Senator Dean Heller who as a congressman voted to get rid of Medicare, twice, can now continue his anti senior crusade from the Senate. Senator Heller has been assigned to the Senate’s Special Committee on Aging, whose task is to safeguard the welfare of seniors in Nevada and those across the United States. Right now you are asking yourself if this is a joke, rest assured it is no joke.
Senator Heller, the man who voted to end Medicare is now on the Senate’s Special Committee on Aging. Heller also wants to privatize Social Security, he wants to give your Social Security income tax to banks, the same banks who left millions of American citizens holding the bag (the empty 401k and investment bag) when our financial institutions came tumbling down in 2008, but that could never happen again, right?. The financial institutions bounced back quite nicely thanks to the bailouts, but millions of Americans are still left treading water trying to keep from drowning, while millions of others already have.
“It is alarming for Nevada seniors that their appointed Senator who wants to end Medicare as we know it is now on the Senate’s Special Committee on Aging,” said Zach Hudson, spokesperson for the Nevada State Democratic Party. “Dean Heller’s reckless agenda would increase insurance premiums by $6,000 a year and nearly double the cost of prescription drugs seniors pay. Nevada seniors are right to be concerned that Heller can now advocate his plan to end Medicare as we know it on the Senate Aging Committee.”
Republicans are truly the enemy of all Senior Citizens of the United States. If you’re on Medicare or Social Security, or both, you have a target on your back. If you have parents or Grandparents, their lives and retirements are in jeopardy by the Republican Party.
Getting old is a part of life, but living with some sort of dignity in our senior years, more often than not, requires Medicare and Social Security, two programs that people pay into all their lives, and most count on both when the time comes to retire. And two programs that Republicans want to end.
The Foxes are guarding the Hen House.
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