Death! Death! And More Death! That’s the Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan/Ron Wyden Health Care Plan

“The Romney-Ryan position on health care is that many millions of Americans must be denied health insurance, and millions more deprived of the security Medicare now provides, in order to save money. At the same time, of course, Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan are proposing trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy. So a literal description of their plan is that they want to expose many Americans to financial insecurity, and let some of them die, so that a handful of already wealthy people can have a higher after-tax income.” Paul Krugman

Wall Street Senator Ron Wyden supports the Romney/Ryan plan. He’s an alledged democrat, but that’s a lie. Wyden is a corrupt, corporate plutocrat who is willing to cut back on medicaid and medicare in order to give the already super rich tax cuts they don’t need. That’s because tax cuts for the 1 percent that result in death for members of the 99 percent is an income and life redistribution scam that Ryden supports.

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Death by Ideology–New York Times

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Mitt Romney Plans Fiscal Austerity for the 99 Percent, Just Like Europe Has Done.

Wall Street Mitt the Egghead Twit Romney wants to cut taxes on the rich and raise taxes on the 99 percent. He would decrease overall taxation in the process and cut government programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid to pay for the tax cuts to the 1 percent. But what is Mitt really saying?

He wants to reduce government spending to give the rich a tax break they don’t need. And there is not a single shred of evidence whatsoever that any tax cut for the rich has ever created a single net job. Those kind of tax cuts are jobs destroyers, and always have been.

On the other hand, if Dumb Dumb Mitt raises taxes on the middle class, anybody with a fart for a brain knows that action is going to cut into the demand for goods and services, and it will slow and perhaps destroy what little job growth there currently is. Likewise, cutting government spending would have the same impact.

The only things slowing the US economy from slipping off a treacherous financial cliff are the New Deal (like Social Security with its $2.7 trillion surplus which is collecting $118 billion a year in interest and unemployment insurance), the Great Society programs (such as food stamps) and the government deficit. All of these boast the demand for goods and services.

Mitt’s plan is similar to what was recently tried in Europe: Austerity. It failed as everybody knew it would.

In the US, there is no shortage of wealth and income that could finance local, state and federal programs. It’s called taxing the rich. Those folks have stolen via legislation trillions of dollars from the 99 percent. They should be made to give it back.

All Mitt wants to do, is continue the scam of redistributing income from the4 99 to the 1 percent. And that’s called a disaster.

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The Failure of Europe's Austerity Madness–New York Times

There is No Evidence That Tax Cuts for the Rich Create Jobs–Truthout.org

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Even Severely Conservative Critics of the Social Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It

The economy is in shambles, even if there might be occurring some short-term improvement. In the long-term, say over the next five years, if not sooner, things are going to deteriorate. That’s why even severely conservative people continue to use the government social safety nets more and more.

More of the national income is going to the rich every day. That means there’s less money for the 99 percent to demand more goods and services, which is what creates jobs. Giving more of the national income to the rich actually destroys jobs and wrecks the economy for the rest of us, decreasing demand, and sends most of the rest of us into third world style poverty. We’ve probably already stepped through the door into that world.

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Competition hasn’t worked in health care and there’s a reason why

Okay, Senator Useful Idiot Ron Wyden thinks that more competition will stifle the rise in health care costs. Some of the medical companies that benefit from those price increases probably paid the useful idiot a ton of money to utter such nonsense. Competition hasn’t worked to stifle price increases, or hasn’t anyone noticed? The story is below, but check out the video first. It begins as a comedy, but then moves into how broken the US medical system is.

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Super-Committee Meltdown-What You Can Do To Save Social Programs, like Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare

By Shawn Sorenson

You’ve probably heard the news. The supercommittee negotiations have broken down. On the one hand, this is good news for progressives because we have avoided massive cuts to vital programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

On the other hand, we know that the supercommittee was unable to reach a deal for one reason and one reason only. Republicans continue to refuse to make the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share — period. They put their oath to “Mr. One Percent Grover Norquist” ahead of their oath to the Constitution, to the other 99 percent, to the good of the country.

So what happens now? Congress, by its own agreement, is required to cut federal spending by $1.2 trillion over the next decade. And here’s the good news: Congress has to cut half a trillion dollars in wasteful Pentagon spending over the next decade. No law has ever required this to happen before.

You’ve worked hard over these past few months to tell Congress to do things like fund job creation, cut big oil subsidies and cut the wasteful Pentagon budget. Now it’s time to make it happen. Pentagon spending must be reined in. We’ve been fighting together to end wasteful Pentagon spending for years, and this could be our best chance to really make it happen.

This budget fight is just beginning. Some Republicans already are threatening to back out on the negotiated agreement, particularly the nearly $500 billion reduction in Pentagon spending. We have a bloated defense budget, which wastes hundreds of billions of dollars on programs that are outdated and obsolete and add nothing to our national security. We KNOW that spending on war and weapons is a lousy way to create jobs too, especially when compared to better ideas like hiring teachers, paying firefighters or investing in road and bridge repair. The President agrees with us, he says he will veto any changes to sequestration. But your Representatives need to hear from you.

Ask your Representatives to keep the Pentagon cuts and vote in favor of the 99% – not the 1% corporate defense contractors. Call your senators and representatives in the House of Representatives now.

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