Comments on: Sink to McCollum: You’re the one who cut Medicare! http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/09/sink-to-mccollum-youre-the-one-who-cut-medicare/ News about politics and government in Florida Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:37:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alice http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/09/sink-to-mccollum-youre-the-one-who-cut-medicare/comment-page-1/#comment-14294 Alice Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:10:22 +0000 http://www.postonpolitics.com/?p=10225#comment-14294 Only in liberal socialist minds like Sink can a smaller increase than the year before be a cut. Big Banker Sink needs to go back to math class. No wonder she helped mess up our banking system when she was earning millions as a Big Banker and her husband the millionaire lawyer was making millions taking everyone in sight to court, Only in liberal socialist minds like Sink can a smaller increase than the year before be a cut. Big Banker Sink needs to go back to math class. No wonder she helped mess up our banking system when she was earning millions as a Big Banker and her husband the millionaire lawyer was making millions taking everyone in sight to court,

]]> By: Rick Caird http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/09/sink-to-mccollum-youre-the-one-who-cut-medicare/comment-page-1/#comment-14277 Rick Caird Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:29:24 +0000 http://www.postonpolitics.com/?p=10225#comment-14277 In reading the story, Sink used her attack to avoid saying anything at all about her position on health care. I guess the Post let her get away with that. Rick In reading the story, Sink used her attack to avoid saying anything at all about her position on health care. I guess the Post let her get away with that.

Rick

]]> By: palinite http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/09/sink-to-mccollum-youre-the-one-who-cut-medicare/comment-page-1/#comment-14276 palinite Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:18:26 +0000 http://www.postonpolitics.com/?p=10225#comment-14276 the republican/neo con agenda is to slowly defund programs until they are rendered useless. republicans cannot be trusted on issues of government funded programs such as Medicare. the republican/neo con agenda is to slowly
defund programs until they are rendered useless. republicans cannot be trusted on issues of government funded programs such as Medicare.

]]> By: Pjay http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/09/sink-to-mccollum-youre-the-one-who-cut-medicare/comment-page-1/#comment-14274 Pjay Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:09:10 +0000 http://www.postonpolitics.com/?p=10225#comment-14274 There's a good chance that when someone accuses a political opponent of "cutting" funds to a program, what really happened is that the person voted to "not increase the rate of growth as quicky." In other words, if the program was expanding each year by $10 billion, maybe the guy voted for a plan to expand it that year by "only" $8 billion--and then someone else comes along and says that he voted to "cut" it. That is exactly what happened in the mid '90s when Democrats went around shrieking that Republicans were "cutting" education, when all they were doing was proposing a plan that didn't expand spending AS MUCH. Hardly a "cut"--but then Democrats are historically, pathologically fast-and-loose with the truth. There’s a good chance that when someone accuses a political opponent of “cutting” funds to a program, what really happened is that the person voted to “not increase the rate of growth as quicky.”

In other words, if the program was expanding each year by $10 billion, maybe the guy voted for a plan to expand it that year by “only” $8 billion–and then someone else comes along and says that he voted to “cut” it.

That is exactly what happened in the mid ’90s when Democrats went around shrieking that Republicans were “cutting” education, when all they were doing was proposing a plan that didn’t expand spending AS MUCH. Hardly a “cut”–but then Democrats are historically, pathologically fast-and-loose with the truth.

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