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[quote=Anonymous]I find this portion of Saletan's essay to be particularly revealing, and indicative of the current lack of integrity and abundance of intellectual dishonesty amongst elected officials on the right:

[i]"You protested that Obama’s $700 billion savings in the future growth of Medicare payments to providers—a spending reduction that any sensible conservative president would have sought, and that you had previously included in your budget plan—would “lead to fewer services for seniors.” You depicted a horror scenario: “a $3,600 cut in benefits for current seniors. Nearly one out of six hospitals and nursing homes are going to go out of business.” You assured seniors that the Romney-Ryan agenda for Medicare “does not affect your benefits.” And you promised future retirees “guaranteed affordability” of health care.

[b]In short, you adopted every tactic in the liberal playbook. You framed a reduced rate of growth as a draconian cut. You inflated the likely impact of the reduction. You denounced any loss of services as unacceptable. You promised not to touch seniors’ benefits. And you reaffirmed a fiscally unsustainable guarantee.[/b] By my count, you’ve now done this in at least six speeches and rallies. Every day, you’re reinforcing the culture of entitlement and making it harder to rein in retirement programs."

Ironic, isn't it?  The President is essentially further to the right of the right-wing on this one. He has offered a plan that actually reduces the rate of entitlement spending growth and offered up raising the retirment age as a part of the "grand debt bargain" that Ryan helped to scuttle. While Ryan is out there speechifying (and lying) where are the policy proposals?  Oh, that's right - NOWHERE, that's where.[/quote]

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