Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The only mention of older Americans by Santorum was of his father.

 at 09:04 AM ET, 01/04/2012

A funny thing happened when Rick Santorum nearly tied Mitt Romney in Tuesday night’s Iowa caucus: The Republican presidential hopeful who has most ardently argued for privatizing Medicare made an incredibly strong showing in the Hawkeye State.


Medicare is usually the third rail of electoral politics. Voters don’t like changes to the entitlement program, even when politicians suggest expanding it. And Iowa isn’t exactly a prime location to roll out big Medicare changes: Seniors make up 14.9 percent of the population there, compared with their 13 percent share nationally.

But that didn’t scare off Santorum. The former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania has, for months now, aggressively backed the Medicare changes that House budget chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R) rolled out in April. That would be the plan that proposed privatizing the program and giving qualified recipients federal money to purchase health coverage. The plan was a political flop. Polls found that voters weren’t exactly keen to scrap the entitlement program as it exists now....

It was a very short speech as if he wasn't welcome there. I think the Republicans forced to make short speeches because of the hurricane should be allowed to record their entire speech and place it on the RNC Convention webpage.

The Official Website of the 2012 Republican National Convention (click here)

One of the realities Republicans conveniently forget is that the Poor of the USA are not all ideal. There are Poor on welfare, but, there is also the Working Poor.

All on welfare are poor, but, all that are poor are not on welfare.

The demographic group in the USA most severely impacted by the economic collapse of 2008 were African Americans. That is a fact. So, the GOP would target them with bigoted innuendos as the most hapless and helpless in the USA. Santorum is a very bigoted man. It comes across loud and clear in his book.

Dysfunction always screams for a scapegoat.