29 July 2011
Using Medicare and Medicaid Entitlements as Bargaining Chips
After the President's speech to the nation this week, not only did I provide my Congressional Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) with my views on the political shenanigans of the Tea Party in obstructing a balanced, i.e., frugality with increased revenues, I wrote to the President about my views of his own attempts to make government work better. Here's what I wrote:
As Speaker Boehner was rallying support for his House bill, he admitted almost shamefully or at least ironically that he had put some revenue items "on the table" during negotiations with Democrats. From now until the 2012 General Election, the most visible campaign button worn by members of both parties with say "NOT ME!" because of the voters' wrath at incumbents who created the debts without budgeting revenues to repay them.
NOT ME! . . .just wait and see.
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Dear Mr. President:
No Democratic President should ever consider letting the benefit entitlements for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid be part of any political negotiation with Congress.
The Republicans have tried to dismantle these programs since 1936 and 1965. There have been worse economic circumstances and they have it wrong about America and how we run our government and its finances. In last night’s reaction to Speaker Boehner’s grandstanding, you referred to the several times Ronald Reagan raised the debt limit. I believe that the problem of national debt began in the 1980s and that President Reagan led the country and commerce into a comfort zone that lasts until today of using debt proceeds for current operating expenses. Reagan was wrong as were all succeeding Presidents who did not require Congress to reveal the effect of new debt burden on the discretionary portion of federal expenditures. As the issue of what the federal government will pay for has brought our political process to this point of failure of Reason, for your meeting later this morning, I offer a quotation from Plutarch:
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
To me, I see you as trying to force Congress to do its job as framed by the Constitution. If I am correct, then I suggest you make this point much more obvious in your television appearances. For too long, the phenomenon of an imperial presidency has haunted our government and your putting Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid “on the table” just continues this distortion. Please take them out of this discussion.
Sincerely,
Peter Sherfy MillingtonUpdate 29 July 2011
As Speaker Boehner was rallying support for his House bill, he admitted almost shamefully or at least ironically that he had put some revenue items "on the table" during negotiations with Democrats. From now until the 2012 General Election, the most visible campaign button worn by members of both parties with say "NOT ME!" because of the voters' wrath at incumbents who created the debts without budgeting revenues to repay them.
NOT ME! . . .just wait and see.
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