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It's not about trying to live frugally, it's about trying to head catastrophe off at the pass.
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It’s that kind of hysterical demagoguery Ryan’s depending on.
With regard to Obama’s speech yesterday, I’ve yet to hear a Ryan/GOP/TPM supporter respond to the following:
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[Ryan’s plan is] a vision that says America can’t afford to keep the promise we’ve made to care for our seniors. It says that ten years from now, if you’re a 65 year old who’s eligible for Medicare, you should have to pay nearly $6,400 more than you would today. It says instead of guaranteed health care, you will get a voucher. And if that voucher isn’t worth enough to buy insurance, tough luck – you’re on your own. Put simply, it ends Medicare as we know it.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/04/13/text-of-obama-speech-on-the-deficit/
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And if that voucher isn’t worth enough to buy insurance, tough luck – you’re on your own.
Is that what the right is actually advocating? What are seniors to do – on a fixed income – if they can’t afford healthcare? Simply go off somewhere and die?
Again, I’ve been asking rightists this for about the last 24 hours with no substantive response, just some vague ‘that won’t happen,’ or ‘someone will take care of them.’ Who will take care of them? Adult Children? What if the senior has no adult children or they can’t afford healthcare for the senior. Religious organizations and other private non-profits? They can’t afford to accommodate seniors
now who have Medicare, much less those who will have no insurance under Ryan’s inane ‘plan.’
As noted, Ryan and his supporters are deranged zealots – and his budget plan is the actual receipt for catastrophe.
Perhaps conservatives in this venue might be able to answer the question.