Bernie Sanders Pushes Back Hard Against The GOP Plan To Cut Social Security and Medicare
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/19/bernie-sanders-pushes-hard-gop-plan-cut-social-security-medicare.htmlBernie Sanders Pushes Back Hard Against The GOP Plan To Cut Social Security and Medicare
By: Jason Easley
Friday, December, 19th, 2014, 7:03 pm
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is pushing back hard against a Paul Ryan inspired Republican idea to cut both Social Security and Medicare next year.
In a statement Sen. Sanders (I-VT) responded to House Republicans who are already pushing for cuts in Medicare and Social Security, “At a time when poverty among seniors is increasing, and millions of elderly Americans lack sufficient income to buy the medicine or food they need, it would be a moral outrage for Congress to cut Social Security. In fact, instead of cutting Social Security benefits, we should be expanding them….I will also fight the Republican effort to end Medicare as we know it and convert it into a voucher program.”
Sanders was responding to comments by incoming House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) that he will pursue cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Price’s blueprint is the Ryan budget which calls for $129 billion in cuts to Medicare.
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Earlier in 2014, Sanders called the Ryan budget vulgar and obscene, “The problem with the Ryan Budget is that it is so vulgar, so obscene, so out of touch with what the American people want and need that it is literally hard to believe, hard to believe. The richest people in this country are doing phenomenally well. The Ryan budget substantially lowers taxes for millionaires and billionaires. Working families and low-income people are struggling. The Ryan budget makes savage cuts in nutrition programs, in education and healthcare. It does exactly the opposite of what the American people need, and what the American people want, and as you indicated, this is a continuation of the war against the middle class and working families that the Republican Party has been mounting and fighting for a number of years now.”
It appears that Harry Reid promoted Sanders to the budget committee for the purpose of taking on Paul Ryan and the other Ayn Rand followers who are dreaming of killing beloved and needed social programs. The promotion of Sanders to Budget Committee was the beginning of a nightmare for Republicans.
Republicans can dream of cuts to Medicare and Social Security, but the fact is that Bernie Sanders and the Democrats will continue to stand in their way.
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And many here are doing it day after day trying to paint president Obama as the "bad" guy, or blame him for everything, even if it never happens, they keep on doing it. It's really easy to make things up and post it, but not so easy to "PROVE" it, and that's why those who do it just ignore the facts and keep on making things up. I guess as long as some here will believe it, they can keep on doing it, kind of like with fox news. 
No way he'd get elected with an R behind his name, though.
And I don't hate him. Seriously, I don't. He's just not the president we needed to clean up the mess this country is in. Bending over for the repukes to ram it in is killing us.
I've been trying to hold on until I can draw SS, and it's beginning to look more and more like it will be gone before I hit 62, or they'll change the goal posts on me again and I'll have to wait longer. Come February, it's only five more years until I can draw. Maybe. 
haven't you seen all those DU posts telling us so?
I wonder where all of those 2008 voters went?
revolution right now.
Mass economic resistance by the 99% is a the only form of protest and direct action that can effectively strip the plutocrats of their position and power over us. We are their milk cows, and if we don't allow them to them milk us, we starve them.
A massive general strike, boycott, moratorium on paying bills, etc, and simply staying home and doing nothing, is the only plausible method I can think of that can remove the plutocrats from power. The cops cannot brutalize us with impunity if we are simply staying in our houses not working or buying anything, These types of actions on a mass scale would either lead to an opportunity for negotiation, or we will cause the markets to permanently collapse. Billionaires will lose billions in a matter of days or weeks. They can't imprison us if we refuse to work, buy things, or pay bills.
Yet.
If we do nothing, or rely on this political system that they totally own to make the changes necessary for our comfortable survival, we will lose everything, and end up living in a box by river until they decide it is time to euthanize those of us they haven't starved to death.
The current system will inevitably lead to "Elysium" on earth. This is the logical progression of the current political and economic processes, unless we kick the 1% to the curb, take over the factors and means of production, and begin to govern ourselves in a way that supports life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone.
Seems to be what Brownback, Perry, and other Republican governors are trying to establish by doing away with taxes and public services, denying Medicaid expansion, and making life generally miserable for the poor and minorities in their states. "If they don't like the taste of dirt then they can move to a welfare state," Scrooge snarled.
Gated communities are apparently not enough for today's exclusionists. It's on to greater things: gated counties, gated states, and maybe someday a gated nation of nothing but blessed oligarchs and a few servants. Elysium or bust!
