From Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO:
In light of Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan to serve as his running mate, the Iowa AFL-CIO is highlighting the policies that Paul Ryan has proposed and Mitt Romney supports to make the top 1% richer at the expense of working families. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Romney-Ryan budget would end Medicare and slash crucial funds that support Iowa’s schools, teachers, roads, bridges, clean water facilities and community and mental health services. See link: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3816 ) Between 2013 and 2014, the Romney-Ryan budget will slash millions from Iowa over the next eight years, A projected loss of 2.1 Billion – all of which means cuts to vital services including early childhood education (Head Start) , law enforcement, infrastructure-building and maintenance, housing, workforce training and placement, health services as well as disaster response.
“With his choice for Vice President, Mitt Romney has shown how out of touch he really is. Paul Ryan wants to end Medicare even as his policy proposals make the rich even richer,” said Ken Sagar, President of the Iowa Federation of Labor. “There are over a half million Iowans receiving Medicare. We shouldn’t even consider the possibility of destroying Medicare, cutting Social Security or cutting funding for job training. Crippling education and allowing more offshoring to give tax cuts to the wealthiest is the last thing we need. The Romney-Ryan budget represents an extreme economic vision for an economy that works for a few, rather than an economy that lifts everyone up. This budget would have a devastating effect on Iowa.”
Medicare has already been destroyed by President Obama. He took 700 Billion dollars away from Seniors who paid into it. Won’t be long our benefits will be cut.
What is wrong with you knuckle-heads.
Ryan is trying to save our Medicare. You union boys have it most awfully wrong on this one.
Surprise, surprise all this from a bunch of crooks and thugs. What else do you expect from them. Again, I am not a republican but can not vote for anyone who lies as much as the democrats. They need to get rid of the far left and go back to the blue dogs then I will think about voting for them again. There is a lot of the democrats programs I really like but it is mixed in with the communists crap.
Hey matt these articles are funny and all but how about a few articles that tear down obama instead of romney. The way it looks is you are democrat and only show their articles. Maybe I missed them.
No way! Matt is as impartial as he can be. He runs plenty of articles on Romney, and now Paul Ryan too. In fact, I’ve always thought he leaned toward the right.
Then must have missed them.
Wow, who would have ever guessed that a union group would be against anything Republican?