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In reply to the discussion: last Wednesday, the President pissed me off [View all]BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)They are still trying to float above it all, trying to brush it off with cute jokes. And if anything, the Obama campaign is getting more and more vague every day. Honestly I am trying hard to find the differences now. Both campaigns have slipped into nothing but platitudes.
There are sharp differences.
Romney wants to end Medicare. Not "Medicare 'as we know it'" . He wants to end Medicare, period. The plan is perfectly clear.
Step 1: Offer an "option" to people under 56 to get a voucher meaning they will never receive Medicare benefits
Step 2: Start siphoning off the funding for Medicare so that 10 years from now, those who didn't take the voucher path will have a crappy system
Step 3: 10 years from now, start lowering the voucher amount every year and continue to drain resources from the Medicare system until it is gone.
Stop pussy-footing around with this. Call it what it is. This should have been the ONLY thing anybody should have discussed in Florida. That would have been an easy win, and now that state is probably lost.
You can go through that same process on 3 or 4 main issues. Get specific. Time is running out. People need time to process the magnitude of the plan Romney intends to carry out. We lost a hugely important week just bullshitting about Big Bird.