OHdem10
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Fri Oct-08-10 12:32 AM
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Did you know the Tea Party rank and file Do NOT want Medicare |
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and Social Security, Safety Net Programs cut????
Happen to catch part of John Stossel who is Libertarian to the core. They were discussing balancing the budget and therefore budget cuts. He pops up w poll which 76% of Americans want spending cut. 76%, However when asked what to cut---very interesting answers. He checked every group in the poll. Republicans Teapartiers and Democrats all objected to cutting SS and Medicare. Of course he was dismayed.
To watch the Libertarian Activists posing as Teabaggers everyday on TV and to listen to the MSM I thought the the Teabaggers had the pitchforks and are ready to storm the gates cutting spending and getting rid ot those Social Programs. More and More it seems a group of Activists have pulled a fast one.
I knew ordinary working class Republicans will bail on the Republican Party. Rank and file working class Republicans confront the same issues in daily life as Democrats. If you have a family, you are greatful we have Medicare and SS for your parents. This would be a real burden trying to face it without any programs.
Conservatives on the Hill are much more Conservative than their constituents. And the MSM tries to tell us this is a Center Right Country. Center Right would carve away on these programs. It they keep kicking their Moderate Republicans out the Republican Party will go off the deep end in the next couple of years.
Republicans had better remember that Tea Party Activists earn or have inherited above average incomes. They do not seem to grasp that one half of this country makes less than 36,000 annually. They need to sit down and meditate on what it might be like to try to raise a family on less than 36,000 annually.
Back to the poll, did you not find this interesting. Now we know it is the upscale with Pitchforks who want to get rid of SS Medicare.
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Fri Oct-08-10 12:38 AM
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1. Get the government out of my Medicare... |
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Yeah, it seems pretty obvious that those folks don't want anyone fucking with their Medicare.
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Fri Oct-08-10 12:41 AM
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2. I thought most of them were on medicare |
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Edited on Fri Oct-08-10 12:41 AM by notadmblnd
Silly me.:crazy:
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OHdem10
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Fri Oct-08-10 12:57 AM
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3. you knew that and I knew that they benefit from Medicare. but |
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MSM and Republicans, TeaParty Activists on TV have left the impression and continue to promote the notion that the TeaParty wants the Programs cut. Angle has said she wanted the programs phazed out.
Rand Paul wants to change the program and make Seniors pay a 2000 dollar deductible. Oops he must have seen that polll. He is changing his position.
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Fri Oct-08-10 01:28 AM
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4. Very few people actually want |
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Medicare and SS to go away. If you talk to them, they'll say ... Something has to be done but I paid into it all my life so my age group should be left alone! I would imagine younger voters would be more concerned about reform, including lifting caps.
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Sherman A1
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Fri Oct-08-10 03:09 AM
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5. Oh, they want "THEIR" Medicare |
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It's YOUR Medicare that they don't want to see exist.
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Fri Oct-08-10 03:42 AM
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6. Your response is exactly it |
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They want their medicare, but you can go to hell you freaking freeloader.
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Fri Oct-08-10 08:32 AM
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10. Ding, ding, ding, ding. We have a winner! |
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Fri Oct-08-10 04:17 AM
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7. They all have medicare mobility scooters and scream cut social programs. |
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They're just stupid people shooting their self in the foot by voting in politicans that could care less about them.
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Fri Oct-08-10 04:30 AM
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8. Virtually all these idiots (meaning tea partiers) are benefitting from their government... |
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Medicare Social Security Government funded retirement Veterans Benefits ad nauseum
srsly, :wtf:
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Warren Stupidity
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Fri Oct-08-10 06:47 AM
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9. teanuts are just confused. |
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and angry.
They really do want the gummint to keep its hands off of medicare. That sums up their confused anger. Confused angry middle class political movements tend to be fascist.
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