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In reply to the discussion: Sequestration playing havoc with lives of senior citizens. We must not excuse this. [View all]GitRDun
(1,846 posts)78. Then why do seniors vote Republican?
Check this article out:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324073504578105360833569352.html
Senior citizens, who swung to the Democrats during the Medicare and Social Security fights of the 1990s, have swerved to Republicans. Close to six in 10 seniors backed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, according to exit polls Tuesday, up from the 51% of the group siding with Sen. John McCain in 2008.
I ran into an elderly neighbor yesterday and within five minutes he is bitching about Democrats..was really disgusted at the level of ignorance.
I feel sorry for the lost services but I wonder when the seniors are going to help fix the problem.
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Sequestration playing havoc with lives of senior citizens. We must not excuse this. [View all]
madfloridian
Apr 2013
OP
This is Austerity, the American version, after the disaster and destruction it has and is still
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#66
Mindless, across-the-board and inflexible reductions in essential services.............
wandy
Apr 2013
#5
Yet senior are the voters who give us a Republican majority in the House. nt
geek tragedy
Apr 2013
#8
"Fucking retarded liberals," impoverished seniors with "heads up their asses."
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#37
More likely just another group of white people who have routinely voted against their interests
BeyondGeography
Apr 2013
#46
So what's your point? Let them starve? How cruel, how insensitive, how predictable. nm
rhett o rick
Apr 2013
#53
We needed the funds from the Bush tax cuts. Once the middle class decided they didn't want to pay..
dkf
Apr 2013
#20
obama should have learned by now that you can't make a deal with the Devil.
kelliekat44
Apr 2013
#25
Pres Obama is in the 1%. To hope those in the 1% will help the 99% is very wishful thinking. nm
rhett o rick
Apr 2013
#54