{"id":24323,"date":"2011-12-07T16:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T23:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/certainty-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html"},"modified":"2011-12-07T23:26:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T06:26:24","slug":"certainty-for-me-but-not-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/certainty-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html","title":{"rendered":"Certainty for Me But Not for Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP regularly lambastes the Dems in general and the Federal Government in particular for not giving businesses &quot;certainty&quot; in legal and tax and regulatory area. <\/p>\n<p>Yet Mitt Romney seems to have no concerns about &quot;certainty&quot; for poor elderly and their medical care.  Not only does he want to replace Medicare with a voucher system, not only does he want the vouchers to grow less medical inflation, but he wants Congress to vote exactly what that amount will be each and every year.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently &quot;certainty&quot; is only for CEOs. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F11%2Fromney-x-large1.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2011\/12\/07\/384243\/romney-congress-should-vote-on-seniors-health-care-every-year\/'>Romney: Medicare May Not Be Guaranteed Every Year, If I\u2019m President<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMitt Romney clarified his plan to partially privatize the Medicare program during an interview with the Washington Examiner\u2019s editorial board Wednesday morning, suggesting that he would allow Congress&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP regularly lambastes the Dems in general and the Federal Government in particular for not giving businesses &quot;certainty&quot; in legal and tax and regulatory area. Yet Mitt Romney seems to have no concerns about &quot;certainty&quot; for poor elderly and their medical care. Not only does he want to replace Medicare with a voucher system, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/certainty-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Certainty for Me But Not for Thee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27424,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/lets-enhance.html","url_meta":{"origin":24323,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Let&#39;s enhance &#8230;&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Apr-12 9:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"While forensic evidence tends to be much more reliable than eyewitness testimony (really), it's still subject to an array of variables, both human (who measured things and how, who interpreted the results and with what expectations) and non- (actual technical limitations of equipment and the tests themselves). 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Anyway, if you've ever wanted to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":22166,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/14\/unblogged-bits-sun-14-aug-11-1730.html","url_meta":{"origin":24323,"position":5},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 14-Aug-11 1730)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 14-Aug-11 5:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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