It’s The End Of Medicare As We Know It (They Feel Fine…)
ByFormal announcement in minutes:
NORFOLK, Va. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made his vice presidential pick official Saturday morning, announcing via smartphone app that he had chosen Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan.
In less than two hours, the two men will make a joint appearance at the battleship Wisconsin, a retired military vessel.
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Last year we found Florida voters opposed Ryan plan by 16 points, North Carolina voters opposed it by 23
UPDATE: from Social Security Works
How the GOP-Backed Ryan Plan Threatens Middle-Class Retirement Security
Quick Facts about Congressman Ryan’s Budget
Social Security Works page on Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for America
Republican Budget Creates a Fast Track to Cut Social Security and Ends Medicare as We Know It
Twitter: gordondsmith
says:
I don’t see how this pick helps him win the swing states. Especially Florida:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/11/2946098/how-paul-ryan-could-be-a-drag.html
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Twitter: dixiegirlz
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Well that’s a hail mary move on Mittens part.
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Android/Randoid 2012!
Contribute to Ron Zerban, running for Ryan’s WI seat, here: https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/26901
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Twitter: ascend(of asheville)
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They must have some calculus that says they can pick up enough in the mid west, northeast and south, but I’m not seeing it so far. I need to look at a map.
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Twitter: HendersonGOP
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Its a great choice in part because most seniors no longer believe the lie that any of these reforms are targeted at their age group (instead of future retirees) and because more and more of the working age middle class accepts the reality that the current system is a train wreck that they will get run over by.
Beyond that, young, Catholic, middle class, upper Mid-Western hunter hits lots of the right demographics.
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That might be true, Robert, if seniors cared only about themselves — but they don’t. They helped build our Social Security system and don’t want to see it dismantled. And they don’t care if the cuts are not targeted at their age group. They want it to be there for their children and grandchildren.
That is, they’re not buying the “Leninist Strategy.”
Even Republicans in Florida worry whether Social Security will be around for their kids:
In fact, seniors care deeply. So deeply, in fact, that one woman’s letter to Occupy the Boardroom reported that after the 2008 crash her mother and aunt became so despondent that if they lived on they would have nothing left to leave their children that “they chose to end their lives while they still had something to leave to us.” They committed suicide the same day in different towns in early 2009. (Not a hoax. I have the obits.)
Guess you’ll have to work harder on convincing the kids.
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For those of you Democrats that think Romney & Ryan are the only folks that are after Medicare, you may want to look at your own candidate a little more closely.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/07/obamas-second-term-agenda-cutting-social-security-medicare-andor-medicaid.html#ZseBhPX7MYeGqQtA.01
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