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October 3, 2019
Abuse of power. they added as well, "what donald trump said on the south lawn of the white house was this elections equivalent was the famous russia, if youre listening moment of 2016. flies over truth and self over the country." those comments from the president came as he was leaving for florida where he signed an executive order involving medicare. this held a bit of a dual role as the presidents -- and also allowed him to go to the swing state of florida and attack medicare for all as he see...
April 6, 2018
Why was this -- why was it a push to get rid of the real narrative jihadism. the one thing i reportod after this was -- al-quaeda media -- on the online news out let they put out an alert want to to be jihadi telling them if you are going to launch an attack medicare sure that you dont do it on a minority group. piggybacking off of this attack they thought americans will only take the blame themselves if it is a hate crime. if you are to launch an attack that it is in the nature of jihad and aga...
April 14, 2011
All this rhetoric about the republicans hate seniors. the republicans are against social security. anthony, you and i know better than that. we may have different visions of getting there, but i think what we saw last friday night, the two parties can come together. we saw it back in december when your president voted to extend the bush tax cuts. now, i did not vote to extend the bush tax cut, but president obama who promised against it, he did. and today he said, now im against it. you know wha...
April 14, 2011
Ill use every penny i save from closing loopholes to do further tax cuts for people at the top by lowering their top rate. not the george bushs 35%, but all the way down to 25%. very big differences between these plans. >> howard, in the politics of the two plans, the white house sounds confident about their ability to win the medicare argument, but i would think that the republicans feel very confident about winning the tax argument, since the republican plan has a tax cut in it, and the tax cu...
April 14, 2011
Because theres no government tax level high enough to take care of medicare on its current path. >> congressman kingston, in your privatizing medicare plan, how much profit would be too much profit for an insurance company to make out of your private medicare plans? >> if we have enough choices for seniors, just like we have choices in a lot of products all around america, we wont have to worry about anybody getting the excess of profits, everyone will be competing against each other, and the ma...
April 14, 2011
>> they put that in, because they want it to be a united states citizen for hospitalization, medicare, this for, for that. >> his mother was an american -- [ bleep ] moron! good evening. president obama went to george washington university this afternoon. the plan aims to reduce our deficit by $4 trillion over the next 12 years. he proposed cutting 2 trillion from spending 1 trillion from taxes. including ending the bush era taxes for the wealthy. and the rest, the other trillion, would be rec...
April 14, 2011
Comparative. lets listen to what the president said about that. >> there but for the grace of god go i. so we contribute to programs like medicare and social security. >> congressman kingston, i can tell you in catholicism there are many catholic theologians who make that linkage from that phrase to government safety net programs. social programs like this. in your episcopalian faith, do you see connection between that phrase of there but for the grace of god go i and these kinds of government p...
April 14, 2011
Is the republican strategy, then you do not understand what youre up against. >> in the last decade, if we had simply found a way to pay for the tax cuts and prescription drug benefit, our deficit would currently be a low historical ledges in the coming yes. years. >> if we had simply found a way to pay for those things. the republicans had no intention of finding a way to pay for the medicare prescription drug benefit or the tax cuts. had they done that, there would not be today a republican le...
April 14, 2011
Reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in america. ronald reagans own budget director says theres nothing serious or courageous about this plan. theres nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending trillions of dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. and i dont think theres anything courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it, and dont have any clout on capitol hill. thats not a vision of th...
April 14, 2011
Then came newt gingrich and his spawn. in 1984, when bob dole had the temerity to suggest a tax increase could be necessary to reduce the deficit, just could be necessary to reduce the deficit, newt gingrich publicly called bob dole "the tax collector for the welfare state." now 21st century republicans have what they need to openly attack medicare, a budget crisis, a debt crisis, that both parties agree must be addressed, and two opposing budget plans. the ryan plan and the obama plan. the pres...