What Do You Want?
Do you want to pay more and higher taxes?
Do you want the government controlling all of your health care?
Seniors, do you want your Medicare rationed by a Washington committee?
Do you want to keep your right to own a gun?
Do you want your “utility bills to skyrocket”? (Pres. Obama’s quote)
Do you want our military gutted?
Do you want the work requirement for welfare eliminated?
Do you want open borders and amnesty for illegals?
Do you want the majority of Americans receiving entitlements from the government?
Do you want American sovereignty subjugated to the United Nations?
President Obama says "yes" to all of the above! Do you want to re-elect him?
Andy Koenigsberg
1:40 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
What a crock of nonsense - you don't want to have the military gutted or medicare rationed yet you don't want taxes to increase. I could not think of a better example of radical right irrationality if I tried.
The Godfather
4:03 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Take a look at Paul Ryan's :Path to Prosperity" budget (passed by a bi-partisan House in April). Spending is cut dramatically, the military is NOT gutted, Medicare is NOT rationed, Social Security and Medicare are saved from insolvency, and the tax code is totally reformed by reducing rates and eliminating loopholes.
and, please note, this reply of mine did not require nasty personal attacks or name-calling.
Andy Koenigsberg
12:40 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Read the comment - I did not attack you personally. I said your blog post was a crock of nonsense and that it was an example of radical right irrationality. If you are going to post blogs on the Patch and throw bombs like this - you should expect feedback you won't like. Grow a thicker skin.
I don't have the space to take on the whole Ryan plan - but the loopholes that are to be closed are those that benefit the middle class which will result in the average family seeing a $3000 tax increase for those making less than $100K per year while those making $500K or more per year will see a tax decrease in the range of $38,000 per year. A plan Willard endorses wholeheartedly.
The Ryan plan turns medicare into a voucher system that will make medicare less and less affordable for seniors as premium support stays the same and health care costs continue to rise. - the plan does nothing to contain costs. Yes, it will save Medicare from insolvency - but it also guts the program to do that.
By the way - we spend more on our military than the rest of the industrialized nations combined and we spend it wastefully. People are screaming about sequestration when that would bring the budgets down to where the were a decade ago and we would still be outspending the rest of the indutrialized world. In this, I am with Congressman Paul - time for us to stop paying to protect everyone else.
Kira Gagarin
2:11 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Haha. FOX news on the loose! You forgot to mention that Obama wasn't born here :)
Anddddddd, I think you messed up on that fourth question. Just a gut feeling you actually meant the opposite. Details details.
Military Gutted was my favorite though. Nice work.
Ron Goodenow
2:09 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Some hilarity in this crock. For example, why would the tea patties say Obama says 'yes' to 'keeping your right to have a gun' when all of their propaganda says exactly the opposite? Surely they did not mean that. More to the point, it is waste of space to just produce these ranting lists without any support, evidence....Thanks for calling out your fellow Westborough citizens. LOL
Maggie Harling
2:09 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
I notice that no one authored this piece. Is that because it's a piece of reactionary garbage?
Kirby
2:16 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
You have ALL or 90% of your facts wrong. Where did you come up with this stuff?---a bunch of scare tactics. Good grief. Yes I want Obama re-elected. Thinking about Romney in the white house scares me to death. Women will have no more rights. Romney wants to strip away just about everything women have fought for to this date. And if you are a teacher, he wants to do away with all teachers' unions. That should cause lots of grief in this country.
Charlene Arsenault
2:45 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Hey Maggie - Just wanted to draw your attention to the fact that the authors are listed on all the blog posts. This is by John and Pam Staffier. As always, Patch appreciates the comments and feedback, and all voices are welcome to blog.
Ron Goodenow
12:40 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
The suggestion that the Ryan 'Path To Prosperity' budget passed the House as a ‘bi-partisan’ effort in April is just plain horse pucky (to put it nicely). A version of it was passed in May along party lines by a vote of 228-191. There were no, zip zero, Democrats who voted in favor of it, while ten Republicans voted against it . (It was passed similarly in April 2011, when even Ron Paul voted against it). One reason this list is Andy's ‘crock’ is because it assumes those who might have an interest in the issue or politics are just plain stupid. One could take the assertions apart line by line but why bother when the authors are both careless and, I fear, dishonest. One could have a lot of hilarious fun about 'Obamacare' much of which came from the influence of our pandering former governor (who was for it before he was against it, and loves the Israeli system, which is 'socialistic'), the Heritage Foundation and Newt because it serves the interest of the health care industry, but why bother about that. I love political debate, but not when the assertions, which are all over the place, are so full of beans and fraught with an amateur quality that wastes our space and time. Incidentally, Maggie's question is not entirely off the mark because a week or so ago this brilliant couple did pass off a document which had been widely distributed on right wing web sites without offering attribution. There are so many mistakes in this one I suspect they ginned it up themselves.
The Bolt
11:58 pm on Sunday, August 12, 2012
Pam and John,
Spot on, you have done your research well. Most importantly we can't trust the economy of business to one who has disdain for business, and mocks those who are successful, because they were lucky or fortunate or just stood by while their fortunes grew.
Iron Mike
11:58 pm on Sunday, August 12, 2012
Since I know Pam and John, I'll chime in.
There are few people with their grasp of history and economics. The evils and corruption of Obama Cartel did come as a shock to them. They WERE reluctant to believe American elected such a person – particularly without vetting him.
But they watched, they studied, and they've come to the same inescapable conclusion most thinking Americans have: – Obama hates the fundamental core of American exceptionalism. That's why he vowed to 'fundamentally transform us'.
Several folks – obviously Obamaphiles – have contributed snarky remarks here. You're wrong – dead wrong, and the Staffiers are right on the money and right on the issues.
If you don't understand our $16 TRILLION national debt, 12.7 mil unemployed, 11 mil UNDERemployed, and and 46 million food stamp recipients – then just stay home in November. You DO understand these numbers, right Andy, - right Ron, - right Corrine?
The 'great national experiment' with a slick talking / ZERO EXPERIENCE / EMPTY résumé street organizer has FAILED. I hear that after 102 rounds – his golf game has improved.
The US ranks 14th in reading/ 17th in science / 25th in math - thanks to UNION Teachers. Time to put LEARNING first!
Anybody voting for Obama this November is either a socialist or is admitting they can't make it in life on their own ability. Just how desperate or inadequate can a person be to look at Obama as their 'safety net'?