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dogindia

(1,345 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2015, 01:22 PM Mar 2015

House Republican Budget Whacks Food Stamps And Medicaid

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/republican-budgets-whack-_n_6885122.html

i am speechless and horrified, sad beyond words.

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House Republican Budget Whacks Food Stamps And Medicaid (Original Post) dogindia Mar 2015 OP

I'm with you, dogindia. Bertha Venation Mar 2015 #1

It is time to find out if the recipiants voted. Voter apathy is half of the problem. Did they vote? TheNutcracker Mar 2015 #2

don't! run! on! chained! CPI! MisterP Mar 2015 #5

And unfortunately it is exactly what they told voters they were going to do. They got elected jwirr Mar 2015 #3

The only voice we have heard from has been Bernie. Wellstone ruled Mar 2015 #4

Gawd, I hate the Republican party!! Major Hogwash Mar 2015 #6

They enacted by some means a 21% deduction in Medicare payment for this year already. freshwest Mar 2015 #7

Bertha Venation

(21,484 posts)

1. I'm with you, dogindia.

Reply to dogindia (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2015, 01:36 PM

Mar 2015

Hunger. They will expand hunger in this country.

Food banks will not be able to keep up.

More people will line up for the meals at shelters, and those meals will become less substantial.

Kids who rely on school lunches will have even less sustenance on the weekends.

I try to do my part, but it's not enough. What an individual with limited physical resources can do isn't significant.

People in power -- Congress -- can make changes.

Oh, they're makin' 'em, all right. They're just going in the wrong direction.

I wish I had a better vocabulary. Right now all I can think of are epithets and curses.

TheNutcracker

(2,104 posts)

2. It is time to find out if the recipiants voted. Voter apathy is half of the problem. Did they vote?

Reply to dogindia (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2015, 01:36 PM

Mar 2015

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

5. don't! run! on! chained! CPI!

Reply to TheNutcracker (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 18, 2015, 12:37 AM

Mar 2015

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

3. And unfortunately it is exactly what they told voters they were going to do. They got elected

Reply to dogindia (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2015, 01:36 PM

Mar 2015

anyhow.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

4. The only voice we have heard from has been Bernie.

Reply to dogindia (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2015, 02:13 PM

Mar 2015

And he did warn the Nation as to what the Rethugs were up to. Best Campaign Slogan for Hillary would be,Don't touch my Social Security or my Medicade. Part of Newts Contract with America just a Redux.

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)

6. Gawd, I hate the Republican party!!

Reply to dogindia (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2015, 12:54 AM

Mar 2015

There, I said it.

They tried to privatize Social Security in 2004-2005 with Dubya campaigning across the nation.
Now they want to cut Medicaid.
They will go after Medicare next, you watch!

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

7. They enacted by some means a 21% deduction in Medicare payment for this year already.

Reply to Major Hogwash (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 18, 2015, 01:05 AM

Mar 2015

Next year, they go after recipients of Social Security who are retired by means of being too disabled to work. The ones that paid in for years for that insurance, they want to steal their premiums and their lives in many cases.

Rand Paul said they're just lazy, in so many words. The cut will be 19% to 20% in 2016. Hoping for a good fight, Sanders has presented two million signatures against it.

Nothing but crickets on MSM.

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