Are making our choice for president , are we bargain hunting . Are we looking for a deal, somebody who will give us everything we want but cost us nothing . Well, you know what they say, buyer beware. A bargain is not always a good deal, which brings me to the beloved childrens story a bargain for frances. Frances is a little girl who decides to have a tea party with her friend, thelma. Now, frances mother reminds her to be careful because every time she plays with thelma, frances seems to get the short end of the stick. Frances knows her mothers warning, but she goes off to her tea party anyway. Frances tells thelma that she is saving up for a tea set, a real china set with pictures on it in blue. Thelma says that her tea set is actually better because it has red flowers, and since its plastic, it wont break easily. But frances is clear. She wants a real one. Thelma insists that her plastic tea set is better and asks frances how much money have you saved up . Frances tells her 2. 17.
0 blue. thelma says that her tea set is actually better because it has red flowers, and since it s plastic, it won t break easily. but frances is clear. she wants a real one. thelma insists that her plastic tea set is better and asks frances how much money have you saved up? frances tells her $2.17. so thelma goes in for the kill. maybe she ll sell frances her set and, oh, by the way, they don t even make the one that you want anymore. frances is convinced. she goes home. she gets her money. she brings her money back, and thelma sells her the tea set, and then she says no backsies. frances walks home with her dolls and her new plastic tea set. that is in her younger sister flora tells her the tea set is ugly and that the local candy store does, in fact, sell the china tea set that frances wanted for $2.07. flowers. according to the center on budget and policy priorities, the bush tax cuts and the wars in iraq and afghanistan will account for almost half of the $18 trillion in debt unde
0 it goes to motive. can you imagine? can those of you who know me? can you imagine me voting for a proposal adding $6,400 a year to the cost of medicare or 60,000 over the life of it? ladies and gentlemen, the neighborhood i come from i mean this sincerely the neighborhood i come from, that would mean the people getting medicare would not be able to get medicare. they would not get nearly the benefits they have now. i don t know anybody in the neighborhood i come from that has an extra $6400 a year for health care when they re seniors. and i don t know. all right, everyone. listening to joe biden with the talking points there. he first went after representative paul ryan the gop vice-presidential candidate and his budget proposals. that said he s also going after medicare. given the demographic makeup of the sunshine state, which has a large already older population, it becomes no surprise that the latest polls show the president with a lead in the sunshine state. now at the sam
into law. sign into law the requirement y all come up with $6,400 a year more for the same benefits. and now they say to us, oh, no, no, no. joe, we don t have that plan anymore. well, guess what? they got a message to the american people. they said we got a new plan. new plan. that s going to work better and save medicare. that plan, though, a harvard study comes out and says, that new plan still a voucher, would cost somebody 55 years old right now by the time they get on it $60,000 a year more over the life of medicare. ladies and gentlemen, the reason i bother to tell you this is, the reason i bother to tell you this is, the fact of the matter is it goes to motive. it goes to motive. can you imagine? can those of you who know me? can you imagine me voting for a proposal adding $6,400 a year to the cost of medicare or 60,000 over the life of it? ladies and gentlemen, the neighborhood i come from i mean this sincerely the neighborhood i come from, that would mean the pe