Nixon, also pushed for a Medicare for all method. Where people not offered insurance via their job could enroll. Obamacare is nothing more then Romney's Mass. Roll out, and why it is frankly puzzling to hear mouth breathing segment of the right call this socialism or communism.
Corporatist R's and D's see Medicare as a way to make healthcare a larger for profit enterprise... Call me crazy, but this is the one thing in the world I don't want a bean counter crunching for profit. The days of the family doctor and community hospitals are long gone... Replaced by mega health concerns who could care less about the health of a community, but health demographics of illness and how to monetize that. If you think any differently, think about like any other service industry. Think an energy company drilling etc, they may sponcer a few local events, but the driving force is a quarterly profit that beats Wall Stret valuation. I think it is time we remind ourselves that gov't is for the people. And Corporations are NOT people.

Joe R Facts please Medicare was put in by Republicans

You are correct under Ryan plan medicare would be a voucher system only affecting those under the age of 55. Those 55 an older would keep the same benefits currently received. Ryan's plan may not be perfect but medicare if not address will be bankrupt in 7 to 10 years. Obama's plan dis extend the life of medicare but did not address the underlying issue to the issues with the structure of the program. Obama stated this in an interview in June or July of 2010. He did in fact borrow around 800 million this year from medicare to cover expenses created with the healthcare act that is a fact. How he replaces those funds and the affect it has on medicare can be debated. Your points of fact are fine your opinions are misleading and you missed several facts the Republicans put in Medicaid and Medicare. I disagree with the premise they want to take away care they are looking for ways to strengthen the program and be fiscally sound. I am not saying all of their solutions are good but at least they are putting forward a plan. Obama praised Ryan for putting forward a serious plan for the future and stated that is should not be open criticism but rather the start of a talking point. I would like to see the counter plan offered by the democrats. I am hopeful they can work together and resolve this. For the record Beck is a smart guy, good business person and would be a good choice in my opinion.

Kelly the CBO stated that you can't double count these cuts as reduction in expenses and additional revenue somewhere else. The said these cuts are being double counted. That was the CBO. The issue is well beyond the 700 or 800 million what about the system 10, 15 or 20 years from now do we really want to keep ignoring this and pushing this burden onto our children. I want to se something done about this.

This is so typical... This isn't the truth, it is the talking point of the RNCC. Read a little please..... It is a lie, because the RNCC knows that Medicaid is a losing issue so it is spun. and THIS is classic spin. R's have tried for decades to get their hands on Social Security and Medicare so that private interests can profit on it. and How cynical... The true safety nets in our society that we all can receive and have paid into should somehow be made into a for profit industry, and at the whim of the market.

Max, you need to stop drinking the Kool Aid. As for Lawrenceville Council... you have yet to tell us where we can cut. and you saw the books. so how are we to believe you... you are the classic moaner...

BTW, the average income in Lawrence is around 65k... Under the Ryan Budget or the Romeny plan, those people will pay over $4,000 more a year in taxes, and the debt won't even start to go down for decades as even MORE burden is placed on local Government so expect even higher property taxes.... that is just reality... read. read conservatives like Reagan Budget Director David Stockman etc... get away from the pajama media. big govt websites... read real wonks who get this stuff. they all will confirm this spin as contactual lies... stuff we don't need here or anywhere in this country.

Fort Monmouth was recommended for closure by the Pentagon in May 2005. "BRAC voted in August 2005 to close the post; its decision was upheld by President George Bush and Congress. An appeal headed by U.S. Representatives Frank Pallone and Rush D. Holt, Jr. to remove the post from the list was made to the BRAC commission, but was rejected."

Also: http://www.app.com/article/20070720/NEWS/112130033/Congress-asked-to-intercede-in-save-fort-battle

Oh that's right Holt and Pallone wrote a letter. That was the extent of their action. AND the letter was written only a short time before FM was closed. They BS'd the app which is a democRATic rag and obviously you and that moron on the bottom of the page believed them.

A letter?
First they appealed to the BRAC Commission, and then they introduced bills to congress to stop the closure and analyze the economic impacts, etc. (this in 2007)

"In a united front, legislators from both sides of the aisle introduced four bills — two in the House of Representatives and two companion bills in the Senate." (from the Asbury Park Press article)

Do you have any idea the effort and time required to introduce legislation for consideration by Congress? Congress voted "NO" on this legislation (or maybe they never made it out of committee, I don't know) but, in the end, Ft Monmouth was closed (officially in 2011). When it was apparent that nothing more could be done to stop the closure, NJ politicians started working on getting the area redeveloped.
OK..I'm done with this red herring FT Monmouth issue..

@Kevin Wyman

OK, and I have a bridge to sell you.

Max, sorry but you are parroting the Romney lies... The Tax Policy Center pointed out that the middle class will in fact raise taxes on the middle class. Romney who had used the The Tax Policy Center as an ibid throughout his primary run then called their report "garbage". So which Mitt do I believe? The one when he was running among his peers or the one when they disagree with him... The Tax Policy Center has said that under the Romney budget a family making 65k would pay 4k more a year. Google it.

I never wanted Lawrence Council 'out' I wanted them to find ways to work within the budget without huge tax hikes and service drops. To protect our property values.. to stand up for what we are owed by Trenton.. and one of the things I suggested, they are trying in getting paybacks from the Rider and Lawrenceville School.

Your suggestions where attack people making 60 to 70k a year as lazy. And sadly I work in New York City, so I really just don't have time to get involved micro locally.

Ohh come on... You are grasping at straws. Taxes under Obama are at the lowest they have been in 30 years. That is a fact. The rest of your rant is just unhinged anger...

now the reality of Obamacare.
Once Obamacare is fully enacted, this is the honest truth about extra taxes, an extra the medicare payroll taxes will remain the same for those making under 200k single or 250k married, if you make more then that they will increase from 2.9% to 3.8% on the money you make over the 200k/250k mark. Another increase is that investment income will be factored into income for Medicare taxes. So if you make more you pay more...

as for tanning... Look, we charge higher taxes for cigarettes and booze... cause we know that they are drains on our healthcare system. Well so is tanning. And just like smoking and drinking, if you want to do it you will pay a premium to do so. and thus now tanning is included in the sin taxes. so be it. Will it kill small businesses? no. In a CNN article "A full 78% of the salon owners polled reported that their clients did not seem to care about the tax, according to a study conducted by Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine."

as for the Medical Device tax, I'm not happy with it being revenue agnostic, but fact is any loss will be offset by a reduction in fed taxes that is based on P&L. and then...
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3684

as for your 3.8% real estate transaction tax... You are just way off base. The tax would be on your capital gains as stated above. So if you made over the 200k250k limit that profit would be factored into your medicare tax. So if you made 20k on a real estate sale, and you make 150k you would not be effected at all. If you made 300k and made the same 20k in a sale of a home, that 20k would be added to your increased medicare tax at 0.9% because it is now considered income.

You have no idea what I do and don't do or my situation... All I have ever asked when you post your blog entries about greedy township workers is for you to list what you would do since you where granted access to the full books.

So Obama is a thug now?

unbelievable.

why are you sick or Rush Holt? is it his top notch constituent serves? His work to make central jersey a top research hub? What about Rush Holt are you sick of???

"this Beck guy" do you even know what his plan is to bring jobs to Central Jersey? and his asserting in this blog post that Holt ' plan(s)to bankrupt Medicare' is just an outright distortion and fear tactic. If anything we need more stand up people like Rush Holt in Washington...

It is pretty obvious you do not know the man or what he stands for. Maybe some day you will be able to debate differencies in approaches to issues. I think Holt is a decent person and not a loon but in 14 years what are the real results is Jersey better of than it was 14 years ago. Holt is a true academian he has ideas and theories but nothing that is practical and easily put in place to better New Jersey.