Thursday, April 11, 2013

GOP is NOT serious about anything other than winning elections

In a reprise of "Death Panels", which never existed in Obamacare, and the 2012 Presidential Campaign, where Romney/Ryan vowed to restore $700 billion in Medicare cuts, Representative Greg Walden, Republican Oregon and Head of the National Republican Campaign Committee, vowed to protect Social Security from President Obama's change in the inflation rate.

Social Security will eventually only be able to pay 75% of scheduled benefits without going into general revenues.  The change in the inflation assumption fixes somewhere between 5% and 7% of the gap and is a relatively painless way to accomplish that.  It slows the growth in payments, it doesn't reduce anyone's payment, like the AARP suggests.

Now, members of the GOP go after Obama for that minor change.  They would rather have Bernie Sander's approach which will require higher taxes?  I don't see them supporting that, so what do they support?

Unbelieveable!!!!
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2 comments:

  1. RedStateVTApril 13, 2013 at 5:58 PM

    Walden is dead wrong and is unlikely to be joined by any other Republicans. (And yes, there are some Democrats who are against the current gun control legislation.)

    Death panels? Well, there is language in Obamacare that talks about counseling seniors on "end-of-life" decisions......

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  2. Global ViewApril 16, 2013 at 6:16 PM

    There is nothing wrong with "end-of-life" counseling. Being an intelligent consumer is never wrong, particularly when somebody else is paying. Nothing in the law says anyone cannot be given treatments the Dr. and they think necessary.

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