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To: Alighieri who wrote (699547)	2/17/2013 12:45:02 PM
From: steve harris	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1577903

Democrats cutting $716 billion from medicare to pay for Obamacare didn't bother them did it?

To: Alighieri who wrote (699547)	2/17/2013 1:09:39 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577903

>> Try telling that to seniors who depend on SS and Medicare and see how far that gets you as a politician. Democrats have done nothing to make these programs more sustainable. Now, it is a fact that politically, they can't come out and say it. But that is a fact. GWB proposed changes to SS that would have vastly improved the program and its fiscal condition. The political heat raised by Democrats was so intense that even Republicans wouldn't support it. Had that been done, today SS would be moving toward fiscal stability. Obamacare is devastating for Medicare and Medicaid and, as Benjamin Carson pointed out a couple weeks ago, it was essentially a move 180 degrees in the wrong direction (his suggestion in that speech in regard to HSAs was undoubtedly one of the best ideas I've ever heard for getting American health care back on track -- if my intuition is right, he's starting a run for the presidency and he would be a great candidate that Democrats would try to rip to shreds -- a man at the upper limits of accomplishment and intellect). It isn't all about Democrats, though. Republicans in Congress are mostly weak, too. They at least give lip service to cutting spending, but government needs to be cut substantially -- entire departments eliminated or scaled to a fraction of the current size. Few are willing to take the political heat that would be generated. So, I'm grateful for every bit of obstruction the Rs can create.