Democrats will try to make political hay over the shrink-the-government budget proposals that Ryan, a congressman from Wisconsin, has rolled out in the House, starting with his plan to "save" Medicare by essentially creating a voucher program that would inevitably cause seniors to pay for more of their own health care.
I'm telling you this so that everyone is very clear: if you want to save Social Security from serious benefit cuts that will cause seniors to go hungry and have their utilities shut off, you have to act.
With a number of celebrities and business leaders rallying online to the liberal cause, senior propaganda officials in Beijing began this week to roll out a national strategy of demonizing the rebel journalists and their supporters.
Only recently did the authorities in Sydney discover that terrorists had considered an attack on the 2000 Games, but had abandoned the project, not because they thought security was too tight but because the group's leaders thought it would hurt their cause, senior Australian officials said recently.
How do distractions cause senior moments?
"We don't want to hear more lip service," Common Cause senior policy counsel Stephen Spaulding said.
In June 2012, seeming to acknowledge the uproar that a potentially massive series of job downgrades would cause, senior VA officials in Washington took an unprecedented step: Rather than beginning the broader review immediately as mandated, the the department ordered a "temporary" halt to any reclassification that would lower salary grades.
So, while the donut hole was designed to save Medicare money, it has had the unintended consequence of causing seniors a lot of anxiety, loss of substantial income, and potentially making their diseases worse by forcing them to choose among food, rent and the drugs they need to stay healthy.
Fear of litigation "is causing senior management at corporate America to think very carefully and read much more closely the relevant provisions of merger agreements," he said.
This explains Osborne's decision to draft in the Australian election campaign guru Lynton Crosby to ensure there is disciplined election campaign in 2015, unlike the mess of 2010, which still causes senior Tories to break out in cold sweats.
But David Cameron is perhaps the best example, after a conversation about Margaret Thatcher escalated to the point where Ross asked: "Did you or did you not ever have a wank thinking of Thatcher?" It caused senior Tories to call for Ross's head, and tracking down a clip online is almost impossible.
