Bush Proposes Medicare Cuts
“People call it a cut in Medicare. It’s not a cut. It’s slowing down the rate of growth. It’s the difference between slowing your car down and going the speed limit or putting your car in reverse.”
George W. Bush, defending the Medicare cuts in his budget proposal.
Finally, some Republicans, not just John McCain, are realizing that this guy’s policies are bankrupt. This budget is going to fall into limbo and have to be re-worked. The cuts in medicare do not take into account the fact that the elderly community is growing, not shrinking.
This is just another shell in what I call the far right’s “revenge cannon.” The far right and the neo-cons don’t like these “entitlement programs” for individual Amercans, and would like to direct these dollars into tax cuts to the top one percent of the wealthy and corporations. Most of these programs were enacted by the Democrats in the sixties and Bush and his people feel it would be a real feather in his cap if he could “reform” them or do away with them outright.
So let’s put it into terms we can understand; Bush and his cult would like to see Americans at the lowest end of the economic spectrum in this country sitting in pain in their own feces, eating rats and sawdust bread and living in conditions that we haven’t seen since the turn of the century.
The fact that the GOP think that this is an “entitlement” program is so fucking bogus. The government is obliged to provide these programs because you and I pay for them out of our hard earned incomes. When they cut, the first thing they cut are prescription drug vouchers for the folks that most need them. They cut out assistance equipment for the handicapped, etc. This means that if you need a wheelchair, pain killer, sleep apnea equipment, yada, yada, you wont get them.
Why don’t we cut the military budget in Iraq? THE $7 billion he is proposing to cut from Medicare could EASILY come from there. How about getting more oil from Iraq? Oh, wait, that would be too easy.
Slowly, but surely, Republicans like Arlen Spectre are questioning bush’s bankrupt policies. I hope he can make others see the light.
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