Where have they been?

For years, Congressman Ryan and President Bush have been sounding the alarm on Social Security and Medicare reform. Some people are just now catching on.

Their central point is indisputable: Congress and the president should act now, because the do-nothing option makes the coming temblor even worse.

Unfortunately, President Bush, most of Congress and the presidential candidates, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, are ignoring the warning signs. One exception is Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who recently proposed a series of measures to control entitlement spending. While we don’t buy them all, we give Ryan credit for trying to jump-start the conversation.

Anytime Bush has even spoken about Social Security, the liberal heads begin spewing garbage.

Now we have a problem.

I would like to welcome the Milwaukee Journal Editorial Board to the conversation.

Since the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel finally believes that all options are on the table, perhaps it is time to privatize a portion of Social Security.

Call me silly, but why should Americans trust the very people that broke the system to be the ones to fix it?

By the way, these are the very same folks that broke Medicare and now they want us to trust them with all of America's health care needs. What? Ruining the healthcare needs of senior citizens was not enough, now they want to ruin it for everyone else also?

Democrats cannot handle what they have...

...and they think they are qualified to take over my health care needs?

Medicare is scheduled to cut payments to doctors. Something that has been known for years and yet, the Democrats in control of Congress could not be bothered to get their business handled before skipping town. After all, this was cutting into Nancy Pelosi's and Harry Reid's vacation time.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration said Monday it is freezing a scheduled 10 percent fee cut for doctors who treat Medicare patients, giving Congress time to act to prevent the cuts when lawmakers return from a July 4 recess.

Physicians have been running ads hinting that as a result of the cuts, patients may find doctors less willing to treat them. The administration's delay in implementing the cuts spares lawmakers from having to use the recess to explain to seniors why they didn't do the job before leaving town.

Kevin Schweers, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said Monday the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will hold doctors' Medicare claims for services delivered on or after July 1. Claims for services received on before June 30 will be processed as usual, he said.

Congress, not willing to face millions of angry seniors at the polls in November, will almost certainly act quickly when it returns to Washington the week of July 7 to prevent the cuts in payments for some 600,000 doctors who treat Medicare patients. The cuts were scheduled because of a formula that requires fee cuts when spending exceeds established goals.

Of course, President Bush bailed them out.

Notice that last line in the above quote?

These same Democrats that cannot control excessive spending in Medicare actually believe they should have control of everyone's health care.

Can you believe that?

Imagine letting the incompetent Democrats that currently control our governor's office, our state senate, our US House of Representatives, and our US Senate, actually control your lives.

They cannot even handle a small portion of the US medical requirements and we are supposed to place our lives into their hands.