Paul Ryan voted for:

The Team to End Medicare: Mitt Romney Picks Paul Ryan

“In naming Congressman Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney has chosen a leader of the House Republicans who shares his commitment to the flawed theory that new budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy, while placing greater burdens on the middle class and seniors, will somehow deliver a stronger economy. The architect of the radical Republican House budget, Ryan, like Romney, proposed an additional $250,000 tax cut for millionaires, and deep cuts in education from Head Start to college aid. His plan also would end Medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher system, shifting thousands of dollars in health care costs to seniors. As a member of Congress, Ryan rubber-stamped the reckless Bush economic policies that exploded our deficit and crashed our economy. Now the Romney-Ryan ticket would take us back by repeating the same, catastrophic mistakes.”
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Jarod said:
The Iraq war.
The Bush prescription drug plan
The TARP bailout
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Funny, so did Biden and Hitlery.

Odummy voted for the TARP bailout.

Seems to me based on that criteria, Ryan is as good a candidate as those three right? Good thing OWEdummyfucker isn't taking campaign advice from you

EPIC FAIL!
 
Romney seals the deal on the Koch brothers' takeover of the Republican Party.
August 10, 2012 |

It's official: The Republican Party is now officially a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Koch brothers' political enterprise. How else to explain Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's pick of Rep. Paul Ryan, Wis., as his running mate. Yes, that Paul Ryan -- chairman of the House Budget Committee and author of the infamous Ryan roadmap budget plan, which promises to turn Medicare into a privatized voucher system, and yank health care from millions of children whose parents happen to be poor. And that's just the beginning. In addition to a raft of cuts, the Ryan plan would end the Earned Income Tax Credit, which millions of parents count on.

It's a plan that even former House Speaker Newt Gingrich deemed too "radical." Asked by NBC's David Gregory to respond to Ryan's proposal, Gingrich famously said"I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering. I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate." (Of course that was before Gingrich walked back those remarks, apparently reminded by some savvy operative that he might not want to anger the Kochs, to whom Ryan, 42, is something of a youthful ward, having been the beneficiary of years of support from the Koch-founded Americans For Prosperity.

http://www.alternet.org/election-20...ryan-koch-ally-and-right-wing-social-engineer

A fascist ticket. Finally the radicals on the right have shown their true colors for all to see. Fascism is alive and well in the Republicon party.
 
Crashk said:
Romney seals the deal on the Koch brothers' takeover of the Republican Party.
August 10, 2012 |

It's official: The Republican Party is now officially a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Koch brothers' political enterprise. How else to explain Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's pick of Rep. Paul Ryan, Wis., as his running mate. Yes, that Paul Ryan -- chairman of the House Budget Committee and author of the infamous Ryan roadmap budget plan, which promises to turn Medicare into a privatized voucher system, and yank health care from millions of children whose parents happen to be poor. And that's just the beginning. In addition to a raft of cuts, the Ryan plan would end the Earned Income Tax Credit, which millions of parents count on.

It's a plan that even former House Speaker Newt Gingrich deemed too "radical." Asked by NBC's David Gregory to respond to Ryan's proposal, Gingrich famously said"I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering. I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate." (Of course that was before Gingrich walked back those remarks, apparently reminded by some savvy operative that he might not want to anger the Kochs, to whom Ryan, 42, is something of a youthful ward, having been the beneficiary of years of support from the Koch-founded Americans For Prosperity.

http://www.alternet.org/election-20...ryan-koch-ally-and-right-wing-social-engineer

A fascist ticket. Finally the radicals on the right have shown their true colors for all to see. Fascism is alive and well in the Republicon party.
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I love it. It'll force lazy ass occupiers off the streets and into jobs; that, or jail cells. Now all we'll have to do is privatize our prison system, and America will be back on track.
 
Annie said:
Saves Medicare for those who need it. It's unsustainable the way it is, that which cannot be sustained, won't.
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In the magical world of liberal we can save it because it feels right, we don't have to actually do anything.
 
Annie said:
Saves Medicare for those who need it. It's unsustainable the way it is, that which cannot be sustained, won't.
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That's the meme but it isn't true. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3532

The 2012 report of Medicare’s trustees finds that Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund will remain solvent — that is, able to pay 100 percent of the costs of the hospital insurance coverage that Medicare provides — through 2024; at that point, the payroll taxes and other revenue deposited in the trust fund will still be sufficient to pay 87 percent of Medicare hospital insurance costs.[1] (The Medicare hospital insurance program is considered insolvent when revenues and trust fund balances will not cover 100 percent of projected costs.) Over the next 75 years, revenue will cover an average of 74 percent of Medicare’s hospital insurance costs. This shortfall will need to be closed through the provision of additional revenues, program changes that slow the growth in costs, or most likely both. But the Medicare hospital insurance will not run out of all financial resources and cease to operate after 2024, as the “bankruptcy” term may suggest.

The 2024 date does not applyto Medicare coverage for physician and outpatient costs or to the Medicare prescription drug benefit; these parts of Medicare do not face insolvency and cannot run short of funds. These parts of Medicare are financed through the program’s Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) trust fund, which consists of two separate accounts — one for Medicare Part B, which pays for physician and other outpatient health services, and one for Part D, which pays for outpatient prescription drugs. Premiums for Part B and Part D are set each year at levels that cover about 25 percent of costs; general revenues pay the remaining 75 percent of costs.[2] The trustees’ report does not project that these parts of Medicare will become insolvent at any point — because they can’t. The SMI trust fund always has sufficient financing to cover Part B and Part D costs, because the beneficiary premiums and general revenue contributions are specifically set at levels to assure this is the case. SMI cannot go “bankrupt.”

Nonetheless, Medicare faces serious financing challenges in order to make the Hospital Insurance trust fund solvent over the long term and to reduce unsustainable federal budget deficits that are driven in part by Medicare’s rising costs. Major reforms in health care payment and delivery will be essential throughout the U.S. health care system, and Medicare will need to play an important role in leading the way to those reforms. A first step, however, should be to “do not harm” — that is, not make Medicare’s financing challenges even greater. Repealing the Affordable Care Act would do exactly that.

The Affordable Care Act has significantly improved Medicare’s long-term financial outlook. Under the trustees’ main projection, the Medicare hospital insurance program faces a shortfall over the next 75 years equal to 1.35 percent of taxable payroll — that is, 1.35 percent of the total amount of earnings that will be subject to the Medicare payroll tax over this period. This is much less than the 3.88 percent of payroll tax the actuaries estimated prior to the enactment of health reform. If health reform were fully repealed, as the House of Representatives has voted to do, the Medicare hospital insurance program would become insolvent eight years earlier, in 2016, and the costs of SMI would be significantly higher and rise more rapidly in the years ahead.
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You can read more at the link.

These projections underscore the importance of successfully implementing the cost-control provisions in the Affordable Care Act. While history shows that most major Medicare savings measures have been implemented as scheduled, the Medicare actuary has expressed concern that some of the ACA’s savings provisions may not be sustainable. The actuary urges reliance instead on an “illustrative alternative” projection for Medicare, which assumes that only 60 percent of the ACA’s Medicare savings will actually be achieved in the long run. Under this alternative projection, the projected insolvency date of the Hospital Insurance trust fund remains at 2024, but the 75-year shortfall in the fund would rise to 2.43 percent of payroll, almost twice the trustees’ official estimate. This still is a dramatic improvement, however, over the outlook without the Affordable Care Act.

The trustees’ finding that health reform has improved Medicare’s financial status is consistent with the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that health reform will modestly reduce federal budget deficits. Medicare is a part of the federal budget. Therefore, spending cuts or tax increases that reduce projected deficits in Medicare also help reduce projected deficits in the overall budget. Consequently, contrary to some claims, no “double-counting” is involved.[3]

The trustees’ latest projections are broadly in line with those that the trustees have issued for some time. They do not represent a striking change in Medicare’s finances. Since 1990, changes in the law, the economy, and other factors have brought the projected year of Medicare HI insolvency as close as four years away or pushed it as far as 28 years into the future. The latest projection falls near the middle of that spectrum. Trustees’ reports have been projecting impending insolvency for four decades, but Medicare benefits have always been paid because Congress has taken steps to keep spending and resources in balance in the near term. In contrast to Social Security, which has had no major changes in law since 1983, the rapid evolution of the health care system has required frequent adjustments to Medicare, a pattern that is certain to continue.

Despite the financial improvements the Affordable Care Act makes, Medicare continues to face substantial long-term financial challenges, stemming from the aging of the population and the continued rise in costs throughout the U.S. health care system. The projected increase in long-term Medicare costs also contributes heavily to the challenging federal fiscal outlook. It is essential that policymakers take further substantial steps to curb the growth of health costs throughout the U.S. health care system as we learn more about how to do so effectively in both public programs and private-sector health care. The Medicare research and pilot projects that the ACA establishes should yield important lessons. Until these efforts bear fruit, it will be difficult to achieve big additional reductions in Medicare expenditures.

Some additional savings can be achieved over the next ten years, however, while preserving Medicare’s guarantee of health coverage and without raising the eligibility age or otherwise shifting costs to vulnerable beneficiaries.
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All the system needs is some tweaking...it's a good program.
 
Granule said:
I love it. It'll force lazy ass occupiers off the streets and into jobs; that, or jail cells. Now all we'll have to do is privatize our prison system, and America will be back on track.
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At least you have brains enough to realize and embrace the fact that you are a fascist. I'll give you that much credit. Most 'conservatives' don't realize their party has been taken over by fascism.

Bravo for understanding and embracing your political philosophy.
 
Annie said:
Saves Medicare for those who need it. It's unsustainable the way it is, that which cannot be sustained, won't.
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If people like you were given rein it would be america that would be unsustainable.
 
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