Showing posts with label Libertarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Libertarian. Show all posts
7/27/14
The Ryan Budget in Sheep’s Clothing?
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/news/2014/07/24/94460/the-ryan-budget-in-sheeps-clothing/
"For the past four years, Rep. Ryan has set forth budgets that get approximately two-thirds of their cuts from programs that help low- and moderate-income families. His most recent iteration, released in April 2014, would turn Medicare into a voucher, cause more than 40 million people to lose their health care coverage, kick up to 10 million people off of nutrition assistance, and starve the part of the budget that funds education, child care, the Head Start program, worker training, and housing. These savings would go toward financing new tax cuts primarily for millionaires and large corporations."
"For the past four years, Rep. Ryan has set forth budgets that get approximately two-thirds of their cuts from programs that help low- and moderate-income families. His most recent iteration, released in April 2014, would turn Medicare into a voucher, cause more than 40 million people to lose their health care coverage, kick up to 10 million people off of nutrition assistance, and starve the part of the budget that funds education, child care, the Head Start program, worker training, and housing. These savings would go toward financing new tax cuts primarily for millionaires and large corporations."
4/23/14
Ryan's latest Medicare plan proves it's not about the deficit
www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/21/1293612/-Ryan-s-latest-Medicare-plan-proves-it-s-not-about-the-deficit
"But it's never been about the deficit, as Brian Beutler details, chronicling the evolution of Ryan's proposals for one program: Medicare. It's all about privatization."
"But it's never been about the deficit, as Brian Beutler details, chronicling the evolution of Ryan's proposals for one program: Medicare. It's all about privatization."
4/12/14
Should the Ryan Budget Worry Seniors?
www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2014/04/10/87620/should-the-ryan-budget-worry-seniors-2/
"But as important as many seniors and their families think Medicare is to their well-being and family financial solvency, the greater threat to their well-being might well be Rep. Ryan’s Medicaid proposal. Medicaid is sometimes thought of as medical assistance for the poor, but about two-thirds of the money in the program goes to elderly and disabled Americans."
"But as important as many seniors and their families think Medicare is to their well-being and family financial solvency, the greater threat to their well-being might well be Rep. Ryan’s Medicaid proposal. Medicaid is sometimes thought of as medical assistance for the poor, but about two-thirds of the money in the program goes to elderly and disabled Americans."
10/19/13
Billionaire Koch Brothers Spending Millions To Deny Health Coverage To Low-Income Americans
Billionaire Koch Brothers Spending Millions To Deny Health Coverage To Low-Income Americans: Volunteers with the conservative organization are distributing misleading flyers, attending committee hearings, and intimidating constituents.
10/17/13
Beer Offensive: The Koch Brothers Try to Bribe College Students Not to Sign Up for Obamacare with Brewskies | Alternet
Beer Offensive: The Koch Brothers Try to Bribe College Students Not to Sign Up for Obamacare with Brewskies | Alternet
"What's a family values conservative to do when every effort to protect millions of Americans from the scourge of affordable healthcare fails?
"What's a family values conservative to do when every effort to protect millions of Americans from the scourge of affordable healthcare fails?
Break out the beer, of course. The latest campaign to kill off Obamacare in its infancy is now playing out on college campuses where a conservative group known as Generation Opportunity (GO), who are funded in part by the billionaire Koch brothers, is using the lure of free beer and "opt out" beer koozies to persuade young students not to buy health insurance – or, at least, not to buy it from the Obamacare exchanges."
10/10/13
Paul Ryan adds Medicare and Medicaid to the ransom note
www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/09/1245723/-Paul-Ryan-adds-Medicare-and-Medicaid-to-the-ransom-note
"So far from taking Obamacare off the table, Ryan says he was expanding the playing field to include Medicare and Medicaid as well"
"So far from taking Obamacare off the table, Ryan says he was expanding the playing field to include Medicare and Medicaid as well"
The GOP's Entitlement Reform Bait And Switch
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10/9/13
Dear WWII Vets, Forget About the Monument, They Are Gunning for Your Social Security
Dear WWII Vets, Forget About the Monument, They Are Gunning for Your Social Security
"As the government shutdown marches on and the dangerously real deadline of the federal debt limit approaches, it is increasingly clear that the fight over "Obamacare" is merely an opening salvo. The real goal of the hostage takers is a "Grand Bargain" on the budget that would include cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
"As the government shutdown marches on and the dangerously real deadline of the federal debt limit approaches, it is increasingly clear that the fight over "Obamacare" is merely an opening salvo. The real goal of the hostage takers is a "Grand Bargain" on the budget that would include cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
This has been the long-term agenda for debt crisis-monger Pete Peterson and government haters David and Charles Koch for many decades."
10/4/13
How A Rand Paul Republican From Alabama Learned To Love Obamacare
How A Rand Paul Republican From Alabama Learned To Love Obamacare: Joshua Pittman doesn't believe that Obamacare is perfect, but says Republicans in Congress should stop trying to repeal the law and give it a chance to work.
9/19/13
Koch-backed conservatives go pro-cervical cancer
Koch-backed conservatives go pro-cervical cancer
"The right's campaign to convince young people to remain uninsured rather than enroll in Obamacare hits a new low"
"The right's campaign to convince young people to remain uninsured rather than enroll in Obamacare hits a new low"
7/9/13
GOP Demands Adoption of Ryan Budget as Debt Ceiling Ransom
GOP Demands Adoption of Ryan Budget as Debt Ceiling Ransom
"despite plummeting annual federal budget deficits, a stabilization of the debt as a percentage of the U.S. economy and his own admission that default would produce "a financial disaster, not only for our country but for the worldwide economy," Speaker John Boehner and his House GOP allies are once again planning to hold the once-routine debt ceiling increase hostage. Their price this time? Enacting large parts of the Ryan GOP budget repeatedly rejected by the Senate, the President--and the voters."
"despite plummeting annual federal budget deficits, a stabilization of the debt as a percentage of the U.S. economy and his own admission that default would produce "a financial disaster, not only for our country but for the worldwide economy," Speaker John Boehner and his House GOP allies are once again planning to hold the once-routine debt ceiling increase hostage. Their price this time? Enacting large parts of the Ryan GOP budget repeatedly rejected by the Senate, the President--and the voters."
7/8/13
Republicans Trying to Be as Unpopular as Humanly Possible | Alternet
Republicans Trying to Be as Unpopular as Humanly Possible | Alternet
"Privatizing Medicare and taking Paul Ryan's cues are recipe for being hated."
"Privatizing Medicare and taking Paul Ryan's cues are recipe for being hated."
Koch Brothers To Pour Millions Into Obamacare Misinformation Campaign
Koch Brothers To Pour Millions Into Obamacare Misinformation Campaign: Americans for Prosperity — a conservative group funded by the Koch brothers — is spending millions on ads that aim to turn Americans against the Affordable Care Act, just as government officials prepare to enroll the uninsured in the law’s new health care exchanges beginning on October 1. The campaign will eschew attacks on President [...]/p
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