I've developed an elevator speech for those few people out there who are still undecided in this election. There may be a few Romneyites who might crossover, but I'm not really looking for converts this late in the game.
Here they are:
Shaping the supreme court for the next 25 years. Electing a republican will roll back Roe v. Wade, gut the Civil Rights Act, and all environment regulation. Simple as saying Justice Alito.
Imagine you're 57 and your wife is 53. A republican President will give you Medicare and take it away from your wife. All because she is younger than 55. Simple as saying bait and switch.
Chances are you'll move from job to job over the next decade. Let's say you have a chronic medical condition. Diabetes, asthma, or seizures. Repealing the Affordable Health Care will have you lose the the ban on pre-existing conditions which could deny you health insurance.
Those are three concrete reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney. Are they close enough to home to consider voting for him?
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i dont know what is scarier: the supreme court stuff
or the health stuff.
mitt is gonna tank, you know it, though , do you not?
it might take some foreign crisis, or some savvy spinning by
o's advisors, good ads, amazing debates, etc.
it is gonna happen & here is why: we F-ING like obama.
we are disappointed, some of us, but we KNOW
he is true red
white (ha)
and blue.
r.
his plan to way with the home mortgage tax credit
his choice for VP
his agenda to dismantle the middle class
his boner for firing people
his maker's inability to reboot his buffoonery.
He's a coward who can face the Ladies of the View but not world leaders.
He's a liar, or worse, a cowardly liar who asks others to lie for him, e.g. the idiotic claim that the Libya attack was a protest gone wrong.
He's green, corrupt, and incompetent. Examples furnished on request.
I don't remember anyone saying Roe v. Wade needs to go away. Nobody has claimed that it will be over turned and you can have an abortion at anytime and anyway you want it. I don't think that anyone here suggests that you can't regulate abortion like anything else. If you favor abortion on demand, without limits, please speak up.
(crickets, crickets, crickets)
Where did you ever hear that the Civil Rights Acts or the EPA were gone? Talk about trying to scare people with BS.
If you are over 55 when the bill passes you will not have a change in your Medicare. If you are now 53, as you stated, the odds are you will be 55 when the new plan is passes so you will not see a change. But lets say that you are not 55 when the law changes then you will have a choice. One of them is the plan as we now know it. So if you like what you currently can get, you will be able to get it.
Over the years I have changed jobs a few times. While some had insurance starting on day one, most had a 30 day waiting period before it kicked in. I have never had one where if I was enrolled by the day it kicked in was I, or my family, not going to be covered.
GM wants the government to sell the rest of the stock it owns. By controlling that stock the government still has it's boot on the throat of GM. It seems that GM is having trouble hiring top talent because of government wage caps. That is how employer provided insurance came to be popular. Instead of paying wages it provided insurance to make their position attractive to top talent. It still is. As long as employer provided insurance is what is needed to attract the best they will provide it as long as the government gets out of their way and allows them to do what they need to do to attract the people they need to run their business.
Now, if you believe in redistribution of wealth, like President Obama believes, then I suggest you vote for him. I just don't want to hear about it when they come after your wealth so they can pass it around to those they want to pass it to like the investors in Solyndra, or the auto unions. Remember he made the secured bond holders of GM go from first to last place, take pennies on the dollar, and Obama gave the money that should have legally gone to the bond holders to the union, who had no ownership interest.
Those seats are much more cheaply bought, and victory in a handful of them will be just as effective at hamstringing Obama and the Democrats over the next four years. Worst case scenario, victory in those seats could give control of the Senate to the Repugnants and Mitch the Mortician McConnell, and control of the House, whcih this time around would likely be led by Eric Can'tor, who would be the most likely replacement for incompetent John Bumpkin Boehner as Speaker.
Lezlie