My wife and I have been stewing the last few weeks since the election. Every time we turn on the TV news (mostly MSNBC) it seems that, although the GOP claimed before the election that President Obama and the Democrats were cutting Medicare, they were actually proposing to cut “entitlements.” Instead of noticing something amiss, almost everyone in the big-media seems to agree that such cuts are “the only way to come to agreement on the budget.”
You might expect the Republicans to be dishonest hypocrites, and that the media would pretend to be clueless, but even some Democrats, like my former governor Ed Rendell, are calling Medicare “entitlements” that should be “on the table.”
I’ve been working for over 30 years in the food industry, and I’ve been watching politics for just as long. I can’t remember a time when there wasn’t some business person, pundit or politician somewhere saying that we need to cut the budget. And often, before they even put a period at the end of their never-ending deficit sermons, they wanted to spend money on something that only helped guys like big defense contractors, pharmaceutical giants, Wall Street, or health insurance companies.
Anyway, I decided to let my representatives in DC know that I, as an American voter, am the boss. And I want them to be clear about my expectations for their job performance. Including how I feel about the latest attempt to put our Medicare money in the pockets of the top 2%...
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