"But after all they did for us, isn't that the least we can do?"
This is the phrase that caught my attention in the you tube viedo for Mitt Romney and medicare. This enthymeme assumes that the audience will feel guilty if they were to vote for obama who would make medicare bankrupt. It instills a sense of moral responsibility in the audience. The premesis assumes they WANT to help their parents. Could this phrase be a maxim too?
We also see the counter part of the enthymeme, the paradigm. How the speakers mother is 81 and depends on medicare for her health, this presents the argument of how the current medicare under obama will not suffice.
"It's not politics, its math." creates an argument from example and presents the hard facts to presuade people.
I found it interesting how he casts blame on the people who "want to leave medicare as it is" because anyone who wants to do that is also fine letting it go bankrupt.
What I'm a little confused by is why the the current younger crowd has to accept that medicare will be different thent their parents. Why can't it be the same?
There is no much more in the video, ive missed or over looked. And quite possibly that ive applied these concepts to all the wrong places in the video.
"It's not politics, its math" It isn't just math, this is a fact. We already talked in class about the differences between the truth and what is factual, but politics have turned this into a battle of what is right and wrong. The issue is that we have the facts on the issues of Medicare, but no one is certain on what will happen in the future. The "truth" is that no one knows how one presidential action will effect the issue no matter what political party they stand with. Interesting video on an interesting issue.
ReplyDeleteWhat I hear is that Medicare will suck when the speaker's generation is old enough to make use of it but at least we don't have to let out parents die. After all it is not them who screwed it up.
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