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Yavin4

(35,445 posts)
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 09:32 AM Aug 2012

Dear White Working Class Voters Who Don't Support Obama....

For various reasons (which I won't get into here), you do not like Obama, and you plan to vote against him. However, you are getting older. You will NEED Medicare and SS when you do. If you're lucky, you have either a pension or some sort of retirement fund, yet even if you have that, without Medicare, your retirement plans are cooked. Paul Ryan's plan threatens Medicare. It replaces it with a coupon to buy health insurance, and that coupon AINT GONNA BE ENOUGH.

We are all different races, sexes, sexual orientation, ethnic groups, religious affiliations, national origins, etc. The one thing that we all have in common is that we all get old if we are lucky, and we have to protect ourselves as one group.

You need to vote for Obama this fall to protect yourself as you age.

Thank you.

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Dear White Working Class Voters Who Don't Support Obama.... (Original Post) Yavin4 Aug 2012 OP
...and white people: THEY WILL GO AFTER YOUR PENSIONS, TOO!! So, it doesn't matter if you've Liberal_Stalwart71 Aug 2012 #1
No Matter Our Differences, We ALL Get Old Yavin4 Aug 2012 #3
I have friends paying $1200/mo for health insurance. Ilsa Aug 2012 #2
The Only Way To Make A Profit Off of Health Insurance for the Elderly Yavin4 Aug 2012 #4
Precisely. That's why the model has to include Ilsa Aug 2012 #5
pure racism Cane4Dems Aug 2012 #6
 

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)
1. ...and white people: THEY WILL GO AFTER YOUR PENSIONS, TOO!! So, it doesn't matter if you've
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 09:36 AM
Aug 2012

saved and therefore think everyone else who hasn't should just die and go to hell.

YOU DON'T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!!

Yavin4

(35,445 posts)
3. No Matter Our Differences, We ALL Get Old
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 09:38 AM
Aug 2012

And we all have to protect ourselves and the few benefits that we get when we age.

Ilsa

(61,697 posts)
2. I have friends paying $1200/mo for health insurance.
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 09:37 AM
Aug 2012

They are in their 50s. I can only imagine the cost of insurance for a retiree, even if the govt "fixes" the system. $7000 vouchers wouldn't buy much in a year.

Yavin4

(35,445 posts)
4. The Only Way To Make A Profit Off of Health Insurance for the Elderly
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 09:41 AM
Aug 2012

is to jack premiums to the moon.

Ilsa

(61,697 posts)
5. Precisely. That's why the model has to include
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 09:45 AM
Aug 2012

younger, generally well people. The costs have to be spread over a very large group.

Cane4Dems

(305 posts)
6. pure racism
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 11:07 AM
Aug 2012

It boggles my mind that working class whites want to support a candidate in romney who is hell-bent on passing policies that will negatively affect them...he only wants to help the top 1%

In my eyes their support for him is based on their hatred for obama and they only care about having a white man reside in the white house....they are voting purely on the basis of their racist beliefs

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