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Why Is Obama Needlessly Scaring Seniors?
« on: October 08, 2013, 03:30:27 pm »
Apparently things aren’t ugly enough in Washington, so President Obama has started scaring senior citizens.

“In a government shutdown, Social Security checks still go out on time,” he said last week. “In an economic shutdown, if we don’t raise the debt ceiling, they don’t go out on time.”

This scaremongering is completely unnecessary, says Heritage’s Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs, Romina Boccia.

President Obama is needlessly scaring seniors by suggesting that their Social Security benefit checks may not arrive on time if the U.S. runs out of borrowing authority at the debt limit. The 57 million Americans who receive Social Security benefits should know that their benefits will not be affected—unless President Obama and the Treasury deliberately choose not to pay them.


Boccia details three reasons why Social Security checks can still be paid even if the U.S. hits the debt ceiling.

Meanwhile, Congress is in gridlock confronting the real threat to seniors: Obamacare. For this entire segment of the population, Obamacare threatens:

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•Less access to care
•Fewer health plan choices
•Less access to physicians
•Higher premiums in Medicare Part D
•Higher taxes

And on top of all that, the future of Medicare is still in jeopardy. As Heritage expert Alyene Senger says, “Rather than implementing the structural reform desperately needed in Medicare, Obamacare’s provisions threaten current seniors’ ability to access care and leave Medicare in jeopardy for future generations.”

There is a real threat to our seniors’ personal health care decisions and their savings. Congress should act now to defund this unfair, unworkable, unaffordable law.
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Re: Why Is Obama Needlessly Scaring Seniors?
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2013, 07:33:30 pm »
The ends justify the means.

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Re: Why Is Obama Needlessly Scaring Seniors?
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2013, 08:03:50 pm »
Because he's a thug.
Why?  Well, because I'm a bastard, that's why.

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Re: Why Is Obama Needlessly Scaring Seniors?
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2013, 08:26:33 pm »
Truthfully, the most important thing in life is knowing what the most important things in life are, and prioritizing them accordingly.   Melchor Lim

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Re: Why Is Obama Needlessly Scaring Seniors?
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2013, 08:28:35 pm »
Because that's all he knows how to do!
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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