Dot citizens join Kerry in decrying GOP’s budget moves

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http://www.dotnews.com/2011/dot-citizens-join-kerry-decrying-gop-s-budget-moves

Dot citizens join Kerry in decrying GOP’s budget moves

By Gintautas Dumcius
May. 26, 2011

Ingrid Houlder Baptiste, a Fields Corner personal care attendant, was nervous as she took the podium. The 47-year-old referred to U.S. Sen. John Kerry, standing a few feet away, as his Republican colleague, “Sen. Scott Brown,” and started to sob halfway through her remarks as she decried a Republican budget proposal revamping Medicare for those under 55 years of age. She said the budget proposal, with proposed cuts to Medicaid, would have an adverse effect on her job and her patients.

Kerry blasted the proposal, put forward by U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, saying it slashes billions out of Medicare while replacing it with a voucher system, and cuts higher education grants for students. The budget also includes permanent tax cuts for earners in the $500,000-plus income bracket, he said.

“The Ryan budget is not a budget that’s a pathway to prosperity,” Kerry (D-Boston) said Monday morning in front of a crowd of seniors at the Kit Clark Senior Services building in Fields Corner. “It’s a roadmap for poverty in this country.”

The Senate voted 57 to 40 on Wednesday to reject the budget plan. It was expected to fail while putting the upper chamber’s Republican members in the uncomfortable position of voting on an unpopular plan proposed by their House counterparts.

Turning to Houlder Baptiste, Kerry said, “I don’t blame you for having Sen. Brown on your mind.” Hours before the press conference in Fields Corner got underway, Brown wrote that he would vote to oppose the budget proposal in a column published on the Washington-based website POLITICO.
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As far as I know, the Dorchester Reporter is the only one to report on this. Of course, the Boston Globe would probably have called the press conference "frightening Granny" : http://bluemassgroup.com/2011/05/globe-editorial-page-has-gone-off-the-rails/, but they clearly could not be bothered reporting. As for the Herald, they are busy lying about costs for disabled people.http://bluemassgroup.com/2011/05/the-herald-headline-and-story-are-wrong/

Frankly, our media is f*ed and has been for a while. I was listening Lawrence O'Donnell rant about the New York Times;s article on Palin running or not and was wondering: what's new? It has been like that since at least 10 years.