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GOP Split Over Repub Reneg on Medicare

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GOP centrists balk at Ryan Medicare shift

By Molly K. Hooper - 03/05/13 05:00 AM ET


House Republican centrists are furious that GOP leaders are considering abandoning their pledge not to change Medicare retirement benefits for people 55 years and older.

According to several sources, a handful of centrist GOP lawmakers attending a recent Tuesday Group luncheon erupted when Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) broke the news.

After agreeing to write a budget resolution that will balance the budget over the next decade, Ryan conceded that he might have to adjust the age to as high as 59.



“Paul Ryan was pretty clear that that could happen. You could have to take it up to a higher number like 56, 57, 59 ... it could be higher than 55, but he also said, ‘We don’t have any numbers yet,’ ” said a Republican lawmaker who attended the meeting.

The dwindling group of middle-of-the-road House Republican lawmakers decried the potential change in age because the party for the past two years has repeatedly cited 55 years and above as the untouched generation. Some of the members are also facing challenging reelection races next year.

“A lot of people had made commitments at 55. In other words, in the campaign [Republican vulnerable members] said it wouldn’t affect your Medicare for retirees or near retirees for those 55 and up ... and [if] this budget forces them to renege on that, that would be problematic for many,” said the GOP lawmaker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Both Mitt Romney and Ryan cited the 55 figure during their run for the White House last year.

House Democrats are salivating at the opportunity to run against the Ryan budget in the 2014 elections. In 2012, Democrats picked up eight House seats after highlighting the Ryan blueprint on the campaign trail.


Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/286161-centrists-balk-at-ryan-medicare-shift#ixzz2MfsYxV11
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Tam

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Funny how you are all over the news of what Romney and Ryan sited during the election that Ryan might have to backtrack on to balance the budget but when it comes to what Obama and Biden campaigned on and are renegging on that is skyrocketing the budget again and again, you never seems to post anything on that, Why is that Oldtimer? :? OH yes now I remember It's Bush's and the GOP's fault Obama can't keep his campaign promises like cutting pork on of the bills he signs that are adding to the National DEBT.


But then why worry about skyrocketing a budget when you haven't had one for four years thanks to the fact you haven't got enough leadership experience to even get a single member of your own party to vote on your proposed budget right Oldtimer. :wink: :roll:

All Obama knows how to do is spend and that is proven by the fact he signs the Sequestaton Bill that was HIS IDEA to force the Congress to cut the budget, then he turns around and hits the trail toting his new free preschool for everyone story. Where is the money going to come from for this Obama freeby Oldtimer? My guess is your yet to be born Great Grandchildren are going to be paying for their parents "FREE" Obama preschool education. :x

Face it Oldtimer Ryan might have to raise the age on the medicare benefit changes but at least he is trying to cut the budget UNLIKE YOUR HERO. :roll:
 

Red Barn Angus

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Every day it seems to me it gets worse with folks like OT and that incompetent president wanting to spend money we don't have. Why is it so hard to understand that you cannot simply spend much more money than you have income and do it for any length of time. Why is this such a fight? For the life of me I can't understand how anyone who cared about their country could want it to fail due to greed and stupidity. I suppose those that are on the govenment dole are just thinking about themselves and the immediate future but when the money runs out they are going to be much worse off than they would have been if they had tried to improve their situation on their own. I spent 30 years in the ag finance business and I remember the 80's like they were yesterday. Folks that simply could not quit spending lost a lot, some lost their entire farms and livlihood at least partly due to their foolish spending and borrowing. It can happen to a country too. Why can't anyone see it coming? Maybe OT wants his granddaughters to wear burkas but I don't want my granddaughtr wearing one.
 

loomixguy

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I wonder if Old MuslimLover wrote on the check he sent into the IRS: "Make sure every penny of this goes to Egypt!" :roll:
 

gmacbeef

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Tam said:
Funny how you are all over the news of what Romney and Ryan sited during the election that Ryan might have to backtrack on to balance the budget but when it comes to what Obama and Biden campaigned on and are renegging on that is skyrocketing the budget again and again, you never seems to post anything on that, Why is that Oldtimer? :? OH yes now I remember It's Bush's and the GOP's fault Obama can't keep his campaign promises like cutting pork on of the bills he signs that are adding to the National DEBT.


But then why worry about skyrocketing a budget when you haven't had one for four years thanks to the fact you haven't got enough leadership experience to even get a single member of your own party to vote on your proposed budget right Oldtimer. :wink: :roll:

All Obama knows how to do is spend and that is proven by the fact he signs the Sequestaton Bill that was HIS IDEA to force the Congress to cut the budget, then he turns around and hits the trail toting his new free preschool for everyone story. Where is the money going to come from for this Obama freeby Oldtimer? My guess is your yet to be born Great Grandchildren are going to be paying for their parents "FREE" Obama preschool education. :x

Face it Oldtimer Ryan might have to raise the age on the medicare benefit changes but at least he is trying to cut the budget UNLIKE YOUR HERO. :roll:

Sounds like Oltimer's "Selective Amnesia" is kicking in again.......... :???:
 

hypocritexposer

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Red Barn Angus said:
Every day it seems to me it gets worse with folks like OT and that incompetent president wanting to spend money we don't have. Why is it so hard to understand that you cannot simply spend much more money than you have income and do it for any length of time. Why is this such a fight? For the life of me I can't understand how anyone who cared about their country could want it to fail due to greed and stupidity. I suppose those that are on the govenment dole are just thinking about themselves and the immediate future but when the money runs out they are going to be much worse off than they would have been if they had tried to improve their situation on their own. I spent 30 years in the ag finance business and I remember the 80's like they were yesterday. Folks that simply could not quit spending lost a lot, some lost their entire farms and livlihood at least partly due to their foolish spending and borrowing. It can happen to a country too. Why can't anyone see it coming? Maybe OT wants his granddaughters to wear burkas but I don't want my granddaughtr wearing one.


Bang on.

I'd rather cut back a little, more slowly, than come to an abrupt stop.

$7 will buy a week's worth of Kraft dinner, or you can have a couple of pork chops, for one night only.
 
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