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Politico reports that President Bush will try to address the $75 trillion in unfunded Medicare liabilities by slowing the growth of the program from 7% annually down to 5%. Thus, it's growing year over year, just not as fast.
Of course, in the parlance of Washington liberals, this is a cut. Thus Politico misleadingly reports:
A White House official confirmed Thursday that Bush will propose $208 billion in mandatory budget reductions in all, with Medicare cuts taking up the majority of that figure.
The administration declined to release specifics of what programs under Medicare would be affected in the budget, but this proposal is nearly three times the $66 billion in cuts to Medicare last year. The Medicare cuts would be carried out over five years.
The spending decrease would come primarily from mandating a slower pace of growth of the massive senior citizen health care program. In recent years, Medicare has grown at more than 7 percent per year, and the Bush budget will propose slowing that growth to 5 percent a year.
Conservatives concerned with the size and scope of government need to get behind the President on this and loudly champion this attempt to control an entitlement that is out of control, while restoring some honesty to the political debate. |
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This week here in Minnesota, in God's Country, we've seen our Republican Governor cut ads for the Environmental Defense Fund, that's the Hard Left, in favor of a massive new global warming regulatory scheme.
We've seen our House Republican Leaders all but pre-emptively cave (registration required) on a gas tax increase.
Today, the Teacher's Union took to the television airwaves to start promoting their more government/less accountability agenda.
Folks, we can't just sit on the sidelines complaining and wringing our hands. It's time to get in the fight. Warren Zevon sang about needing lawyers, guns, and money. Well, we need the last one, and we need people showing up and getting involved.
Liberalism is one the move, and as Newton's First Law of Motion states, "...an object in Motion tends to stay in Motion, unless acted upon..." Big government won't just quit; it must be stopped.
What say you friends?
The alternative, as the title of this post suggests, isn't going to be pretty when the Legislature meets in a few weeks.
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The quote below is from the McCain interview with Chris Matthews in 2005 that Hugh Hewitt is linking to. I believe it is far more troubling than his refusal to support the nuclear option. He’s saying, in effect, if Kennedy, Schumer, Leahy, and Co. don’t like a judge, he shouldn’t or wouldn’t be nominated.
That’s crazy. That would rule out not just Alito and Roberts, but certainly Thomas. You can't make big policy changes in Washington if you refuse to take on the liberals. When has -- when will -- John McCain?
MATTHEWS: The president of theUnited States gets to pick federal judges. What should be the standard that the opposition applies to whether they let it come to a vote or not?
MCCAIN: I think that they should let them come to a vote, but I also think that before the nominations are formally introduced, the way they used to do it, they would kind of run the traps of the— senators, particularly those on the committee and say, "Are these acceptable or unacceptable?" and if they were unacceptable they wouldn’t send them over and if they were acceptable, then they would move forward.
We used to have this thing called a blue slip, where if it was a judge from your state, you could and if you objected they didn’t take it up. And by the way, when Bill Clinton was president, we effectively, in the Judiciary Committee, blocked a number of his nominees. |
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This article from Human Events should give pause to those of us who believe strongly in limited government. Senator McCain's rhetoric on taxes certainly doesn't sound like that of a champion for limited government conservatism.
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This article from the Detroit News should tell you all you need to know about the Democrat White House hopefuls' attitudes toward trade. With our economy struggling and many analysts predicting recession, the last thing we need from Washington come January 2009 is for them to destroy the jobs of workers employed in export industries and raise prices on families struggling to make ends meet.
Trade protectionism remains a key ingredient in the liberals' toxic soup of higher taxes, more government spending, and government-run health care. Unfortunately, their lousy economics can succeed politically, which is why people like Mike Huckabee buy into the protectionism racket.
The political demagoguery surrounding open trade is the primary reason we started our Campaign For American Jobs and International Leadership. Open trade will not withstand the continued one-sided assault from big labor, environmentalists, and populist politicians. To win this debate, we must engage in it more systematically and creatively than ever before.
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