Showing posts with label elderly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elderly. Show all posts

Sunday, October 14, 2012

MEET THE REAL MITT ROMNEY

ACTUALLY......As everyone knows the 47% issue (where he calls 47% of Americans free-loaders and lazy) is still very much in the news.  Romney has tried to back-track on that comment by saying, "Of course, I want to help all Americans have a bright and prosperous future".  He went on to say his comment wasn't elegantly stated and that he spoke off the cuff.  Let's talk about "elegant"......did he mean the disgusting attack on hard working Americans, the elderly, veterans, the not-so-well off Americans who are depending on their Social Security. Are they free-loading off the taxpayers?  We can't leave out the Bush tax cuts, where the rich are getting a handout by getting tax breaks and hand outs?  Or Tax Evaders like Mitt Romney, and his wealthy cronies, who pay little or no taxes because their accountants have little tricks that eliminate that? Are all these individuals not free-loaders who expect the 47% to pay their share of taxes?  It's hard to tell who the free-loaders are, isn't it?

Mitt Romney has to deal with his own greed and dishonesty with hard working families.  What is probably worse that anything he previously said, is he makes no apology for his statement. But instead is flipping around like crazy trying to change his image. 

So far he has not given us the details of the economic reform he keeps talking about.  He evades questions regarding the entitlements he is claiming he'll cut in his budget, and if he has plans for actually creating jobs he sure hasn't laid that out yet. Romney's new image he's created is one of a secret, deceptive robot without decency or details. This is the man that lied 27 times in 38 minutes during the October 4 debate.

Bain Capital is outsourcing 170 jobs, in a company they own called Sensata.  Bain is sending the company to China, and U.S. workers were actually forced to train their new Chinese workers, who are taking their jobs.  Mitt Romney gets a check for that!!  These families are on unemployment benefits, thanks to Bain Capital.   Romney refused to meet with the workers from Sensata.  They went to the RNC Convention to speak with Romney - he refused again . 

These are the facts, Romney continues to receive profits from Bain Capital, a company that he created that outsources good American workers jobs.  He didn't earn his wealth honestly, he found a way to sell off  U.S. companies and offshore American jobs.  Mitt Romney's egotistical greed and dishonesty will continue to do untold damage to the American people if he is elected.


GUESS WHAT?  THIS DEVIOUS MAN WANTS AMERICA TO VOTE FOR HIM




Sunday, October 7, 2012

OUR CHILDREN ARE AT RISK ! ! !

ACTUALLY....... It's not well known, but almost 1/3 of America's kids get their health care from Medicaid, which is a program that serves the poor.  Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's plans are to severely cut federal funding, which clearly will effect Medicaid and would shrink the number of kids getting health care. In his own words Romney said "I'm not concerned about the very poor". Both Romney and Ryan are in agreement to transform medicaid from an entitlement into a "block grant" program that would give each state a certain amount of money each year to spend on health care services for the poor.

Children's advocates are concerned in particular about the kids losing their benefits if the plan is adopted.  With the cuts that Ryan proposed in a budget adopted by the House Republicans last March, all children covered today would not be able to keep their health benefits.

America's children make up about about 1/3 of Medicaids beneficiaries.  The rest is pregnant women, people with disabilities, and the elderly.   The President of the American Academy of Pediatrics says that taking money from the Medicaid program would assure that a number of children would be dropped. 

Medicaid funding is a big and growing problem.The Federal and state governments spent $404 billion in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010.   Enrollment is up - at least 10 million people have joined Medicaid since 2007, just before the recession began.  Spending and enrollment grew because more people needed assistance, not because the program is not controlling costs.  Romney has not yet issued a detailed proposal, however according to his website, he does support converting Medicaid into a block program.

According to Henry J. Kaiser Family Program analysis of his 2011 plan, Ryan's proposal would cause between 10 million and 27 million people to loose their Medicaid benefits.  Romney and Ryan also want to repeal the health care reform law, which will add 11 million people to Medicaid starting in 2014.  Pennsylvania has removed 90,000 kids from it's Medicaid program since last August.  "Block grant" proposals would give Governors more flexibility to shrink Medicaid.  The "block grant" program in Ryan's budget would give states the freedom to innovate, and I seriously dislike that term!! That includes the freedom to purge people from the Medicaid rolls.  Children's advocates may be focused on kids but the elderly and disabled are also vulnerable.


ROMNEY AND RYAN'S HEALTH CARE PLAN WILL ENDANGER OUR CHILDREN