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Cutting Social Security, Medicare, and/or Medicaid

By seanpatrick   Follow   Sun, 29 Jul 2012, 12:54pm   249 views   3 comments
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
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1. iwog Follow Befriend (48) 274 threads 12,556 comments 47 male Lafayette, CA Premium

   1   5:39pm Sun 29 Jul 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike (1)   Protected   The congressional deal to raise the debt ceiling contains automatic cuts to Medicare and Medicaid that are out of the hands of congress. (supposedly) However they are minor when compared to other budgetary items and will affect a tiny number of American citizens. On the other hand, the Ryan plan basically ends Medicare and rips away most social spending leaving a barren landscape of unemployed struggling to make ends meet circa 1932. Those who continue to pretend that there is no difference between the two political parties should certainly vote for Romney, because your educational seminar is coming.

2. zzyzzx Follow Befriend (9) 416 threads 4,137 comments Baltimore, MD

   2   9:29am Mon 30 Jul 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   What this means is that term two of the Obama White House will be organized around cutting entitlements. This is laughable. Why would Obama upset his base by doing this?

3. iwog Follow Befriend (48) 274 threads 12,556 comments 47 male Lafayette, CA Premium

   3   9:41am Mon 30 Jul 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Protected   Food stamp rules have been pretty much unchanged since Reagan. I'm not sure why you want to hang Obama with this. It's Republican policies, many of which congress is blocking Obama from changing, that caused so many people to need food stamps.