Wingnut pundits say: Okay to screw your kids
This morning's Milwaukee Journal sentinel offers up two conservative columnists -- one local, one syndicated -- who reassure current recipients and seniors over 55 that their Medicare benefits won't be affected if Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to turn the program into a private insurance system using vouchers is enacted.
Why? Well, because, according to columnists Jonah Goldberg and Patrick McIlheran, the voucher system would only affect prospective Medicare recipients now 55 years of age and younger. Those Americans would get vouchers to shop private health insurance plans, which as we all know are so very inexpensive and understandable. Right? Not right. Nor do the two columnists address the question of how private insurance plans -- which have hugely more overhead than current Medicare -- could possibly save anybody money without drastically cutting services.
Not to worry, say the two columnists shilling for Ryan. They argue older Americans wouldn't see anything
Kathy Nickolaus's greatest hits, Vol. 2
Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, she of the 7,500-vote miracle, also knows about operator error, somehow distinguished from human error:
A push of the wrong computer key resulted in all votes being counted twice in Tuesday's Assembly District 33 primary, but the mistake did not change the outcome of the race, Waukesha County