Posted on 07/23/2015 3:55:46 AM PDT by jimbo123
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush headlined a forum Wednesday night sponsored by Americans For Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group based in Washington.
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“We have to reform big programs that have been growing at an exponential rate, and that will require the kind of leadership we have not had in the last six years. This president has not even recognized this is a problem, well it is a 50 trillion dollar problem,” he told the roughly 300 person crowd at the Radisson Hotel.
When addressing entitlement reform, Bush repeatedly touted Congressman Paul Ryan’s efforts in the House.
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The sad irony is that in the past 25 years, the only president who came remotely close to reforming entitlements was Clinton and that’s because he was dragged kicking and screaming to it by the Gingrich Congress. Bush’s daddy and brother wanted nothing to do with it. I suspect, despite his conservative talk, Jeb is as much of a “Compassionate Conservative” as they were.
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WOW!
What a NEWSFLASH!
“We” need “Leadership” to “reform entitlements”!
...And when that does NOT happen, whose fault will it be?
OURS?
Does Jeb have a list of wasteful “entitlements” that he has ALREADY identified?
NO!?
Is Jeb going to appoint another “Blue-Ribbon Commission”?
Or is that “blue-blood”...?
IMHO, a REAL “leader” would ALREADY have some clue about where he wants to “lead” us...
Jus’ sayin’
300 people and that was because they locked the doors immediately after the “Justin Beiber” concert.
Rush likes to talk about Hillary always digging up the old play book not realizing the game has changed
Jeb is no better. He addressed an issue that is trivial and doesn’t really matter in comparison say to the invasion of Mexicans, of sealing the border.
The macroeconomy is of little interest when the country is falling apart.
Americans for Prosperity is a fake organization formed in the card room (smoking) of a Connecticut Country Club
Americans for Prosperity = Amnesty Pimps for Illegals
300 people?
What a joke.
We were invited to this BS Spewing, but I could see it was just a GOPe front organization and said that they could pound sand in their posterior.
Entitlement reform.
Reduce taxes.
Smaller government.
Snoozers. JBush has just dusted off the old talkingpoints that Pubbies have been running on for the last 50 years. Then, if elected, they go about business-as-usual.
Convince us, Jebster! It is going to take a lot. We are still wincing from the lies of McConnell and Boehner on rolling back Obamacare, etc., and open-checkbook GW — your bro.
Most of the Pubbie politicians have VERY LITTLE CREDIBILITY remaining, and it is going to take something more than 40-year old talkpoints to start restoring it.
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