Re: Ryan, What We Must Promise as Democrats
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We need to make a stand to avoid being pulled to the right as this Ryan pick will certainly do to the election debates.
We need to resolve now not to accept any broad austerity measures - and especially cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid - from bipartisan deficit commissions, even if they look really small and puny next to what Ryan and Romney would do.
We need to pressure our party to vow specifically to protect these safety nets unconditionally. That means vowing to oppose chained CPI's, increases in the eligibility age for Medicare, or any decrease or slowing of the increase of benefits for Americans who have already been devastated by corporate thieves.
We need to be vigilant and proactive from this point onward. We need to forcefully anticipate and resist the coming pressure to judge austerity proposals and the cutting of our safety nets based on comparisons to what Republicans might do, rather than on what we as Democrats know is morally right.
We are heading into a blizzard of right-wing propaganda that threatens to pull Democrats to the right and change all of our framing of these issues. Vow to resist, and vow to stand for the values and principles that Democrats have always defended. It is not too much, and it is our responsibility as Democrats, to demand this simple, clear, specific promise from our President.
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Seems like some, want what they are being offered... have yet to see Obama take away SS or Medicare.
