Social Security and Medicare are not "Generational Theft"

[jtown1123]

Run time: 00:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIwZ08gpuYA   Posted on YouTube: May 26, 2011 By YouTube Member: NationalCommittee Views on YouTube: 90   Posted on DU: May 27, 2011 By DU Member: jtown1123 Views on DU: 792

 
NCPSSM (Nat'l Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare) VP and Acting CEO Max Richtman went to testify before a Senate Special Aging Committee yesterday on the importance of Older Americans' Act Programs i.e. Meals on Wheels, caregiver services, training for employment for seniors, etc.

GOP Senator Bob Corker took this opportunity to go completely off topic and attack Richtman and his organization for trying to protect these SS and Medicare from cuts and rant against NCPSSM's opposition to Corker's Spending Cap Bill (which would cut SS and Medicare).

Corker is an asshole but this is a pretty good indication of how worried the GOP is over people's reactions to their plans to abolish Medicare. They are just lashing out at anyone who criticizes them.

[Avant Guardian]

1. Tax cuts for the rich, and the deficits they cause, are generational theft

...so far to the tune of about $15 trillion.

[jtown1123]

3. Precisely.

[FailureToCommunicate]

2. Glad Repubs are dragging wasteful folks like Richtman before Congress...

He'll have to answer for all the 'waste, fraud and abuse' committed by giving out a few extra little cups of jello in those Meals on Wheels programs...

[jtown1123]

4. +1000

God these people are so sick and twisted. They are skeptical of feeding the elderly but have no problem pouring billions into oil companies that don't need it.

[watajob]

5. And financing the military/industrial complex...

... necessary to protect said oil companies overseas investment.