So the 'right wingers' the ones trying to SAVE these programs are evil and the Dems who wish to maintain the status quo, which will result in the elimination of these programs, they are good? This is your logic? Idiot.
Yes, they have saved lives. But Medicare is anything but successful. If you do not pay for it and shift the burden on to future generations, then it is a complete FAILURE. The vast majority of unfunded liabilities is within MEDICARE/Medicaid. It is all fine to say 'free everything for everyone'.... but NONE of it is free. SOMEONE has to pay for it. Your plan is to fuck over future generations because you want everything promised to YOU today.
The stupidity of your posting this chart over and over again is quite amusing. As stated the other 2,498 times you posted it. The BUSH tax cuts will not effect the debt/deficit one penny and have not since 2010. The OBAMA tax cuts will effect the deficit in 2011 and 2012. The war in Iraq is winding down. It too will not add to the deficit after Obama withdraws the remaining troops. The OBAMA war escalation in Afghanistan and the new Obama war in Libya will add to the deficit. The OBAMA failure in resolving the economic downturn may continue to result in the extremely slow growth high unemployment environment he seems so proud of.... but again... that has little to do with Bush.
It is the FIRST TIME I posted that chart...I just saw it 2 days ago.
It has everything to do with Bush. Just because he is out of office doesn't mean that what he did or didn't do still has a major impact. You see, here is where you right wingers loose all credibility. You can't think like logical adults. The Bush tax cuts have a HUGE effect, because he cut revenue and raised spending. How can it NOT have a negative effect. You 'claim' to be some kind of expert on economics...well freak, it doesn't get any more basic than that. If you can't grasp that 'concept', you are beyond a moron you like to call people.
Republicans are not trying to save Medicare. They are trying to end it, turn it into a cash cow for private corporations and place the cost burden on the elderly. Even Newt Gingrich called it radical.
Maybe you right wingers need to start acting like adults and stop the bullshit lies like 'death panels' ...
Paying for end of life counseling or advance directives would have a HUGE saving because about 30% of all Medicare dollars is spent in the last year of life.
The right has taken a huge cost cutting measure, a compassionate, family-friendly measure that ultimately respects individual rights and grossly twisted into the erroneous phrase “death panels.”
Advanced directives
It’s a simple concept: An individual, with the help of family, should have the ultimate say in the type of end-of-life care the individual receives. The best way to do that is through a careful consultation, with family and physician, before there is a health crisis — while the individual is still capable of having a rational voice in the decision.
Too often, those decisions are made when it’s too late for the individual to make the decisions. Instead, grieving family members are left to make the decision — and at times it’s nothing more than a guess.
Would the individual want extraordinary measures taken when the end is near? Why wouldn’t we trust the individual — in advance and when thinking clearly — to make that decision?
For those who crusade for the rights of the individual, here’s the question: Why are you so opposed to the individual being able to set down on paper, with help from family and physician, the standards and wishes for end-of-life care?
The issue of death panels became so hot during this year’s debate on health-care reform legislation that Democrats decided to pull that provision from the bill.
Educate yourself for ONCE...it works extremely well already in LaCrosse Wisconsin.
http://www.jsonline.com/business/59087997.html
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_1cbf310e-3d3f-11df-a629-001cc4c002e0.html
http://www.cms.gov/ActuarialStudies/downloads/Last_Year_of_Life.pdf
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_9e25cb36-150c-11e0-9443-001cc4c002e0.html
