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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts) Mon Nov 12, 2012, 04:14 PM Nov 2012

I must have watched the wrong election

So Obama wins, and 100% of TV talk is about all this entitlement reform we will get.

I kind of thought the entitlement reform candidate was decisively defeated.

I don't know that anyone voted for Obama because they were hankering for entitlement reform... but the TV machine seems quite excitied about it.

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I must have watched the wrong election (Original Post) cthulu2016 Nov 2012 OP

Since Social Security and Medicare are both self financing, hedgehog Nov 2012 #1

This corporate media needs to get a big comeuppance soon. Arugula Latte Nov 2012 #2

And NOT just FOX- They are all brazen liars RepublicansRZombies Nov 2012 #4

Did you watch the debates? Nye Bevan Nov 2012 #3

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)

1. Since Social Security and Medicare are both self financing,

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 04:17 PM

Nov 2012

why would we want to reform them anyways if we're talking about the Budget?

Unless the problem is that we financed George's wars by dipping into the Social Security and Medicare assets......

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)

2. This corporate media needs to get a big comeuppance soon.

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 04:19 PM

Nov 2012

RepublicansRZombies

(982 posts)

4. And NOT just FOX- They are all brazen liars

Reply to Arugula Latte (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 04:30 PM

Nov 2012

It is disgusting how far we have let them fall, on our public airwaves.

We have to do something to reinstate some standards in our media.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

3. Did you watch the debates?

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 04:22 PM

Nov 2012

“You know, I suspect that, on Social Security, we've got a somewhat similar position. Social Security is structurally sound. It's going to have to be tweaked the way it was by Ronald Reagan and Speaker -- Democratic Speaker Tip O'Neill. But it is -- the basic structure is sound,” he told the national television audience.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/260395-sanders-and-liberals-slam-obama-on-social-security

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