Posted on 11/29/2016 2:01:44 PM PST by mdittmar
Please See Sen. Schumer’s Remarks Following The Senate Democrats’ Luncheon Just a Few Moments Ago
“Well I was incredibly disappointed to see the President-elect nominate Congressman Price to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services this morning
“When it comes to issues like Medicare, the Affordable Care Act and Planned Parenthood, Congressman Price and the average American couldn’t be further apart
“Between this nomination of an avowed Medicare opponent to serve as HHS Secretary and Republicans here in Washington threatening to privatize Medicare, it’s clear that Republicans are plotting a war on seniors next year
“Every senior and every American should hear this loudly, and clearly: Democrats will not let them win that fight.
“After the 2004 elections, Republicans tried to take the rug out from under our seniors to privatize Social Security. After the 2016 elections, it seems they’re intent on trying the same trick on Medicare.
“Just as their efforts failed then, they will fail now.
“Democrats from blue states, purple states, and red states are going to link arm and arm to protect Medicare for our seniors, and ensure that Republicans don’t succeed in putting our seniors’ health care at risk
“As we have said many times, there will be issues where we can work with the President-elect and his party.
“Privatizing Medicare is not one of those issues.
“We are going to fight tooth and nail any attempt to privatize, voucherize, or any other “ize” you can think of when it comes to Medicare.
“To Republicans considering going down this path, my advice is simple: turn back.”
Yup, it’s always the Republicans that have the wars on seniors. But it’s the Democrats who bankrupted both Social Security and Medicare by taking the taxes collected exclusively for those programs and put them in the general fund....also how many Cost of Living increases did seniors get in their Social Security in the 0bama years? Two at lest than 1% each time.
“ObamaCare and the border and trade deals are far bigger fish to fry right now.”
Yep. 100% correct.
And if Trump delivers working solutions to those three *yuge* problems (and he certainly can given the current composition of Congress), 2018 will end on a high note for the both the Trump administration and, more importantly, the American people.
We can attack those problems that deeply concern UpChuck Schumer thereafter. Trump will have a bigger mandate heading into 2019 and his reelection campaign.
“They’ve fallen back on their worn-out tactic of scaring old people.”
Moreover, they’ve already torqued off “old people” having thrown them under the bus years ago in favor of illegal immigrants and other “demographics is destiny” groups they like to force upon the public illegally.
I must have missed Trump’s platform to slap down seniors.
Go away Boy. Medicare is a joke that you and your ilk have never had to deal with. Seniors are having to choose food or medicine. Not that he’d give a damn.
Let’s have a war on Upchuck Schmucky Schumer.
Little Chucky loves the attention he gets from tossing a wrench into the works.
He’s made a career of it.
I remember the ‘classic’ Dem commercial showing a Ryan clone wheeling ‘granny’ off of a cliff. Amused to see that the Dems still have the same playbook but hope that people will realize that the Dems have played this tune EVERY ELECTION CYCLE since Reagan started his term. The boy who cried ‘wolf’ only did it 3 times, how many times for the Dems?
The Democrats already declared war on the Senior Citizens by destroying their savings accounts with Zero Percent interest rates for the last eight years. Increased the cost of health care and destroying the social safety net by importing hundreds of thousands of impoverished people from the third world. People Obama has placed around the country in a highly classified manner so that the public will not know from where they came or whether they are here to become members of our society or to destroy our society from within.
Hey, IDIOT....doctors are dropping MEDICARE...
IIRC, dems also cut the payroll deductions for social security too , making social security even less solvent.
DEMOCRAT WAR ON SENIORS
Democrats raided Medicare. They cannot leave it alone, Democrats must steal Senior’s funds
o Democrats hate Seniors.
o Democrats hate Children.
Shut up Chuckie you fake.
That was the first thought on my mind too. Great minds think alike
Chuck sure has fought for seniors all these years. Think they would have appreciated a real return on their savings the last 8 years?
The new Claude Pepper
Schumer - “We can’t allow the government to lose any power over the people, especially when that power is of the life and death sort - it’s the best kind of power.
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