Campaign battle focuses on Ryan's Medicare redesign

Source: NBC News

The day after Mitt Romney’s selection of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate, it was clear in the debate on Sunday talk shows that Ryan’s plan to redesign Medicare for future retirees will be a primary focus of the campaign.

In comments on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Ryan’s plan was far preferable to what President Barack Obama had done and would do to Medicare.

Going on the counter-offensive, Priebus said “If any person in this entire debate has blood on their hands in regard to Medicare, it’s Barack Obama. He’s the one who is destroying Medicare; we are the ones that are offering solutions” to preserve Medicare benefits for people who are at or near retirement age and to make the program fiscally sustainable for future taxpayers.

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Priebus argued that, “If we go down the road this president wants to go down… Medicare will be changed forever: it will be bankrupt by 2024. Medicare is going broke. Every person in America watching this now knows that that’s true.”

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Fresh off the Sunday talk shows. Republicans are saving Medicare by destroying it and replacing it with voucher care, because we must keep our current tax cuts to the rich, which means that there will not be enough money to pay for Medicare.

So, lets see whether the public buys the logic that we need to burn the village in order to save it.