Government Hands on your Medicare

Cast your minds back to not that long ago, back when Healthcare Reform was struggling to be passed; back when as soon as it passed Republicans were chanting "Kill the Bill" and teabaggers were shouting "keep your government hands off my Medicare!"

You do remember that, don't you, teabaggers? "Keep your government hands off my Medicare"? You remember how you took that to the voting booths and elected good Republican/teabagger representatives to office so they'd kill the bill and keep their government hands off your Medicare? Welp, guess what, kids? You've been played like a fiddle. They whipped you up into a scared, angry, blind stupor, sent you to the voting booths, and are now putting their government hands on your Medicare.

Remember when King Shrub II wanted to slash funding for public schools and instead give out vouchers for private schools? Well, it seems Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) wants to do the same thing...only this time, by cutting funding for Medicare and replacing it with government vouchers for private insurance plans. Oh, but don't worry! See, unlike minimum wage, these vouchers will rise with inflation. Uhh...oops. It also seems that the cost of private insurance is rising a lot faster than that, so those vouchers will eventually be next to worthless.

Why are they putting their government hands on your Medicare? Why, do deal with the deficit, of course! What's that? We could have dealt with the deficit to pretty much the same levels if you'd let the Bush-era tax cuts expire? Surely you jest! Why, one day you'll join the ranks of the super wealthy through hard work and boot straps and you don't want to have to pay your taxes like the serfs you once were! Why, it's the American dream!

That's right, grandpa, it's the American Dream, but we live in the American Reality. The gap between the rich and the middle class is wider now than it ever was and you, my dear Teabagger in your Rascal and toting your oxygen tank, are in your twilight years. You've lived your life as a serf, you'll die as a serf. The only question remaining now is; do you want to support people who are going to do everything in their power to make sure the poor stay poor and the rich get richer and who will ensure your grandchildren will live in poverty for the sum of their lives as soon as they get the chance? Are you really going to let your irrational fear of the evil Big Government blind you and leave you easily manipulated by those who value you only as a tool to use for their own agenda?