Liberty Alerts, Nicholas Ballasy, CNSNews.com
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sent a message to House Republicans about their proposed 2012 budget that would reform entitlement spending, stating on Friday: “Hands off our Medicare.”
At a press conference with Democratic leaders outside the U.S. Capitol building, Pelosi said, “This budget, we’ve always said we will judge every initiative that comes before us as to whether it creates jobs, as it reduces the deficit, strengthens the middle class and continues the economic growth of our economy. This budget does none of the above as it ends Medicare. Hands off our Medicare! Hands off our Medicare!”
When the health care bill was being considered by Congress in 2009, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledged to squeeze waste out of Medicare to pay for the legislation.
“At least half the bill, no, half the bill will be paid for by squeezing excesses out of the system, and there is $500 billion to do that, and we’re looking for more that can be achieved,” she told CNSNews.com on Sept. 10, 2009 during a press conference.
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