Posted on 05/16/2011 10:48:02 AM PDT by seanmerc
The Republicans have tough solutions to meet the nation's financial crisis. The GOP leaders at first targeted their favorite nemesis - Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and Social Security. But then reality set in, and they retreated from major hopes of serving those programs at the altar of fiscal reform. Then, too, they may have been influenced by the national election in 2012.
There is also the obvious input of the Tea Partiers who became incensed when the GOP appeared to be backing away from slashing social programs that help the poor and sick. Social Security, dating back to 1935, a product of the Great Depression, and Medicare in the 1960s, and millions depend on these programs especially today. They have been rightfully sacrosanct in society for years. House Speaker John Boehner, took a different stance and is now demanding President Obama cut $2 trillion from the budget for starters.
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Hello there, Helen Thomas ping list members!
She’s all over the map in this “column.” Reminds me of a Larry King column. Makes me wonder if any newspaper actually pays for this garbage, or whether its part of a tying arrangement with more popular Hearst columnists.
That's because it's obviously the work of multiple people in a "Weekend At Bernie's" situation.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaght, my eyeeeeees my eyeeeees, for the love of humanity aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh if they werent smoldering relics of what they used to be now, I would gouge them out myself!
Where’s the “what has been seen cannot be unseen!” cat?
“The Face That Launched A Thousand Lunches”
Quote of the Day BUMP!
fantastic!
thanks for the ping
I doubt Helen is actually alive anymore. We have a “Weekend at Bernie’s” situation here.
or whether its part of a tying arrangement with
ore popular Hearst columnists.
very likey, the latter
...who would actually pay, for her trash.
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