Americans Don't Want Medicare Cuts in Debt Ceiling Deal

[amborin]

Americans Don’t Want Medicare Cuts In Debt Ceiling Deal

As lawmakers consider including Medicare cuts in a deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, a new public poll round-up from the New England Journal of Medicine shows that most Americans “think it is possible for the federal government to balance the budget without cutting Medicare spending.”

In fact, “when people are given a list of options for reducing the deficit and asked whether they favor or oppose each item, cutting Medicare spending is one of the least favored,” with majorities supporting “raising taxes on people with annual incomes above $250,000.”:



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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/07/14/269458/americans-dont-want-medicare/

[Seedersandleechers]

1. When has it ever mattered

what most Americans want.

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[Amonester]

7. If that could prevent another illegal invasion bu$h/cheney style...

on the national credit card, maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing, but... we all know it's because they want to destroy safety net programs so they would invade whoever they want to profit from.

[PoliticAverse]

3. Then perhaps Americans should elect representatives that will vote that way. n/t

[TheKentuckian]

4. Who should we be writing in?

[PoliticAverse]

5. "None of the Above" n/t

[Amonester]

6. When there will be a "None of the above" checkbox, maybe...

Except for the 1 in 100 "Honest" choices, of course (Sanders, Grayson, and a handfull others).