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In reply to the discussion: Alarms Go Off as Obama Plays Footsie with Raising Medicare Age [View all]snooper2
(30,151 posts)21. I guessed three possible sources for this story before I clicked this...
And I was right!
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Everything I have heard, including Congressional Democrats they will NOT raise the age of Medicare.
still_one
Dec 2012
#1
I am sure there will be a long list of excuses when SS & Medicare get cut, too
Doctor_J
Dec 2012
#20
He's already said that while he's willling to look for savings and efficiencies in
JoePhilly
Dec 2012
#105
When the age doesn't go up they will do what they've done for the last 4 years...silence
uponit7771
Dec 2012
#29
No, we will credit the huge coalition formed before the election of Unions and Progressive
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#103
Ranting on DU has no merit unless they are part of the huge coalition of Progressive Orgs and
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#160
Ah...the half truth postings are back...., these get ignored by non fudr crowed
uponit7771
Dec 2012
#28
All Obama has to do is say "We will not raise the eligibility age. That is not negotiable."
BlueStreak
Dec 2012
#36
It is impossible to overemphasize the wrongness of what you just said.
woo me with science
Dec 2012
#74
Yeah, but you are doing the woo woo thing, as in non-rational, biased & baseless speculation.
patrice
Dec 2012
#128
Anyone who respects rationalism admits the possibility of error, UNLIKE the anti-Obama woo woo going
patrice
Dec 2012
#145
The only ones reinforcing are YOU. And the reason you are reinforcing it is because
patrice
Dec 2012
#120
You're the ones taking an extremely limited & VERY selective set of information & PROPAGANDIZING
patrice
Dec 2012
#121
It's impossible to overemphasize the wrongness of your methodology = REALLY suspicious
patrice
Dec 2012
#122
Who made you the police of this board? Are you a fascist? Do all of us have to do things your way?
patrice
Dec 2012
#138
Ridicule, the first resort of the impotent. & I'm not even sure that it can be said that I drink,
patrice
Dec 2012
#146
Exactly correct: the Common Dreams Pseudo-Progressives have as high an opinion of themselves
alcibiades_mystery
Dec 2012
#82
They're all buzzzzzzzed on themselves & what they MISTAKE for power = FASCISM. & that's
patrice
Dec 2012
#123
And if it weren't this issue, it'd be another, BECAUSE THIS IS NOT ABOUT SOLIDARITY. nt
patrice
Dec 2012
#125
They're beside themselves with rage that they didn't get their "I Told You So" moment
alcibiades_mystery
Dec 2012
#84
That's precisely what's going on & they'll NEVER admit that they don't KNOW enough to arrive at
patrice
Dec 2012
#118
Maybe he's just talking. If he were serious, it could kill the Democratic Party.
Poll_Blind
Dec 2012
#7
Is it even remotely possible for DU posters not to panic with every single Presidential utterance?
OldDem2012
Dec 2012
#9
Come on. Do you really think he doesn't know how the vast majority of the Democratic Party and....
OldDem2012
Dec 2012
#18
Congress needs to pass legislation legalizing pot, and submit that bill to the President....
OldDem2012
Dec 2012
#151
Exactly right. And there is the possibility he is intentionally playing "good cop, bad cop"
BlueStreak
Dec 2012
#66
& every last one of them is a fuck-you to Solidarity -AND- that could very well be the REAL motive.
patrice
Dec 2012
#150
It's fucking sad that Democrats have to BEG a Democratic president to protect Social Security
jsr
Dec 2012
#23
Mr. President is not going to be down with that. People wadding their panties for not.
lonestarnot
Dec 2012
#30
You can use an effeminizing pejorative to describe legitimate concern but two things:
Poll_Blind
Dec 2012
#35
Mr. President is not so stupid as to piss off folks, contribute further to debt, and agree with
lonestarnot
Dec 2012
#56
Thank you. So here's the problem with your position: Both President Obama's senior advisor and...
Poll_Blind
Dec 2012
#61
I have more confidence in the man than you apparently. Language was a float.
lonestarnot
Dec 2012
#62
It will depend on whether he gives in to the "serious" people or the people who elected him.
mmonk
Dec 2012
#57
But from what I understand that is one of the largest costs to the Medicare program
former-republican
Dec 2012
#73
The negotiation ban goes against the free market, free enterprise and all that jazz
jsr
Dec 2012
#91
Really? Most DUers I know are currently members of several Progressive Organizations and are
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#144
THAT's what he's working on, but there's some people around here too short/narrow sighted,
patrice
Dec 2012
#114
The GOP didn't mind jacking up the debt and now they want to rip off the elderly and needy.
L0oniX
Dec 2012
#161
"When you look at the evidence, it’s not clear that it actually saves a lot of money."
patrice
Dec 2012
#113
I want the anti-Obama bigots in this thread to explain the last paragraph of OP to us, please&thanks
patrice
Dec 2012
#127
"not clear that it - INCREASING MEDICARE AGE - saves a lot of money" Republicans want A LOT of
patrice
Dec 2012
#130
I'll wait to see what actually happens, since neither the cheerleaders not the naysayers actually
djean111
Dec 2012
#143
Exactly. They are our very own "teabaggers". I'm hoping the economy improves to the point where...
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2012
#159
TL/DR - long winded line of "there are some who say" and "he hasn't said he wouldn't" BS
tjwash
Dec 2012
#132