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Social Security & Medicare

They'd rather gut Social Security and Medicare than make millionaires and big corporations pay a few more cents on the dollar in taxes.
Social Security doesn't add a penny to the deficit and Medicare is the most cost-effective way for our seniors to get health care. But Republican politicians never liked Social Security or Medicare and still want to take them away.
When Republican politicians take away the benefits our seniors have earned, they take money out of the pockets of middle-class Americans. That takes away customers from our businesses - and that means less hiring and fewer jobs.
If they were serious about deficits, they wouldn't have fought so hard for the Bush tax cuts and two unfunded wars that led to the record deficits we're dealing with today.

These kinds of attacks on Social Security just go to show what we already know: Republican politicians never liked Social Security and they still want to take it away.
Here's how Social Security really works: hardworking Americans pay into Social Security their whole working lives. It's a promise each generation makes to the next, and we shouldn't let any politician break it.

Social Security isn't the problem - reckless Republican political ideology is. Even if we do nothing at all, Social Security's finances will still be on solid ground for decades to come.
They want to cut the benefits we've all earned just to pay for more tax giveaways to millionaires and big corporations.
That makes no sense: less retirement benefits mean less money in our pockets and fewer customers for our businesses -- and this means less economic growth and fewer jobs everywhere.

After the Wall Street meltdown, Republican politicians still want Wall Street gambling with our entire retirement security.
We've seen what happens when Wall Street is in charge - they profit, we lose.
They'd make billions of dollars off managing private accounts - money that would come directly from the benefits we've paid for.

The truth is Americans can already count on Social Security for decades to come -- unless we let Washington Republicans take it away from us.
Thirty years ago, our leaders planned ahead for the Baby Boomers' retirement. That's why today Social Security already has $2.7 trillion saved up in the safest investments in the world. Now there's a massive trust fund waiting to take care of the retiring Boomers -- just like we planned.
These kinds of attacks on Social Security just show what we already know -- Republican politicians never liked Social Security and they still want to take it away.

Actually, Social Security doesn't add a penny to the deficit. Taking away benefits working Americans already paid for and spend in our stores just pulls money out of our economy.
Social Security isn't the problem -- political ideology is. Republican politicians want to gut the retirement benefits we've earned to pay for more deficit-busting tax handouts to millionaires and big corporations.
We need to get our economy going again, so let's keep Social Security benefits that put money in Americans' pockets and customers in our stores - and take away deficit-busting tax giveaways that millionaires don't spend anyway.

Let's be clear about the Republican politicians saying this -- they never liked Social Security and they still want to take it away.
The truth is Washington Republicans are looking for any excuse to protect millionaires from paying a penny more in taxes -- that's because millionaires and the rest of the richest 1% bankroll their campaigns.

Actually, just like the military, Medicare cannot run out of money. Medicare's trust fund is in better financial shape today than for most of its history thanks to the new health care law.
The real threat to Medicare is Republican politicians who keep trying to take it away.
If they really want to protect Medicare, guess what: the health care law they oppose and want to repeal is already doing it. That's what preserving Medicare looks like.

Old scare tactics won't fool anyone. The Affordable Care Act creates a consumer watchdog team to help Medicare provide better care at lower costs and to make sure older Americans and taxpayers aren't getting ripped off.
This team of consumers and doctors know what care should cost and will make sure we don't overpay, getting rid of waste and abuse in the system. That will help us finally contain health costs without cutting access to needed care.
Independent boards are nothing new. The Independent Payment Advisory Board will make recommendations based on what's best for patients, not politics or whose lobbyists spend the most money in Washington.
Republican leaders actually admit that private insurers are the ones that "ration care for profit," but they're trying to put their campaign donors back in charge anyway. The IPAB by law cannot ration care, increase taxes, or make changes to Medicare benefits.

Republicans would have to finally admit that they've been planning to kill Medicare to make this false claim about Obamacare true.
Nothing’s changed: Obamacare lowers the deficit -- take it from the experts required by law to be nonpartisan, independent, and objective. It's simple math: there's less money going out than the money flowing in. That's what deficit reduction looks like.
In contrast, this report was bought and paid for by corporate special interests so the GOP politicians they fund can use it in their hundreds of millions of dollars of negative attack ads against Obama.
Republican politicians have some nerve talking about the deficit when they fought for the massive tax giveaways that exploded the deficit and left us the mess we're still dealing with today.

Actually, Obamacare enables Medicare to use its funding more efficiently, which extends the life of the Medicare trust fund. And because Medicare is part of the overall budget, those savings lower the budget deficit -- without double counting anything.
That’s no different than when a baseball player hits a home run: it adds to his team’s score and also improves his batting average. Neither situation involves double counting.
Obamacare saves us money. The new GOP study claiming Obamacare adds to the debt is true only if Congress breaks America’s promise and slashes Medicare, so all the costs of keeping our promise can be added to Obamacare.

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