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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 02/04/2008 : 18:24:40
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YO: From the NYTs/AP Web Site today....
Bush Takes Aim at Medicare, Medicaid
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 4, 2008
Filed at 4:18 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush took his proposals to slow Medicare and Medicaid spending to a new scale in his proposed 2009 budget even though previous, more modest efforts to trim the entitlement programs went nowhere.
Over the next five years, the president would reduce by $196 billion the two entitlement programs that provide most of the medical care for the nation's elderly and poor. Bush would achieve most of the savings in the budget blueprint he submitted Monday by freezing the rates Medicare pays for hospital, nursing home and hospice services for the next three years.
(Now for the unreported quote of this story as written by OY.)
Mr. Bush indicated, "We can make this important adjustment and balance our budget...and besides, people in nursing homes and
others folks dying in hospices can't multi-task good enough to justify spending that much money anyhow. So you can see, it's
a win-win situation."
OY !
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 19:51:35 [Permalink]
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Here's my guesswork about the situation that Bush is leaving behind:
Bush is going to remain a tremendous anchor chained to the neck of McCain, the likely GOP nominee.
After the primaries, McCain will be faced with the problem of either having to divorce himself from the hideously unpopular Bush (damnably hard to accomplish, not only because McCain has historically supported Bush so much, but also because this would alienate McCain from the fundy-NeoCon folks who still dominate the Republican Party), or simply hunker behind a stone wall and defend the appalling Bush "legacy."
The first option would deny McCain much of the money and legwork that the fundies and NeoCons can still muster, and thus prove a disaster in November. The second option would give him most of that support, but would brand him as a foolish old bastard who is incapable of changing the nation's course when headed for a second encounter with an iceberg.
Neither choice is good. What I suspect McCain will do, is try to compromise between the two, assuring the fundies and NeoCons that he's their man, while trying to appear as an independent thinker to the general public.
And that, like so many impossible "compromises," will prove to be the worst of all choices, making him look untrustworthy both to the TheoNazis, and to the general public. The GOP is probably going to be suffering from the after-effects of the Bush presidency for a decade or more.
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/04/2008 19:53:50 |
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Bush Targets the Elderly, Poor & Dying
