David Schweikert: “We’re doing the honorable thing” by ending Medicare

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by David Safier

Count Rep. David Schweikert as a true believer when it comes to Paul Ryan's proposal to end Medicare as we know it.

It's a pretty astounding performance. ABC News spent 6 minutes asking Rep. David Schweikert if he planned to support Ryan's Medicare plan, even in the face of the trouncing a New York Republican took in a "safe" district last night.

Schweikert's answer: Absolutely.

Here are Schweikert's words defending Ryan's Medicare plan:

"We need to save Medicare."

"Embrace [Ryan's Medicare plan] because it's based on math."

"We're doing the honorable thing."

"What we're doing is saving the Republic."

"[We need to] take a little bit of a political risk, get out there in our communities and explain why we're doing what we're doing. . . . We're gonna save this country!"

Schweikert has planty of time between now and the election to go out there in his district and stand up for the Ryan/Republican plan to end Medicare as we know it — again and again and again. It should be an interesting ride.



 

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12 thoughts on “David Schweikert: “We’re doing the honorable thing” by ending Medicare”

  4. Scheikert “absolutely” supports the Ryan plan, which ends Medicare and turns it into a voucher plan. Read the budget – if you think you’ll end up with a $15k per year voucher – wrong, Ryan has proposed on several (safe) TV shows that the figure is closer to $8k. Medicare and Social Security has needed meaningful reform for decades and no political party will touch it – it remains a political killer. Recent polling (not Rasmussen)has the country at 79% against the Medicare to voucher plan. Slightly higher 84% against giving more tax breaks to business/wealthy – which the Ryan budget does. The Medicare well is far from dry, and the future savings in cleaning out the “cheaters” (facilitators, doctors, and in last years Time mag article, the insurance companies (think free scooters from Medicare looholes)). Social Sercurity needs only to lift the cap to remain solvent beyond the current 37 years, but thank Regan and Bush for raiding it for unfunded agendas – instead now it’s down to $2 Trillion and $3,7 Trillion in treasury notes.
    The Koolaid is coming from Tea-publicans. Be informed, vote your conscience and participate in our democratic process.
    You can call (negatively) Medicare, Social Security, even unemployment insurance entitlements: if I’m paying for it, you bet I’m entitled to it.
    Stop supporting a party that gave us no choice when they spent us into 2 unfunded wars, perscription drug benefit, TARP, Tax cuts for wealthy/business, Oil company rebates and tax loopholes draining nearly $1 trillion per year – and the Defense budget they are trying to pass now littered with entitlement/earmarks – created a $1.3 Trillion deficit in 8 years and added nearly $9 Trillion to the debt and attempt to call it fiscal responsibility.

  5. First, Schweikert said nothing about ending Medicare, so the headline on this blog is a lie. Second, gross mismanagement of Medicare, Social Security, etc. has caused the well to run dry. It doesn’t matter how much you’ve paid in (and I’ve certainly paid my share), the money isn’t there. This situation is going to end one of two ways: by restructuring entitlements or by having the whole system crash. If anyone has a solution that allows us to go on the way we are, without having to endure extremely negative consequences, I’d like to hear it.

  6. Someone who thinks that $15,000 is going to buy a policy that covers them through their senior years, has been completely conned.

  7. I have paid Medicare tax on every dollar I ever earned. I never truly believed it would ever total enough to buy a viable insurance policy for my senior years. And now, it appears I was thinking correctly. I’d rather take the $15,000 and buy the policy of my choice than trust my health and life to some remote panel of 15 bureaucrats in DC.

  8. The robo-bloggers are out earning their pennies commenting on every blog they can.
    Do what you want to Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid and unemployment – just reimburse me for the decades I’ve been forced to put into a system the majority wants to take away from me. I’ve paid for it, it had better be there for me. Besides, it’s political suicide (score 1-0 so far).

  9. keep your damn hands off of my Medicare AND Soc. Sec. or you are going to have riots in the streets.

    Schweikert is a tool. So sorry the first two posters are so brainwashed.

  10. This sure reminds me of “We had to bomb the village in order to save it” from the Vietnam era.

  11. Rep. David Schweikert chooses to do the heavy lifting that President Obama and the Democrats in both the House and the Senate won’t do. Thank you Rep. Schweikert. We have your back and we will do all that we need to do to ensure that you are re-elected in November 2012.

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