The Republicans have made a crusade out of wanting to overturn the ACA and Romney has promised to make that a first-day-in-office priority. Add to that the fact that Romney and Ryan both favor a new Medicare model where senior citizens would be given vouchers to purchase private insurance.
what eye thynk: The Republicans want us to believe that putting them in charge and allowing them to make major changes to our entitlement programs will make our national deficit disappear and we’ll all be doing the Disney dance of happiness under a sun-filled sky; but for the average senior citizen in this country, the dissolution of Medicare as we know it will not have a happy ending.
First, the ACA, which prohibits private insurance companies from denying insurance for a pre-existing condition, will be gone.
Next, when this Republican tag team gets their new Medicare voucher program set up and senior citizens start shopping with their new vouchers, how many will be turned away because of a pre-existing condition? Think about it--how many people get to retirement age without a pre-existing condition? If the Democrats tried this, Republicans would be screaming themselves hoarse about “death panels”.
Romney went out and got himself an ideologue to join his campaign to appeal to the far right and bolster his conservative creds; but blindly following the doctrine of your ideology is not the sign of a leader, it is the sign of a despot.
The Republican Party, so very determined to paint itself as a "Christian" entity, has chosen as its leaders, going into this election cycle, 2 men who seem to have absolutely no sense of compassion or love of humanity. What we see here quite boldly and unapologetically is the clear demonstration of what happens to be the real religion here: corporate capitalism.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how big a 'hand bag' it would take ... I am referencing the old "going to hell in a handbag" adage. For if the Koch Bros Party gets its way, that is most certainly where we are headed.
ReplyDeleteNowhere in Christianity (my Faith) does it preach hatred. Yet, hatred of President Obama, and all has tried to accomplish, has driven the Republicans. A hatred that oozes downward in a party so focused on skin color that it has forsaken the basic foundation of this country: All men are created equal.
Not even the color of the Office of the President of United States of America can overcome the color of his skin.
President Obama came to office filled with hope. Hope that he could deliver so many from oppression. Not just people of color, but all Americans. All he wanted was good medical coverage for all the citizens of the good old US of A. All he's gotten is the wrath of the ultra rich white males who control the Republican politicians.
Funny how the richest country in the world can't take care of its own, when so many other countries have found a way to do that very thing.
If there was an ounce of what Jesus taught us, in these people, they'd see the need to take care of the poor. Maybe a plank in their platform should be WWJD? Talk about using the Lord's name in vain.