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From AARP to the Presidential Candidates:
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Q: What will be your top domestic issue priorities if elected? How
will you break the gridlock to get things done on these issues?
AARP's Position: I commit to help end gridlock by working across
party lines to develop and support common-sense, bipartisan
solutions on health care and financial Security.
Barack Obama's Position: I commit to help end gridlock by working
across party lines to develop and support common-sense, bipartisan
solutions on health care and financial Security.
John McCain's Position: John refused to sign onto this position. He
has his own of course.
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Q: Will you support or oppose a balanced Social Security plan to
continue the program's guaranteed benefits for future generations?
Will
you support or oppose diverting Social Security payroll taxes to fund
individual retirement accounts?
AARP's Position: Supports a balanced Social Security Plan to ensure
guaranteed benefits.
Barack Obama's Position: Supports a balanced Social Security Plan to
ensure guaranteed benefits.
John McCain's Position: John Refused to sign onto this position. He
has his own of course.
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Q: What options do you support to make saving for retirement easier
for American Families? DO you support or oppose guaranteeing employees
access to automatic payroll deductions in the workplace to fund an
IRA? Do you support or oppose creating retirement accounts in
addition to
Social Security.
AARP's Position: Supports providing automatic payroll deduction for
employee IRAs
Barack Obama's Position: Supports providing automatic payroll
deduction for employee IRAs
John McCain's Position: John refused to sign onto this position.
Again, he has his own.
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Q: What politicies would you support to make health care and health
insurance more affordable and accessable for everyone? What
politicies
would you support to make Medicare more affordable?
AARP's Position: Provide subsidies, incentives/Insurance reform to
make insurance more affordable.
Barack Obama's Position: Provide subsidies, incentives/Insurance
reform to make insurance more affordable.
John McCain's Position: John refused to sign onto this position.
Again, he has his own.
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Q: How would you shift long-term care services and financing so that
people can afford to stay in their homes and communities as long as
appropropriate?
AARP's Position: Increasing consumer choice and control for people
needing long term care.
Barack Obama's Position: Increasing consumer choice and control for
people needing long term care.
John McCain's Position: John refused to sign onto this position.
Again he has his own.
The above is from the AARP - September&October, 2008.
www.aarpmagazine.org
We are fools if we believe we can elect John McCain and control what
he does. The last 8 years of George Bush should be enough to teach us
that they are going to do what they want, not what the people want.
McCain will be worse than Bush, not the same, not better. His ideas
and plans have nothing to do with us, they protect the wealthiest of
society. I don't know about you but I'm tired of protecting the rich.
They don't need my help and are not going to get it. My vote goes to
the ones who at least state they understand the problem and have a
solution to it, not a method of making it go away.
**********
Q: What will be your top domestic issue priorities if elected? How
will you break the gridlock to get things done on these issues?
AARP's Position: I commit to help end gridlock by working across
party lines to develop and support common-sense, bipartisan
solutions on health care and financial Security.
Barack Obama's Position: I commit to help end gridlock by working
across party lines to develop and support common-sense, bipartisan
solutions on health care and financial Security.
John McCain's Position: John refused to sign onto this position. He
has his own of course.
**********
Q: Will you support or oppose a balanced Social Security plan to
continue the program's guaranteed benefits for future generations?
Will
you support or oppose diverting Social Security payroll taxes to fund
individual retirement accounts?
AARP's Position: Supports a balanced Social Security Plan to ensure
guaranteed benefits.
Barack Obama's Position: Supports a balanced Social Security Plan to
ensure guaranteed benefits.
John McCain's Position: John Refused to sign onto this position. He
has his own of course.
**********
Q: What options do you support to make saving for retirement easier
for American Families? DO you support or oppose guaranteeing employees
access to automatic payroll deductions in the workplace to fund an
IRA? Do you support or oppose creating retirement accounts in
addition to
Social Security.
AARP's Position: Supports providing automatic payroll deduction for
employee IRAs
Barack Obama's Position: Supports providing automatic payroll
deduction for employee IRAs
John McCain's Position: John refused to sign onto this position.
Again, he has his own.
***********
Q: What politicies would you support to make health care and health
insurance more affordable and accessable for everyone? What
politicies
would you support to make Medicare more affordable?
AARP's Position: Provide subsidies, incentives/Insurance reform to
make insurance more affordable.
Barack Obama's Position: Provide subsidies, incentives/Insurance
reform to make insurance more affordable.
John McCain's Position: John refused to sign onto this position.
Again, he has his own.
***********
Q: How would you shift long-term care services and financing so that
people can afford to stay in their homes and communities as long as
appropropriate?
AARP's Position: Increasing consumer choice and control for people
needing long term care.
Barack Obama's Position: Increasing consumer choice and control for
people needing long term care.
John McCain's Position: John refused to sign onto this position.
Again he has his own.
The above is from the AARP - September&October, 2008.
www.aarpmagazine.org
We are fools if we believe we can elect John McCain and control what
he does. The last 8 years of George Bush should be enough to teach us
that they are going to do what they want, not what the people want.
McCain will be worse than Bush, not the same, not better. His ideas
and plans have nothing to do with us, they protect the wealthiest of
society. I don't know about you but I'm tired of protecting the rich.
They don't need my help and are not going to get it. My vote goes to
the ones who at least state they understand the problem and have a
solution to it, not a method of making it go away.