The republican's very own Eddie Munster look-alike from Wisconsin, Paul Ryan, was making the rounds on the telly today talking about how Medicare is an evil entitlement that needs to be slashed because it is such a large contributor to the deficit. This, of course, is total horseshit.
Now bear in mind that this is the very same Paul Ryan that has voted for every single tax-cut for big business and wealthy individuals on the backs of the poor and middle class. His brilliant idea is that instead of folks getting ordinary Medicare, they should get government vouchers instead, and use those to go and purchase their own insurance. This in spite of the fact that the most recent experiment with that concept actually wound up costing the consumers 14%
more than if Medicare would have handled it themselves. Apparently this evil little munchkin thinks that making poor people pay more for access to health care is a good thing.
He is also one of the right-wing nutjobs that continue to push for the privatization of Social Security by putting Wall Street in charge of our retirement funds. You know, the same bunch of geniuses that drove the US economy off the edge of cliff. What could
possibly go wrong there...???
Bottom line is this,
Eddie Munster, sorry, Paul Ryan is merely the freshest face being put forth to try and achieve what the republicans have always wanted to do, repeal all of FDR's safety net and return this country to the days of the robber-barons when the rich got richer and everyone else got fucked.
But here's the biggest worry for me. The guy in the Whitehouse has already said he's willing to 'negotiate' with these assclowns about this and other 'entitlement issues' (as though they were free handouts), and the last time he 'negotiated' with them, we went from a top-down overhaul of the health care system that would have revolutionized the way people get access to medical help, and instead wound up with a watered down weak-kneed deal that is nothing more than a gift to the insurance companies on a silver platter.
It will be interesting to see if this turns out to be a line in the sand for the WH and the Dems, or whether they cave (again) like a deck of cards. I am not exactly brimming with confidence that it will be the former..
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