CANDIDATE HUGHES VOICES HER OPINION...(Speaks Out About 2012 Republican Budget Blueprint)

Press Release Written by Tiffanie Thompson-Thomas

The 2012 Cut Spending Bill, introduced by Congressman Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin, proposed to fundamentally overhaul Medicare, which will eliminate social welfare reform programs for the poor. This will allow steep drops in taxes for the rich meaning the poor will again be negatively affected, and senior citizens will see drastic cuts in Medicare/Medicaid. Viola Hughes thinks that “this budget targets programs to hurt those less fortunate while at the same time sustains the wealthiest among us!” Donald Trump has even called this bill “catastrophic and disastrous”. The Bill passed 235-193 even with every Democratic voting “NO!”

Candidate Hughes states, “Again we can depend on LoBiondo to vote for such a bill. We, in the 2^nd Congressional District, can no longer afford to have Frank LoBiondo represent us in Congress.” Hughes is not the only one speaking out; Democratic Nancy Pelosi states “The Republicans’ Proposal breaks the promise that our country made to its seniors – that after a lifetime of work they will be able to depend on Medicare to protect them in retirement….The Republicans’ plan forces seniors to buy their health insurance from companies where the senior will be forced to pay twice as much for half the benefits. “

Viola Hughes says she is in possession of a video of Congressman Frank LoBiondo promising the good senior citizens of Cape May, NJ at a town meeting that he would “Not” vote on the then Pres. Bush’s Medicare Bill that would have directly negatively affected them. When LoBiondo voted in Washington he didn’t keep his word again and voted “Yes” for the Medicare Bill. Candidate Hughes starts to reflect saying, “This Cut Spending Bill is consequently no different from the former Pres. Bush’s Medicare Bill, when it comes to taking funds that belong to our senior citizens. We must remember that they are who literally paved the way for us to be where we are today. I don’t believe that we should throw them to the wayside just to cut some of the deficit when the richest among can and are willing to pay more.”