Obama is a Rethuglican.

[thundley4]

Triana   (1000+ posts)             Thu Jan-21-10 09:20 AM
Original message
Obama Cuts Deal To Reduce Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid (HELLO. THIS is NOT a Democrat!)
   

I have to say, again, that Obama was NOT my first choice. And further, that we've been HAD. Hoodwinked. THIS is not the type of policies a DEMOCRAT - a REAL Democrat - by any definition of one I've ever seen, would promote:
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"Hopes for any pretense of liberal change from the Obama administration collapsed yesterday, and not only because of the election in Massachusetts. While the Massachusetts voters were casting their ballots to install the upstart Republican Scott Brown to Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, the White House was hammering out a closed-door deal to cut entitlements. Obama won the support of Democratic leaders for a plan to issue an executive order that would inevitably lead to reductions in Social Security, and especially Medicare and Medicaid.

The plan represents a capitulation to conservatives in both parties, and would leave Democratic liberals accepting unconditional surrender not only on health care, but on the most basic of all New Deal programs. As hopes of even a tepid health care reform wane, the effect of this plan, if accepted by Congress, will be to undermine the only single-payer health care programs this nation has ever known–Medicare for elders, and Medicaid for the poor. As an attack on entitlements, it has the potential to go beyond anything the Reagan and Bush administrations were able to achieve."

MORE...

http://unsilentgeneration.com/2010/01/20/obama-cuts-dea...

http://www.democraticunderground.com//discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7529853

Tailormyst (738 posts)           Thu Jan-21-10 09:21 AM
Response to Original message
1. I don't even know what to say
   
I hope this is just a false rumor.

Apparently you found something to say.

peace frog   (1000+ posts)           Thu Jan-21-10 09:26 AM
Response to Reply #1
6. Obama would be the perfect president
   
to undertake it. A Democratic president cutting entitlements? Well then, it must be necessary, right? Right?? Of course it must! A Democratic president would not cut entitlements unless it was absolutely necessary because his base would never allow it, never!11! Right?

Yeah right.

OmmmSweetOmmm   (1000+ posts)             Thu Jan-21-10 09:27 AM
Response to Reply #1
10. The article got its info from this Washington Post article
   
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

Under the agreement, President Obama would issue an executive order to create an 18-member panel that would be granted broad authority to propose changes in the tax code and in the massive federal entitlement programs -- including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security -- that threaten to drive the nation's debt to levels not seen since World War II.

The accord comes a week before Obama is scheduled to deliver his first State of the Union address to a nation increasingly concerned about his stewardship of the economy and the federal budget. After a year in which he advocated spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a huge economic stimulus package and a far-reaching overhaul of the health-care system, Obama has pledged to redouble his effort to rein in record budget deficits even as he has come under withering Republican attack.

DUmmies only see this as a means to make cuts to their pet programs, I see it as another way of Lord Zero getting tax increases, without him proposing them himself. coward.

Junkdrawer   (1000+ posts)         Thu Jan-21-10 09:44 AM
Response to Reply #10
26. Here's the part that pisses me off...
   
Edited on Thu Jan-21-10 09:44 AM by Junkdrawer

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The commission would deliver its recommendations after this fall's congressional elections, postponing potentially painful decisions about the nation's fiscal future until after Democrats face the voters. But if the commission approves a deficit-reduction plan, Congress would have to act on it quickly under the agreement, forged late Tuesday in a meeting with Vice President Biden, White House budget director Peter R. Orszag, and Democratic lawmakers led by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (Md.).

In other words, BY DESIGN, the voters will be locked out of the decision.

Lord Zero has done that with everything else, so why does this one thing piss you off?  Personally, I hope every conservative challenger uses this proposal to hamer the DemonRats.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I have to say, again, that Obama was NOT my first choice.

That seems to be a familiar DUmmy line these days.  Outside of Kook-cinich & Howard Dean (who didn't run in '08), the overwhelming favorite of the DUmmies was John Edwards.  Wouldn't that have been fun.

[thundley4]

That seems to be a familiar DUmmy line these days.  Outside of Kook-cinich & Howard Dean (who didn't run in '08), the overwhelming favorite of the DUmmies was John Edwards.  Wouldn't that have been fun.

Especially with his bastard child, who it seems he might get around to claiming finally.

[USA4ME]

The primitives, as is typical, voted for Dear Leader without thinking at all.  If you're going to start up programs like Social Security and Medicare, they are eventually going to become bloated bureaucracies and cuts will have to take place.  If you're going to have national healthcare (Medicare), you have to drastically reduce services and ration what you can offer.  Their beliefs that this wouldn't be the case is inexcusable and speaks to their lack of understanding even the most basic of economic principles and models.  To even attempt to talk economics to primitives on a deeper level would be a complete waste of time.

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[Carl]

The primitives, as is typical, voted for Dear Leader without thinking at all.  If you're going to start up programs like Social Security and Medicare, they are eventually going to become bloated bureaucracies and cuts will have to take place.  If you're going to have national healthcare (Medicare), you have to drastically reduce services and ration what you can offer.  Their beliefs that this wouldn't be the case is inexcusable and speaks to their lack of understanding even the most basic of economic principles and models.  To even attempt to talk economics to primitives on a deeper level would be a complete waste of time.

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<primitive thought pattern> It needs to be free for ME.It must be free for ME.This will amke it free for ME. </primitive thought pattern>

[The Village Idiot]

Not a shocker.

He is not trying to cut the deficit. The Dems are trying to raise the debt limit by $1.9 trillion now.