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Peacetrain

(22,881 posts)
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 04:23 PM Jul 2015

Jeb Bush Says We Should Phase Out Medicare

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-medicare_55b11e41e4b0a9b94853e9eb?

"A decade ago, another Bush floated a plan to dramatically alter a safety-net entitlement for senior citizens. President George W. Bush’s plan to partially privatize Social Security -- which anticipated Medicare proposals like Ryan’s -- failed to attract the support of the public or the Republicans who controlled Congress at the time, in spite of months of lobbying and public events touting the proposal. "

Edit to add the only response I could think of to this...
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Jeb Bush Says We Should Phase Out Medicare (Original Post) Peacetrain Jul 2015 OP
Jeb Bush declares war on the poor and elderly Agnosticsherbet Jul 2015 #1
So those- ruffburr Jul 2015 #2

ruffburr

(1,190 posts)
2. So those-
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 04:37 PM
Jul 2015

That call themselves proud republicans really have something to be proud of now, Go Jeb, A bigger bunch of sorry excuses for assholes is hard to imagine.

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