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Subscribe to RSSRepublicans unveiled a budget that would cut funding from the health-care law, NPR, and “Race to the Top.” It’s not likely going anywhere in committee, however, because some Republicans think it still includes too much spending.
“As the deficit reduction supercommittee hunts for $1.5 trillion in additional savings, US hospital executives are so worried about having their payments cut that they plan to start lobbying Congress next week to shift the burden onto their elderly patients - specifically by raising the age of eligibility for Medicare,” the Boston Globe reports. “The American Hospital Association is rallying hundreds of hospital leaders to descend upon the Capitol on Tuesday and urge legislators to consider increasing the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 as one way to save money without reducing payments to hospitals. That move is so controversial that President Obama, who once expressed a willingness to entertain the change in Medicare age eligibility, omitted it from his deficit-reduction proposal last week.”
The House approved the short-term spending bill yesterday. “There had been worries that a Tea Party lawmaker would show up and shout out an objection - derailing the whole shebang and starting the ‘government shutdown’ clocks again,” the Washington Post writes. “But none showed. And two seconds of silence was all it took.”
“Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said, at the moment, Democrats in Congress don’t have the votes to pass President Obama’s jobs bill, but Durbin added that that situation would change,” The Hill writes of Durbin’s appearance on a Chicago radio show.
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Cut NPR funding, but preserve the 100k subsidy that McD's gets for overseas advertising.
I thought the GOP last campaigned on JOBS JOBS JOBS?
It's almost like the have lost focus, or were lying.
All this deficit spending will catch up to us all. It is just a matter of time. I wonder who the "Tell em what they want to hear" Democrats will blame when the cuts are made because we have no choice in the matter. Some folks, including Obama seem to want to stay on the path that led to the financial crisis in Greece. I guess if you like to complain and make excuses instead of providing solutions, you look forward to being able to really complain.
Tony, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the rest of us are. BTW: there is no one who complains more than you.
An over 14 trillion dollar debt and Obama's proposed trillion dollar deficits every year is a fact, not a complaint. Obama's solution for more government short term "sugar" highs given that his almost trillion dollar "sugar" high failed and resulted only in more national debt, you can call a complaint if you like., but it is true. I have a great deal of company with that complaint. Most Americans agree with me, Obama is taking this country in the wrong direction. That is not being paranoid, it is dealing with reality.
You seem to have your head in the sand in lieu of dealing with reality.
Good luck with that Dick. Your done and so is the sorry bill.
So is the tea people GOP republicans MRWSR.
Mo,
Have seen your same "tea people" crap a million times. I am a member of the Texas Tea Party Express, a former Army officer and a full time teacher and Pastor. I can tell you the Tea Party will not be going away. Your lack of respect for a group of people you do not know is shameful. Disagree with us, shout it out, but stop with the same line day after day.
No MRWSR, you're a member of the Texas tea people GOP republican express. I don't want you tea people to go away, you're the best thing for the Democratic party.
MRWSR, disrespect and name-calling is all people like Mo know. Mo and people like Mo cannot respond to the fact that the Obama administration has failed to revive the economy after 33 months in office. Along with the fact that Obama bragged he was going to "fix" the economy in 3 years and cut the deficit in half. Obama has accomplished neither. Voters will not accept Obama's excuses and failures next November after 4 years in office because Bush failed.
If the liberally tilted NPR programming cannot survive on its own without public financing, then it should not exist. The demand for it s programming should result in contributions or advertising to keep it afloat if it really needs to continue. Maybeif they have to deal in the real world, then all of their liberal programming would have to change or at least share come conservative programming shows. This is an non-issue and should be supported.
Sooo Dick Durbin finally acknowledged what everyone has already known that he does not have the Democratic support or even bring up Obama's jobs bill for a vote so why is the President continuing to focus his diatirbes on McConnell and Boehner. He does not even have his own party on board with his proposal! Read through Oabma's smoke and mirrors and you will see he is just campaigning with no real solutions as usual! OMG- OBAMA MUST GO!
Ahhh and more contracts out ot green industries by the Secretary of Energy that cost about $1B dollars for just 45 permanent jobs after the construction short term jobs are through. And let's not mention that mos otof the investors in these industriesare big Obama money raisers and contributors. Kinda follows the path of the old stimulus, does it not? Why not support the pipeline from Canada to the southern US that will bringin hundreds+ of even union jobs and to impact the environment, but the environmentalists are screaming foul when all the environmental studies show no impact. ! GO figure! Where are our priorities!
Good rant Senior, didn't make any sense but it was a good rant anyway.
Any time you make a valid point that a Liberal doesn't agree with, you will never receive a civil counter point. What you will receive is name-calling or some other derogatory comment. Mo's response is a perfect example.
You made a lot of sense, don't expect a liberal to understand.
Mo,
Then understand that anything you stand for is based on that the democratic party can not do it on its own. You need help. We will help you stop this administrations agenda, help you balance a budget, help you fix our economy and help silince the hate for our members and what we stand for.