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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 07:44 PM Aug 2012

Romney said he would vote to cut $700 billion from Medicare

Today Romney says that Obama is a monster for cutting $700 billion from Medicare.

Background:

Obamacare cut $700 billion in costs (not benefits) from the Medicare budget.

The Ryan budget cut the same $700 billion from Medicare. (But, unlike the ACA, didn't replace it with more benefits.) This was necessary because otherwise repealing Obamacare would greatly increase Medicare costs. D'oh!

Mitt Romney then said he would vote for the Ryan budget, which cut the same freaking $700 billion Romney is complaining about today.

So a few months ago both Romney and his running mate supported making those cuts years after Obama already made them... (How daring!)

But the Obama/Romney/Ryan cuts are, today, worse than flying monster heads.

Got that straight?

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