If you're a senior citizen, you are a target of a planned misinformation campaign. Videos of Grandma being thrown off the cliff, and worse yet our own elected Congressmen and Senators will hold Town Hall meetings to tell you of the "dire consequences to you and the loss of your coverage".
You are smart enough not to fall for the kind of political party-based rhetoric, which is without substance and worse yet does not address the "real" problem. The real problem is that we cannot ignore the huge "Debt" of our State, or of our Country.We must find ways to live within our income. We all, no matter what our age is, need to start to educate ourselves and to get involved in the political process.
We're deep in debt, and it's partially our own fault. We voted people into positions of power, and we didn't pay enough attention to what they were doing, and how they were doing it. We're all tired of listening to the Politicians telling us "what to believe", when they've established a history with us of being "unbelievable" in what they say.
If you take the time, you can find out what's true and what's not.
HERE ARE SOME TRUTHS ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN PROPOSAL FOR MEDICARE REFORM
1. If you are 55 years old or older, "THERE WILL BE NO CHANGE IN YOUR COVERAGE, YOUR MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS WILL REMAIN AS THEY ARE TODAY"
2. If you're younger than 55, then over the next ten years there will be changes. Your payments into the system, will result in your receiving a check, or voucher, on retirement which you can spend to buy the kind of medical coverage you want. States will be forced to open their borders to competing insurance providers, and to eliminate many of the mandates they now insist our in State providers supply.
The Republican plan is almost a mirror copy of the medical plan Congress now has.
Should there be any doubt in your mind as to the accuracy, please e-mail me at bud_fay_8@msn.com, and I will supply information direct from Congressman Paul Ryan.
We, you and I, have been whipsawed from crisis to crisis. What we face today is a series of facts we can't ignore. Each of us, our children and grandchildren, owe between $40,000 and $50,000 toward the federal debt, and some $13,600 in State debt. This kind of spending must stop.
The Republican 2012 budget is a plan that will return some "common sense" to Government, rein in spending, reduce Government size, and atack the waste, fraud, and corruption that's been allowed to take place.
The Democratic plan, is to spend more, make Government larger, control more and more of your life, and unfortunately oppose the Republican plan, by attempting to "Frighten" us all into rejecting it. Our choice is whom to believe.
I choose to believe in the intelligence and common sense of the American people, they know when they are hearing the "Truth", and they know when they are not.
Somehow you have assumed that because I criticized Obama I am a conservative republican. Why not provide some facts that show how I am wrong about Obama’s failure to deliver rather than suggest that my view is just right wing nonsense? The partial list of areas that concern me is repeated below – feel free to use this list in your response pointing out the Obama accomplishments. • We are no closer to resolving issues with Iran and North Korea. • We haven’t even begun to address energy independence • Unemployment continues at 9%+ • Our national debt soars above $14 Trillion • We have failed to make progress with regard to illegal aliens • Partisan politics has never been worse
Now I get it - Obama deserves a 60% favorability rating because his failure to deliver is someone else's fault. Who exactly is supposed to "Lead" us out of this dilema? If it is not the president then we are hopelessly lost and the clock is ticking. Not too much more time needs to pass under these circumstances before America becomes a second string player in global afairs.
Obama and the democrats had a super-majority for 2 years... Why didn't they solve all these issues you speak of? Compromise... ha Compromise as defined by the Democrats is a joke.
Democracy isn't "compromise"- it's a tally of votes; and any people that are willing to compromise on their principles don't deserve such a fine system of representative government.
As far as compromise... If the liberals ask for a 120% percent and the republicans 'compromise' them down 20%.... what has been accomplished? You're pretense of compromise is a false question/idea, unfortunately many if not all of the republicans have bought into it - So we have progressives and then we have these fat-free progressives (republicans) all compromising on shit that the majority of Americans don't want. Now where do I sign up for more shovel ready projects?
The reason democrats can't use sound bites is because it's hard to wrap all those lies into 3 words, so they try to pose as nuanced and over educated. When in reality if they just said what they meant the slogans could be achieved... here's a perfect example, "Spread the WEALTH!" .... er....ah.... yeah Americans won't like that, so we'd better talk about something that hides it better. Here's another example, "increase revenues....." .... ah .... yeah everyone likes revenues right? Or even better, a 3 thousand page health care bill or a 70 thousand page tax code. Yep they're just so nuanced it's hard for the rest of us dolts to understand. That's a great argument, you guys... yeah, you're all just too dumb, so just do what we say. Slogans are easy when you mean what you say, not so much when you're trying to hide the truth. I'm not suggesting that you are hiding or lying, John, just that politicians do and are.
If you read my post again you'll see that I never claimed Bush signed that bill, nor did I give Democrats a free pass for their role. I apologize if I wasn't clear. I also recognize that George Bush was not alone. He had help from Congress and most of those people who are all of a sudden "conservative" budget cutters. I also got a good chuckle at your stereotyping of Liberals/Democrats. You sound like you might be an uneducated, corporate kool-aid drinking, teeth missing, Rush Limbaugh listening, Busch Light drinking, NRA member that still lives with his Mom in the trailer park. It's easy to label people without knowing them. In the end you're probably just like me. Your an ordinary guy who carries his own weight in society, but has a different opinion. My problem is with people who can't see that both sides spend. I would love an educated America with low taxes, less than 1% unemployment and little need for social programs. Add in clean air and water and you really have something. "We the people" better start compromising, if we ever want to see that type of America.
Big government produces waste and not much of anything else - period. History proves this out time and time again. Socialism does not work. Yet ignoring history and facts my liberal friends continue marching onwards towards utopia, because they somehow think they are smarter then everyone else. They know what we need, they understand 'betterment' and they can somehow do it better - not only better than every two bit idiot who's tried socialism, but every American running their own household. This is what irks me the most, and both parties are to blame. We the people better wake up, the party is over and the bill is due.... you can try raising revenues, but the bottom line is you don't have revenue issue, you've got a spending issue. Raising taxes to try and fix a spending issue is like creating Immigration reform without fixing the boarder.... it won't work, all the lies in the world won't change those 2 facts.
1.) Stop all farm subsidies 2.) Stop all Big Oil subsidies 3.) Stop tobacco subsidies 4.) Stop every other subsidies out there even if it hurts one of their corporate backers. If they truly believe in Capitalism, they would make these cuts, as their motto is: "everyone sinks or swims on their own" But of course we all know who pays the bills.
What's interesting is the Paul Ryan plan creates a solution, something NO ONE has even attempted to do. A solution that lets people over 55 maintain their current entitlements, after all they payed and were promised - those promises should be kept. It offers a solution, and yet... you libs would rather squabble and fear monger. Which of course makes sense, as the democrats have put great effort into creating this entitlement voting block. You're the party of big government and anything that reduces government (and thereby your potential gov't addicted voting block) is a evil thing. The democrats and to a large part the republicans would rather pander to welfare recipients and illegal aliens then go out and win the vote from free minded citizens. Which is one reason why this country is 1. Where we are and 2. Not going to get any better anytime soon.
Not to get to far off of topic considering that government cuts/medicare was the main topic. But since Ron brought it up. George W Bush also brought up the idea of returning to some form of the pre 1967 borders. http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080110-3.html. This policy is nothing new in fact it hasn't changed from Clinton to Bush to Obama. The 1967 borders have long been viewed as a starting point for peace negotiations. Republicrat or Demapublican view...what exactly is the difference here?
In the most recent example the administration has filed a complaint against Boeing for daring to choose to locate one of their plants in South Carolina (a right to work state) on the specious grounds that the move constitutes an unfair labor practice. This outrageous decision has put in motion a precedent that will destroy American businesses. One need only consider the fact that Obama has met more times with Union leaders in the White House than the Secretary of Defense or Energy Secretary to understand what is going on. The American public should be outraged - but they have hardly even noticed. As a final comment, I stand by my original assertion that based on Obama’s 60% approval rating Mr. Fay’s faith is misplaced when he says: “I choose to believe in the intelligence and common sense of the American people, they know when they are hearing the "Truth", and they know when they are not”.
I agree with your statements regarding Jeffrey Immeldt and GE. In fact true Progressives want Immeldt off the Presidents Job Growth panel. As for Haliburton and Blackwater still being used that is a shame. I would like to know more specifics regarding this matter. Do you have any agenda free, impartial sources where I could get more info? When were they contracted to do work? What other firms are capable of doing the job? Would be an interesting read. This is why the President should sign the executive order that discloses all political donations made by those who do business with the government, regardless of what party or persons are harmed politically. There is a lot of waste there. Can we agree that our politicians are on the take, and can we do something about it? Getting some of the big money out of politics would make it harder to automatically get elected over and over again. Especially since most of us are tired of the same old people getting elected time and time again.
Mike pointed out that you can google any topic. Wow that really narrows things down! That's fine if you want to sift thorough thousands of sites. I would like to see who or what publication Ron got his Obama-Israel theory from. Maybe a particular website or perhaps a book that you read from the local library would be great. Maybe a magazine? A talk show? What terrorist state have we sided with? We've been giving aid and arming countries with people that want to kill us for a lot of years. Yes even Conservatives have agreed to this budgeted aid. Getting back on topic, maybe we should cut some of this aid before we cut programs for our own people? What a concept. The military and economic aid to Egypt and Israel alone accounted for 4.725 billion dollars off of the 2010 budget. Total foreign military and economic aid totaled 11.778 billion dollars in 2010. It's apparently better to spend that money on foreign countries instead of the American people who are dealing with very tough times. Wow!
Are you capable of having a conversation without making assumptions? You somehow missed the part where I stated, maybe we should just be Israel's ally and get out of the mediator role. I simply stated that a mediator is impartial, and maybe we shouldn't play that role. With attitudes like yours there will never be peace in the world. And the other side (Muslims) have the exact same attitude I realized that sometime ago. Everyone thinks they're right and everyone else is wrong in your world and theirs. Everyone's religion is better than the other religions in the world. Have a good day Ron. God bless ya!