Senior Citizens Voted for Romney in large number... Why not let them have GOP-lite?

[BrentWil]

Just a question. If the question is between dealing with student debt or building a modern infrastructure for the future, why sacrifice that for a group that said in the voting booth they want these policies?

Edit: Exit Poll to show the data of Senior Citizens voting for Obama. http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/exit-polls

[DesertFlower]

1. i'm a senior citizen and i have never

voted for a republican.

[BrentWil]

2. But a large majority did. NT

[newfie11]

3. Me either

And my senior friends voted dem in this red state.

[DesertFlower]

11. my senior republican friend voted

repub but she really wants hillary to run in '16 so she can vote for her.

[duffyduff]

4. What a load of garbage

BOTH parties are in bed with the same interests out to ruin the country.

They AREN'T working for us.

THAT is the problem.

With Romney there was a chance the Democrats would actually act like an opposition party; with Obama doing the SAME THING, they are neutralized.

You tell me which is worse.

[Newest Reality]

6. That's the hard pill

for everyone to swallow, my friend.

It sounds like indulging in an anti-establishment rant, but when you investigate the bigger picture and see beyond the Simulated hyper-real projection into the collective experience by media, politicians and corporations, it becomes more tangible and clear.

Maybe the alarm will go off and more people will wake-up one morning with a sense of courage that allows them to admit that they are projecting "hopes for change" while they are merely coping with a cognitive dissonance that leaves them coping with strange.

We are losing it all and, if major corporations and their control of and influence in politics, media, entertainment, food, education, and everything else, is not reigned in and curtailed, it is not hard to extrapolate the legacy our children and their children will be left with. In fact, we are already slipping down that slope faster every day.

Back to total tyranny? Living in manufactured consent and enveloped in propaganda backed by Draconian laws in a military industrial complex? Sounds like a dystopia that is not worth living in, especially if most of us are going to get a third-world environment eventually.

[darkangel218]

18. You are absolutely correct.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

7. Yep. The President doesn't owe a majority of senior citizens a damn thing... nt

[Union Scribe]

10. You also hope for nonvoters to be made homeless.

You're not a liberal by any stretch of the word are you?

[Niceguy1]

8. silly me.

All of this time I thiught that politicians were supposed to do what b is best for the country. .not exact petty revenge and treat people different based on their political class.

[BrentWil]

13. Yes, but it is about choices...

What is the bigger priority, student loan debt, infrastructure, health care for the poor.....

In a World which the GOP controls the House and reasonable high debt, something will have to give. Why shouldn't this play some factor in deciding?

[Niceguy1]

15. because we dont treat

People different based on how they are registered to vote and it isnt very progressive to suggest that we do so.

[BrentWil]

16. I only suggest that life is about choices....

And why protect a group that doesn't reward you for this benefit when it is a bigger deal for your supporters to deal with student loans or to build an infrastructure for the future.

[Niceguy1]

17. well if you

A are into choices then student loans are a choice. ..no one is forced to borrow money.



Old age isnt a choice. Thus SS is more important.

[Union Scribe]

9. Because in punishing them you will fuck over yourself and generations to come.

How about that? And how about because liberals don't try to punish demographics with horrible policies?

[CreekDog]

12. change social security so it punishes younger recipients as a way to punish older voters?

even though younger voters supported Obama?

that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

[oldhippie]

14. Collective punishment?

That doesn't seem very progressive.