June 18, 2013

The Socialist’s Journal: Cutting Spending

Trevor Brookins

*It is unfair to continually point out the flaws in another person’s solution to a problem without proposing a solution of your own. Doing so is not helping and only criticizing those who are trying to help. I am occasionally guilty of this kind of behavior. I consistently explain what I think is wrong with [...]




KitchenAid ‘Sorry’ for Joke about Obama’s Dead Grandma

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*It appeared Wednesday night that the home appliance brand KitchenAid – for some odd reason – not only decided to weigh in on Wednesday’s presidential showdown in Denver via Twitter, but also show its cards as to who it’s supporting in November. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Their tweet has since been removed, but at [...]




Paul Ryan Booed at the AARP Conference (Watch)

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*Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) apparently thought that seniors forgot about his plan to turn Medicare into a voucher system. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Speaking to the AARP’s annual  conference Friday in New Orleans, the vice presidential candidate was booed by hundreds of elderly folk when he began talking about his plan to repeal Obamacare. [...]




Largest Medicare Fraud Case in History Nets 91 Crooks

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*There have been some real A-list crimes going down in the U.S. Let’s start with Enron and  and all the people who lost their entire savings along with their job and the not so clean hands of Dick Cheney.  Or how about the scheme to beat all schemes pulled off by Bernie Maddoff? Massive financial crimes are on [...]




Black GOP Member Rips DNC Chairwoman with E-mail

Allen West (R-Fl.)

*Congress seems to be on edge lately with all that is at stake if the budget isn’t worked out and the payment made before the country defaults on its massive loan. But, in the middle of such an important measure, congressmen still find time to squabble amongst themselves and have a little back and forth [...]




Is GOP Digging a Hole They Might Regret?

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*Seeming to be bending over backwards, President Obama offered up another Democratic sacred cow in Monday’s debt talks, but Republicans still wouldn’t budge from their anti-tax stance. The Washington Post is reporting that Mr. Obama made an offer to raise the Medicare eligibility age on top of previous offers to slash Social Security and Medicare [...]




Video: Obama Budget Proposal Vows to Protect Poor, Elderly

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*Taking a stand against Republican budget-cutting plans, President Barack Obama today proposed lowering the nation’s future deficits by $4 trillion over 12 years and promised he would not allow benefit cuts for the poor and the elderly to pay for tax breaks for the rich. “That’s not right and it’s not going to happen as [...]




Is Obama Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place with Deficit?

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*President Barack Obama, risking liberal anger and Republican scorn, is turning his attention to the nation’s crushing debt with an anti-deficit framework that tackles politically sensitive health care programs while also increasing taxes. Today, the president plans to deliver a speech outlining his approach to reducing the deficit by lowering spending in Medicare and Medicaid, [...]




Obama Ready to Propose His Deficit-Reduction Plan

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*He may have sat on the sidelines during the budget debate, but President Obama will enter the fray Wednesday by setting targets for deficit reduction-and coming out in favor of cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Still, there is a gap to bridge between Obama and Republicans, who want to essentially privatize Medicare and Medicaid while [...]




Obama’s $3.73 Trillion Budget Trims Social Security and Medicare

Copies of President Obama's 2012 budget are delivered to the Senate Budget Committee

*President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.73 trillion budget Monday that holds out the prospect of eventually bringing deficits under control through spending cuts and tax increases. But the fiscal blueprint largely ignores his own deficit commission’s view that the nation is imperiled unless huge entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare are slashed. Obama [...]




Is Obama Playing with Fire?: End-of-Life Plan That Caused Stir Being Revived

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*When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1. Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation, the government will pay doctors who [...]




Andy Griffith Ads Pitch Obama’s Health Care Law

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*Actor Andy Griffith, whose iconic TV role as sheriff of Mayberry made him an enduring symbol of small-town American values, has been chosen to pitch President Barack Obama’s universal health care law to seniors in a cable television ad paid for by Medicare. The 84-year-old actor tells his fellow seniors that “good things are coming” [...]