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Topic: Thanks to Medicare, Rep. McDermott
´Did Nothing´ for His Parents |
Thanks to Medicare, Rep. McDermott
´Did Nothing´ for His Parents
Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 2/6/2013 11:41:22 AM
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| It´s the job of government, not families, to take care of grandma, says Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee. McDermott, appearing on C-SPAN Tuesday, said he opposes cuts to Medicare, the government program that paid his own parents´ medical bills: "Now we have a Medicare program, where my father -- and my father lived to 93, my mother to 97 -- and my brothers and sisters and I did nothing for them, except pay their taxes." McDermott said there is no reason to cut Medicare benefits for senior citizens, even though spending will
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Comments:
What a wonderful guy. s/o It´s difficult to choose which Democrat is more odious than the next.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
nimby, 2/6/2013 11:54:08 AM (No. 9161812)
With moochers like these.......
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
aliciacolon, 2/6/2013 11:57:40 AM (No. 9161826)
My husband and I took his mother out of a nursing home and cared for her in our home until she passed away from Alzheimers. Yes, her Medicare paid for doctor visits and medicine but we saved our government a fortune and gave her love to the end.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 2/6/2013 12:25:47 PM (No. 9161905)
Another Democrat shows that he shares the attitude that Scrooge had until that fateful night.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
joew9, 2/6/2013 12:31:10 PM (No. 9161913)
McDermott should be in jail for his involvement in the illegally obtained phone-tap recording of Newt Gingrich´s phone.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jlkinsella, 2/6/2013 1:10:03 PM (No. 9161982)
Hasn´t McDermott read the CBO report of the transfer of $716 billion from paying for Medicare services into Obamacare? McDermott pushed granny off the cliff.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rlwo, 2/6/2013 1:48:20 PM (No. 9162047)
That is very loving to do, #2. And a very difficult task.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 2/6/2013 2:09:11 PM (No. 9162090)
Gee, to raise a moron like McDermott was punishment enough. That they had to depend on government in their declining years, without the help of their children, was disgraceful.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
a man over thirty, 2/6/2013 2:32:58 PM (No. 9162128)
There are well over 16,000,000,000,000 reasons why McDermott is dead wrong on this (and an idiot to boot!)
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
iamtinman, 2/6/2013 2:51:49 PM (No. 9162170)
Not something I´d be real proud of Mr McDermott!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hopeandglory, 2/6/2013 5:44:16 PM (No. 9162457)
Love you Alicia! . . . God be with you and yours.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
toodles3956, 2/7/2013 7:27:43 AM (No. 9163068)
What a guy. I bet his parents were real proud! Hope his kids do the same for him when the time comes.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
civilservant, 2/7/2013 9:33:57 AM (No. 9163342)
We converted the garage and back porch into a MIL Suite for my MIL. She moved in with us-her and her 75 lb. dog- and lived with us until the day I came home and held her as she had a stroke and died.
I can still see her in my mind, and I would do it again, in a heartbeat.
That his man can look in a mirror and shave without cutting his own throat puts to rest once and for all the canard that the Left is more compassionate than the RIght.
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