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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney/Ryan looking to split the Senior vote by appealing to the greedy-geazers...
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/08/13/romney-ryan-bet-on-greedy-geezers/The newly minted Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is placing a big and some might say cynical bet that the stereotype of the greedy geezer is real, that Americans now eligible for Medicare or close to it dont care that the popular health program wont be there for their children and grandchildren.
Since senior citizens vote in higher percentages than other demographic groups, Romney and Ryan are trying to split the current Medicare recipients away from those Americans in later generations. The reasoning goes: If todays seniors think that theyll still get theirs, they wont care that their kids and grandkids might be stuck with an inferior program costing each one more than $6,000 extra.
The Romney-Ryan calculation suggests the Republicans really do believe that todays senior citizens represent the most selfish generation in American history
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Romney/Ryan looking to split the Senior vote by appealing to the greedy-geazers... (Original Post)
matmar
Aug 2012
OP
We need to get the word out about the risk that all married OVER 65's are facing.
pnwmom
Aug 2012
#1
We are increasingly dealing with the Silent Generation here, less so the GI/WWII generation
bluestateguy
Aug 2012
#3
pnwmom
(109,000 posts)1. We need to get the word out about the risk that all married OVER 65's are facing.
The Ryan budgets, if approved, would mean financial devastation for millions of CURRENT Social Security recipients.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125172523
rocktivity
(44,580 posts)2. The "greedy geezer" game didn't work when Bush tried it
Amonester
(11,541 posts)6. Yep. And it won't work now. n/t
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)3. We are increasingly dealing with the Silent Generation here, less so the GI/WWII generation
The latter was more communatarian and civic minded. The Silent generation is by and large, as a majority, selfish and me, me, me.
Having said that, I'll take a "split" in the Senior vote anyday. a 50/50 split or even a 48/52 loss would be as good or better than last time for Obama.
msongs
(67,459 posts)4. that's not a very nice thing to say about the texting/ipod generation...
"The Silent generation is by and large, as a majority, selfish and me, me, me. "
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)5. They have their own issues too
and an attention span about the length of a tweet.