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gdblackthorn
Awesome! This is how Republicans should be doing things! People need to hear the truth! If people don’t believe that Paul Ryan is telling the truth, then they can just read the bill for themselves!
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Mike Leavitt
I am SICK about how the rest of the GOP leadership is so limp wristed on this issue. When was the last time anyone heard The Speaker or the The Senate Minority Leader speak out on this? Bunch of jerks!!! They are letting Ryan fight this single-handedly… and Paul Ryan is is single-handedly “WINNING!”
Paul Ryan for President!
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sDee
Ryan is great and we should give him credit (I wish his budget was about half again the size though!).
But, charts and graphs won’t win hearts and minds. Elephant leaders need to tell the truth – that the corruption in DC broke Medicare, Obamacare covers the crimes with more deceit, and that it all ends very badly for seniors unless we replace socialized medicine with privatized options like high-risk insurance pools.
The Elephant herd is letting Ryan swing out on the branch because they do not really want to fix and phase-out socialist programs like Medicare either. It is a one party system and that system needs to grow government to thrive.
This is exactly what happened when we tried to phase over Social Security to a private model. The case was even more clear cut and easier to understand for Social Security but the demagogs won, and preserved another of their foundational Statist programs.
Ryan will continue to be demagogued so the DC parasites do not have to give up Medicare or its more sinister replacements in Obamacare.
We have to get rid of more Progressive Republicans. We need a leader in the White House who will kick ass, tell it like it is, and give people like Ryan and Bachmann power to get things done.
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bigdaddyt
i agree totally with everything you said except the last statement. “Paul Ryan for president”. leave him where his is he inflicts enough damage on the far left tree hugging fema-nazi libs. if there is one senator, rep. that makes thier collective heads explode it’s Ryan.
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Mike Leavitt
I’m with you. That last sentence, was more of a protest statement against our Republican leadership. I can’t believe what complete asses they are. It’s in their DNA to make deals with the devil (dems) and lose EVERYTIME!!! (See “The John McCain Doctrine”)
Our country is in the midst of a New World Order (called the “Tea Party”) and they are acting like it’s 1991 and they still have to wipe Tom Foley’s butt for him!
I wish Ryan’s plan went further than it does, but it is a serious plan and he is defending it alone.
John Boehner and Mitch McConnell can go to hell for not supporting Ryan’s plan! I know they say they do, but when the going gets tough they show their true leadership skills and stick their tails between their legs and start crying like a homosexual on Brokeback Mountain.
I think their new theme music ought to be “Secret Agent Man!” Good trait for a spy, not so good for the Speaker of the House with the future of the country (not to mention their party) at stake.
Where ARE YOU! (you…you… you… – think Grand Canyon echo)
Let’s just kick the worthless bums out.
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bigdaddyt
you are correct!!!!! and well versed wish more were. the problem is there are way too many sheeple following the LSM and are happy with the destruction of our country. i am a dye in the wool republican and always will be. with that said we need to kick both parties in the a$$ and tell them WE ARE AWAKE. if you haven’t already i urge you to watch the latest Cain video on here. this is the type of Gov. we need a true citizen’s Gov. of the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE, and by the PEOPLE.
Cain/West 2012
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Rshill7
How do those other republicans stand erect when Ryan is the only one with a backbone?
Ooooh, I know…extra heavy starch in their shirts?
What a bunch of wieners. Anthony must be feeling like a proud member of a congressional cookout right about now. I’ll bet he, his cohorts, and his constituents ‘relish’ that.
They’re all saying ‘bite me’ to concerned American voters.
Hello! This debt is unsustainable! Oscar Mayer would recognize it! Why can’t you???
Great job by Ryan. I read a quote by Dick Cheney where he said he “worshipped the ground Ryan walks on”. Wow. That’s some sound ground.
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http://twitter.com/#!/TheOrangeShaman Orange Shaman
Don’t save Medicare. End it.
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sDee
All the ugly stuff about Medicare and Obamacare that Ryan is exposing may sound bad to us but it is Nirvana for the DC political class and their lobbyists.
We assume DC wants to make this better. We continue to make the naive and foolish assumption that politicians work on Federal medical programs because the actually care about the American people. The political class could care less if we choke on our own vomit and will gladly spend $100K to let us do so.
The more money that is spent and the more control they can garner, the more they will push it. Ryan is spitting into the DC wind.
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Conservative_Hippie
Medicare for Dummies, like me
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Rshill7
You take that back right now Mister! Nobody calls my friend a dummy…including you
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Persephone
I heard Huckabee mention something about Medicare having an ‘Expiration Date’ the way it is now.
That is a good way to put it.
Ryan needs to start explaining it that way.
‘Expiration Date’ is a simple phrase that people understand.And Obamacare is scheduled to make the biggest Medicare cuts…ever.
We are counting down to that.
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Rshill7
Perse. Oh yes, they are making their cuts. Let’s see, 500 billion right? Not only that, they are counting that half a trillion dollars twice. Why not? The irresponsible left are never held to anything are they(?) i.e., if you don’t include that book by Marx, which they hold close to their respective breasts. It reminds me of a little song I wrote 2 minutes ago with a familiar Christmas tune:
Ahem…maestro, please…
They’re making big cuts, and counting them twice, gonna find out who’s naughty and nice, Adam Smith is coming to town.
He knows that Keyne’s a doomus, his failure never wanes, and if he wasn’t smart enough it’s because he had no brains!
Ohhhhhhh you’d better watch out, watch the dems whine, and this represents my final song line…Adam Smith is coming to town.
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Persephone
Hi Rshill….*waves*
Nice lyrics!
There would be some loud braying if we had a new sheriff in town like Smith.
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Rshill7
Heck yes! I’d like to see Adam Smith’s famous “invisible hand” reach out and touch some of these…right upside the hatracks and hairdos.
“Hey, who did that? Who did what?”
It’s invisible.
…have a great day Ya’ll!
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Jaynie59
The Republicans should be referring to the 15 member board as a “Death Panel”. I won’t hold my breath.
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sDee
They must not demagog but must get aggressive with the sound bytes. It is all people remember, sadly.
I am beginning to believe the reason our Statists smugly mock the “death panel” notion is because, unlike true central government socialized medicine, Obamacare does not need a death panel.
Obamacare mostly leaves private insurance companies and providers in place. All the controllers in DC need to do is cut back on what they are willing to reimburse and how many pennies on the dollar. Not being allowed to turn a patient away, the providers will have to self-ration care and withhold treatment in order to avoid losing money.
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odin147
The new line of attack the dems have against the Ryan plan is as follows:
seniors don’t medicare to change and they don’t want their children to have access to the voucher system as the voucher system sucks.Two problems Ryan care does not change Medicare for seniors, as for the voucher system…I believe these ‘children’ are adults and will be up to them to decide if the want to join the voucher system, it is a choice they have to make not the seniors.
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odin147
problem is that medicare, social security are centralized solutions, and centralized solutions do not scale well, this is known in academia.
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odin147
great job Ryan…wish more folks were like him…
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gothicreader
How hard is it to explain to the masses that Medicare is defunk?
What more does a person need to know to make an informed decision?I think we have two problems, 1 – it’s all about self-interest and 2 – the folks have no clue on what’s going on.
If it’s #2, then they should stay home and not vote.
Com’on folks – the writing is on the wall what more do you need!
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odin147
this is an old debate….we keep having and will keep having in the future…what is the role and responsibility of a citizen, should a citizen be responsible for paying his health care costs, or should the state, classic debate between the conservative and the liberal.
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steprock
A DEM co-worker of mine said that end of life counseling should be given to the elderly so they won’t be a drag on “the system.” She talked about Senior dignity and greater good. Then she said that as soon as someone mentions end of life counseling it gets unfairly branded as a death panel.
Amazing. She’s a very smart person, but has bought in to this Communist system hook line and sinker. I mean, end of life counseling is NOT a death panel? Letting old people die is dignity? I asked if you had to just let nature take its course or did you have to take action and kill them.
Another co-worker (with an elderly father) said that the elderly paid in their whole lives to “the system” and deserve it. She answered that if people wanted to use their own personal money, it’s fine.
See, the whole issue is that health care becomes “public” and if you use it, you’re draining the “public” system. It’s Communism! How complex is that?
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http://www.youtube.com/user/artfromtex?feature=mhee artfromtex
Great vid. Put it on your Facebook, people.
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22227
Excellent.
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Goldni007
Guys don’t laugh at what I’m about to say. But goto this video on Youtube and get into the debate on the comments section. I know…I know it’s Youtube and their sophomoric MTV crowd comments section. And it is aggrevating with the character limit, but we HAVE GOT to defend this guy! No matter where!! I know we aren’t gonna change alot of minds, but we have to engage the idiocy, combat them and stand up.
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KenInMontana
If “they” don’t get it after watching Ryan explain it, it’s because they don’t want to get it. They will only “get it” when they pull out their Medicaid or Medicare card out to use it and are told that the card has been declined for “insufficient funds”. It will really sink in when their SSI check bounces, then they can thank Dingy Harry and his accomplices.
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elmerfud71
Ryan is educating us in ignorance. If you don’t want someone to focus on the real issue, you educate them about a side issue. It appears that Ryan is the one who was chosen to be the front man on financial issues. It is blatantly clear that he is missing the mark on purpose. Either that or he is actually ignorant as well. This was a nice little tutorial, like you might see in a government office playing on the telescreen.
“We have a little problem that we can solve by tweaking the system a little bit”. “All we have to do is structure it a little different”. “If we can just let people pay for their own medical costs, we can make health care affordable through competition and free markets”.
What a load of crap. What about the elephant in the room, Paul? Can anyone say “hyper inflation due to the crashing dollar caused by debt spending and money printing”?
Our money is worthless, and the world is waking up to it. Until we have sound money, none of this garbage matters because it will all end when the dollar crashes, and we go into a perpetual, deep depression. That won’t take ten or twenty years to happen.
Ryan is either a blithering idiot, or he is stringing people along so they won’t know what hit them.
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bigdaddyt
Ryan is educating us in ignorance. If you don’t want someone to focus on the real issue, you educate them about a side issue. It appears that Ryan is the one who was chosen to be the front man on financial issues. It is blatantly clear that he is missing the mark on purpose. Either that or he is actually ignorant as well. This was a nice little tutorial, like you might see in a government office playing on the telescreen.
“We have a little problem that we can solve by tweaking the system a little bit”. “All we have to do is structure it a little different”. “If we can just let people pay for their own medical costs, we can make health care affordable through competition and free markets”.
What a load of crap. What about the elephant in the room, Paul? Can anyone say “hyper inflation due to the crashing dollar caused by debt spending and money printing”?
Our money is worthless, and the world is waking up to it. Until we have sound money, none of this garbage matters because it will all end when the dollar crashes, and we go into a perpetual, deep depression. That won’t take ten or twenty years to happen.
Ryan is either a blithering idiot, or he is stringing people along so they won’t know what hit them.
******************are you kidding me???? Ryan is one of the most consistant reps in a long time. he doesn’t flip flop or turn on his people like so many others do. from his first day he has said and continues to say we have to tackle this problem head on. the biggest amount of money in the spending/deficit is on these entitlement programs. we need to reign these in. the problem is and has been since Carter that they have been raping the funds from these programs for their own purposes. that’s why medicare is in trouble today. reign these in first as well as the other parts of ryan’s plan to cut $620 Billion a year is a good start. we need to curtail spending now. he himself said and continues to say he is willing to hear and discuss alternatives or changes to his plan. the dems have offered nothing…. nothing but complaining when someone has the backbone to stand up and offer a plan. have the dems offered up any solutions???? cue the crickets churping.
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Josh
He is trying to educate people like you… Why are we in financial crisis? (Spending) What are we spending 17% of our money on? (Medicare) We need to reform it.
Yes, our dollar is going down the tubes, but YOU have to understand what HE is trying to do… You can’t just fire the government and start over (although I would like to), you have to start somewhere. The Dems want to start with saving $100,000 dollars in paper clips. Ryan is talking to the tune of $620 BIllion per year.
The biggest issue he faces? People don’t understand that Medicare will be bankrupt. Like KenInMontana stated, “It will really sink in when their SSI check bounces…” and not a moment sooner.
Paul Ryan breaks down how to save Medicare
This is excellent. Please pass this around.
Paul Ryan first explains what is wrong with Medicare, why the costs are too high, and then explains how the President wants to fix it versus how Republicans are proposing to fix it.
This is exactly the kind of stuff Republicans need to be doing and I’m glad to see such a high level of quality coming out of the House Budget Committee. They really need to get this on TV somehow or it needs to go viral or something. This is what Americans need to see.
“This video lays out the clear choice our nation faces on Medicare: Will Medicare become a program in which a board of bureaucrats manages its bankruptcy by denying care to seniors? Or will leaders work together to save and strengthen Medicare by empowering seniors to choose health care plans that work best for them, with less support for the wealthy and more help for the poor and the sick? House Republicans have advanced solutions to save Medicare. Instead of working with us, the leaders of the Democratic Party have opted to play politics with the health security of America’s seniors.”
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How do those other republicans stand erect when Ryan is the only one with a backbone?
Ooooh, I know…extra heavy starch in their shirts?
What a bunch of wieners. Anthony must be feeling like a proud member of a congressional cookout right about now. I’ll bet he, his cohorts, and his constituents ‘relish’ that.
They’re all saying ‘bite me’ to concerned American voters.
Hello! This debt is unsustainable! Oscar Mayer would recognize it! Why can’t you???
Great job by Ryan. I read a quote by Dick Cheney where he said he “worshipped the ground Ryan walks on”. Wow. That’s some sound ground.
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Medicare for Dummies, like me
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You take that back right now Mister! Nobody calls my friend a dummy…including you
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Hi Rshill….*waves*
Nice lyrics!
There would be some loud braying if we had a new sheriff in town like Smith.
Ha!
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