Crooks & Liars - "Eric Cantor to Poor and Middle Class: Die."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

VIDEO @ the URL below.

April 10, 2011 04:00 PM
Eric Cantor to Poor and Middle Class: Die.
By karoli

Nothing gets my blood boiling faster than listening to the Sunday talking heads bloviate about how all those old people don't really need their Medicare anyway. Eric Cantor just couldn't wait to call Medicaid and Medicare recipients welfare queens this morning -- as if they don't pay for it with the taxes THEY pay (unlike our corporate person counterparts), while extolling Ryan's plan to gut health services to the entire nation. Really, his message (and Ryan's) is this: If you're under 55, die and die quickly so there's more for us.

Here's the clip:

CANTOR: We are in a situation where we have a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don’t need one. We have to focus on making sure we have a safety net for those who need it.

WALLACE: The Medicaid people — you’re going to cut that by $750 billion.

CANTOR: The medicaid reductions are off the baseline. so what we’re saying is allow states to have the flexibility to deal with their populations, their indigent populations and the healthcare needs the way they know how to deal with them. Not to impose some mandate from a bureaucrat in washington.

WALLACE: But you are giving them less money to do it.

CANTOR: In terms of the baseline, that is correct…What we’re saying is there is so much imposition of a mandate that doesn’t relate to the actual quality of care. We believe if you put in place the mechanism that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better resolve and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/eric-cantor-poor-and-middle-class-die

[pa28]

1. At the same time Ryan's plan cuts capital gains taxes to zero.

Apparently we can afford to let Bill Gates live tax free but we'll leave the poor to scramble for medical charity to survive.

We'd better start paying attention as Republicans seem to have elevated their ambitions to enacting the "roadmap" rather than the Simpson/Bowles plan.

[Angry Dragon]

2. The words spew out of their mouths but the words make no sense

'The medicaid reductions are off the baseline'
What the hell is the baseline??

He does get one thing right: 'and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less'
He wants to squeeze the bottom a lot more and let the top get even more.
The bottom is getting on with less.
The top not so much,

[Demeter]

3. I Could Do a Lot More With Less BS

but that might mean executions of the bloviators...

Sorry, I'm failing to see the downside, here.

[Angry Dragon]

4. It may come to that...........

[ixion]

5. "do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less."

Except, you know, if you're in the beltway.

[OHdem10]

6. Why do so many of the Republicans believe people are scamming

the system? This is what he is saying. we have a safety
net for those who do NOT need it????

[999998th word]

7. Its divisive ,furthers their agenda,and it works-facts are unimportant.

Cantor-+all the rest of you smug BASTARD HYPOCRITES ,what kind of health insurance do YOU + YOUR FAMILIES HAVE????? huh? what? louder I cant hear you---
Self serving f**ks.:puke:

[Shallah Kali]

9. ever notice that people like them accuse others of what they themselves are doing?

So many anti-gay gop are toe tapping for airport stall romance, bachmann and others who are anti-subsidies take farm subsidies, etc? I think this thinking is more of the same and a way to salve what little conscience they have - since they are out to suck as much wealth and power out of the government as they can everyone else is so they are no worse than the rest of humanity.

[Blue_Tires]

8. Cantor is a piece of shit....

nt

[fasttense]

10. It's just real strange how the rich need our government contracts, farm subsidies

oil subsidies, tax refunds for corporations that pay no taxes. All these rich people organizations must have their government subsidies and huge tax give aways but not poor people, the elderly, or college kids. They need nothing except to get out of the way of the rich.

How very strange. It's the logic of the insane.