When I first came to live in Minnesota in 1989, Minnesota was a state that was a magnet for jobs and growth. A state where people wanted to live. Sure we had a reputation as a high tax state, but we also had a reputation as a state with great public services, job growth and public education.
Of course all of that has been going down the toilet since we elected Tim Pawlenty. T-Paw has made it his goal to make Minnesota into a cold Mississippi so that he can tell his right-wing overlords that he never raised income taxes. (Property taxes have grown exponentially, but Tim says that is not his fault).
My hope is that the people living in the other 49 states will not ever have to live with the "leadership" of T-Paw, so I have to make sure that Timmy's recent comment on programs held dear by the elderly is recorded somewhere so that any GOP or Dem. opponent can use it.
Let's mark the day -- August 14, 2009 -- Tim Pawlenty goes negative on Social Security and Medicare.
http://www.startribune.com/...
In Chicago on Friday night before party activists from around the nation, he slammed large government-run programs in an implicit criticism of Democratic proposals to overhaul health care.
"The entitlement programs that the federal government currently runs are all broke and headed to bankruptcy," he told more than 100 people, many of them local officeholders. "Medicare is bankrupt or essentially bankrupt. Medicaid is essentially bankrupt. Social Security is essentially bankrupt."
"Why in the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to match on that track record?" he said, drawing hearty applause.
So T-Paw wants believes that Social Security and Medicare are failed or failing government programs? So his answer is.....to end them? To privatize them? Come on, Timmy, I want to hear your response. I know that you will cut education and social services if it involves millionaires paying $1 more in taxes, so if Social Security and Medicare are bad government programs that are going bankrupt, what would you as President (shiver up my spine) do about that? I would like to know. You draw "hearty applause" by going negative on Social Security and Medicare, that must mean your supporters want to end them, right?
I really cannot stand Mitt Romney, but I may find a way to make sure he receives this article for his opposition research folder as well. Palin is a complete idiot, but even she may be no worse than T-Paw.