Romney Chooses Medicare Slayer Paul Ryan as V.P. Nominee
In what has to be his first bold move Romney’s made since he began his run for President, Romney chose Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee. With Paul Ryan,
Ayn Rand has risen. Ayn Rand, the woman who espoused libertarian nonsense until she needed the government to pay her medical bills, is Paul Ryan’s hero.
Ryan boldly proclaims as his ethos replacing Medicare with a voucher program, and funneling tax dollars to the rich. And just in case you’re not familiar with Ryan, here are a few other things you should know:
According to Think Progress, Ryan wants to replace “the current tax structure with two brackets — 25 percent and 10 percent — and cut the top rate from 35 percent.” Ryan’s budget would cut mostly programs which benefit the middle class and the poor. His budget would not extend Obama’s tax cuts for the poor, but it would, of course, extend tax cuts for the rich. That’s who Ryan works for, and that’s what you should know.
In addition, Ryan wants to end Medicare and replace it with a voucher coupon. Seniors would be forced to purchase insurance from an exchange. What if no insurance company wanted to insure an elderly person? Oh well. Sucks for them. The Congressional Budget Offices estimates that new beneficiaries could pay up to $1,200 more by 2030 and more than $5,900 more by 2050.
But wait, there’s more. Ryan’s proposed budget also calls for an end to Social Security and pell grants. Where would all the cuts in Ryan’s budget go? To the rich in the way of subsidies and tax cuts. That’s Paul Ryan, in a nutshell.
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Denise:
When you lived through the recent massive cuts in spending and “Municipal Service Union Jobs” in:
* Detroit
* Newark
* Camden
* Atlanta
* Milwaukee
did it come to your mind to refer to the Progressive that had to make this tough decesion LEAST their respective cities go insolvent to call them “Slayers” in the same way that you do Paul Ryan?
I am puzzled why so many Progressive Fundamentalists are given to see the cure to such shortfalls as “Taxing The Rich” while many can’t bring themselves to see that in their “Mission Accomplished Zones” the fact that they have not produced more MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS to provide lower cost health care NOR have they established greater local economic propserity to keep their local facilities healthy.
In the past 10 years I have heard more Progressives brag about the abundance of physicians that the Cuban health care system produces in the name of Global Social Justice than they are able to enumerate the increase in physicians that have matriculated through the educational systems that they now dominate in the USA after the political take over where they live.
Paul Ryan doesn’t stand a chance of winning in ANY of the Mission Accomplished Cities listed above. They may have to lay off more workers, however, if the tax base does not start expanding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCN5-ovvFL0&playnext=1&list=PL9F44863A5F7D445C&feature=results_main
If enough people don’t go to the polls and vote against what these two Rep stand for we are going to be in real trouble especially the middle class and the poor. Their are so many people of color, middle class and poor believe that Our President haven’t done enough for them. Mitt is telling you that he will repeal health care and the other wants to get rid of Medicare something we retired Americian have put in a lot of sweat over the years to enjoy the money we put into it and Paul wants to cut it out and give Vouchers. This is another form of Welfair.
America before you go to the poll and vote look what you have and think about what will be taken away from you if you vote in Romney/Paul.
HA and people down Obama/Biden but are THESE idiots any better? LILLY WHITE and RICH is who is favored by these two.
I guess all the President’s bashers are smiling. Their going to get all WHAT President Obama won’t give to them. Ryan tax proposal will surely benefit all our Black, White and Brown people who just happen to be poor. Obamacare will be killed and Medicare sharply reduced in beneifits.
Trickle down, voodoo economics will be in vogue again and Tavis & company will surely see poverty in America disappear like it did during the Bush years…RIGHT!!!
I have worked many years and paid into Medicare. I am not old enough to collect. Paul Ryan wants to end Medicare, well DAMMIT, give me my money back.
We can’t just sit back and watch the fire works, We need to get involved. Donate what you can to the Obama Re election campaign, every week, and VOTE when the time comes to vote. The Rethuglican’s will surely that this Country Back to a time when all you have now will no longer exists, and it will be at the expense of The Middle Class, The Elderly, The Disabled, and The Poor. The filthy One Percent will not feel a thing.
Romney and Ryan: finally two people who are like the rest of us.
What white trash, I don’t think so! Well maybe like you REX lol you”re an idiot to the highest degree!
ask yourself WHY would the Republicans constantly keep shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to the poor, the working class — which includes the so-called now defunct middle-class — and the elderly
UNLESS the fix was already in?
sounds like the perfect recipe for throwing an election…
I agree with Paul H, it sounds like the perfect storm of a thrown election. Put nothing pass the rethuglicans, nothing….
It’s not the Republicans that are the problem, it’s BOTH parties.
The only way the Republicans would throw the election is if BOTH parties are working together for the SAME PEOPLE.
people need to wake up and smell the funk of a totally corrupt political system and drop the parties nonsense because we are being played for fools.
and so far we have been…
i often wonder why social security and medicare has an estimated bankrupt date of 2025 to 2035 and other social programs that help the poor and the middle class are unsustainable BUT NO ONE ASK WHY giving BIG OIL,BIG CORPORATIONS.WARS,CONFLICTS, BIG BANKS,WALL STREET,COUNTRIES LIKE PAKISTAN,OTHER COUNTRIES, THE FILTHY RICH,OUTSOURCERS OF AMERICAN JOBS. A BANKRUPT DATE TO STOP TAKING ABUSEING TAX PAYERS’ DOLLARS AND GETTING BIG RIDICULOUS TAX BREAKS. THE END DATE FOR THESE WELFARE KING PINS AND QUEENS SHOULD BE NOV6 2012 VOTE EARLY STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET OBAMA/BIDEN2012 and get some of the AMERICAN PEOPLE MONEY BACK!! ROMNEY/RYAN =PUPPET,REVERSE,RECKLESS!!! NOW GOP TEA PARTY RACIST HOLLA BACK AND DEFEND YOUR RIDICULOUS OUTRAGE SINCE U LIVE OFF OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE.soooooo dumb!!!
Watched the 60 Minutes interview tonight with Romney and Congressman Ryan. Many people are caught up with name-calling and not seeing what is happening with the strategy of this move. Pay attention to the body language, listen to how they’re responding to the media questions and avoid the hype.
Personally I hink that Willard and Paul are so far out of touch ith he working class that it is terrible. They can see no futher than the noses on their faces. With all that they have to offer, we the people of the United States must get out in November and vot for the Obama/Biden ticket. Lets move forwrd this year and show the Tea Party folks what the real deal is all about. GOD BLESS OUR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT and the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
GET OUR ALL OF YOU RED BLOODED AMERICANS AND OTE!! VOTE!! VOTE!!
vote for what and who? A hamburger with cheese VS a cheeseburger? The Obama administration extended EVERY SINGLE piece of legislation that the Bush Administration created
come on, even a blind man could see that neither party is working on behalf of the little people.
otherwise the Bush tax cuts for the rich would not still be in effect, nor would an Indefinite Detention Act be signed by the President, nor would there be three new “free” trade deals signed into law just months ago, nor would the US still be fighting the same wars Bush started. Come on, are we robots or thinking human beings?