Okay, I just bailed on the Murphy-McMahon debate. I can’t take it anymore. I have a simple question I would like to ask all Democratic candidates.
When asked about social security or Medicare, every Republican candidate responds with some variant of the claim that he or she will not cut benefits for those saintly seniors currently receiving them. While this claim is probably not true, let us put that aside. That is what they say.
Why is it that not a single Democratic candidate, to my knowledge, turns to the audience and says, for example: What did Linda McMahon just tell you? She just told you that she intends to cut these benefits for the children and grandchildren of the seniors currently receiving them. She’s telling the workers of today that they are paying social security taxes today for benefits she does not intend to let them have. She is telling them that she is comfortable with them getting reduced or no Medicare benefits. She thinks that the seniors of today are as selfish as she is; that all they care about is their own benefits, and they don’t care whether their children or grandchildren get them in the future. I think the American people are better than that.
Isn’t that the response, or some variant of it, that we should hear? Why do Democrats take a pitch like that, right over the plate, and let it go by instead of taking a swing? Do they really buy into the Republican belief that people only care about their own narrow self interests, to the exclusion even of their own children?
Speaking of McMahon, I hear in the other room that she’s claiming she can’t be bought. The response to that is that she doesn’t need to be bought, she’s ready to sell us out without payment. After all, she’s got her snout in the trough for that tax cut; that’s payment enough.
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