But, but, but...but Jonathan, listen to what Congressman Ryan is telling you!
"What we're proposing for 54-and-below-year-olds is Medicare goes out and creates options of coverage for seniors to pick from. Medicare doesn't negotiate with the insurance companies. People select from a list of plans EXACTLY like we do as members of Congress and federal employees, exactly like the current Medicare Advantage plan works today, or Medicare prescription drugs, or Medigap insurance works today. And then Medicare subsidizes the senior's plan; more for the poor and the sick, less for the wealthy."
Yes, it takes more time to say than the Democrat line "Republicans wanna kill seniors"; but at some point -- albeit in the not-so-distant future, as the Senate voted down Ryan's budget proposal yesterday, faring better than Obama's however -- we must discuss this, among a variety of issues, in a knowledgeable and rational fashion, not in fragments but coherent sentences, and fess up to a system that is imploding!
The media backs the Democrat do-nothing conclusion, which leads to no solutions. I'll say it again: it is time for elected Republicans to do what they were sent to Washington for, as well as GOP presidential contenders to back up their conservative credentials, by getting the facts out, not allow Mediscaring and demagoguery to rule the day, and get behind Ryan's Plan as solidly as the Party was just a few short weeks ago.
Ryan brings up another issue in this piece concerning Democrats who might want to do something but are unwilling to face "party retribution from their own leaders." Although not currently elected, here's Bill Clinton supplying a perfect example of this: a glimpse of bipartisanship when he thinks he's off camera...
...but back to partisan divides for the lights, camera, action!
Republicans must cut through the demagoguery to get the message of Ryan's Plan to the People, and they can do that if they ALL unite to extinguish the spin by reinforcing the facts. Let's revue...here's what you need to know (and it's under 5 minutes, if you can focus your attention on something longer than the mainstream media believes you're capable of!)...
