Posted on 06/04/2011 8:33:36 AM PDT by ventanax5
Would you vote to save the Bernie Madoff scheme? Me neither. And when you get down to it, that’s why you can mark me down as a failure when it comes to the latest Beltway-conservative litmus test for commentary deemed worthy of adults. No, I won’t be gushing praise for the Ryan plan to save Medicare, nor reserving a seat at the coronation of its author as the most courageous, fiscally responsible Washington politician ever — or, at least, ever to vote for the prescription-drug entitlement, TARP, Keynesian “stimulus” spending, and the auto-company bailout.
Concededly, as creatures of Washington go, Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) is among the most admirable. I daresay that of all the Beltway pols who want to add trillions to the already unfathomable national debt, Mr. Ryan is among the best — his proposal is a veritable bargain at “only” $5.1 trillion more over the next decade. (And, putting aside the funny Washington math that discounts tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities, would someone please explain to me how House Republicans rationalize their admirable opposition to raising the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling with their votes in favor of the Ryan plan, which would increase the debt to over $15 trillion next year and nearly $20 trillion by 2021?)
We’re all sinners, and Congressman Ryan’s past walks on the wild side do not render hollow his earnest plea that we deal with the entitlement cancer metastasizing in our body politic. But his prescription is not a cure. It’s an aggressive treatment of symptoms that leaves the cancer in place, under the delusion that Dr. Government can be trusted to manage it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
End Obamacare FIRST...
But let's scare the beegeebees out of Medicare folks....and threaten them.
Obamacare has not affected people negatively yet. They have only noticed the positives like keeping their kids on health care until 27 and other goodies. This was designed to wait years until the negative begins.
I am automatically suspicious of anyone connected to the crony-capitalists (corporate socialists) of Wall Street...
The beltway elites hate Palin, they hate Trump and they hate Herman Cain...
Why is that?
None of the RINOS are talking about any issues except what the media wants them to...
I have to admit that I thought Ryan’s plan was better than nothing - but government having their fingers in healthcare at all is always a disaster - look at the veterans hospitals.
What I don’t understand is why we need medicare at all? When did it become a law that people get thrown off their health insurance at 65? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have the insurance markets figure the whole life value of insuring a person?
Most people have insurance through work - if we were able to transfer that insurance to a privately held policy, eventually most people who had EVER had a job would have some kind of insurance.
It just doesn’t make sense to have an insurance group consisting of only old people.
I’m surprised that someone at NR has such clarity on Medicare and is willing to say what needs to be said. Medicare isn’t insurance; it is single-payer socialized medicine for older Americans. It is also a grossly immoral, unconstitutional scam.
Even so, nothing will really be done about it. Too many people, including conservatives, enjoy their “entitlements.” We will be rid of Medicare eventually, but that will be when it blows up along with the economy.
Medicare is un-constitutional.
Should never have existed.
That's why I fear there will be no reform that will ever get past the electorate at large.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.