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Don't Mess with Mother

by: Dean Barker

Mon May 16, 2011 at 05:31:46 AM EDT


Frank Guinta is so scared about his vote to destroy Medicare he went begging for mercy to the President of the United States.  Not to be outdone, Charlie Bass suspends reality by claiming a voucher is not a voucher.

What are these men so frightened of?  Mothers.

Carol Shea-Porter, (campaign email):

I spent Mother's Day with my 87 year-old mom. I told her how lucky I was to still have her, and asked her if she was surprised by how long she has lived.  She laughed and replied that she never expected to live this long.  My mother's generation clearly benefited from the best medical care in our history, thanks to Medicare.   Medicare works!
Annie Kuster (op-ed):
My 87-year-old mother-in-law lives on her own in a small apartment on a widow's pension and her Social Security. A few weeks ago, she was hospitalized for a few days with pneumonia, and her hospital stay was covered by Medicare.

In 2008, more than 200,000 people in our state received benefits from Medicare, which is why I am so disturbed that our congressman and his colleagues voted to jeopardize the health and well being of future retirees.

Making matters worse for Guinta and Bass, Sununu's old Social Security privatization pal Paul Ryan is going to try, try again this week to convince Americans 54 and younger that getting rid of an extremely popular program that we have all paid into in some cases for three decades plus should be scrapped in favor of vouchers we are not allowed to call vouchers.

>140 on birch paper; on twitter <140
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