Poor political strategy from Obama. These Medicare defenders on the left are crazed zealots. They will not take kindly to this. If you don’t lie and defend Medicare (even if it means bankrupting the country), then you are going down because there’s another socialist in the batters box ready to lie and defend it. I expect a Dem Primary challenger to Obama if he keeps on this line.
I thought the same thing.
There is something going on behind the scenes, and I can't quite figure out what it is.
I can speculate all day long, but the facts point to one conclusion: Obama has been told (by someone) that our complete economic collapse is even closer than previously thought.
The downgrade means that interest payments on the debt are going to increase by a large portion (how large?), and that will eat up even more of the pie.
Even if Defense is literally gutted, Federal workers pay frozen for 5 years and slashed, and active military retirement promises reneged on - that will still do nothing to stop the hemorrhaging.
Entitlements (including all welfare and unemployment programs) are destroying our nation at an exponential rate.
>> Poor political strategy from Obama.
I’d mildly disagree; triangulation is a reasonable political strategy, and Bill Clintoon taught us that it can be effective.
Obama is clumsy at it though, and he’s screwing it up tactically. Tone-deaf perception, bad timing, bad execution. Which is no surprise, since he’s inept at pretty much every aspect of governing. He can talk, but he can’t *do*. He’s never had to learn to execute.
I do hope so. That will keep the Democrats out of the Republican primaries and Romney won't get win.
Why does no one mention the entitlements we give to illegals? Take away from seniors who have paid into the system but give entitlements to illegals and a lot of lazy butts on welfare who are able to work but why work when they can be taken care of? I am a senior and I always found a way of making some money for food for my kids. I even picked up aluminum cans whe the price was high. Why can’t others use their imagination to help make ends meet? I also worked hard and finally became a nurse at 40 years of age and believe me the emergency room would be full of medicaid receipents instead of going to a doctors office where the charges were cheaper. But no lets threaten the seniors and our fine military.