In all, 175 House Republicans endorsed a plan that would end Medicare as we know it and slash Social Security by raising the retirement age. They are members of the
discretionary spending. right. mark.: entitlements, so-called ab have a different path of funding people pay to socialo security, there is a trustfund fund. an d medicare and that is a trust fund.ha veterans administration, those, funds they are entitlements. we re not talking aboutth those request quote, unquote shutting down the government. no,rnme. you hit a debt ceiling but you have until june to deal with it, weea have billions, now is the time to sit down and find reasonable plate places to eliminate the wasteful spending. do you think we should send millions in tunisia to makea sure they have tourists to go there? is this the appropriate time? we have a president that thinks there is not oney dollar you can save.
what his agenda was, it was not to cut social security or medicare. but to end social security, end medicare, end medicaid and the epa and the kept of the environmental protection agency. beak he wanted to eliminate virtually every program developed since fdr designed to help working people and the middle class. that is their agenda. and to tell you the truth, you know, 30 years have come and gone, i don t think that agenda has changed at all. what these guys are doing is spending unbelievable sums of money, $900 million of this campaign psych to support right wing candidates who are going to war big-time against working families and the middle class. i do not think the koch brothers want to make life better for ordinary people. there was this study that has been getting a lot of attention, was published yesterday. we just talked about it just a few moments ago. i talked about it in which the