Rep. Shelley Berkley‘s got a new radio ad going up in Reno, a catchy tune about U.S. Sen. Dean Heller‘s most unique claim: that he proudly voted twice for the Rep. Paul Ryan budget. (Heller voted for the plan as a congressman, then again after being appointed to the U.S. Senate.) But the verbiage of the ad will be sure to resurrect claims that Berkley is repeating what PolitiFact called “the lie of the year,” i.e. ending (or, in this case, killing) Medicare.
Here’s the ad:
But the Ryan budget doesn’t end Medicare, kill Medicare, defeat Medicare or abolish Medicare. For seniors 55 years and older, the program is unchanged. For younger workers, it is transformed into a voucher-style system, which can accurately be described as ending Medicare as the program currently exists. That’s why PolitiFact has admonished Democrats from Vice President Joe Biden on down for using that verbiage.
In support of that claim, Berkley’s campaign points to an editorial in the Las Vegas Sun that quotes former House Speaker Newt Gingrich calling the Ryan budget “right-wing social engineering” but nonetheless accurately describes how the Ryan budget would treat Medicare. Although the Sun says the budget would “gut” Medicare, it never says the program would be ended under the Ryan budget.
Ironically enough, in the backup material for the ad, Berkley correctly cites materials that say the Ryan budget would “essentially” end Medicare, or “end Medicare as we know it,” words that PolitiFact described as more accurate when addressing the effects on the program. But those qualifiers never make it into the actual ad (perhaps they were too hard to make rhyme?). That will allow the Heller campaign to more easily dismiss this ad as untrue.
All the Heller Campaign has to do is use the Politifact award coupled with the ethics investigation to call Berkely truth challenged. Just how are we to believe a confirmed liar?
This dodges the fact that it does, in fact, end Medicare as we know it. You might question why the exclusion, “For seniors 55 years and older.” Why would they leave those poor folks out in the cold and not add them to the ‘better’ plan? Unless, of course, they left them in the better plan so they’d vote for Republicans. Don’t kid a kidder; they want to destroy Medicare and have you pay more.
Jerry, or Lamont or whoever. The idea is to phase it out. To not drop those who have made payments into the existing plan and the lie of the year was wholly deserved by those libby’s making the claims about throwing grandma off the cliff. Your spin falls flat.
My “Spin” is right on. There is no question the Republicans are after cutting up Social Security and Medicare. Are you going to maintain it’s for the better? Really? Talk about spin….
“The Shadow knows”
You are truly “good for a chuckle” (thx Sherm!) You should actually read the Politifact article on this which apparently you either did not or refuse to accept. It will be a better system once both parties take a serious look at it. And they will be forced to relatively soon.
Today’s polarized environment negates any actual negotiation. Like your posts show its always your way or the highway.
But the cliff is approaching and all of us are being pushed fast by your peeps. At about 35 cents over the limit on each dollar.
Welcome to Facebook! Jerry or Lamont or The Shadow or whatever….
Actually I had been of Facebook. But when they declared that all my material and photographs had become their property and belonged to them, I quit Facebook. I had hoped to sell some of my photos to National Geographic. Even when I quit, they stated they would keep everything, ‘on hold’ in case I came back.
The Shadow
You’ve made statements to that effect before. So I took the time to read their policies much closer than I did before. All is as I thought all along. In no way do they claim ownership of that material. If you do an archive backup of the account all of the data is downloaded to you. All the images uploaded to their server are downsized even if they are uploaded in high quality mode. This means the original files remain in your possession and the meta data proves it. If you delete your account, as opposed to closing it, all the data is removed from their server. All data posted to Facebook belongs to the account holder.
You call conservatives paranoid and dumb. Geez all you had to do was read.
“So I took the time to read their policies much closer than I did before. All is as I thought all along. In no way do they claim ownership of that material.”
Not now, but they did then. That was the point.
“This means the original files remain in your possession and the meta data proves it.”
Now, but they didn’t then.
“All data posted to Facebook belongs to the account holder.”
Now, but they didn’t then.
“You call conservatives paranoid and dumb.”
Now and then.
“Geez all you had to do was read.”
I did. All you had to do was read what I stated. It remains fact. It was complaints like mine the forced them to change.
It’s nice you actually think you’re some kind of savior of all facebook account holders, but that rumor has always been incorrect. IP has always belonged to the account holders.
You can rest assured your photos belong to you and always have, Lamonte.
And you’re obviously misinformed. It was not rumor; it remains documented fact from 2009. Try doing a search under, “facebook intellectual property rights.” It was as I said.
“The biggest danger to our country is an uninformed electorate”
– Jerry Sturdivant (The Shadow)
Of course, yes, it is just as you think you believe it was, we will just let it go. And assuage your beliefs.
You have to let it go; your (and others’) search proved me right. Far be it for us to expect an apology.
Sure, you just keep on believing that. The rest of us will be over here,,,, wayyy out of your way.
So you searched and found it. You’re going to have to learn to lose more gracefully, Steve.
I searched and found….you guessed it,,,,rumors and innuendo. You are so full of yourself you actually want others to believe you have large influence over billionaires and large privately held (at the time) corporations. You have a god complex Jerry.