14-Year-Old Challenges Rep. Frank Guinta On Privatized Medicare: ‘What Am I Going To Do?'

[kpete]

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A 73-year old man stood up and criticized the plan to cut Medicare, which has become one of the most controversial aspects of the budget blueprint that was drafted by Representative Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, and approved earlier this month by the House.

“Why congressman Guinta?” he said. “Why in the world did you ever vote for the Paul Ryan Medicare plan?”

Guinta began to answer, by saying many of the changes likely wouldn’t be phased in in time to affect him.

“What about me?” shouted Joe Platte, an eighth grader from Stratham, NH. “I’m 14! What am I going to do?”

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/29/guinta-14-year-old-medicare/
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2011/04/guinta_faces_ro.html

[MineralMan]

1. Nicely played, Joe Platte!

Well done.

[Turbineguy]

2. “I’m 14! What am I going to do?”

What are you going to do? You're going to die young, that way you won't be mooching off social security for years.

[valerief]

3. That fourteen-year-old should move to a civilized country and get out of this

banana republic hellhole.

[PATRICK]

5. LIke, move to Red China

where the American jobs are exported like oil is from Saudi Arabia- and just as unsustainable.

[valerief]

8. No, a civilized country. nt

[dkf]

4. Does this 14 year old realize he is supposed to pay for this?

And that it will be an increasing expense as far as the eye can see?

Our young people need to be our biggest allies in the fight for single payer. They need to understand that there is no way Medicare as it stands will be there for them. Why is no one explaining this?

[valerief]

9. He may feel better when he realizes most of his money goes to WAR. Like most of ours. nt

[Silent3]

6. I think the best part of the video...

...at the ThinkProgress link is near the end, when Guinta tries to tell everyone to be civil and polite, and then a few people happily remind that hypocrite it's "a bit too late" for civility now when Guinta himself was put into power by loud, obnoxious, gun-toting teabaggers disrupting his predecessors town hall meetings.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. God, I love that kid.

[Javaman]

10. Oh, don't worry kid, the repukes have a plan for you too...

Republican Sets Out To Repeal The Ban On Child Labor
http://www.politicususa.com/en/republican-child-labor

The State Senator, Jane Cunningham (R-Chesterfield), introduced S.B. 222 last week and gave a litany of reasons why child labor laws are bad for children and parents. The woman is absolutely certain that current restrictions are “implying that government can make a better decision than a parent.” The current law in Missouri bars regular employment of children younger than 14, and imposes strict restrictions on children age 14 and 15, including the hours they are allowed to work and they are required to have signed permits from the school they attend. Cunningham says the law burdens schools with the responsibility of deciding if a child can work or not, but it is not a responsibility issue. Schools have a responsibility to the student to give them the best opportunity to succeed and if a child is failing or struggling to keep up with their studies, it doesn’t make sense to allow them to work when they should be studying.

Much much more at link...