with 36 million retired workers receiving social security benefits, 49.4 million medicare beneficiaries. the reality of seniors quietly letting go of their entitlements without a fight is you pretty unlikely. the way seniors may fight back come november is where w their vote at the table. brenda gardner, actress and volunteer at aarp s patrol. a retired postal worker. so nice to have you all here. i want to ask you, you actually talked with other seniors in your role as an aarp volunteer. what are you hearing now? i m hearing a lot of things. we have these sessions where we go to different members of aarp. and ask them what they are thinking. we are trying to bring these particular issues, social security and medicare, out into the open. and not just being discussed in washington behind closed doors when we don t know what s going on and they are making the
a possible fiscal cliff. there is talking about simpson/bowles which will damage seniors and others that have borne the brunt of a disaster caused by wall street which has not had to paw for that. if interesting to hear you say this in part because ryan, boo session moment, i expect that, ryan claimed is he s being brave by touching this thing that i think he would say there has been bipartisan agreement that we are never going to fix it, we are never going to touch it. in part because aarp stands there as this powerful source in a can mob lies voters and say no, you will not touch this. ryan had been brave before. it is important. i think democrats have been conflating paul ryan, the pre-vice president with paul ryan vice presidential nominee. that s not what mitt romney, the actual nominee, has been campaigning on. he campaigns every single day against barack obama s medicare cuts.
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