Romney in Florida today; running mate Ryan coming later for Medicare fight
by George Bennett | August 13th, 2012
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Mitt Romney campaigns in Florida today with public events in St. Augustine and Miami.
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be part of three anti-Romney events, including one at 11:30 a.m. in Boca Raton.
After drawing big crowds Saturday and Sunday with newly named running mate Paul Ryan, Romney will be appearing solo in the Sunshine State while Ryan heads to Iowa.
Ryan is scheduled to make his first Florida visit as a member of the GOP ticket on Saturday or Sunday in central Florida. There, the Romney campaign says, Ryan “will highlight President Obama’s record of slashing Medicare for current Florida seniors to fund Obamacare. He will also note that the Romney-Ryan ticket is the only one with a bipartisan plan to strengthen Medicare for today and tomorrow’s seniors.”
Democrats have accused Ryan of seeking to “end Medicare as we know it” with his plan to convert the program for future retirees to one in which the government subsidizes the purchase of private health insurance.
“My mom is a Medicare senior in Florida,” Ryan told 60 Minutes on Sunday in a quote highlighted by the Romney campaign. “Our point is we need to preserve their benefits, because government made promises to them that they’ve organized their retirements around. In order to make sure we can do that, you must reform it for those of us who are younger. And we think these reforms are good reforms. That have bipartisan origins. They started from the Clinton commission in the late ’90s.”
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August 13th, 2012 at 7:17 am
Question is, what are the Rmoney/Ryan “reforms” supposed to be? Republican/Teabagger speak for “reform” usually means cutbacks while giving more tax breaks to the rich and corporate America. This Ryan character is an Ayn Rand fan. That speaks for itself. We all know that the Ryan budget plan is all about destroying the middle class but we are supposed to believe that Rmoney is going to run the show. Yeah right. The Republicons can’t wait to make the U.S. a third world country. Rmoney/Ryan, out to destroy Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid public schools, unions, EPA and the middle class in America. Gee, what more could a working person ask for. For the rich, it’s a dream come true!
August 13th, 2012 at 10:02 am
See LIBTARDS claim Ryan would like to “end Medicare as we know it”
BUT
They never have facts to back that statement up
SILLY LIBTARDS never can talk facts on little girl name calling
August 13th, 2012 at 10:05 am
How about addressing the $700 billion President Obama has drained away from Medicare? Shh, shh, that’s not to be discussed! It’s supposed to be swept under the rug.
44% of registered voters in PB County are democrats, 20%+ are Republicans.
The unbalanced news in this newspaper, the endorsements in this newspaper lean heavily democrat.
How about being HONEST and telling the readers the percentage of republicans endorsed and the percentage of democrats endorsed by the Post Times.
The League of Women Voters is heavily democrat. Their former VP entered herself in a lcoal political race (but pulled out) and ofcourse she listed her political affliation as democrat.
BEWARE, BEWARE of endorsements. It’s RIGGED.
August 13th, 2012 at 11:00 am
How about being FAIR! give Ryan
a chance to explain his ideas before you give a BIASED response. I am 63. Seniors +55 WILL NOT BE AFFECTED!give Ryan a chance to be honest with the American people. How refreshing for a CHANGE. I ugh all to see movie “2016″ Are you really better off now?
August 13th, 2012 at 11:09 am
What about those under 55 Bev? Oh wait he’s great right because it won’t effect you, as long as your protected it doesn’t matter what happens to future generations. Just remember Bev those younger generations are going to be the ones to support you when you can’t support yourself anymore.
August 13th, 2012 at 11:16 am
“SILLY LIBTARDS never can talk facts on little girl name calling”
-Priceless
August 13th, 2012 at 11:17 am
The 500 billion taken out of Medicare was only taken out of Medicare Advantage payments not from Original Fee-for-Service Medicare. That does not cut benefits of the program. Check your facts “Problem with Post”. I work in the industry.
August 13th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Just got a phone call from the local Republican office in WPB asking me questions about issues in the upcoming election. When I asked the Republican representative to repeat a question because they were speaking too fast to hear it completely, they hung up on me. So rude and always in a hurry just like the Republiclowns in Florida and elsewhere. Good riddance, I say.
August 13th, 2012 at 12:06 pm
I have heard Ryan’s plan. It’s disgraceful.
He would gut every social program while giving 10% tax cuts to those making over $1 million a year. He would increase military spending by 20%. So instead of spending $3 billion a week on our death marches we would spend more.
Republicans destroyed our nation from 2000-2008 – how can people forget so fast where we were in 2008?
If you want to start losing 800,000 jobs a month, let Wall Street Vultures buy profitable American companies and raid their treasuries, fire the workers and sell off the assets until there are no more American companies – vote for these two lying extremists.
Mitt the Mormon – dodged the Vietnam draft and spent the war riding his bicycle around France shoving his religion down everyone’s throats. Then he became a prolific tax dodger who refuses to release his taxes because they show he paid no income tax on $20 million yearly income. Under Ryan’s plan he would pay 1% annual tax on $20 million in annual pay.
If you think that’s fair vote for him.
August 13th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Romney/Ryan think that senior citizens don’t care about people who come after them. I’m 65 and have 3 kids in their 40′s. I care about their health care in their old age as much as my own. Another thing people seem to forget is that without government help such as Medicare and Social Security a lot of seniors will need lots of help from their offspring. I’m sure all those young folks won’t mind having mom and dad come to live with them. Or paying for mom’s health care bills.
August 13th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
The wackotards have their heads in the sand. The oldies of Florida will never vote for Romney. 29 electoral votes to Obama and a second term.
August 13th, 2012 at 6:00 pm
If You Can Not See They Are After YOUR MEDICARE and SOCIAL SECURITY, you must be blind!….WATCH-OUT AMERICA!!!
August 13th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
I’m 57 and on SSDI, any changes to Medicare and Social Security will only hurt me. My health is failing and now Mitt wants a VP like Ryan, who wants to kill Medicare and turn it into a voucher program. Who’s going to sell insurance to a disabled person????
August 13th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Social Security and Medicade have NO HOPE of survival in their current form. Unless something is done to reduce the growth of these entitlements, the nation will go broke. It’s that simple.
August 13th, 2012 at 10:33 pm
@ serge and George(the little man)
“little girl name calling”
You mean things like ” Libtards” Right.
I call that silly little girl name calling if there ever was any!!
Curious George(the little man)
We have all the proff in the world. We have Ryans own budget proposals Moron!!
August 13th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
@ problem with the post
Just means we have 44% very intelligent people and 20% trailer trash drop outs.
Newspaper people tend to be educated and intelligent so naturaly they would lean Democratic.
And who cares what party the vp for the league of women voters belongs too??? Thats just plain stupid to even bring up. Means nothing.
Endorsements are rigged??????
Are you really that ignorant. You better go find out what an endorsement is!
Damn you neanderthals are illiterate. An endorsement is nothing more than a recommendation based on an OPINION!!!
You can’t “rig” an opinion stupid.