The video below is a spoof but it has an element of truth to it. What Paul Ryan's Budget Plan does… It takes a look at YOU & ME and sees us as leaches, bloodsuckers who suck profit away from the rich.
Yepper, that's the GOP in a nutshell.
If only they could get rid of us bums, freeloaders, and scroungers so easy as by pushing us all over a cliff, they would do it like... yesterday. We work hard all our lives and some of us still wind up with low or hardly any income and because of that we are viewed, in the eyes of the filthy rich Republican... AS WORTHLESS! It's sad but true! thinkingblue
Paul Ryan Throws Grandma Off The
Cliff (spoof)
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL... NOT WITHOUT MEDICARE! Today,
The Agenda Project released a shocking new video dramatizing Paul
Ryan's proposal to end Medicare. The video -- which shows an
elderly woman getting thrown off a cliff -- asserts that the Ryan
plan will hurt elderly Americans.
Paul Ryan's budget plan, named "The Path to
Prosperity," is a ludicrous proposal to slash funding for
almost every domestic service provided by the federal government
EXCEPT for defense spending, meanwhile LOWERING taxes even
further than the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Does that sound like
a "balanced" budget to you? But Ryan's plan
specifically targets Medicare. Right now, Medicare is a
free-for-service program which itself pays for health care
procedures for most beneficiaries. Under Ryan's plan, this
program would be changed into a series of subsidies -- that is,
you go and get your own insurance and then the government will
"subsidize" (pay a little money) towards that
privatized insurance. Now, that may not sound so bad if it
weren't for the fact that Ryan's plan, consciously, DOES NOT take
into account any sort of inflation whatsoever. Ever wonder why
your healthcare exam increased in cost from the previous year?
That's right, its called inflation and it is rampant in the
healthcare industry. What that means is that Ryan's plan would
eventually screw over the elderly by not keeping up with
healthcare inflation -- meaning it pays less and less over time.
Does this amount to any less than pitching our elderly off a
cliff?
More than half of America lives on less than $28k a year! These
individuals are NOT at fault for our current fiscal state. It is
the duty of the politicians of this country to fix their mistakes
-- a war that has cost trillions of dollars, billions spent on
bailing out unregulated banks -- not to slide that cost onto our
senior citizens.
Republicans want to privatize Medicare -- creating a potentially
disastrous healthcare landscape, all while they continue to cut
taxes for the rich and spend trillions of dollars in defense.
That is not a "path to prosperity," that is a path to
the rich getting richer, the poor getting sicker, and the country
going down the tube. If America truly is beautiful, then we won't
let Paul Ryan and the Republican House push our grandmothers over
a cliff.
The video is already getting heavy media coverage, including
postings on Alternet, which calls it "hitting the right wing
where it hurts," Down with Tyranny, and Buzzflash.
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Now click the link below and watch Lawrence O'Donnell speak on the Republican's radical plan of STARVE THE BEAST and how this disgusting plan has worked. There are way too many ignorant voters in America and because of that America is going to fail as the BEACON OF FREEDOM. thinkingblue