Does Castle Want Our Seniors to Die?

Filed in Delaware by on February 4, 2010

We will soon see if Mike Castle has any moderate credentials that Celia Cohen and the News Journal claims he has.

Wisconsin GOP Representative Paul Ryan is drafting the GOP Budget proposal. So far we have learned he plans to privatize both Social Security and Medicare in order to cut spending in the proposal, because we all know that the GOP can never cut defense spending and/or raise taxes. Ever. So we are going to find out pretty soon just how much of a lemming Mike Castle really is.

Does he support selling your Social Security portfolio to AIG? Does he support giving away Medicare to the same insurers who ration people to death? Since Castle voted against healthcare form, we know that Castle is in favor of denying insurance coverage because of preexisting conditions and he is in favor of allowing those same insurance companies to drop your coverage if you ever get sick. And that means once Medicare is privatized and run by these very same insurance companies, thousands of Delaware seniors will lose their coverage over just one preexisting condition, or if they dare to get sick.

Does Mike Castle support his party, or does he support Delaware seniors? To support the latter, he must oppose publically and vote against the GOP budget.

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  1. Jason330 says:
    February 4, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    This GOP plan to slash SS and Medicaid benefits needs to be stopped. Getting the word out to Seniors that Mike Cadtle is a Republican might be a good place to start.

  2. cassandra m says:
    February 4, 2010 at 2:22 pm

    The Medicare/Medicaid thing is worse actually — they’ll give you a yearly voucher. A voucher that won’t rise in value to match the rise in medical expenses and quite utterly abandons seniors and the poor to their own devises after the voucher runs out. Health care rationing, as I noted before.

  3. Unstable Isotope says:
    February 4, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    Republicans are all over the place on their budget. I saw on TPM they have a plan that will balance the budget 50 years from now. What a joke!

    Yes, I think they find it very hard to balance the budget by only eliminating earmarks without cutting any programs and without any tax increases. They know cutting SS & Medicare is political suicide.

  4. Delaware Dem says:
    February 4, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    We should be able to pay down the National Debt 50 years from you. The deficit should be gone in 10 years.

  5. Unstable Isotope says:
    February 4, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    LOL!

    House Republicans are at pains to point out that a far-reaching budget roadmap unveiled by their top budget guy, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), isn’t their budget, but when asked today at a press conference what about Ryan’s budget he disagreed with, Minority Leader John Boehner couldn’t name anything.

    “Off the top of my head, I couldn’t tell you,” Boehner said.

    Despite the apparent lack of substantive disagreement, though, Boehner wants to keep the Ryan plan from sticking to the GOP.

    “Paul Ryan, who’s the ranking member on our budget committee, has done an awful lot of work in putting together his roadmap,” Boehner said. “But it’s his. And I know the Democrats are trying to say that it’s the Republican leadership. But they know that’s not the case.”

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