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Health & Fitness

Save Medicare for Seniors and Put Education and the Economy First

Save Medicare for seniors; Put education and the economy first—rather than a failed and progressive policy agenda catered exclusively to the special interests.

It is baffling and telling that State Sen. Jamie Eldridge is scheduled to again travel outside his Middlesex and Worcester district (Wednesday p.m., March 14) to try and sell his Medicare-4-All Plan, (modeled after Canada or VT), when policy makers should be doing everything they can to save the near bankrupt Medicare for seniors.

The Eldridge Bill in the MA State Senate (S Bill 509) contains FIVE new state taxes on income, capital gains, payroll, employees and employers. It will cause private sector layoffs, drive Mass. doctors from medicine, and reduce the quality of care throughout our state.

ITEM: Local Aid is down, property taxes are up and home values are falling. Road, bridge and MBTA jobs take 7-10+ years to build. Chapter 70 school aid relative to MetroWest vs. the big cities is still not equitable.

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Yet, greater Marlborough's State Senator this spring has focused almost exclusively on repeating the Evergreen Solar mistake for new job creation, a non-binding resolution re: a U.S Supreme Court Decision, changing the Electoral College to a popular vote, and a single payer health care bill that is so radical and unworkable it would never pass the Legislature.

It is time to put education and the economy first, rather than a failed and progressive policy agenda catered exclusively to the Special Interests. Let's speed up road, bridge and MBTA projects, create new jobs by supporting all small businesses and improve public education by once and for all eliminating unfunded state mandates that cost-shift expensive bills on to local taxpayers.

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Dean Cavaretta

2012 Candidate for State Senate

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