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Turn About’s Fair Play? Tea Party Rep Frank Guinta Heckled At Town Hall Over Medicare

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Gosh, politicians must be excited whenever they get a chance to go to a Town Hall event. Just as Democrats were facing angry mobs recently over health care reform, Republicans backing Paul Ryan’s budget plan are getting their share of heat. The star of the latest video in the now blossoming sub-genre of “Government Official Getting Hollered At” movies is New Hampshire Republican Frank Giunta. He faced a notably hostile crowd, getting yelled at by everyone, including a 14-year-old boy.

The Boston Globe has a write up of the event. This brief anecdote demonstrates the wide spectrum of angered attendees:

“A 73-year old man stood up and criticized the plan to cut Medicare, which has become one of the most controversial aspects of the budget blueprint that was drafted by Representative Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, and approved earlier this month by the House.

‘Why congressman Guinta?’ he said. ‘Why in the world did you ever vote for the Paul Ryan Medicare plan?’

Guinta began to answer, by saying many of the changes likely wouldn’t be phased in in time to affect him.

‘What about me?’ shouted Joe Platte, an eighth grader from Stratham, NH. ‘I’m 14! What am I going to do?’”

In video of the event from ABC News, one attendee made it clear that there was a sense in the crowd that the Tea Party congressman was merely getting a taste of his own medicine. When a frustrated Giunta tried to settle the audience, the man responded with this:

“Listen! At the town halls of the previous administration – I went to a lot of town halls with the last person who held your seat and it got ugly. I was threatened with death for wearing a hat with [incumbent Democrat candidate Carol Shea-Porter's] name on it at an Obama event. So you’ve asked people that we cooperate and we all be nice, but you were swept into office by people that really weren’t nice and you didn’t lift a finger to say, ‘Hey, let’s chill.’ And these people were carrying guns! So, it’s a little late for you to be condescending to us!”

This comment was met with a rousing applause from the crowd.

The Los Angeles Times has just released a report on the tons of money that political groups on the left and right are spending for ads about the Medicare issue, so things aren’t likely to get more civil any time soon.

Watch the ABC News video below:

(h/t ThinkProgress)

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  • The Lantern of Truth

    With a demagogue like Huey Long Obama out rabble rousing and lying , this is what you get .

  • ModerateMan

    Where did they bus these useful idiots in from?

  • Judge Mental

    Looks like MoveOn hasn’t been totally successful in their efforts:

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/video-paul-ryan-gets-standing-ovation-town-hall-meeting_558453.html

  • VoiceofReason

    Why if you actually knew what was what and weren’t either a plant or working from misinformation would somebody 73 years old even be there to discuss Medicare?

    And this assclown tipped his hand when he stated he got death threats for pimping the Dem with his hat.

    Soooooo, we have a Dem….who wouldn’t support this guy if he were passing out franklins and free hummers……raises a question that doesn’t even remotely pertain to him.

    Yeah…..nothing to see here.

    You asshats really need to train your agent provocatuers better…………..

    And dragging a 14 YO child to your manufactured event……wow. Pretty low.

  • Judge Mental

    Oh, my. Paul Ryan caught a lefty astroturfer at his Town Hall who had been at a separate event six hours earlier and in a different set of clothes.

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-04-28-Paul-Ryan-Republican-town-hall-budget_n.htm#

    What a bunch of clowns.

  • Harry Flashman

    Jon Bershad:

    You can’t tell this is stage-managed? Take another look at it.

    The left is pulling this in town halls all over the country. They’re trying to convince people – like Jon Berhad – that there’s a grassroots backlash working.

    The plays the left has are dirty. And gullible media enables them.

  • Bill Huggins

    TOTALLY AWESOME

    These idiots are getting a taste and they’re going to KEEP GETTING A TASTE

    Just TRY to take Medicare away from us young people. You take a look at the youth revolts in France and UK lately? CHILDS PLAY

    hahahahahahahahhahahahaha

    Everyone who votes for the Ryan plan is SCREWED

    Cant wait for the Senate vote. Lol!!!!

    Bye bye GOP!!!!!

  • darladoon

    ModerateMan said:
    Where did they bus these useful idiots in from?

    yeah, how “idiotic” of people to voice their concerns over a proposal which would ELIMINATE medicare AND
    cut taxes on ridiculously wealthy people.

    you know something truly Orwellian is happening when you have a fairly large % of the working and middle class populations who STILL buy into the idea that we shouldn’t raise taxes on *millionaires and billionaires* and instead we should CUT popular medical programs for SENIOR CITIZENS.

    i never thought i would live to see such stupidity. but alas, the tea party showed up (those are the 20%)

    and those, my friend, are the “useful idiots” (i.e. the ones defending the ultra-wealthy and huge corporations)

  • darladoon

    what sort of disgusting assh*le defends people making over 1 million a year, as tens of millions of people are suffering? serious? what sort of total f*cking assh*le does something so vile, so mean, and stupid?

    i’ll tell you who: the bulk of the commenters here (spoiled, college republicans with lots of free time, and daddy’s trust fund)

  • darladoon

    jdubbellu said:
    you fail at life. darwin would like to study you.

    it really helps if you have an argument. otherwise, you fail, not me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Its so funny how leftists ALWAYS have an rationalization for why its only ok when they do it. They’re always playing the victim over tactics that they themselves used in the first place. Its getting so goddamn old.

  • darladoon

    if you work, you pay payroll taxes.

    if you pay payroll taxes, you pay into medicare.

    so WHY ON EARTH would ANYONE want to privatize something you already paid into?!

    it’s so f*cking stupid and shameful that it makes my head hurt.

    medicare already has a 1.5% overhead.

    private insurance has 30% overhead.

    why would you want to purchase insurance from the latter?

  • darladoon

    Dronetek said:
    Its so funny how leftists ALWAYS have an rationalization for why its only ok when they do it. They’re always playing the victim over tactics that they themselves used in the first place. Its getting so goddamn old.

    are you saying that senior citizens from, say, indiana or new hampshire are leftists for opposing medicare privatization?

    well, in tea party land, anyone opposed to tax cuts for billionaires is a leftist, apparently.

  • darladoon

    jdubbellu said:
    i do have an argument. you suck at life. you are a drain on a productive society. survival of the fittest would remove you from our midst. go die in a fire.

    that’s not an argument. but it is something you routinely hear from knuckle-dragging, white, racist, college republicans who live in a Randian fantasy world.

    i’m not saying you’re one of those, but i wouldn’t be totally surprised if you turned out to be one.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    wow, that was riveting video///////////////////////////////////////////////////
    That video is about to go viral////////////////////////////////////////////////
    /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    Show the Allen West town hall screamers… that was at least entertaining…

  • Judge Mental

    Glackin said:
    I didn’t know there were limits on how often you can exercise your right to free speech now.

    There isn’t, and nobody said there was. The genius apparently thought Ryan wouldn’t recognize him if he changed his clothes. From the article:

    Josefczyk admitted trying to trick Ryan into calling on him again. But Ryan listened anyway.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim
  • CAconservative

    The “Entitlement-Monster”, those on both sides of the political isle have grown to enrich their political voting base will be the people that bring this country down. It won’t be the enemy from outside, it will be the freeloading, bottom-feeders with their hands out demanding more, that will pull us down.
    Bimbo, and Progressive Liberals have forced their view of what this country should be on us knowing the vast majority of Americans are firmly against their vision of what America should be. Across the board, Obimbo and his admisistration has lost credibility. Intelligent Americans are quickly learning that it’s not about party affiliation, it’s about what best for this country. Obimbo and the Progressives Liberals, along with Republicans who are entrenched in the stupid dogma that every issue must be a compromise must also go. This government, on both sides has compromised us into near bankruptcy, and it must stop! To me, that means voting out the embedded “let’s compromise politicians”!! They either do what the hell “WE THE PEOPLE” tell them to do, or their gone!

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Hey Jon Boy,
    Did you buds at Think Progress mention this in their story:

    Paul Ryan Catches Lefty Astroturfer Changing Clothes Then Coming Back For Second Town Hall…

    USA Today exposes the fraud that is activist-organized protest at Republican town halls this recess. Their story opens with Paul Ryan calling on a man in the front row before recognizing him, “You changed clothes!” USA Today reports that the man had been at a separate event six hours earlier. Politico reports that “Citizens Action of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Labor Council have enlisted a traveling band of seniors to follow Paul Ryan’s every move.” But the leftist activists have been unable to match genuine support for Ryan. The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack posts video of constituents giving Ryan a standing ovation after a town hall near Milwaukee.

    I love the smell of liberal astroturf. I wonder how much he got paid. We know that libs only protest when they are getting paid.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Sorry, I didn’t read all of the comments before I posted but it needed repeating.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    JB,
    show the potty-mouths yelling at Allen West…

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Glackin said:
    Affordable Health Care Act.

    you mean Obamacare…

  • Judge Mental

    Glackin said:
    So, what he did was no different than the teabaggers who rode around in buses mau-mauing Congressmen over the Affordable Health Care Act.

    If tea party protesters actually rode around in buses to different town hall events, and if they changed their clothes in an effort to disguise their identities, then, yeah, I’d say it was no different. I’m not aware of that happening, though. I’m sure if it did you can provide a link.

  • skyfet

    Yeah! tell them how you feel. Phonies! they want to cut Medicare for under 55, what about the guys who have been paying into it since 16?

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Glackin said:
    The WeaklyStandard? C’mon! Little Billy Kristol’s rag, what his daddy gave him? Don’t they get their “facts” from “F#X Nation”?

    It is called Youtube… maybe you have heard of it…

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    skyfet said:
    Yeah! tell them how you feel. Phonies! they want to cut Medicare for under 55, what about the guys who have been paying into it since 16?

    nobody is taking Medicare away… except the Libs who are bankrupting it…

  • darladoon

    skoorbekim said:
    nobody is taking Medicare away… except the Libs who are bankrupting it…

    this comment perfectly encapsulates the sheer, breathtaking stupidity of today’s modern conservative.

    yeah, “nobody is taking medicare away” except…….liberals?

    paul ryan’s plan CLEARLY turns it into a voucher system. that is, by definition, “taking medicare away”

    the reason medicare is “bankrupt” (it is not), is because healthcare costs are skyrocketing, not because there’s anything inherently wrong with the program. we’re also in the midst of a generational shift, and as such, more money is going out, than coming in. SS will experience the same thing in 2037.

    republicans don’t want to control healthcare costs, because they live in a mythical free-market universe. their game plan has always been “wait until medicare becomes unaffordable, and then blame it on medicare, not on the private healthcare industry”

    if you wanna live in some parallel universe in which none of these things are true, than i don’t know what to tell you.

  • darladoon

    jdubbellu said:
    they will have to pay a bit longer. thats what happens when you pussy dems wont die quickly. now maybe you will learn why it is bad when a safety net becomes an entitlement.

    again, a typical non-answer from our resident knuckle-dragging college republicans.

  • ProudCanadian

    jdubbellu said:

    save your money you little douchebag.

    jdubbellu said:
    kill yourself loser.

    jdubbellu said:
    you fail at life. darwin would like to study you.

    jdubbellu said:
    i do have an argument. you suck at life. you are a drain on a productive society. survival of the fittest would remove you from our midst. go die in a fire.

    jdubbellu said:
    did you put mommy’s draft card up on ebay? something that rare would pay for your healthcare for the rest of your miserable life.

    Wow…just wow. You are a completely horrible human being. What’s really sad about you is that you have no argument, nothing of value to add, just hatred. I hope that you don’t have any kids, because they’d probably be better off stillborn than having a dad like you.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    darladoon said:
    this comment perfectly encapsulates the sheer, breathtaking stupidity of today’s modern conservative.

    Have you read Ryan’s 72 page plan? It’s easy reading compared to Obamacare…
    were you screaming when Obamacare cut $500B from Medicare? I doubt it… what would that make you? a partisan hack maybe…

    Why are health care costs going up? the technology of end-of-life care…
    The Libs do not have an answer… they just character assassinate

  • ProudCanadian

    CAconservative said:
    The “Entitlement-Monster”, those on both sides of the political isle have grown to enrich their political voting base will be the people that bring this country down. It won’t be the enemy from outside, it will be the freeloading, bottom-feeders with their hands out demanding more, that will pull us down.
    Bimbo, and Progressive Liberals have forced their view of what this country should be on us knowing the vast majority of Americans are firmly against their vision of what America should be. Across the board, Obimbo and his admisistration has lost credibility. Intelligent Americans are quickly learning that it’s not about party affiliation, it’s about what best for this country. Obimbo and the Progressives Liberals, along with Republicans who are entrenched in the stupid dogma that every issue must be a compromise must also go. This government, on both sides has compromised us into near bankruptcy, and it must stop! To me, that means voting out the embedded “let’s compromise politicians”!! They either do what the hell “WE THE PEOPLE” tell them to do, or their gone!

    You do realize that Social Security and Planned Parenthood and other social programs are not responsible for the hole that America is in, right? Maybe something about waging multiple, unnecessary wars at once may have a little something to do with it? Stop believing everything the politicians tell you, and try research. All the money saved from pulling out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc, would help America solve many of it’s problems, and maybe start to become a great country again, if it’s not too late.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    ProudCanadian said:
    Maybe something about waging multiple, unnecessary wars at once may have a little something to do with it?

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fdUBh1y7nvw/TVqGLUCdzcI/AAAAAAAAAd4/JPOO1v8K9jc/s1600/iraq-war-cost.jpg

  • jakester

    jdubbellu said:
    how must it suck that a white knuckle-dragger manages to makes high six figure income, and you come to a website to bitch how you need someone to take care of you. you should try match.com.

    Only a contemptibly egotistical and shallow person brags about his income or imagines that it makes his common trash posts more credible!

  • ProudCanadian

    jdubbellu said:
    hahaha a canadian judging whats human!! hahaha

    Once again, nothing of substance in your post. Why do you bother? I’m genuinely curious…is your life so sad and empty that this is all you have? Or is this something to do while you’re waiting for your kiddie porn to finish downloading?

  • CAconservative

    ProudCanadian:

    I did my research Sir, and I was phoning and emailing my representatives weekly demanding that we NOT get involved in either war. It’s not just the cost of two needles wars. This issue hits many levels of waist. This inept, and corrupt government must be gutted. The embedded politicians that have been in office for the past three decades, on both sides of the political isle, must be removed. The radical changes in this country didn’t happen overnight, and those that were suppose to be representing the legal citizens of this country have been more than grossly-negligent in their duty to us. They must be fired! We can no longer except compromise as a form of placating the entitlement crowd. The changes needed will be harsh but must be implemented if we are to survive as a Nation.

  • jakester

    jdubbellu said:
    your vag, shave or wax?

    Thanks for proving me right, you make a lot of money but have no class or intellect.

  • BatBoy

    ‘What about me?’ shouted Joe Platte, an eighth grader from Stratham, NH. ‘I’m 14! What am I going to do?’”

    Somebody needs to slap the crap out of this kid….at 14 looking for a handout…his parents must be so proud.

    Good grief!

  • Alice67
  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Alice67 said:
    http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/28/rep-barletta-laughs-at-constituents-who-question-his-support-for-oil-subsidies/

    That was one guy yelling in a class room full of people…
    I’ld be laughing also… in fact I am laughning…

  • Alice67

    ProudCanadian said:
    Or is this something to do while you’re waiting for your kiddie porn to finish downloading?

    PLEASE do not drag innocent children into your flame wars. Though I agree with the points you are making … this is NOT acceptable. I’m asking you to stop.

  • ProudCanadian

    Alice67 said:
    PLEASE do not drag innocent children into your flame wars. Though I agree with the points you are making … this is NOT acceptable. I’m asking you to stop.

    You’re absolutely right, and I apologize…guess I got heated. I still think jdubbellu does questionable things involving farm animals, but I will leave children out of it.

  • darladoon

    jdubbellu said:
    that makes you failures feel good about yourselves, doesn’t it?

    that would be an ‘F’ for 1st grade grammar

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    jdubbellu said:
    parasite? i employ people. many families make their living off my business. tell me joey, what have you done for this fine country to justify your burden on us?

    Prove it. Let’s see your papers.

    –Cobra

  • Alice67

    ProudCanadian said:
    You’re absolutely right, and I apologize…guess I got heated. I still think jdubbellu does questionable things involving farm animals, but I will leave children out of it.

    Thanks :)

  • darladoon

    sorry, didn’t read that properly…..

    as for your substance: this is a very typical college republican tactic. blame those struggling to make it, including tired and neglected SENIOR CITIZENS, rather than the selfish and uninterested wall street thugs driving the economy.

    and whenever a democrat (read: right of center blue dog) merely attempts to suggest that maybe, just maybe, we should ask BILLIONAIRES to pay a little more in taxes, you forgive the latter, and blame the former for engaging in “class warfare”

    i’m so f*cking sick of these small dick, Randian wackos (who are really just white college republicans, deeply fearful of their own masculinity, and needing to project their weaknesses upon those who don’t drive sports cars and watch golf on television)…..

    europe may have its problems, but just visit europe to get a sense of how their policy debates make us look like a bunch of 3rd graders.
    .

  • darladoon

    Cobra said:
    Prove it. Let’s see your papers.

    –Cobra

    yet another lame conservative argument: “i employ people”

    so what?

    i volunteer every night at the local food bank.

    why is your contribution any better than mine?

  • Grammie

    darladoon said:
    what sort of disgusting assh*le defends people making over 1 million a year, as tens of millions of people are suffering? serious? what sort of total f*cking assh*le does something so vile, so mean, and stupid?

    i’ll tell you who: the bulk of the commenters here (spoiled, college republicans with lots of free time, and daddy’s trust fund)

    .
    Really? I’m a young trust fund baby?

    BHO and Zuckerman both agree that MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES (which they are) should have their tax rates raised.

    Funny then that the proposed increase starts at a EARNED INCOME of $200,000 for singles and $250,000 for families. The bulk of MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES are such b/c of accumulated wealth and revenues other than what the tax code classifies as earned income.

    The Tax Code is the problem:

    “If you take Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer at their word, they are intelligent people, who have held important jobs in government.

    And they couldn’t figure out their taxes.

    Former Sen. Daschle helped write tax laws. Killefer chaired the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board. Timothy Geithner, who now oversees the IRS, was an undersecretary of the Treasury.

    But the U.S. tax code is 67,204 pages long — about as long as 112 copies of James Joyce’s Ulysses. And just about as comprehensible.

    There are reportedly 1,638 different tax forms, from the 1040 Short Form, to Form 8615, “Tax for Children Under Age 18 with Investment Income of More Than $1,700,” which I wish pertained to our daughters.”

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100377301

    darladoon said:
    what sort of disgusting assh*le defends people making over 1 million a year, as tens of millions of people are suffering? serious? what sort of total f*cking assh*le does something so vile, so mean, and stupid?

    I must be stupid then b/c I support a cut in current SS payments AND changes to Medicare for both current recipients and future retirees. If we don’t I am nothing more than a blood sucking leech who is willing to condemn my children and grandchildren to life in a steadily crumbling US with all the nasty worldwide consequences that that would inevitably lead to.

    These programs serve such now rapidly accelerating numbers that even small cuts and economies will yield huge benefits to us all.

    The only stupid, mean and vile course is to hold onto to everything we have until the inevitable collapse which will leave us all grasping at nothing.

  • darladoon

    jdubbellu said:
    you are a f*cking liar, his plan doesnt touch senior citizens you f*cking fear monger. why are you so obsessed with penises?

    his plan doesn’t touch CURRENT senior citizens. but for those under 55?

    well, you know the answer to that.

    Grammie said:
    .
    Really? I’m a young trust fund baby?

    so you’re going after geithner and the tax code, rather than agreeing that the ultra-wealthy should pay what they paid under clinton (an extraordinarily successful time for the well-to-do)?

    BHO and Zuckerman both agree that MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES (which they are) should have their tax rates raised.

    Funny then that the proposed increase starts at a EARNED INCOME of $200,000 for singles and $250,000 for families. The bulk of MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES are such b/c of accumulated wealth and revenues other than what the tax code classifies as earned income.

    The Tax Code is the problem:

    “If you take Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer at their word, they are intelligent people, who have held important jobs in government.

    And they couldn’t figure out their taxes.

    Former Sen. Daschle helped write tax laws. Killefer chaired the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board. Timothy Geithner, who now oversees the IRS, was an undersecretary of the Treasury.

    But the U.S. tax code is 67,204 pages long — about as long as 112 copies of James Joyce’s Ulysses. And just about as comprehensible.

    There are reportedly 1,638 different tax forms, from the 1040 Short Form, to Form 8615, “Tax for Children Under Age 18 with Investment Income of More Than $1,700,” which I wish pertained to our daughters.”

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100377301

    I must be stupid then b/c I support a cut in current SS payments AND changes to Medicare for both current recipients and future retirees. If we don’t I am nothing more than a blood sucking leech who is willing to condemn my children and grandchildren to life in a steadily crumbling US with all the nasty worldwide consequences that that would inevitably lead to.

    These programs serve such now rapidly accelerating numbers that even small cuts and economies will yield huge benefits to us all.

    The only stupid, mean and vile course is to hold onto to everything we have until the inevitable collapse which will leave us all grasping at nothing.

  • darladoon

    republicans are doing whatever they can to defend tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires by arguing that the system by which we levy taxes is inherently corrupt and inefficient.

    really, really, really bad argument

    and a non-sequitur

  • darladoon

    jdubbellu said:
    if you are under 55 you aren’t a senior citizen, dumbass.

    man, are you f*cking stupid. seriously. you are f*cking stupid.

    everyone will become a senior citizen, dude. EVERYONE.

    so, ryan’s plan will apply to EVERYONE CURRENTLY UNDER 55.

  • Grammie

    darladoon said:
    his plan doesn’t touch CURRENT senior citizens. but for those under 55?

    well, you know the answer to that.

    Grammie said:

    .
    Ryan’s plan doesn’t touch anyone except those who are a good 15 years younger then I am.

    I am saying that I SUPPORT his plan being extended in some ways to current retirees such as me.

    A decrease in monthly benefits of just $10 per recipient represents a 6 Billion savings before factoring in the now retiring daily by the thousands baby boomers. A slight increase in copays for Medicare would also represent huge savings.

    Hey, I’m willing to step up and do my part for the long and prosperous by the standards of most of the world life.

    What’s your excuse for your grasping clawing death grip on every last perk coming your way?

  • darladoon

    jdubbellu said:
    hey f*ckstick when they designed those programs, people only lived to their early 70’s. people are living long past that now and guess what genius, they are going to have to work longer. you want to retire early? don’t be a loser.
    and you have the balls to call me stupid? lmao

    uh, that’s yet another non-sequitur

    you dodged the thread we were on

    ryan’s plan applies to people currently under 55, correct?

    his plan entails a transition into a voucher system, correct?

    we shall agree upon this, otherwise the argument doesn’t progress in a socratic fashion

    you do know who socrates is, correct?

  • darladoon

    Grammie said:
    .
    Ryan’s plan doesn’t touch anyone except those who are a good 15 years younger then I am.

    I am saying that I SUPPORT his plan being extended in some ways to current retirees such as me.

    A decrease in monthly benefits of just $10 per recipient represents a 6 Billion savings before factoring in the now retiring daily by the thousands baby boomers. A slight increase in copays for Medicare would also represent huge savings.

    Hey, I’m willing to step up and do my part for the long and prosperous by the standards of most of the world life.

    What’s your excuse for your grasping clawing death grip on every last perk coming your way?

    you presume i’m asking for more than what i’ve already paid into. i’m been working since i was about 12 years old, and started paying into medicare when i was 16.

    putting aside your ridiculous presumption that i’m some sort of parasitic leech, and discuss ryan’s plan for privatizing medicare for recipients under 55.

    when they receive their $15,000 voucher, and steam through it in 1-5 years, what are they going to do after that?

    and why can’t you consider alternative suggestions like tax increases on the wealthy and corporations?

  • darladoon

    jdubbellu said:
    i didn’t dodge anything. ryan’s plan affects people 55 and under. you said he was dumping it on the backs of seniors. you lie. i stated the reason these entitlements have to be changed is because they are insolvent if people keep living longer, and that is not even taking into account the baby boomers waiting in the wings to implode the system. i suggest you keep with your class warfare, that is going to work well for you.

    i will sleep well tonight knowing your life is f*cked. :)

    this argument makes no sense, and completely dodges the crucial aspect of ryan’s plan.

    if you want to live in complete denial, so be it.

    and i seriously hope you never get sick one day, and can’t pay for it.

    like every other selfish, Randian wacko, you really better be lucky to avoid having to ask someone else
    for help, because you’re really, really gonna look like a hypocritical asshole.

  • darladoon

    btw, jdubbellu,

    you can’t simultaneously admit that:

    a) future senior citizens won’t be affected

    and

    b) medicare needs “reform” (via cuts in benefits to future senior citizens)

    otherwise, your argument is bunk

  • darladoon

    jdubbellu said:
    are you drunk? i didnt say FUTURE seniors you stupid twatwaffle.

    you now have admitted, on the record, that future senior citizens will be affected

    which is all we really need to know

  • Critius

    No Glackin, the problem is with people like my mother who run to the doctor every time something somewhere on her body aches and at 275 pounds and 76 yrs old that’s about daily. She has no problem doing this because she pays nothing for doing so and the doctors she goes to are more than happy to line up at the unlimited Federal trough ordering test after test after test and prescribing drug after drug to cure – old age.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    jdubbellu said:
    give me your address.

    Scan it and post it right here. Somebody as “successful” as you is surely capable of that, right?

    –Cobra

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    It’s gotta be uncomfortable when the roles are reversed. I heard Allen West is now pre-screening questions. And what do conservatives respond with? They accuse these people of being plants. denial is not a river in Egypt. People have realized that the elixir you tried to sell them was really just water and they demand a refund, you snake oil salesmen.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    jdubbellu said:
    i didn’t dodge anything. ryan’s plan affects people 55 and under. you said he was dumping it on the backs of seniors. you lie. i stated the reason these entitlements have to be changed is because they are insolvent if people keep living longer, and that is not even taking into account the baby boomers waiting in the wings to implode the system. i suggest you keep with your class warfare, that is going to work well for you.

    i will sleep well tonight knowing your life is f*cked. :)

    Raise taxes to the levels of those great Republican Presidents:

    Ford: 70%
    Nixon: 70%
    Eisenhower: 92%

    Oh…You didn’t know that Republican Presidents taxed the rich TWICE AS MUCH, if not more than Barack Obama has?

    2. Install a single payer healthcare system, just like the State of Vermont.

    Get the profit motivation out of healthcare, and costs will decrease.

    Simple, huh?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    It’s gotta be uncomfortable when the roles are reversed. I heard Allen West is now pre-screening questions. And what do conservatives respond with? They accuse these people of being plants. denial is not a river in Egypt. People have realized that the elixir you tried to sell them was really just water and they demand a refund, you snake oil salesmen.

    Allen West is a torturer who should be in jail, but you’re absolute right about the pre-screening. His staff was caught in a LIE ON VIDEOTAPE:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DagGW-n8J0I

    Shameful.

    –Cobra

  • darladoon

    jdubbellu said:
    so what? thats the whole point! no wonder you are one of life’s little failures…

    who turns the computer on for you?

    i just want you on the record admitting that you want to privatize health care for senior citizens

    i.e. you want to literally kill grandma

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    jdubbellu said:
    do you always carry on a conversation with yourself? how were you not aborted?

    -jdubbellu

    1. jdubbellu won’t show his papers
    2. jdubbellu can’t refute arguments
    3. jdubbellu won’t address facts
    4. jdubbellu resorts to name-calling and personal attacks

    Yes, Glackin, jdubellu is the face of today’s conservative movement.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Glackin,

    I know. He’s not fooling anybody. Just Another right winger mad at the world for leaving him behind.

    Cobra

  • glenn113

    i wonder how he enjoys it and he is caught trying to defend a lie to boot. He should be bood.

  • mbwisper

    Has anyone blogging here actually READ the so-called “Path To Prosperity”? Because it sounds to me like a lot of you are taking snippets as presented in the media as knowledge of the FULL budget pan, if one can seriously call it that. I’ll say one thing about it: It IS a path to prosperity, but only for those who are ALREADY prosperous and don’t need the leg-up this piece of garbage gives them for more. It should in reality have been called “The Path to MORE Prosperity”, at least for the “haves”. Why am I not surprised that most Republicans back it? Even the party’s minions, the Tea Partyers, are stupid enough to really believe this thing is going to solve anything. What really astounds me is the short memories the Republicans as a whole seem to have. The way they address every single issue, it’s as if they really believe all our financial troubles started the minute Obama became President, while having NO apparent recollection of the mine field he had to step into left for him by their buddy W that took the eight years that preceded Obama to wire up. and get ready for him. The Tea Partyers, meanwhile, just aren’t seeing that they’re nothing but very vocal tools of the Republican establishment, invented by the Republican Party to verbalize what they call the “concerns of ordinary Americans” to create an atmosphere of anger. I for one look forward to the day when what the Republicans have wrought for themselves comes crashing down around their ears and that this whole “Path To Prosperity” gets seen for the money-grab it really is. In short, “It’s NOT the economy, stupid!”. The economy has nothing to do with it, power-mongering DOES.

  • X-3

    Some people love the idea of the government (that would be the taxpayers) taking responsibility for their lives. Most people do not because they are self-sufficient and self-reliant. It comes as no surprise that those who want to put their responsibility off on others would voice their opinions.

  • Alice67

    Glackin said:
    Have you EVER tried to appeal a private insurance decision? When your life depended on the outcome?
    Did they care?

    I’ve had more than one friend with cancer who’d spent the last months of their lives fighting with insurance companies. Just heartbreaking.

  • Alice67

    Glackin said:
    Cobra, be careful opening that.

    I OPENED IT BUT MY ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM CAUGHT IT BEFORE IT DID ANY DAMAGE. WHAT KIND OF PERSON DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT? REALLY????

  • mediadoubt

    I guess the ‘Licans overlooked the fact that trying to start a class war between older and younger Americans reveals them as despicable to anyone who has an ounce of decency.

    I guess they thought that “I’ve got mine, you drop dead” would resonate with anyone 55 and over. Unsurprisingly, even people over 55 realize that we’re all in this together and we’ll all have to pull together if we are to all benefit.

    But caring for your fellow man is much too close to communism for these low-watt tools — and many of the posters to this site. It’s actually much easier than they think. If taxes were assessed fairly rather than being a mechanism to derail policy, we’d be in much better shape.

    And of course, a one or two fewer useless wars and a financial class not addicted to shitting where it lived would help.

    But don’t worry, we’ll still support wingnuts when they get old, regardless of their attempts to dismantle the social contract.

    Because it’s the right thing to do.

  • mediadoubt

    jdubbellu said:
    kill yourself loser.

    You can spew but you don’t like it flung back in your face? Sorry. It’s going to be a long road for you up to November 2012.

  • Alice67

    mediadoubt said:
    You can spew but you don’t like it flung back in your face? Sorry. It’s going to be a long road for you up to November 2012.

    Don’t ever open a link from this person. He sent a virus as a link to this thread. I still can’t imagine the kind of person who would do something like that.

  • mediadoubt

    jdubbellu said:
    how must it suck that a white knuckle-dragger manages to makes high six figure income, and you come to a website to bitch how you need someone to take care of you. you should try match.com.

    I am soooo impressed by your six-figure income. And high six figures at that! And I believe you, too!

  • mediadoubt

    jdubbellu said:
    how must it suck that a white knuckle-dragger manages to makes high six figure income, and you come to a website to bitch how you need someone to take care of you. you should try match.com.

    I am soooo impressed at your six-figure income. And high six figures at that! And I believe you, too.

  • Alice67

    Glackin said:
    Wasn’t sure, but, as my mother said, consider the source.
    Put another way, never take candy from strangers.
    It’s been some night. Between jdbllue(?) and WCinWi, I was about to spank some children.
    I think I need a new wood pile. Someplace to go, and chop, and get it out of my system.
    Is this new generation that selfish? That greedy? That cold?
    Hoo, boy, did we f#ck up.
    See you another day. Keep the faith.

    Pretty shocking isn’t it.

    _______________________________________________________________________________

    jdubbellu PURPOSELY SENT A VIRUS AS A LINK …. NEVER OPEN ANY LINKS BY jdubbellu
    _______________________________________________________________________________

  • mediadoubt

    BatBoy said:
    ‘What about me?’ shouted Joe Platte, an eighth grader from Stratham, NH. ‘I’m 14! What am I going to do?’”

    Somebody needs to slap the crap out of this kid….at 14 looking for a handout…his parents must be so proud.

    Good grief!

    Sorry to point out the obvious if it gets in your way abusing children, but the right to receive medicare is paid for by taxpayers. It’s not a handout, it’s making good on a contract between the citizen and the government.

  • mediadoubt

    Critius said:
    No Glackin, the problem is with people like my mother who run to the doctor every time something somewhere on her body aches and at 275 pounds and 76 yrs old that’s about daily. She has no problem doing this because she pays nothing for doing so and the doctors she goes to are more than happy to line up at the unlimited Federal trough ordering test after test after test and prescribing drug after drug to cure – old age.

    So let the bitch die, is that your solution? Go ahead and suggest that to her.

  • Alice67

    mediadoubt said:
    So let the bitch die, is that your solution? Go ahead and suggest that to her.

    Not to mention it’s just not true that his mother pays nothing. In order to pay nothing she’d have to buy Medicare B for $100 + a month and also buy a supplemental for probably another $100 a month. And she’d still have some sort of co-pay.

    ______________________________________________________________________________

    jdubbellu PURPOSELY SENT A VIRUS AS A LINK …. NEVER OPEN ANY LINKS BY jdubbellu
    ______________________________________________________________________________

  • Alice67

    Glackin said:
    But then, he would have to kill his mother,
    Instead of getting the GOP to do it for him.

    LOL

    ______________________________________________________________________________

    jdubbellu PURPOSELY SENT A VIRUS AS A LINK …. NEVER OPEN ANY LINKS BY jdubbellu
    ______________________________________________________________________________

  • Critius

    mediadoubt said:
    So let the bitch die, is that your solution? Go ahead and suggest that to her.

    Well that was helpful. No but I guarantee if my mother had to provide a co-pay for her doctor visit she might consider whether it would be better to actually lose weight and alter her diet like I have been telling her for years so her CHOICES don’t exacerbate her health issues. Maybe, just maybe, she would NOT go out and rent a 2500 sq ft house for her and her 86 yr old husband because she needs more room for all the stuff she buys. She makes enormous amounts of both unhealthy choices and unwise choices because all her poor choices are paid for by someone else. A few years back she actually told me it was “her right” to receive free medical care and drugs for the rest of her life. And this after she and my dad refused to pay the insurance out of his retirement so she could collect that after his death since they didn’t want their retirement money reduced to pay for this insurance. I suppose I should say thank you mediadoubt and glackin for supporting my mother’s, and many many others, poor choices. In 15 years when I get there perhaps I’ll have a super-sized McDonald’s french fry in your honor.

  • Critius

    Oh, and btw, just to derail any supposed “just another rich white-man” comments – I am a high school teacher so no – I am not rich by any stretch of the imagination but I do have a fundamental belief in personal responsibility. That tends to die when others pay.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    X-3 said:
    Some people love the idea of the government (that would be the taxpayers) taking responsibility for their lives. Most people do not because they are self-sufficient and self-reliant. It comes as no surprise that those who want to put their responsibility off on others would voice their opinions.

    Yeah…I bet you want those folks in Tuscaloosa, who lost half their town to an EF-5 Tornado, to march for smaller government and refuse all federal disaster aid. Uh huh…because the free market is going repair hundreds of millions if not Billions of dollars in damage, and if individual citizens can’t bear the burden, screw ‘em, right?

    That’s why this Tea Party/Ayn Rand bullcrap stops the moment real life slaps you in the face.

    –Cobra

  • Barack Must Go

    Your choice libs. Youre either with us ” real ” Americans or you’re against us like these A-holes more concerned with how their guy was treated at a previous Town Hall meeting and actually protecting children’s future Medicare coverage.

    Wait till the pussy in our White House has to put forth an actual, not hypothetical plan ( solution ) to this looming problem.

    He believes he can bull____ you imbeciles on the left, lead you around by your crotch until after the election next year and so far so good…for him anyway….but devistating for America.

    The _____ is about to hit the fan in approximately 22 or 23 states over not having any money to fund the illegal democrat quid pro quo pension, benefits packages from the past 30 years.

    When the truth regarding this situation and Obama and the dems being helpless to intervene, this Medicare issue will be the least of his / their problems.

    Them roosters is coming home to roost……..BIG TIME.

  • Alice67

    jdubbellu said:
    you lying c*nt. there was no virus, it’s a straight link to a chicken and waffle joint I thought cobra could get a good meal at. post a screenshot of your virus report lying old c*nt. god you libs are stupid f*cks.

    IT WAS A VIRUS!
    ______________________________________________________________________________

    jdubbellu PURPOSELY SENT A VIRUS AS A LINK …. NEVER OPEN ANY LINKS BY jdubbellu
    ______________________________________________________________________________

  • cjd ohio 1

    jdubbellu said:
    lying c*nt, post the screenshot. anyone from california knows what roscoe’s chicken and waffle is. stupid bitch.

    i would not use the bad language, not cool, but alice67(ellen) believes the US drafted women in WWII, so you cannot reason with her

  • Alice67

    jdubbellu said:
    only problem is that word is the most accurate word to describe her…

    Go open it ….
    ______________________________________________________________________________

    jdubbellu PURPOSELY SENT A VIRUS AS A LINK …. NEVER OPEN ANY LINKS BY jdubbellu
    ______________________________________________________________________________

  • Alice67

    jdubbellu said:
    prove its a virus, lying c*nt.

    My anti-virus program flagged it as virus and blocked it. Certainly you don’t expect me to believe you rather than my lying anti-virus program? IT’S A VIRUS!

    ______________________________________________________________________________

    jdubbellu PURPOSELY SENT A VIRUS AS A LINK …. NEVER OPEN ANY LINKS BY jdubbellu
    ______________________________________________________________________________

  • Alice67

    You proved nothing except you are malicious enough to post a virus that anyone could click on and get just because you were in a flame war. And your filthy words don’t intimidate me. But I sure will never open a link you send and I will continue to warn posters about your links.
    ________________________________________________________________________

    jdubbellu PURPOSELY SENT A VIRUS AS A LINK …. NEVER OPEN ANY LINKS BY jdubbellu
    ________________________________________________________________________

  • Critius

    Alice67 said:
    Not to mention it’s just not true that his mother pays nothing. In order to pay nothing she’d have to buy Medicare B for $100 + a month and also buy a supplemental for probably another $100 a month. And she’d still have some sort of co-pay.

    No – my mother claims poverty so the doctor can give her “samples” – all this while her and her husband have an annual income that is not taxed of 53K (my sister did her tax returns last year). Her husband eats any food he desires as a type 1 diabetic and takes some sort of diabetes medicine (I don’t recall the name) but apparently it is nearly 400 per month (that he pays nothing for) that he has to take SPECIFICALLY because he refuses to alter his diet. I did not diagnose this – these are the words from out of his mouth: “I like this food and I am going to eat what I want when I want it”. And they are not alone in this series of events – look around with some healthy skepticism instead of partisan knee-jerk reactions and realize the system is RIFE with waste and abuse. And please – make logical arguments instead of going straight to hyperbole unless that is all you have.

  • mediadoubt

    Critius said:
    Well that was helpful. No but I guarantee if my mother had to provide a co-pay for her doctor visit she might consider whether it would be better to actually lose weight and alter her diet like I have been telling her for years so her CHOICES don’t exacerbate her health issues. Maybe, just maybe, she would NOT go out and rent a 2500 sq ft house for her and her 86 yr old husband because she needs more room for all the stuff she buys. She makes enormous amounts of both unhealthy choices and unwise choices because all her poor choices are paid for by someone else. A few years back she actually told me it was “her right” to receive free medical care and drugs for the rest of her life. And this after she and my dad refused to pay the insurance out of his retirement so she could collect that after his death since they didn’t want their retirement money reduced to pay for this insurance. I suppose I should say thank you mediadoubt and glackin for supporting my mother’s, and many many others, poor choices. In 15 years when I get there perhaps I’ll have a super-sized McDonald’s french fry in your honor.

    Well it’s abundantly clear that you have issues with your mother. However, to project your personal experience into policy for all Americans is pretty foolish.

    One of the innovations in health care today is “wellness care,” where people at risk of one ailment or the other are taught how to modify their behavior and thereby achieve better outcomes. Rather than stewing about your mother’s choices, maybe you could steer her toward such resources. Who knows? You might help make the cost of health care lower for all of us!

  • mediadoubt

    Barack Must Go said:
    Your choice libs. Youre either with us ” real ” Americans or you’re against us like these A-holes more concerned with how their guy was treated at a previous Town Hall meeting and actually protecting children’s future Medicare coverage.

    Wait till the pussy in our White House has to put forth an actual, not hypothetical plan ( solution ) to this looming problem.

    He believes he can bull____ you imbeciles on the left, lead you around by your crotch until after the election next year and so far so good…for him anyway….but devistating for America.

    The _____ is about to hit the fan in approximately 22 or 23 states over not having any money to fund the illegal democrat quid pro quo pension, benefits packages from the past 30 years.

    When the truth regarding this situation and Obama and the dems being helpless to intervene, this Medicare issue will be the least of his / their problems.

    Them roosters is coming home to roost……..BIG TIME.

    You’re not qualified to make my choices for me. I’m far from certain you’re qualified to make decisions for yourself, but only the people who love you (??) are in a position to make that call and I wish ‘em all the luck in the world.

    I’m plenty real and I’m opposed to mean-spirited sociopaths like yourself trying to tear the country apart. There’s plenty of money in the system if it were allocated sensibly.

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