The Wrecking Crew --Part 2

++No, they haven't given up. Jeb! speaking about Medicare wants it phased out. Speaking before Americans for Prosperity, Jeb likened his program to Paul Ryan's harebrained scheme to give Medicare eligible people vouchers. FYI--as someone eligible for Medicare this September, Ryan's plan would cost me an additional $6,800--which I don't have. So if I can;t afford the Republican plan, how many millions of Americans would get screwed. A senior citizen barked at Jeb!--"I paid into it every year and now you want to take it away from me." Yes, he does.

++The rightwing blogosphere is saying that Social Security Disability is running out of money and should be cut. Having a brother-in-law on it and knowing what a lifesaver it has been for both him and his family, you might want to know that ,yes, periodically SSDI does have a shortfall, which is easily remedied by the larger Social Security Trust Fund reimbursing it. This has gone on for years.

++On Social Security, the Democrats managed to kill a Senate proposal to cut Social Security in real dollars and extend the retirement age. This will go on. The GOP is committed to privatizing Social Security, which would be bedlam and create trillions in new debt.

++The other "hot" issue for the right now is Medicaid. Medicaid expansion saves hospitals, particularly in rural areas where the GOP base live , and saves state's monies. But the Red states, nearly 20 of them, refused to expand the program because of the original Obamacare Supreme Court decision. 

++Then we have the continued war against Planned Parenthood. Besides the abortion issue,the Right's attack on Planned Parenthood has to do with contraceptives and a woman's right to choose. She doesn't even get to the abortion stage, just birth control.

++Then we have the Republican's attacking pensions. I guess no one gets older anymore. What in the social contract, don't they understand. There is nothing in the GOP anymore that speaks to the infirm or the elderly.