Why do they say Republicans are for the rich? Bush, Republicans, Rich, Taxes

"You have a good job and I suppose with good benefits, right? Still you have to scrimp and save to just get by." You're absolutely right, many Americans do have that plight. But now think of those whose jobs aren't quite so good, but too "good" to be eligible for any help, and who get no health benefits. How hard do you suppose it is for them to get by? Those are the people the Republicans either don't care about or deny they even exist. As for Medicare fraud and the original poster saying people get it who shouldn't, I'm curious about that because that's the only health care coverage many senior citizens have. It couldn't be any simpler who "should" get it or should not - if you're over 65, you get it. My mother-in-law had NO coverage at all and went through some serious health problems because of it before she turned 65 and could get Medicare. Annie

Annie, people like rodney won't have it any better when that money that they earn to scrimp by is taken away by health insurance companies who don't care about us and will find any excuse to deny covering people. Hillary, and to some extent Obama, both want to force us to buy insurance, even if we are just scraping by. That gives insurance companies the green light to screw us because they'll know we have no choice but to keep lining their pockets.

Evidently annepa and taskr36 you do not grasp what I'm trying to tell you. The programs these two (Clinton and Obama)propose will literally bankrupt this country! Forget what Hillary wants to do anywhere else but health care. If she gets elected and gets her health care package through congress, our legislators in Washington will not be able to pass spending packages fast enough to keep it afloat. The people who can't afford health care right now at the present high prices are the people with the 7-9 dollar per hour jobs with no bennies. Even if you make this a 10 dollar a month package these people are not going to be able to afford it much less the deductables or co-pays. The only way to attack the health care problem in America is on the supply side of the problem. The hospitals and health care providers are the ones who have priced insurance out of sight. Have you seen an itemized statement of a hospital stay lately? 10 bucks for a tylenol? 100 dollars for an antibiotic shot? Granted, these prices have been caused by people without insurance and the inability to pay but should the insurance companies be the ones to take the hit? No, but they do and then they have to raise prices and this causes another segment of the population to opt out of their insurance because of it not being affordable anymore. My greatest problem with these two is they are lying to everyone and getting away with it. Now I'm not naive, I know they all lie republicans, democrats, independents. But these two, what they are promising is just not within the realm of possibility and yet people are swallowing it hook, line and sinker! I mean look what they are saying about our troops and Iraq. Both of them are telling the country that one of the first things they will do when elected is bring our boys home. I don't know how old either of you are but you have to remember the democrat battle cry of the 2006 mid-term elections don't you? It went something like this---Give the democrats a majority in congress and we will bring our troops home! 2 years later, they're still promising!

What do you base this on? I am just curious; and would like some specific examples as to what makes you believe that Republicans are for the rich...

Republicans want to let you make your own choices, unless of course it comes to your own body, you own personal life and your right to die with dignity, then they feel they can choose for you based on someone's religious beliefs that may or may not match your own. They believe there should be no fuel standards for vehicles, the oil companies can gouge the consumer as much as they want to and anyone who wants a big gas guzzler and can afford it should have one and future generations can worry about our energy supply and our environment. Republicans believe the market can decide everything, big corporations can charge whatever they choose and screw their employees all the want to at the same time. They believe anyone who can't afford health care has no business being alive anyway. They'll tell you that anyone who believes we all have some responsibility to each other is a socialist. Annie

I have also heard Democrats compared to Socialists...I don't know if this is true or not either. I cannot find any candidate that I trust or want to vote for in the current arena. I believe in some of the things Democrats believe in and some that republicans believe in. However, it seems to me that the Democrats seek to get the minority vote through alot of misconceptions and false promises. It seems there answer to everything is the government will give you and handout or solve the problem for you. But where is all this money coming from? The taxpayers pockets! Hello!

Don't forget that the Democratics answer to any problem is more government and higher taxes. Democratics are the ones that introduced the Alternative Minimum Tax which was to be a tax on the very wealthy that soon will cover most American taxpayers. It was a democratic who proposed a $.45 per gallon tax on gas to pay for transportation and to get the american consumer to cut down on gas usage. On Health Care the President proposed that people be able to buy the amount and type of insurance they wanted. Family health insurance in Iowa is about $500 a month less than in Minnesota. Why is this? Minnesota has more (60+) specific medical treatment that must be covered by all insurance policies. One example is why should a single man pay for Birth Control? Why should a female pay for Hair Transplants for men? Such costs were required by the state and everyone has to pay by everyone. What we need to do is cut taxes and let the people decide how to spend their money.

I agree, but there is a second verse to that. When the democrats try their best to penalize the rich they only end up hurting the people they have said they wanted to help. Example: Lets say big government wants to cut into big bad Wal Marts profits because they just simply make so much money it is obscene! So they add an big business tax to the tax code and it only affects businesses that make in excecess of XXXXXXXXXXXXX amount of profits in a year. Does it really only affect those select few? No Way! If a business like Wal Mart loses 5 or 10 percent of their profit to taxes where do you think they make it up? You guessed it, the consumer! So tell me, who is it that will pay the higher taxes, Wal Mart or the consumer? Just food for thought.