In a Special Comment on his Monday show, Olbermann spoke out strongly against any tinkering with Medicare and Social Security. He delivered what he called a “sermon” about what he called America’s “greatest accomplishment”: the social safety net that includes the two programs.
Olbermann then issued a stinging warning to President Obama about what might occur if he agreed to alter Medicare and Social Security:
“I cannot foresee what will happen politically if you craft a compromise to a manufactured political crisis … I cannot forecast if you have made yourself unelectable next year or if there’s just enough greed and self-serving amnesia to reduce such an attack on that safety net to a political blip … I find I cannot forecast if the rest of us, battered by your compromises here and your ‘it’s a start’s’ there, will bother any longer to defend you. I find I can’t forecast if I will still be able to support you … if this deal with the Republicans takes a dollar away from those people who do not have a dollar to spare while preserving the millions for those who have millions more, if this deal, sir, keeps intact funding the mechanisms we have for killing people while cutting the mechanisms we have for keeping people alive and healthy, then it is a betrayal of everything that makes this country great.”
Source: Mark Memmott / NPR
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http://www.eric.com.co Eric
Doesn’t anyone understand the Constitution? The President is NOT
empowered to control spending. ONLY The Congress controls spending.
The President is a butler; read his approx 10 powers and think about
it. Everything else believed about the President’s authority is a lie,
brainwashed into your minds. Will the President exercise powers that
are not lawfully his? Probably because Americans are gutless. They
elected him and we will get what we deserve for either doing so or
allowing such to happen. If Obama fails to faithfully execute the laws
(passed by Congress), he commits an impeachable offense.
http://www.facebook.com/russell.e.prince Russell E Prince
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