Teabaggers want to 'educate' us about Medicare

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With Medicare at the top of lawmakers' fall agenda, Tea Party movement leaders hope to ignite support for Republican plans to transform the popular federal healthcare program for the elderly.

Thousands of Tea Party movement activists are expected to descend this month on town hall meetings across key battleground states as part of an intensifying campaign ahead of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections.

Their priority is a plan to slash Medicare costs proposed by House of Representatives Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, which could gain momentum now that a debt-limit deal between President Barack Obama and Congress has made potential Medicare cuts a centerpiece of the deficit debate.

A new congressional committee charged with finding $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by November 23 is expected to focus on Medicare, and the program would see automatic cuts if the committee failed to reach agreement, or if Congress did not approve its recommendations by December 23. Market values of companies that depend on Medicare spending fell more than 10 percent in a sell-off on Wall Street after the agreement. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/03-9

One thing that needs to be brought up is if the Ryan plan is so good, why wouldn't it apply to those who are getting Medicare now?

teabaggers know we demand they fix it right so everyone can count on it when they retire, or they lose their Medicare too.

That's the problem. People that thought they could vote teabgger and sit back and watch everyone else's benefits get cut. I would imagine quite a few Democrats were relieved to see that 55 age in the Ryan plan as well. That's not gonna stand! You aren't going to see a guy that missed out by one year, going along with money being taken out of his check for a garbage plan. Not when his neighbor still gets the old deal. Not gonna happen!

more "Persuasive"?

Bad publicity/no publicity is what comes to mind.

see a teabagger come up against a senior citizen. The senior citizen will kick their asses.