Paul
Ryan is campaigning in Florida today, trying to sway voters to the republican
ticket. I say it’s opportunity to tell many lies as they have been doing all
along.
Paul
Ryan says seniors have nothing to worry about when it comes to Medicare and
Social Security if there's a Republican in the White House. Really Ryan?
Don't
believe him the GOP vice presidential candidate? Then just ask his 78-year-old
mother, I guess she’s going to join the lying campaign.
Betty
Ryan Douglas planned to campaign Saturday with her congressman son at the world's
largest retirement community as the Republican campaign tries to blunt
withering criticism from President Barack Obama and his allies. The Democratic
team charges that presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Ryan would gut
programs for older people.
Obama
planned to dig in on that point Saturday in New Hampshire. Aides say he will
cast the voters' choice as one between two fundamentally different approaches
to government's responsibility to its citizens and who pays the bill.
Romney's
schedule had him raising money in Massachusetts while his running mate was
charging into a potentially dicey audience. Older Americans have often resisted
changes in Medicare, the federal health care insurance program for people 65
and older, and for the disabled.
The
Romney-Ryan ticket is betting big that voters' worries about federal deficits
and the Democrats' health care overhaul have opened the door for a robust
debate on the solvency of Medicare, one of the government's most popular and
costliest programs. Obama has welcomed the conversation, which has temporarily
taken attention from the weak economic recovery.
The
Democratic campaign, trying to reach female voters, released an ad Friday that
sought to undercut Romney by pointing to Ryan's voting record on funding for
Planned Parenthood and abortion. "For women, for president, the choice is
ours," the ad says. The ad was airing in Colorado, Nevada, Virginia, Ohio,
Florida and Iowa.
In
the week since Romney announced Ryan as his running mate, Medicare and Social
Security have appeared as a driving issue. Florida, Pennsylvania and Iowa are
among the top five states in the percentage of people 65 and over, and all
three are closely contested this election.
Polling
generally shows that the public places more trust in Democrats' ability to
handle Medicare than they do Republicans. People also generally oppose plans to
replace the current program with one in which future seniors receive a fixed
amount of money from the government to be used to purchase health coverage,
according to polls.
Ryan's
stop Saturday at the gated retirement cluster known as The Villages is familiar
ground for presidential candidates. Florida has the highest concentration of
voters over 65 in the country. Some 17 percent of Floridians fall into that group.
In
New Hampshire, where Obama will campaign later in the day, has 14 percent of
its residents over 65.
Rep.
Paul Ryan has been pushing for a overhaul of Medicare for some time now, and he
wants to end it as we know it. It’s a fact not a opinion, this guy proposed it
in his budget and Mitt Romney endorsed it.
