adjectives is a sign of intelligence amongst the Intelligencia. No word is too many; particularly when you can’t figure out how to properly use the word to begin with…)
Here’s where the dim brilliance of the CNN news team stands out, (oxymoron, style).
Republican lawmakers would sock it to future generations of senior citizens, most of whom would have to pay more for their medical coverage.
Amazing!
Grand! Vivid!
Radiant!
Where any other of the devout would only dare to press one point, the CNN correspondent is no mere mortal.
Why claim the GOP is out to kill one age group, when with one sentence they can claim they’re out to kill two!
In one sentence, CNN has attempted to rile up two groups; the elderly, and those concerned for future generations. Such a feat I had believed impossible. Never before has there been such a marriage of terms – future generations and senior citizens. I expect some editor walked around the CNN offices all day, fully aroused.
I can picture the journalists at CNN now, stuck in such a peculiar position that they were.
The GOP plan didn’t cut any benefits for existing seniors. It put the burden solely on the shoulders of those of us who are working today and going forward. What an inconvenience, to someone trying to create an uproar.
So if no current senior citizens are being affected, then how can you bring them up so that they imagine they’re being affected?
Future senior citizens.
Also known as you and me; the people who are still working and probably fully understand that these entitlements need to be planned and paid for by those of us who still have the time to plan and pay for them.
But it’s not just us, of course. Think of the children.
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That’s no “death panels.”
I wasn’t aware that the eccentricities of the right excused those of the left.
There’s no way in hell anyone can justify cutting programs for education, the elderly, poor, sick or unemployed while cutting taxes for the wealthiest taxpayers to the lowest levels they’ve been at since Eisenhower. Please, take the elevator down from your ivory tower and get real if only for a NY minute ….
Awaiting moderation …. haha, figures … wouldn’t expect anything less from a conservative republican espousing support for our boys and the constitution, Jeesh!
Say what? I don’t control the comments, Teahouse.
Oh, yeah I have no idea why the filter caught that comment.
I can easily justify cutting those programs, as I haven’t suggested cutting taxes. Taxes should probably stay at about where they are, for the meantime.
I really just don’t believe that these massive programs have done much good over the years. The number of the poor have not substantially decreased, and most of the money feels like it’s filtered into the pockets of the people running the programs. Throwing money around doesn’t really tend to solve problems.
The whole cutting taxes thing is an out and out lie being propagated by the spendthrift left and their easily gulled allies.
What Ryan proposes is simplifying rates, and getting rid of the myriad exemptions which actually lower rates artificially, if incredibly inefficiently.
If you make taxes simple and transparent, they will be paid far easier than via the trillion dollar knothole through which they traverse today.
But it’s very clear — we do not have a revenue problem, we have an expense problem. We are simply spending well beyond our means to that point that — even if we would posit that raising taxes would do nothing to the growth of this already fragile economy — even if we raised taxes precipitously, we could not pay off the current deficits, never mind the longer term accumulated debt.
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