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Poll: Majority Opposes Cuts In Entitlement Benefits



A new Pew Research Poll shows that the American public continues to remain strongly supportive of entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, and opposed to any changes that would result in benefit cuts:

On the broad question of whether it is more important to reduce the budget deficit or to maintain current Medicare and Social Security benefits, the public decisively supports maintaining the status quo. Six-in-ten (60%) say it is more important to keep Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are; only about half as many (32%) say it is more important to take steps to reduce the budget deficit.

Half (50%) of Republicans say that maintaining benefits is more important than deficit reduction; about as many (42%) say it is more important to reduce the budget deficit. More independents prioritize maintaining benefits over reducing the deficit (by 53% to 38%). Democrats overwhelmingly view preserving current Social Security and Medicare benefits as more important (by 72% to 21%).

The public also opposes making Medicare recipients more responsible for their health care costs and allowing states to limit Medicaid eligibility. About six-in-ten (61%) say people on Medicare already pay enough of their own health care costs, while only 31% think recipients need to be responsible for more of the costs of their health care in order to make the system financially secure.

When it comes to Medicaid, just 37% want to allow states to cut back on who is eligible for Medicaid in order to deal with budget problems, while 58% say low-income people should not have their Medicaid benefits taken away.

More poll details at the link, but the take away point is clear — the public does not support anything that it perceives as a cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. GOP, the ball is in your court.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/pol...ment-benefits/

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Voters continue to overwhelmingly oppose cuts to Social Security and Medicare as a way to reduce the deficit. By a 50 point margin, they oppose including cuts to these programs as part of a potential Super Committee proposal (70 percent oppose, 20 percent support).

Opposition to these cuts remains strong across party lines as 82 percent of Democrats, 73 percent of Independents, and 58 percent of Republicans oppose including cuts to Social Security and Medicare in the proposal.

They would punish members of Congress and President Obama for supporting such cuts,
and reward each for opposing them...

http://www.ncpssm.org/Portals/4/pdf/poll.pdf

[Rohirrim]

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

Voters continue to overwhelmingly oppose cuts to Social Security and Medicare as a way to reduce the deficit. By a 50 point margin, they oppose including cuts to these programs as part of a potential Super Committee proposal (70 percent oppose, 20 percent support).

Opposition to these cuts remains strong across party lines as 82 percent of Democrats, 73 percent of Independents, and 58 percent of Republicans oppose including cuts to Social Security and Medicare in the proposal.

They would punish members of Congress and President Obama for supporting such cuts,
and reward each for opposing them...

http://www.ncpssm.org/Portals/4/pdf/poll.pdf

I guess the American people know a line of bull**** when they hear it.

NEW statistics show an ever-more-startling divergence between the fortunes of the wealthy and everybody else — and the desperate need to address this wrenching problem. Even in a country that sometimes seems inured to income inequality, these takeaways are truly stunning.
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In 2010, as the nation continued to recover from the recession, a dizzying 93 percent of the additional income created in the country that year, compared to 2009 — $288 billion — went to the top 1 percent of taxpayers, those with at least $352,000 in income. That delivered an average single-year pay increase of 11.6 percent to each of these households.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/op...cher.html?_r=0

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Originally Posted by Rohirrim

I guess the American people know a line of bull**** when they hear it.

NEW statistics show an ever-more-startling divergence between the fortunes of the wealthy and everybody else — and the desperate need to address this wrenching problem. Even in a country that sometimes seems inured to income inequality, these takeaways are truly stunning.
Multimedia

In 2010, as the nation continued to recover from the recession, a dizzying 93 percent of the additional income created in the country that year, compared to 2009 — $288 billion — went to the top 1 percent of taxpayers, those with at least $352,000 in income. That delivered an average single-year pay increase of 11.6 percent to each of these households.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/op...cher.html?_r=0

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You point these facts out to the dipsh*ts who vote republican, and they simply shrug and say "the super-rich deserve every penny because they're the 'job creators.'"

I think these right-wing chimps are beyond hope.

Anyone who honestly believes, when presented with multiple polls which assess opposition to cuts to SS, Medicaid, Medicare, etc., that these findings are simply an expression of a "political agenda" is hopelessly stuck in denial and delusion.