The most common comment was extreme concern about difficulty getting a job and, for college graduates, the debt they have accumulated. Several attributed these difficulties to the Obama policies and plan to switch their vote in November to Republicans, but some praised these policies and plan to vote for him again.
I waited to write this letter because I wanted to know the Supreme Court’s decision on Obama-care first. One of the millennials on the show said he would vote for Obama again because of Obamacare since he values the ability to remain on his parent’s health care plan. He said that precludes him from becoming bankrupt because of one serious illness or accident. This view ties directly into a comment Harry Reid made today after the Supreme Court decision, “No longer will Americans be a heart attack or car crash away from bankruptcy”. President Obama today made a comment along this line as well. This millennial and these two “leaders” are very mistaken.
The United States Debt Clock says that today the average national debt per citizen (all 314,000,000 of us) is $50,300. The truth is that many Americans are bankrupt now in the technical sense of the term because their assets do not exceed this amount. Their only hope is that someone else will pay much of this debt in the form of more taxes on the “rich”. That hope, however, may not materialize because the Obama budget has debt increasing by $80,000 per household (or roughly $20,000 per person) over the next 10 years (per Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation in a report dated March 23, 2011).
The real problem for millennials is not solved by remaining on their parent’s health plan but by being able to get a good job with health benefits of their own. This is less likely with the Obama policies of increased taxation and regulation of businesses. The length and depth of the current recession is less a result of Bush policies (which we are constantly reminded started it) than it is of Obama policies that have not stopped it.
The Tea Party will doubtless be energized by the Supreme Court decision since now the only way to rid the country of a law that is disliked by about two-thirds of the voters is to replace the president and change control of the Senate in November. Tea Parties stand for adherence to the Constitution, fiscal responsibility, free enterprise and smaller government.
All four of these priorities have been missing for the last 3½ years and I believe the Tea Party supporters will approach Nov. 6 the same way as George Washington approached the battle at Trenton. I pray that the outcome is the same.
What implications are you offering to?
Rhuidean
Spellcheck got me...
The person I was referring to is Lee Atwater and mot Lee Atwood.
Mea Culpa
Rhuidean
As usual a debate about a specific policy with you turns to name calling.
I answered your post about Obama care with facts and data. I cited my sources that I feel justify my viewpoint.
I then challenged you to explain how voting for Republicans and Tea Partiers has any chance of solving Americas problems.
In response I got frothing at the mouth anger with no factual data whatsoever.
Cranky2u Wrote:
Deadbeats...Come On Down....To The Price Is Right...Absolutely FREE...and just to 50 million just like you!
Former Roman Wrote:
Rhudi, By letting the BaRoke OweBama presidency expire-We'll save 4 Trillion immediately!..No Ten year smoke and mirrors here-Immediately..
BTW-Those names-Pantywaist and Blowhard were spouted by his former PAC spokesman who has obviously discovered the real Obama.
Soooooo....Hears the thing...You argue that America is on the wrong path, That President Obama is incompetent and call him vile names.
YET you fail to provide a SINGLE example of how voting for those you support will help solve America's problems.
You want others to believe that you are presenting an intellectual argument.
You advocate handing the keys of government back to the sociopaths that put two wars on the government's credit card, enacted policies that got thousands of our men and women killed.
You want to elect a multi millionaire who is more conservative than George Bush, Hides his wealth offshore and is so afraid of releasing his tax returns that he is enduring a political roasting.
So did I misunderstand your argument?
Lee Atwood famously explained how to get southern low information voters to ALWAYS vote Republican.
You two make him proud.
Rhuidean
As I predicted...When presented with actual data and facts you are reduced to blathering and insults...
So very 5th grade playground.......
Still do not understand why you would vote for the multi millionaire though.
Dude....Your Kung Fu is pathetic...
Rhuidean
I am completely unsurprised that you weigh in with no factual data.
Here's a fact for you....
The Bush tax cuts are the single largest contributor to the deficit all the right wingers have the vapors about.
By simply letting these tax cuts expire the Deficit is lowered by 2.8 trillion dollars over 10 years.
Thats right....2.8 Trilllllllion Dollars.
So continue to call the president names......It's your first amendment right to be intellectually challenged...
But the fact that the people you want to elect are fighting tooth and nail to defend keeping those tax tables for Millionaires and Billionaires.
See...Thats a fact...I know they have a liberal bias but there still facts.
All you have is playground name calling.....
Sad.....
Rhuidean
BTW-Those names-Pantywaist and Blowhard were spouted by his former PAC spokesman who has obviously discovered the real Obama.
Since you seem to think you have found the smoking gun that shows you are supremely smart and all your delusions are true lets examine what the CBO report actually said.
First: Here's a link to the actual report for those who are wondering what it says.
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/03-13-Coverage Estimates.pdf
So......Attention Class....
The report BTW was issued in March so it is not new news. However the right wing freakout began immediately and is still ongoing.
“The new CBO projection estimates that the law will cost $1.76 trillion over 10 years — well above the $940 billion Democrats originally claimed,” Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), the No. 4 House Republican, declared in a press advisory. Republicans on the powerful Energy & Commerce Committee said the CBO report “reveal[s] a shocking new sticker price of $1.8 trillion.”
Fox News and a slew of right wingers declared "Ahhhhh Haaaah" and pounced on the report.
But the problem is that the report did not actually say what they were so joyous about.
CBO’s actual revised estimate is that the “gross costs of the coverage provisions,” — the money used to provide people Medicaid or private insurance — has risen by about $50 billion over the 2012-2021 period. This is an increase from the earlier estimate, from $1.445 trillion to $1.496 trillion. That’s the only relevant change to spending projections in the report.
When it passed in 2010, CBO said its 10-year outlays would be about $940 billion. But because the law isn’t set to be fully implemented until 2014, when the coverage expansion takes effect, that initial estimate included several years in which the law cost very little. Now that it’s 2012, CBO’s 10-year outlook captures more years during which the law will be in full effect. The law’s price tag is higher, but its costs in no way doubled.
Right Wingers are so very eager to use the effect of this sliding window to make it appear as if the health care law is a budget buster. But this latest CBO report focuses exclusively on the law’s spending provisions, and ignores its savings — the taxes and spending cuts, that also mostly take effect in 2014.
Here's the actual verbiage from the report stating again what i have already said.
Begin Quote: "This report also presents estimates through fiscal year 2022, because the baseline projection period now extends through that additional year. The ACA’s provisions related to insurance coverage are now projected to have a net cost of $1,252 billion over the 2012–2022 period (see Table 2, following the text); that amount represents a gross cost to the federal government of $1,762 billion, offset in part by $510 billion in receipts and other budgetary effects (primarily revenues from penalties and other sources). The addition of 2022 to the projection period has the effect of increasing the costs of the coverage provisions of the ACArelative to those projected in March 2011 for the 2012–2021 period because that change adds a year in which the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid and subsidies for health insurance purchased through the exchanges will be in effect. CBO and JCT have not estimated the budgetary effects in 2022 of the other provisions of the ACA; over the 2012–2021 period, those other provisions were previously estimated to reduce budget deficits" End Quote
So what's your point again?
Ohhhh Yeah.........You Smart.....
Either you have a reading comprehension problem that more education will help...Or your are seriously intellectually deficient.
BTW I am STILL waiting for any of you right wing geniuses to explain how voting for Republicans or Tea Partiers will improve America….
You all run off at the mouth about every proposal that the Democrats or President makes….So what do you propose?
Come on.......... I look so forward to you defending the multi millionaire and his friends who want to keep their tax cuts for other millionaires....
Come....On Show me how those two brain cells can kick into overdrive .....
Rhuidean
He'd only spend more and run his usual Trillion dollar a year deficit..As his former PAC spokesman Donny Box said, "he's a blowhard, pantywaist,etc.
I see the usual suspects have arrived in full outrage and screech mode.
Here's a challenge...Show your sources for your hyperbolic statements.
Here's the second challenge...Please explain how you can support the uber rich guy who pays 14% taxes, has tons of offshore hideouts for
his money and Swiss bank accounts to avoid taxes.
How's your guy going to help the middle class?
How's the Tea Party nutjobs going to create jobs?
Come on...Surely you can name one bill or plan?
My views are well documented....You all constantly snarl and froth at the mouth...so....
What's your plan?
I am betting neither of you can present a realistic idea to help Americans.....
So come on dudes....Tell me how your plan.....That is if you have one
Rhuidean
Obama stated, "I like how Jeff does things"..Enough said!BTW-Forgot to mention that they paid absolutely NOTHING in income taxes.
They own a little site here in Rome that was a victim of decisions.
William,
I want to congratulate you on listing your sources for information. (Heritage Foundation, Huckabee Show. Most Tea Partiers are loath to explain how they reached conclusions that are so incorrect.
You go on and on about the debt clock...Tick Tock. Tick Tock.
Once again I am obliged to offer some factual data. I know...Facts have a liberal bias....Reality is hard for those who live inside the Fox News cocoon...
Your Tea Party and the GOP...do not give a hoot about the debt.....
I know that statement will cause screeching and caterwauling....But...It's True.
The evidence is on display daily on C-span and the congressional record.
Here are some examples...
Obama-Care will reduce the deficit by 500 Billion dollars over the next 10 years... Source-Congressional Budget Office
The house voted for the 31st time to repeal it yesterday. Even though it provides coverage to millions of Americans.
Many who without it will die….Yeah there are some death panels for you….
The Bush tax cuts are the single largest contributor to the deficit....Source-Congressional Budget Office
Yet the Republicans are insisting that they be extended in their totality. Source- John Boehner and Eric Cantor remarks 7-11-12
So once again i point out the utter hypocrisy of the Tea Party/GOP.
They really do not care about anyone but the 1%.
And they convince the gullible and ignorant who are most definitely not part of that demographic to support them.
Priceless.
Rhuidean