We Have Killed Medicare
Today April 15th, 2011 the Republican party minus 4 members voted to kill Medicare. In addition to the 4 republicans who voted NO every Democratic in the House voted against the Paul Ryan Republican Budget Plan. To those republicans who are drawing social security and medicare The Democrats will protect the foundations of your life and security even though you are too stupid to. Go on and continue voting for a party that has promised to destroy you. Keep wasting your vote on republicans who want to rescend your benefits and send the savings to the rich in the form of a tax break, reducing the top bracket to 25%.
Republicans and Tea Partiers at a Koch Brothers Sponsered Rally to Kill Healthcare
I never thought Americans were dumb enough to behave as they do today, being manipulated by the Koch brothers and other rich business owners to do their bidding and to sacrifice their lifestyle and their childrens lifestyle in service of the wealthy. Who do you think created the Tea Party?
Charles and David Koch, Ultra Right Wing Nut Jobs
The Senate will kill the Ryan Joke Budget before President Obama gets the chance to Veto it and you the dumbest of the dumb, senior and working class republicans will be saved from your own stupidity. I'd like to tell you what I actually think of you but the language would become a problem. Suffice it to say that I have more respect for a rotting head of cabbage than I do for republicans.
Republicans opposed Social Security when FDR created it and they have tried to kill it ever since and the story is the same with Medicare since LBJ signed it in. Your Moms and Dads and Grandparents and you (if you're old enough) have been served by these safety nets and now you vote for Republicans and support them killing the programs. There is no word for an ignorant low life like you.
Denny Rehberg
Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.), running for the Senate against Sen. Jon Tester (D), was one of four House Republicans who voted against Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget compromise on Friday, saying the measure was "rushed through" as he cautioned against changes to Medicare without further inquiry and input.
"Regardless of which party wants to change Medicare, either Democrats with Obamacare or Republicans through this budget proposal, it's always been my approach to listen directly to Montanans prior to any vote," Rehberg said in a statement.
"It's being rushed through with little to no public input. That's just plain wrong."
The Ryan budget plan was released on April 5 and includes significant changes to Medicare, including converting the program into a voucher-based system for people younger than 55. Seniors make up 14.5 percent of Montana's population, according to the 2009 American Community Survey one-year estimate, which was higher than the national figure of 12.9 percent. The plan is an attack on seniors and at some point even Republican seniors will open their eyes and become aware that the party they support is attacking them. They may be a little slow but eventually it will dawn on them.
Ron Paul
While many of his House colleagues headed back to their districts Friday for a two-week recess, Ron Paul flew north to New Hampshire, where he received a warm embrace for his “no” vote on Rep. Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget plan.
“We had two big bills, the CR and the budget,” Paul told a packed house at St. Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics Friday evening. “As a bit of information, I did not vote for the CR, and I did not vote for the budget. I did not vote for the budget because I don’t think it will do anything.”
The audience cheered for Paul, one of only four Republicans to vote against the fiscal 2012 budget, who gave a wide-ranging speech that called for a return to liberty.
Paul also assailed his fellow members of Congress, saying some of them had lost sight of what the Constitution means. “Everybody goes to Congress, everybody takes the same oath,” Paul said. “It seems like nobody knows what they’re doing.”
Walter Jones
The resolution passed 235-189, with no House Democrats supporting its passage. Just four House Republicans – Reps. Walter Jones, David McKinley, Ron Paul and Denny Rehberg – opposed the bill.
John Boehner
"I want to say congratulations to Paul and the members of the Budget Committee for a job well done," House Speaker John Boehner told reporters at a news conference leading up to the vote.
"This budget will bring more certainty to the American people, [and] show the American people that we're serious about cutting spending, because we all know that cutting spending will reduce some of the uncertainty that's causing job creators to sit on their hands."
Paul Ryan
Rep. Ryan, who is from Wisconsin, unveiled the "Road To Ruin" earlier this month.
The plan would cut spending by $6.2 trillion over the next 10 years compared to spending levels in the president's 2012 budget request. Ryan's plan also reduces deficits by $4.4 trillion, but takes several decades to balance the budget.
Republicans say the plan would save money by ending the Medicaid system, ending corporate welfare, privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and reducing discretionary spending below 2008 levels. And, over the long term, the GOP plan would destroy the nation's Medicare program, ending the government-run system that pays seniors' health bills and creating a system where seniors buy insurance plans with some help from the federal government.
Boehner said Ryan's budget proposal is "the first step in freeing up money for tax reductions in the top bracket of earners."
"I'm just hopeful that the president will begin to get serious about the long-term fiscal crisis that our country is facing. It's serious," Boehner said. "It needs to be dealt with now, and we owe it to the upper class American people, we owe it to our kids and grandkids to begin to cut spending and lower the top tax brackets and fold these programs so that we can end Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security."
The vote in favor of the budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., could prove politically perilous for some Republicans, who are insensitive to older voters who favor the current Medicare system. If the seniors ever wake up and realize what the Republicans are doing to them by ending the Medicare System it could be a rough day for Republicans.
Watch these cute little puppets while I take away your Medicare.
The Gop is pretty secure that they have the seniors snowed or they wouldn't stretch this far to create a tax break for the top bracket of tax payers. Republicans are so worried about same sex marriage and posting the Ten Commandments in schoolrooms and where Obama was born that you can take anything they have and they wouldn't notice. The Gop really knows how to distract their voters.
Once again Republicans voting against the Ryan plan were Reps. Ron Paul of Texas, Walter Jones of North Carolina, David McKinley of West Virginia, and Denny Rehberg of Montana.
In a February 2011 NBC/WSJ poll, half of respondents said that replacing Medicare with a voucher system was an “unacceptable” method to address the nation’s deficit, while 44 percent called the idea "acceptable."
Steve Israel
Rep. Steve Israel, the campaign chairman charged with leading the committee to elect more House Democrats in 2012 , said this afternoon that his party will use the vote in campaign ads against vulnerable Republicans who support the Ryan plan.
“We're going to hold every single Republican accountable for choosing to protect the special interest and turning their back on America's senior citizens by terminating their Medicare benefit.”
For days, I've been reading in the press about the "courage" of a Republican budget proposal that abolishes Medicare to pay for more tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and slashes investments in energy, education, and infrastructure.
President Obama
On Wednesday, I heard President Obama say exactly what I've been thinking: "There's nothing courageous about it."
The Republicans are pledging to cut investments to clean energy by 70 percent, education by 25 percent, and transportation by 30 percent. Their plan would see as many as 50 million people lose their health insurance in order to reduce the deficit. Instead of creating jobs, they want to create $1 trillion in new tax breaks for the wealthy.
Now, Don't You Feel Like a Dam Fool if You're Voting for Republicans ?
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