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A Breaking News Press Release from Senator Marco Rubio
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Contact: Alex Burgos (202) 224-3041
ICYMI: RUBIO CALLS OUT PRESIDENT'S SOCIAL SECURITY SCARE TACTICS
"If they don’t get their Social Security checks, it’s because the President’s decided to do that, because we still have revenue coming in. ... I think people are going to be shocked to learn the real truth about what the government’s done with their Social Security money."
Sen. Marco Rubio
Interview
“The Hugh Hewitt Show”
July 12, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFaZigczRWM
Sen. Rubio: People Are Going to Be Shocked to Learn the Real Truth About What the Government’s Done With Their Social Security Money
Hugh Hewitt: “Senator Rubio, you represent a lot of senior citizens in Florida. The country knows that. I think it’s despicable to scare them this way. What’s your reaction to the President’s threat to hold their Social Security checks hostage?”
Sen. Rubio: “Well, if they don’t get their Social Security checks, it’s because the President’s decided to do that, because we still have revenue coming in. Here’s the other thing I would say. If in fact the President holds up their checks for Social Security, and Medicare, and whatever else he wants to hold up to make his point, isn’t he admitting that all these programs are funded by deficit spending? Isn’t he admitting that all these programs are dependent upon borrowed money?
“And I think the folks who are on Social Security, people like my mom, would be shocked to learn the truth that the money that they’re receiving in Social Security isn’t the money they worked hard for all these years to put away, the government was going to give back to them in their retirement. The government spent all that money already. They spent it long ago on other things. This is borrowed money. This is money that we’re borrowing from our children and our grandchildren. And I think people are going to, if that happens, I think people are going to be shocked to learn the real truth about what the government’s done with their Social Security money.”
Sen. Rubio: This Issue of the Debt Limit Didn’t Sneak Up On Us
Hugh Hewitt: “Do you think the negotiations that he had lured Republicans into over the last couple of weeks have been in bad faith?”
Sen. Rubio: “Well, I wasn’t in those negotiations, so I’d hate to characterize something I wasn’t a part of. Let me say that he was late to the game.
“First of all, the President, this is not a new issue, okay? This issue of the debt limit didn’t sneak up on us. This has been around for a while. We knew this was coming. And then the President’s done nothing on it. He gave a state of the union speech this year, never mentioned any plans about how to address this. He offered a budget before Congress, and the budget was so bad, I mean, it actually increased the debt. His budget was so bad, so unrealistic, that when we put it to a vote here in the Senate, not even a single Democrat voted for it. That’s how bad it was. It didn’t get a single vote.
“So he’s had multiple opportunities to deal with this, and he’s kind of punted and moved the ball along, and focused on other things. And now, with three weeks to go, two weeks to go, all of a sudden, he wants to ride in and act like he’s leading. Well, he’s not leading. In fact, what he’s doing is he’s trying to position this as a political issue, so he can claim victory for his 2012 election. But the reality of it is that people know better, they’re going to realize it, we’re going to continue to talk about it.”
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Comment by amanda choate on July 15, 2011 at 3:31pm
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The Medicare program also funds residency training programs for the vast majority of physicians in the United States.
The Social Security Act of 1965 was signed into law on July 30, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to existing Social Security legislation. This legislation included the establishing of the Medicare program. At the bill-signing ceremony, Johnson enrolled former President Harry S. Truman as the first Medicare beneficiary and presented him with the first Medicare card, and Truman's wife Bess, the second.
Harry Truman was the first person in the country to get medicare.
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Comment by Joe Strange on July 15, 2011 at 3:16pm
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Amanda:
I'm sorry but you are wrong.......medicare was not started in 1965.....it was medicade.
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Ms. Choate; Which two; one of the two? Roosevelt's or Madoff's?
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Mr. Davis,
Those two programs, account for a half a billion year. That is a lot of money. Until you compare it to the shortage in medicare. Then it pales. it is equal to one percent of the unfunded portion of the Medicare Drug Bill alone. The Drug Bill is equal to one percent of the unfunded portion of Medicare in total. So in comparison, those two programs blow a hole in the budget that is ten thousand times smaller than the one created by Medicare. In perspective that is equivalent to the length of the average thumb compared to the length of an aircraft carrier.
Wow!
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Roosevelt's PONZI Social inSecurity scheme and Bernie Madoff's PONZI scheme differed in this manner; Bernie fleeced celebrities and "upper crust". Roosevelt the socialst fleeced the working class. Both were very loyal demoRATs and very liberal. Defund the arts and N.P.R.
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....and yes the point of the timing of my granpops deaths was that it was prior to Medicare.
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Because of the way medicare reimburses providers there is no incentive to do the least invasive procedure first.
My point is simply this. 40 trillion dollars unfunded coverage will bankrupt this country. So we have to go all in one way or another. Either the govenrment gets completely out of health care reimbursement or they take it over. Those are the only two sane positions.
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Patricia:
I agree with you. My wife is still on Tricare Prime and yes, she does need refferals. I was just relating my dealings with Tricare for Life.
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Amanda:
Sorry, my mistake. I meant to say medicare not medicade about your 94 year old Grandmother.
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Amanda:
I agree with most of what you say.
As far as the 10% of people on medicare using 63% of the benefits, it's always that way in a group insurance policy (wether it be private or public), that is how it works.
Sorry to hear your mom passed before she could get any of her benefits.
I don't understand what both of your Grandfathers passing before 1965 means, other than the date (medicade was started in 1965).
The one Grandmother that lived with you until she died, was she retired on SS?
The other Grandmother, was she on SS & medicare? She must have been very healthy to live to be 94 without having to rely on any payments from medicade.
Your dad is a very lucky man. Most employer health plans turn into the supplemental plan, and only pays the 20% of the bill that medicare pays. Believe me, medicare has it's own billing rate (appx. 10% to 20%) of the amount charged by the hosiptal and/or Doctors. So if the provider does or does not take the amount offered by medicare, the policy holder can be riding high or up a creek.
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