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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Keep government away from my Medicare!"
What in the world do right wingers mean when they say that? I think it was first stated as a satirical comment on people on Medicare who were against the ACA aka socialized medicine , but those people seem to have taken up the cry with no irony at all! Do they mean," keep politicians away from my Medicare"? "keep Democratic politicans away from my Medicare"? Do they think they are on private insurance (Medicare Advantage)?
Or do they really not understand that Medicare is a government program?
kctim
(3,575 posts)don't take away what they have already been required to pay for.
Rambis
(7,774 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)"I got mine, screw the rest of you!"
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)"I have no idea what socialism is; but fox and its talking heads tell me it's a BAD, BAD thing and I'm suppose to hate it!"
permatex
(1,299 posts)that they're funny. Repukes-enough said.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)They didn't care Bush screwed them with his Medicare Part D, or the cost which was at first a low bid, and come to find out it was Billions off the mark. But a black man in charge is ALL it comes down too. Obama could single handily put out their house fire, and they would still hate him.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)That's part of the explanation.
d_r
(6,907 posts)"I would rather other people die than me not get what I think is coming to me."
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)n/t
joycejnr
(326 posts)For $15.26, Chris Mooney's The Republican Brain will be of some assistance: http://www.amazon.com/The-Republican-Brain-Science-Science--/dp/1118094514/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341261892&sr=8-1&keywords=the+republican+brain.
For those senior citizens (like me) on Medicare and more austere budget, a free - though less scientific - explanation here. The classic The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity: http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/stupidity/
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)the same category as the right wing conviction that Steven Colbert is really a conservative who is punking the liberals!