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Survey: Voters Reject Medicare Cuts Flat Out & Prefer Tax Hikes To Reduce Deficit
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11-09-2012, 12:25 AM
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| Survey: Voters Reject Medicare Cuts Flat Out & Prefer Tax Hikes To Reduce Deficit Quote: By Sarah Bufkin and Ryan Grim WASHINGTON -- Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security should be off the table as congressional leaders attempt to broker a deal to avoid the sequester that kicks in Jan. 1, according to a new survey from Democracy Corps and the Campaign for America's Future. The survey by two progressive groups found that voters support an approach to the country's economic woes that includes protecting entitlement benefits as well as raising taxes on the wealthiest earners and bolstering investments to aid long-term growth. "Americans are not looking for austerity now," said Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future. "They are looking for a program, a long-term program, that will create jobs and will get the economy going and that will bring [the deficit] into balance over time." Seventy percent of the 1,000 voters polled on Nov. 6-7 called for increased investment in Medicare, Social Security and education, as opposed to only 27 percent who advocated the across-the-board cuts that Republicans have pushed -- and to which Democrats have generally acquiesced -- in budget negotiations over the past two years. Three-fourths of voters opposed deep cuts in domestic programs, including K-12 schools and college aid. Only 25 percent found such measures acceptable. "[Voters] would prioritize job creation first," Borosage said. "They would demand that all Americans be asked to pay their fair share of taxes and the top-end Bush tax cuts not be extended. They would protect Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and they would protect vital services for the most vulnerable. These are the principles that, as we showed, overwhelming majorities of American voters [hold]."
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11-09-2012, 12:26 AM
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| Quote: "Americans are not looking for austerity now," said Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future. "They are looking for a program, a long-term program, that will create jobs and will get the economy going and that will bring [the deficit] into balance over time."
__________________ "The fact is, we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest? Or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again." ~~Hillary Clinton |
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11-09-2012, 12:35 AM
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| Proving that a majority of voters are so damn stupid they probably shouldn't be voting. |
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11-09-2012, 12:39 AM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lakhota  Quote: By Sarah Bufkin and Ryan Grim WASHINGTON -- Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security should be off the table as congressional leaders attempt to broker a deal to avoid the sequester that kicks in Jan. 1, according to a new survey from Democracy Corps and the Campaign for America's Future. The survey by two progressive groups found that voters support an approach to the country's economic woes that includes protecting entitlement benefits as well as raising taxes on the wealthiest earners and bolstering investments to aid long-term growth. "Americans are not looking for austerity now," said Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future. "They are looking for a program, a long-term program, that will create jobs and will get the economy going and that will bring [the deficit] into balance over time." Seventy percent of the 1,000 voters polled on Nov. 6-7 called for increased investment in Medicare, Social Security and education, as opposed to only 27 percent who advocated the across-the-board cuts that Republicans have pushed -- and to which Democrats have generally acquiesced -- in budget negotiations over the past two years. Three-fourths of voters opposed deep cuts in domestic programs, including K-12 schools and college aid. Only 25 percent found such measures acceptable. "[Voters] would prioritize job creation first," Borosage said. "They would demand that all Americans be asked to pay their fair share of taxes and the top-end Bush tax cuts not be extended. They would protect Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and they would protect vital services for the most vulnerable. These are the principles that, as we showed, overwhelming majorities of American voters [hold]." |
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11-09-2012, 01:10 AM
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| Republicans like to talk about America becoming Greece. They should certainly be concerned. For the past 5 years Greece and other European countries have been pursuing the Republican's agenda for "growth", by savagely cutting social programs and gutting the government sector. The result has been an unimaginable economic depression, much worse than anything seen this side of the Atlantic. Of course voters don't want any of it to be on the table. This is why Republicans must engage in doublethink. They must simultaneously pretend to be protectors of programs like Medicare and social security (like Vel's post above) while also denouncing how government cannot and should not do anything and very openly saying the programs must be dismantled - dismantled to be saved, because 'we cannot afford them.'
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11-09-2012, 01:16 AM
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| Vel ain't too bright...
__________________ "The fact is, we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest? Or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again." ~~Hillary Clinton |
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11-09-2012, 01:22 AM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lakhota Quote: By Sarah Bufkin and Ryan Grim WASHINGTON -- Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security should be off the table as congressional leaders attempt to broker a deal to avoid the sequester that kicks in Jan. 1, according to a new survey from Democracy Corps and the Campaign for America's Future. The survey by two progressive groups found that voters support an approach to the country's economic woes that includes protecting entitlement benefits as well as raising taxes on the wealthiest earners and bolstering investments to aid long-term growth. "Americans are not looking for austerity now," said Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future. "They are looking for a program, a long-term program, that will create jobs and will get the economy going and that will bring [the deficit] into balance over time." Seventy percent of the 1,000 voters polled on Nov. 6-7 called for increased investment in Medicare, Social Security and education, as opposed to only 27 percent who advocated the across-the-board cuts that Republicans have pushed -- and to which Democrats have generally acquiesced -- in budget negotiations over the past two years. Three-fourths of voters opposed deep cuts in domestic programs, including K-12 schools and college aid. Only 25 percent found such measures acceptable. "[Voters] would prioritize job creation first," Borosage said. "They would demand that all Americans be asked to pay their fair share of taxes and the top-end Bush tax cuts not be extended. They would protect Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and they would protect vital services for the most vulnerable. These are the principles that, as we showed, overwhelming majorities of American voters [hold]."
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11-09-2012, 01:27 AM
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| I have to agree. However, at present there is a problem to be overcome. It's one thing if the older workers are at desks or work-at-home jobs, but too many are in blue-collar labor jobs - it's too strenuous for them. |
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11-09-2012, 01:55 AM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wacky Quacky Proving that a majority of voters are so damn stupid they probably shouldn't be voting.
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11-09-2012, 02:13 AM
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| Social Security has been tuned and tweaked several times over the years to keep it solvent for new generations, and it will likely need the same many times in the future. It just needs to be done reasonably without the GOP scare tactics.
__________________ "The fact is, we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest? Or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again." ~~Hillary Clinton |
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11-09-2012, 03:06 AM
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| First of all Social Security is NOT broke. We need to stop telling ourselves that it is. However anything involving heath care IS a mess and a potential fiscal disaster. Clearly we have not yet found the stones to make the dramatic changes we need to really sove this problem. ACA does NOT address the underlying problems facing us with the HC crises. In fact, I believe that ACA actually exascerbates that looming problem. |
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11-09-2012, 03:11 AM
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| The voters will get reductions in medicare(760 billion dollars) and huge tax increases. I hope they enjoy them. They will also pay more for medical and more people will die because of it.  |
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11-09-2012, 03:38 AM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lakhota Quote: "Americans are not looking for austerity now," said Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future. "They are looking for a program, a long-term program, that will create jobs and will get the economy going and that will bring [the deficit] into balance over time." 
__________________ "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) ------------------------------------------------- "Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Ben Franklin |
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11-09-2012, 03:42 AM
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| lol, this is a survey by two PROGRESSIVE groups.. You all know in order to be progressive you have to tax the people
__________________ "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) ------------------------------------------------- "Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Ben Franklin Last edited by Stephanie; 11-09-2012 at 03:43 AM. |
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11-09-2012, 03:53 AM
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| Obama's father supported a 100 percent tax and complete government for the people. These people hate the concept of personal betterment. |
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