Mookie - I much prefer to actually read the source of the controversy instead of the interpretation of others.
Try reading the actual CBO document about what would happen if Obamacare was repealed:
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/fil...471-hr6079.pdf
I will quote the relevant section that exists on page 13:
"Spending for Medicare would increase by an estimated $716 billionover that 2013-2022 period."
If there was no Obamacare - this money would be spent on our Seniors. Because of Obamacare - it will not. That makes Obamacare the reason this money will not be there for the elderly. Who will absorb that cost then? Simple - the Seniors who rely on Medicare....
Don't believe its a cut to Medicare? The President says it is - and says he would veto any attempt to put that money back into Medicare. He admitted that he is more concerned making Obamacare "budget neutral" (which it is not) over keeping the funds in Medicare.
So mookie - and others who want to take a third party twist and spin, go ahead. The guy who did this is asked about the cut - and he answers it regarding the cut. So its a cut to Medicare. The CBO documentation - outside of partisan spin - clearly says that Obamacare means less money for Medicare. Spin all you want - your going to find out in November that people are paying more attention to fact than to spin.
On a side note - we have had another 374k people filing for unemployment this last week. 372k the week prior. We are averaging well over 1.2 Million jobs lost EVERY MONTH - and we are creating less than 200k jobs a month. That isn't anywhere near breaking even.
What are we going to get out of Charlotte? Sandra Fluke talking about how evil it is that team R won't pay for her birth control? The left wants government "out of the bedroom" (which I agree with) - but it wants the government to pay for what goes on in the bedroom. There is no talking about the horrible economy, there is no concern about the national debt, there is only an embrace of abortion on demand (to the point of partial birth and allowing a baby who survives an abortion to outside the womb to be ignored as it sits and dies seperated from the mother), gay marriage and protecting a mandated government health program that the majority of America doesn't want.
http://www.mcclpac.org/about_obama_baipa.htm