Boehner: Cut Social Security to Pay for War

[napi21]

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010062629/boehner-cut-social-security-pay-war

Boehner defended the big banks from reform, arguing that the finanical reform bill was like "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon." His comments came as Republican Senators Scott Brown and Susan Collins announced that they might oppose the financial reform bill because it levied fees on the big banks to pay for its cost.

"Ensuring there’s enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country’s entitlement system, Boehner said. He said he’d favor increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70 for people who have at least 20 years until retirement, tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than wage inflation and limiting payments to those who need them."


I HOPE ALL HIS SUPPORTERS HEAR ABUT THIS ONE!

[Blue Owl]

1. Go to hell, Boner

Go straight to fucking hell you piece of shit.

[Tansy_Gold]

3. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. STRAIGHT to hell. n/t

[indepat]

16. Go to hell, bonerhead, go straight to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200, but f*ck

off sideways and hind-part before often. :P

[Blue Owl]

20. Thanks for the embellishments!

You have all most successfully extended my sentiments.

[indepat]

31. I especially love to embellish whenever any Republican hypocrisy and

mendacity can be further exposed and trashed. :P

[MerryBlooms]

50. Excellent. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Filthy fu*ker should be dropped into a tar pit and erased from history.

[fascisthunter]

2. sociopath

[Tansy_Gold]

23. I've been arguing in favor of that analysis for several weeks now

And I've argued AGAINST deeming them psychopaths, a.k.a. having an organic condition that renders them incapable of understanding how evil they are.

This dipwad is making me start to reconsider. Maybe they ARE psychopaths after all.





TG, NTY

[BrklynLiberal]

49. Ithink that diagnosis is required to be in any sort of leadership position within the repukes.

They have to be the type of person that would lead the ignorant and the fearful over a cliff, watch them drown and then tell others that it was their own fault.

[fascisthunter]

53. Sociopaths are not the same as Psychopaths

but they do share many psychological characteristics.

[Tansy_Gold]

56. I know

That's why I said I've long argued that just about anyone who seeks a position of high authority and/or power does so from a sociopathic state of mind to begin with. In other words, you have to be someone immune to the wants/needs of others in order to step on them to reach the top. But I would not classify them as psychopaths.

Some of the comments being made recently, however, by the likes of Boehner and that twit in Nevada who thinks rapists are just doing God's work, well, maybe they really are psychopaths. I mean, yes, I'm being a little facetious, but only a little. Seeing rape as divinely inspired is, well, a bit too kinky.


TG, NTY

[fascisthunter]

57. ok... I see what you are saying

my apologies for misunderstand. I've researched a bit on the topic of Sociopathy and Psychopathy... I am convinced sociopaths are a huge part of our current problem. Our economic and governmental system has been rewarding these types and now they have tons of power.

[Swamp Rat]

4. To the Ugly Orange Pumpkinhead: End the Illegal Wars to pay for Social Security

[patrice]

17. Pumpkin-head Boehner!

[Blue Owl]

35. Wow, watch that drive!

LOL

[BrklynLiberal]

47. Of course...Boner is a bonehead..

[hootinholler]

55. Mon Dieu Swampie!

That captures him masterfully.

Speaking of pumpkin heads there was a group in PG county Md, that was taking back the streets from use as a drug market and they all wore orange hats. At rallies they would chant:
Hey Pusher!
Yes You!
Da pumpkin heads are watching you!

-Hoot

[HughBeaumont]

59. The Great Pumpkin LIVES!! The Great Pumpkin LIVES!!!

[lob1]

5. I love Boner's idea of raising the retirement age to 70,

when people half that age can't find a job. And it keeps us old farts from collecting s.s. for 5 more years. That's a huge hunk of change being robbed from us.

[BlueIdaho]

6. More excellent election winning ideas from the republican party...

That Boner, he's some political mastermind.

[patrice]

7. Tell me we aren't War Slaves.

[mmonk]

8. Bookmarked.

Thanks, I'm going to use this.

[tabatha]

9. He loves giving American tax dollars to other countries

not Americans.

Does he want to implement genocide of American seniors while supporting corruption in Afghanistan?

Talk about priorities.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Wrong way around, you knucklehead

Cut war to pay for Social Security.

[abluelady]

22. Don't You Think

That is what he meant to say?:sarcasm:

[pitohui]

11. why doesn't the DNC get some video of these comments ?

they should be broadcast constantly so that everyone, esp. older people, know exactly where the GOP stands

the GOP has been openly targeting social security since reagan days, i don't understand why anybody over age 30 who hopes to retire one day would ever cast a vote for any member of that party

keep this in the public eye, and even if you are under age 30, do you want yr mama and yr grandmama living in yr basement when they steal yr parent's social security? just a thought...because nobody's hiring any sixtysomethings for jobs that pay anything, hell, it's tough enough for someone in their 50s to get/keep a job in hopes of holding on until they can take early social security at age 62

[Mimosa]

33. Great idea! I can picture a montage commercial before the Nov election..

I can picture a montage commercial before the Nov election showing all the Repiglican attacks on SS and medicare.

[Subdivisions]

12. The stone-cold ruthlessness of this is a prime example of how dangerous the GOP is. nt

[smirkymonkey]

13. Can't someone shut this guy up?!

He's just spewing hateful crap at a rate previously unmatched by anybody.

[pitohui]

15. we don't want him to STFU, we want his words to be WIDELY heard and distributed

look, this has been the GOP platform since reagan, to steal our social security

the more publicity this kind of statement gets, the better...people should understand that's what this type is all abt...stealing from old people

[Mimosa]

26. ^ Amen^

He should keep talking. Let it all hang out!

[Bozita]

14. I'm guessing Boehner's running unopposed in November.

That's the only way to explain "teh stupid."

[avaistheone1]

18. Great idea.

Cut social security to finance the Afganistan Mafia!

Freaking brilliant! :wtf: :nuke:

[niyad]

19. hey, tan boy, about cutting the war to pay for social security?

what a low-life scum you are.

[KonaKane]

21. There goes the senior citizen bloc for the Republicans.

Now they'll lose them along with the Latino vote. Excellent.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

24. seriously, wasn't this the republican game plan

all along? Un-financed, endless war to get rid of all those pesky social programs, with social security being at the top of the list. Drown it in a bathtub and all that. Maybe the boner did us a favor by coming clean with it.

[Mimosa]

25. Boehner is the worst Repiglican

Is he up for re-election?

Work people until they drop dead in their tracks should make a great commercial.

[BrklynLiberal]

48. Actually , he is s SUPERB Repiglican, but he is a disgusting, horrific human being.

[TheCowsCameHome]

27. Hang this one around his orange-stained neck,

and watch the over-60 set skin him alive.

[Andy823]

28. I have a better idea

Raise the cap on SS that is held out, get rid of the tax cuts for the rich, take away health insurance and retirement for members of congress who make over $250,000, just a rough figure, and ban all lobbying in D.C.! Now I know cutting back on congress's benefits isn't much, but if everyone else has to cut expenses, so should they! Not only ban all lobbing in D.C., but make all national elections subject to "PUBLIC" financing so those getting elected will not be beholding to any big corporations, and thus making their votes in congress benefit those corporations! Get the big money out of government and we would be able to end the wars, stop giving away billions in corporate subsidies, and congress would, hopefully that is, work for the people who actually vote them into office!

There are many, many ways to cut wasteful spending in our government, what I listed are just a few, without taking it away from those who need help!

[unhappycamper]

29. Hey asshole!

The nuclear weapon were the tax cuts and 'emergency' supplementals you fuckers used to fund the occupations.

[NorthCarolina]

30. Forget Boehner, it's Obama's Debt Commission that is the real threat to Social Security. eom

[Mimosa]

32. I'm putting this Boehner story on Facebook and other boards

People need to know this!

[napi21]

34. Thank you! I don't do Fcebook or Twitter so I appreciate

you doing that. I'm also going to look up the contacts for Rachel, Keith, Tweety & Ed and send a copy to their producers too. TV coverage would be GREAT!

[Liberal In Texas]

36. Yeah, becasue keeping tax cuts for the wealthy makes so much sense.

What a bone head.

[Cass]

37. I don't frikking think so, Orange-man.

Boner can go to hell with this bullshit.

[B Calm]

38. Why SS? How about farm subsidies instead?

[pschoeb]

39. Draft 65 and over, Boehner's next modest proposal?

All those grannies killed in war would certainly cut down our Medicare costs?

[RagAss]

40. Mandatory Thorazine for this Assclown !

[MiniMe]

41. And how is that going to pay for the war?

[krabigirl]

42. Idiot. However, i do think eventually the age will have to be raised :( not to pay for the war, but

to have enough money for Medicare and social security for the people already on it.

[napi21]

54. That woud be a bad move IMO. The longer you demand older people

stay on the job the fewer jobs there are available in the market. I've actually heard some people, like Thom Hartmann, say one of the great fixes to the desperate job market ws to reduce the retirement age to 55.

The S system could esily be made completely solvent if the cap were removed completely & all earnings were taxed at the current rate which is 6.2%. The only tax increase would be that which must be paid for those earning over $110,000, at which time both the employer & the employee would have to contribute the 6.2%. Somehow I doubt that would have much of an effect on those folks keeping their jobs!

[elehhhhna]

43. good luck w/ that, orangie.

[Ruby the Liberal]

44. Or, cut the wars to fund UHC and SS, you orange sociopath.

[cameozalaznick]

45. Why don't we cut the wars...

to pay for social security?

Boehner's office number: [phone]

I think I'll call tomorrow and ask his office that question. Who's with me?

[BrklynLiberal]

46. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT??!! I think that is bassackwards!!!

[lpbk2713]

51. Nothing new here.

The Grand Obstructionist Party has been trying to cut Social Security since the days of FDR's New Deal.

They thought they could do it by having Shit-for-Brains bankrupt the US Treasury but that failed too.

These assholes just can't do anything right. :rofl:

[harun]

52. How do these clowns get more than 3% of the vote?

[B Calm]

58. Because their base is chocked full of ignorant ass kissing fools!