Gov. Barbour: Forget Obamacare, Get Medicare Healthy

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/20/Uncommon_Knowledge_Politics_with_Haley_Barbour

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour crusades against Obama's treatment of entitlements, such as cutting $500 billion from Medicare and allocating it to universal healthcare. He describes his own successes in cutting spending on such entitlements, citing that Mississippi has the lowest Medicaid eligibility error rate in the U.S.

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In 2003 Haley Barbour was elected governor of Mississippi, becoming only the second Republican governor since Reconstruction. In 2007 he won reelection to a second and final term. Since June of last year, Governor Barbour has served as chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

Will the GOP recapture the House once again this year? The Senate? How many of the 37 gubernatorial races will the GOP win?

Haley Barbour offers his political insights on the November elections. He further describes why he believes that Barack Obama represents "the biggest lurch to the left in American political history," and responds to where he'd like to see the Republican Party stand on issues ranging from Obama Care and immigration to the Ground Zero mosque. Finally, he analyzes his own prospects as a presidential candidate in 2012 and the chances that he will run. - Hoover Institution

Haley Barbour was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi. He earned a law degree from the University of Mississippi Law School in 1973. He advised President Ronald Reagan as Director of the White House Office of Political Affairs, and served two terms as Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Prior to his election as governor, he headed Barbour Griffith and Rogers, one of the nation's top lobbying firms. In November 2003, Barbour was elected Mississippi's governor in the largest voter turnout in a gubernatorial election in state history.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

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[machogun]

inept asshole. fuck that guy. human beings will NEVER succeed in an egotistical society. we HAVE to help each other and cooperate if we are to do great things, and STOP being so fucking selfish and cold-hearted. If the school systems and all other forms of propagandistic indoctrination don't stop pushing egoism on our children, we will never escape these dangerous binds.

[Robfenix]

Barbour: 'You can't say 'We're going to cut spending, but not entitlements'"

Me: Bullshit. I propose halving the Pentagon budget. There. Done.

[mosiprop]

Fiscal responsibility is not coldhearted Some fools here seem to think everyone can have everything without doing anything, forever. What lazy, selfish, moronic jerks! It is compassionate to plan for the well-being for future generations to manage the programs responsibly. Taxing the children & the unborn is immoral. Profanity spewing idiots cannot change facts. So what if you can't retire 'til 70? Better that than destroying the future of this great republic..

[mosiprop]

Fiscal responsibility is not coldhearted, as some fools here think. It is compassionate to plan for the well-being for future generations to manage the programs responsibly.. Taxing the children & the unborn is immoral... nothing more nefarious than that.. profanity spewing idiots cannot change facts.

[MrMvt333]

you dumbass governor, no wonder mississippi continues to be the worst fucking state in america

[MrMvt333]

umm.... social security has been THE BEST retirement fund, simply because it is inflation adjusted... god what a moron, and Now he is cutting healthcare for teachers... i hate this man, what a fucking fool

[MrMvt333]

raise the social security age to 70!!!! are you kidding me... look the increase in age is not as big as you think, it is very marginal outside of the benefits of modern medicine in the forms of child birth and infant mortality... good god what a moron

[Redfingers]

All I'm saying is maybe, just MAYBE it's unethical to be selfish and ask for more money from the government. Maybe, just maybe, it's time to start thinking about our value to society as individuals.

And maybe education is a GOOD investment, whereas throwing money at old people's health problems is a BAD investment. I know you feel bad for old people, but what I need you to do is channel that empathy into poor people, college students, and children because they have POTENTIAL.

[Redfingers]

The point behind Medicaid is that it's a security net for people. Just because a poor person gets a health ailment, that doesn't mean he's going to be a useless slob and accumulate health defects for the rest of his life. For a geriatric, we might be talking about a few years of his life at the expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars of the public's money.

Do you really think we need to be paying for an old person's fucking Hoveround?

[Redfingers]

@dougdad2

I will step out and die that my children might prosper. I would step out and die that society might prosper.

If I become an unsustainable burden on society, I have no right to become indignant and start bitching for more money, but that is exactly what seniors have been doing through the AARP for decades upon decades.

Anybody ever heard of a goddamn retirement fund? How about social security? Health insurance? Pensions? The fuck do we need Medicare for?

[dougdad2]

@Redfingers what about your grandparents; parents???? You must be a young fool to not think about when you get to be a senior with ailments. You are very foolish and ignorant person wake up and smell the roses

[Redfingers]

@machogun

Oh really? Why's that? Because I care more about children and poor people and about the health of society than the ability of a bunch of self-entitled old people receiving government entitlements in addition to their own retirement funds to beg for even more money to handle their mounting and eventually unsupportable ailments?

Ignorant? Really? What grounds do you have to call me ignorant, anyway?

And narcissistic...first of all, I would die for a child. I wouldnt ask for entitlements