The Road From Here: What About Medicare and Social Security?

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/20019-the-road-from-here-what-about-medicare-and-social-security

Any scenario which leads to Social Security or Medicare cuts would be bad for seniors. It would also be bad for any politician who supported it.

A recent poll by Lake Research shows that 82% of all Americans oppose cuts to Social Security, including 83% of Democrats, 78% of independents, 82% of Republicans - and, in one of the most startling findings of all, fully three-fourths of all self-described Tea Party members (74%). (Social Security Works has a video and a petition on this subject.)

Democrats hold the advantage on this issue right now, which means it's theirs to lose. There's a historical precedent: in 2010, after two years of presidential rhetoric about trimming entitlements, Democrats experienced a twenty-point plunge on the question "which party do you most trust to handle Social Security?" Republicans responded with a thoroughly predictable, utterly insincere - and very effective - "Seniors' Bill Of Rights."

2010 is the year Democrats lost control of the House.T

This weekend we saw Sen. Dick Durbin proclaim that "entitlement cuts" were acceptable in return for tax increases. In doing so, he repeated a couple of the right-wing misconceptions that have put this fundamentally sound program in political jeopardy. "Social Security is gonna run out of money in 20 years," Durbin was quoted as saying. "The Baby Boom generation is gonna blow away our future. We don't wanna see that happen."

[newfie11]

1. Wonder how Durban's popularity is in his state now. Nt

[oh08dem]

2. So, the GOP has it's back against the ropes and Dick Durbin hands them a bat and tells us to take it

on the chin.

No. Why not insist they do things our way since we obviously have the upper hand on this debate, and the opposition is as popular as Freddy Kruger is with the children on Elm Street.

[eridani]

3. Durbin contact info

http://durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm (only for constituents--others must use phone, fax or snail mail)

309 Hart Senate Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
9 am to 6 pm
[phone] - ph
[phone] - fx

CHICAGO
230 S Dearborn St.
Suite 3892
Chicago, IL 60604
8:30 am to 5 pm
[phone] - ph
[phone] - fx

SPRINGFIELD
525 South 8th St.
Springfield, IL 62703
8:30 am to 5 pm
[phone] - ph
[phone] - fx

CARBONDALE
250 W. Cherry Street
Suite 115-D
Carbondale, IL 62901
8:30 am to 5 pm
[phone] - ph
[phone] – fx