( - promoted by Fong)
Senator Michael Bennet has urged President Obama to heed the Gang of Six's recommendations regarding the nation's next budget:
A bipartisan group of Senators has been working to craft a comprehensive deficit reduction package based upon the recommendations of the Fiscal Commission. While we may not agree with every aspect of the Commission's recommendations, we believe that its work represents an important foundation to achieve meaningful progress on our debt.
That bipartisan group, the "Gang of Six", was in discussions to cut up to $530 BILLION from future Medicare expenditures.
When Gang of Six talks broke down due to Senator Tom Coburn's congenital defects (hypocrisy and lying) Senator Bennet protested that the Gang was still viable and that the talks should continue:
"I don't think it's dead. And I think, in fact, I would say that has some of the most promise we have because we've got three Democrats, three Republicans, working together to try to come up with a plan." One can only assume that Michael Bennet supported the plan of all six senators to cut up to $530 BILLION from Medicare. He supported the Gang of Six even after Coburn had quit...with one of the most pitiful quotes I've heard from a United States Senator.
And with all that one can only ask why Bennet wanted the job in the first place.
Because if he is too cowardly to tell the people of our state that he, too, thinks we need to cut that money from our elderly and sick then he is not properly representing us. And he has no business taking the $174,000 salary we pay him to analyze our nation's problems and make the tough policy decisions that the job, and our citizens, rightly demand. |
