WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Senate rebels jumped into Congress’ cut-the-deficit competition today, proposing to raise the age of Medicare eligibility to 67 and increase monthly premiums for millions of current beneficiaries. “We can’t save Medicare as we know it,” said Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., who authored the plan with Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. “We can only save Medicare if we change it,” he added in an apparent jab at President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats.
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NO - absolutely not. Medicare should stay at 65 and they need to find cuts elsewhere. Medicare pays for itself through payroll deductions. Cut welfare, medicaid, food stamps, etc. instead that support useless people who refuse to work and receive public dole benefts.
UnionNever....LOL! "don't cut my welfare cut everybody else's." What's the matter you old coot those are the candidates people like you vote for.
I noticed you didn't say anything about the trillions in corporate welfare that goes to big oil and gas, GE, tobacco, factory farmers and the top 3%.
As far as I'm concerned I hope you lose your medicare. I get my insurance for life through my UNION.
I can't stop laughing!
Why not demand that corporations start paying taxes? GE, Bank of America, Exxon-Mobil, all skated on taxes. GE actually received a refund. Instead, we want to withhold benefits to aged Americans?
How about everyone pays into social security and medicare on ALL of their income not just the first $106,800 of income.
ever see the movie "Soylent Green"?
how about "Logan's Run"?
both great ideas, that should be tried out on a trial basis, then ended just before I hit that point... By which time we should be back on solid fiscal footing.
Laughing at Unionforever's assertion that Medicare pays for itself.
You see, this is what happens when you vote for right wingers primarily because you dislike blacks, immigrants, and gays; and not because you're concerned with the capital gains rates.
LOL at UnionForever. Where are all those people on the dole supposed to work? Unemployment is somewhere between 10 and 18% right now. Not seein' a whole lot of help wanted signs out there.
Unionforever,
Lets get those damn teachers....But not me not my medicare?1 You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Its what I 've been saying all along. They are out to get the working man all be it public or private sector. we need to stick together. Hopefully with this move, it opens your eyes. Yet another reason SB5 needs defeated. Protect the working man!
Dwight,
304 jobs posted on vindyjobs.com.
ever see the movie "Soylent Green"?
It is now Soylent Green TEA Party
LIEberman is the worst example of the human species in DC, which is saying something.
Anything that POS says should immediately be flushed down the nearest commode.
He lost all credibility with his "you'll do a heck of a job Brownie" performance in 2005 as chair of the Homeland Security oversight hearing of former FEMA Director Michael Brown.
LIEberman went out of his way to praise the former head of the Arabian Horse Association for his "qualifications" to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Because of LIEberman's incompetence, we got an idiot to run the nation's emergency response agency. This directly resulted in the deaths of American citizens in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
Bush appointed Brown but LIEberman helped make sure the bozo was confirmed.
LIEberman should be run out of DC on a rail.
For those poking fun at Union because of SB5, just remember, the teachers and many other public workers get to retire in their 50's with 2-3,000/mo. Hardly a comparison to get people to vote to repeal SB5...
And Cambridge...the majority on welfare in this area NEVER, EVER worked a day in their life to pay into the system. All they do is TAKE