Boehner: We Can't Have the War AND Social Security - So We Need To Cut Social Security!
I saw this and I couldn't believe it. But then I thought, well, Boehner's only saying out loud what some Democrats seem to believe anyway: We can't afford the war AND Social Security, so naturally, Social Security's gotta get slashed.
Makes perfect sense, right? Because, you know, stopping the war would be simply unthinkable! (And wasn't it the Republicans who first promised us the Iraq invasion would pay for itself?)
Boehner's criticism of the Democratic agenda then moved to the recently-negotiated financial regulatory reform package, which he likened to "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon." According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Boehner argued that the financial system would be better served by "more transparency and better enforcement by regulators."
The minority leader also answered questions about Social Security, which he said could not remain solvent as it is currently structured.
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.
"We need to look at the American people and explain to them that we're broke," Boehner said. "If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you're retired, why are we paying you at a time when we're broke? We just need to be honest with people.
No, John. How about you being honest with people? Social Security is not broke. It's solvent through 2036 and can fund about 80% of its obligations after that. All we have to do to fix it is to raise the current tax by one percent, and remove the cap on earnings that made Republicans so happy. You know that.
You think we haven't noticed the class war in this country? You think we've forgotten that Social Security is pay-as-you-go, and doesn't have a damned thing to do with our national deficit. Why would you say something that's a bold-faced lie?
Because the Republicans have been dying to privatize the system ever since it began. They hate the idea of a financial transaction happening somewhere that doesn't make money for their corporate sponsors on Wall Street. (And let's not even get into what would have happened to a privatized system in the crash.)
They want workers to be desperate and disposable, grateful for crumbs.
That's why Republicans always want means-testing. They want to turn Social Security into a poverty program so it won't have such broad-based support.
They're trying to confuse and worry people with this manufactured deficit "crisis." And they're telling us it's much more important to keep the war going than to take care of the people in this country. You saw the unemployment vote last week -- that's the Republican agenda, in all its naked glory.
They want cheap, disposable labor with no security whatsoever. And if we don't do something soon to stop them, we'll have it.
nightmare. Somebody kick me, please.
somebody kicking John Bronzer.
Maybe both?
They shrank under the tanning bed.
Now THAT'S a plan. We (the people) have been kicked enough.
he just believes what he believes, but hes wrong. yes hes misguided or more likely, an idiot. who happens to be in a leadership position. somehow seems appropriate for the current incarnation of the GOP. clearly there is a GOD and he has a great sense of humor. thank GOD. i do enjoy laughing at George Hamilton Boehner. (it's the tan you see).
...and what he's suggesting be done to the unemployed, the poor, and the elderly. All disposable people to Republican leaders.
But does this mean they want to jettison millions of their own poor, unemployed and elderly registered Republican voters? Do those poor schmucks know what their leaders are suggesting? Or do they think they're somehow exempt from the purge?
They no longer need the suckers they played for votes. If that wasn't true, how could they be so cock sure they're going to have their way? Why do we even bother with elections?
Because you have to keep up appearances to maintain legitimacy.
.
Right, 'cause those ants nearly take down our economy all the time. Wouldn't want to disrupt that.
can get more seniors and disabled to enlist to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Orange POS
me-oww!
Thank you. Orange does not go with pink, unless it's on a cream sickle.
in the illegal occupation of two sovereign countries thousands of miles from the US. A load of useless slackers, IMHO!
Glad ya got a chuckle, friend.
me-oww!
No, John. We don't need an obese and bloated defense budget and world wide war.
Where the money goes-------$696,268,000,000 for USA fiscal 2008 'defense spending'!? Do you know what half of that could do for the 50 US states? Poof-------and the 50 states problems disappear! Social security/OK, public option health care/OK, renewed/reinvigorated public education system/OK, high speed rail/OK, pure water and air/OK, high speed internet for all/OK, no cutbacks in fire, police, and social services/OK, etc, etc.....
what he is suggesting, then the House and the Senate will give up their salaries, too. If the system is not skewed against real people, then how could the GOP think they have anything to say about anything at all? How dare he threaten the weakest among us. GOP--the party of NO integrity. Like I've said before, they are Republic**ts. I am not snarking. That is what they are. Selfish, greedy, arrogant. May they all get what they deserve. The sooner, the better. I have to go out into my garden. I need to focus and calm down.
Attack and take away frm the most vulnerable. Nuff said.
because we got oil wars to fight and defense contractors to feed doncha know you betcha.
Run up deficits by cutting taxes for the rich and by feeding the military industrial complex and use said deficits as an excuse to cut SS and other programs that help the middle class.
GOP-101. Same scam, different day.
All social programs are over. If you're not rich now, you never will be. For all those jackasses who thought that they would be rewarded with riches for voting for republikans, the joke is on you. You get nothing. Do you all feel stupid now? I hope so. I really have to go outside. I'm bringing a candle with me. Must focus.
...teh gays might get married! Because that's what really would have affected their lives.
You're right. The joke is on them. The Republicans played them like a fiddle. Keep em ignorant, fearful and blinded by religion and nationalism...er, patriotism... and you can lead em to the slaughter. Conservative pols figured that out long ago.
Don't leave.
I love your insight!
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
Absolutely the truth. Well put.
End the Fed and quit paying our taxes.
(take our money out of our banks too)
cash in the 401-k's (take the penalty) ...and buy gold coins.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
...and Obama.
Obama thinks we can have both...(worlds apart)
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
and one's orange?
...was funny.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
concerned, Boehner just declared war. That's 3 of them they have going on at the same time. Rule #1 of warfare--never attack civilians. It inspires them to fight you, and they do not honor any rules of war.
(instead of entitlements)
gulf cleanup money...
bank bailout money...
universal healthcare money...
shitloads to Israel money...
corporate welfare money...
why do we always have to cut S.S. and medicaid and stuff?
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
"Why would you say something that's a bold-faced lie?"
Because he is a liar and a Republican. That's redundant. Sorry.
Social Security is a classic Ponzi scheme. It assumes that there will always be enough money coming in to pay those that no longer contribute. As the baby-boom generation retires and the working population decreases, there will not be enough money to sustain it. In its current form, it will go broke. Cutting the benefits and increasing the retirement age will probably have to happen.
It’s still the best social program we’ve come up with in over 60 years.
What does this have to do with the military budget? Very little.
We don’t need this military. It is a drain and has been for a long time. Cutting the military budget won’t fix SS either, but it will sure as hell fix a lot of other problems.
REMOVE THE CAP!
Yeah, if they were that concerned with SS solvency, removing the cap would be first thing done. It wouldn't effect that many working people either.
to do is, consider means testing for people who have gotten out what they put in.
me-oww!
money embezzled from the SS fund. Those who benefited from the embezzlement must now repay it with interest. They can certainly afford it. NOW!
Isn't it convenient that they can take money out of the SS reserves, but won't consider taking money away from other budget items to build it back up.
Why aren't they required to pay it back? Why won't anyone tell them to pay it back? WTF is the problem.
They don't have the money. We really are broke. Boehner has it backward though. Cutting SS benefits won't help the military, unless they steal from that fund again.
Cutting the Military budget CAN help building back the SS reserves if they siphon off from other budgets items, but they won't do it.
the money. Give it back. It wasn't yours in the first place. Give it, and all the money you made investing it, back. Restitution or retribution. Pick one.
what you think are S.S reserves...are actually "collateralized debt obligations" and "derivatives"
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
Ha! Just wait 'till it's privatized. Then all of it will be.
Taking money from SS reserves to juggle the budget and cover dubious spending is the moral equivalent of a scam artist who bilks old widows out of their savings.
"There will not be enough money" , bullshit , raise the cap which is too low , that's one thing , stop raiding the piggy bank ... our piggy bank , the one we've paid into all of our lives , get their priorities straightened out and in order ...we need to force them to do it . Enough for bail outs of corrupt CEO's and Wall Street criminals , enough to ship pallets of cash to Iraq , lose billions of it and refuse any investigation as to where it went , enough for a couple of illegal , immoral , Soviet style invasions and the senseless and on going occupations of two countries , enough for the GD Pentagon and the military industrial complex , the pigs at the trough (what percent of our GDP do they soak up now ?), enough to not tax but subsidize oil companies who are making the biggest profits in the history of the world ! I could go on and on here but is it necessary ? Can't afford social security ? Absolute bull , they simply want to get rid of it , take from the people so that corporations , Wall Street , the fat cats and the haves can make even more money ! In other countries you've earned your pension in your mid fifties , here you have to try and keep working until you are damned near dead , now rotten scum like the Boner want to raise the age even higher to 70 ? People had better pull their heads out and start fighting back , not tomorrow but today , now ! It's their priorities , that is the problem and we had better insist and force them to get their priorities in order folks !
You mention many things that need to be done, but most have nothing to do with Social Security; for the ones that do, they will definitely prolong the inevitable.
Raising the cap – of course. Paying back what was stolen, sure if they can find the money. At the moment Social Security will be bankrupt around 2040. These “fixes” will add a few decades. It will still go broke (in its present form).
It will be underfunded in 25 years, but will still be able to pay 80% of benefits. We need to build it back up by removing the cap, but it's simply NOT a crisis. The "crisis" is health care costs.
A former award-winning journalist and lifelong class warrior, keeping a jaundiced eye on the Washington elite.
It's health care and the cost of two (hope not three) pointless wars. Obviously Orangeman is only concerned with sustaining the M-I Complex, not Americans.
"Buy the ticket, take the ride."
Hunter S. Thompson
This is what republicans wish for! Unions are bad because they ac tually help people just like Social Security. Feed the rich and starve the poor is their goal. I don't understand it but there it is! Pensions are only good for the rich that don't need them,overtime for surfs cuts into profits, paid holidays the same, insurance, sick leave, and don't forget the evil trial lawyers waiting to steal profits from corporations that kill or harm their slaves, can't have that can we? NO I say the American Dream is just that a dream made up by the rich to give the poor some hope however little that is. Kinda like the invisible and oh so compassionate god in the sky that isn't real either. But I digress.
PEACE
The love you take is equal to the love you make. John Lennon Paul Mc Cartney
Yup. The same reason the idiots with no money and no hope still don't think that the rich should be taxed. Because some day they will have as much money as Rush. Sure they will.
Me too , absolutely , that is an excellent description .
You know, birthdays, first stars, and so on. I'm going outside now to use a few of them. If an asteroid hits DC tonight, it was me. Back when I settle down.
Ahh Boner, to him goes the number of times insulted by the Jon Stewart Gospel Players just TODAY... again "GO F*** YOURSELF"... got it??
Our workforce is going to be in any shape to remain employed until age 70 when they're being screwed out of jobs, unemployment if they're looking for work, healthcare?
Do you really think the legions of ninnies that are going to come out of schools using the Texas GOP-approved schoolbooks is going to be capable of doing anything but having fainting spells when the real world runs counter to their safe, sanitized, Christian history and science books?
Tell you what. Every Republican - whether an elected official or a voter - who thinks the war should take precedence can fucking pay into a war chest, and not into Social Security. Of course, you won't GET any when you retire, so I hope you've got something left after you've started another eighteen wars on eighteen fronts.
This is like saying, "Goddamn! Kids' clothes are so expensive, but I gotta have my beer! Shit! The young'uns'll just have to do without!"
are trying to worry and confuse people.
They've been doing a damn good job of that since the August townhall bonfires and haven't let up yet. And they're winning the argument - oh, wait, there is no counter argument because the administration and democrats on the hill aren't offering any other narrative.
There is a huge, gaping hole that is being filled with the rethuglican/fox new/hate radio/msm lie machine and the administration has not, or will not, create a narrative to counter this noise.
And that's why the craziest of the crazy are about to take over, at least, the House in November.
that even if they take everything away from people and return us to the feudal system of the Dark Ages that there will not be a violent uprising. That so many people sit in front of the TV in a zombie state or have become so dullwitted by the junk food they stuff in their pieholes and slothlike existence that a revolt cannot happen. I'm ready to open up that can of whoopass.
...I have an appreciation for the G20 protesters. I'm beginning to think that only a Vietnam scale of nonviolent (and violent) protest will bring this injustice to full light in the mainstream media. I'm ready if you all are!
"Buy the ticket, take the ride."
Hunter S. Thompson
.
and as long as the Rethugs keep calling the Democratic Party the Democrat party, the Dems should call the Boner.........BONER.
It's the correct pronunciation anyway.
Great idea.
As an aside, Chris Matthews really gets pissed off when they call it the Democrat Party. Just sayin.
in the late 80's/early 90's. Speaking of Mullah Robertson, where is he now that "God has been punishing" the red states with floods of biblical proportions, category 5 hurricanes an oil gusher? Not a peep from that Christofascist charlatan or the rest of the Christian Taliban.
that looked much better than him.
you jack your boner and that Boner jacks you.
hew won't and can't.
I'm probably completely wrong, but aren't the GOPers walking into a trap? Obama is letting them believe that he'll be right there with them when they announce the cutbacks in "entitlements" that they've been wet-dreaming about for decades. But when the inevitable angry tide of public opinion comes back at them, Obama is a 'liberal Dem' (according to the GOPers and the MSM) who can simply do what Dems do; raise taxes, while the GOPers have now placed their most cherished of ideas on the table, only to be rejected.
C'mon, putting the current wave of Obama hatred aside, I can see this scenario playing out. It's time for the Republiscum to see what the public really thinks of their screw-the-little-people ideas.
They could have easily been doing this for a while now, by showing videos of these liars over the last several years.
But they would rather let Harry Reid act powerless because he's too stupid to stick the filibuster up there fascist GOP arses.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
Seriously. Obama is a chameleon, and he will be whatever he has to be to look "successful." You thought Bill Clinton's second term was bad? If the GOP takes the House, Obama will make Clinton look like a raving socialist.
If Obama didn't intend to cut entitlement programs, why was David Axlerod on Jon Stewart last night talking about it? Why did Obama put PETE PETERSON in charge of the Catfood Commission?
Take off your rose-colored glasses and start drinking heavily, is my advice.
A former award-winning journalist and lifelong class warrior, keeping a jaundiced eye on the Washington elite.
I'd really like to kick his lying a**!
Then I would like to go and kick all of my brain dead in-laws in the a** for still voting for these evil POS!
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
Fuck you Boner. The SS fund is plenty funded. Just pay back what you and your ilk "borrowed." Dick.
Yep!
Like when Bush stole $2.1 trillion from it claiming a surplus; then promptly gave 90% of the tax cut to millionaires and billionaires who don't even pay SS taxes.
The little scumbag POS!
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
That's how long it's been going on.
So what happens when our "lucky" soldiers return home, shattered in mind and body, will they end up on the streets?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
but what about Obama's 18-member National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility & Reform (co-chaired by Alan Simpson, of all people), and their regular, secret meetings? We hear nary a peep about them.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/obamas...
I find that much more troubling than anything Boehner says or does.
I do keep track of this stuff.
A former award-winning journalist and lifelong class warrior, keeping a jaundiced eye on the Washington elite.
Much appreciated.
has just put to rest my suspicion. There is absolutely no doubt the man has a drinking problem and is seriously drinking when interviewed.
Put my retirement forward and there will be pain, and it won't be mine. I will NOT delay my reward for all the years I served just to pay for a fucking war none of us want or need.
The Rat-Bastards better watch it.
How many votes do you think you can get on a cut social security platform? Even younger voters don't want gramma and gramps moving in with them. Sounds like a sure way to lose elections.
available to deal with this problem? Boehnero or something like that?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
it's Cheney, Bush, Rummie, Condie, Ashcroft, BONer, or almost any Repbulican.
No fetus could beat us, if their Mom's had only aborted these vermin.
I think Trojan should start a line of ads. Show the faces of these traitors with the words, "how much better would the world be, if their daddies had only used a Trojan condom?"
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum. -Havelock Ellis
...that the wage slaves in the predominantly working-class red states, who constantly get screwed by the predatory GOP bastards, will continue to support the very people that despise them. As long as the Republicans wrap their politics in the flag and decorate them with a cross, they could tell the trailer park voters DIRECTLY to their faces, "We will resume our policies that continue to shift the tax burden to you, reward the wealthy who export manufacturing jobs you have relied upon to have a decent standard of living to other countries, send your children off to wars based on lies, be blatant hypocrites regarding morality and sexuality, and even beat your dog to death in front of your eyes if we feel like it. But that doesn't matter. We hate gays, brown people, believe in magical oil fairies that give us endless fossil fuel, and really, really love us the Jeebus. So we will put on the American flag lapel pin, give you our thinly-veiled contemptuous smiles ( ala Sarah Palin), and you will vote for us. Thank you very much".
And they will vote for them...
And do the above, as the GOPer's are urinating on their heads, while having them chant hatred of liberals.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
It's a Southern mental disease.
The uneducated idiot is told by his leaders to hate the blacks, muslims, gays, atheists, communists, whatever..that these people are resposnible for their economic demise. Meanwhile, the rich, fat, white bastards laugh all the way to the bank as they loot their communities.
"Stupid rednecks, we can trick 'em everytime. Have another mint julip." We just won another election based on "values".
Ha-ha-ha!
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum. -Havelock Ellis
"You probably know a lot of good people who depend on their Social Security check. Who count every penny. Hard-working folks who have contributed their whole lives and now need those checks."
Study the symptoms not the virus...
the people keep voting for these people. All expectations are that voters will flock to the repugs this Nov. That is what I keep reading.
Life expectancy was about 63 in 1935 when SS was created. It's now 77. I think it's perfectly reasonable to change the year SS kicks in as life spans lengthen.
His third point should also makes sense to those of us who would remove the cap on taxable income. "If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you're retired, why are we paying you..." For those who can afford to live without SS income, let's not pay them. This is distributing money to people who need it, just like raising the cap on taxable income is.
First of all, in a Depression where there is an estimated "real" unemployment rate of 18%, and the hardest hit are employees 50 and older, where, exactly, where all these people work until they're 69?
The other point is, the Republicans have ALWAYS wanted to means-test Social Security because if it's only for the poor, it will be easier to bleed it to death.
Social Security is so popular BECAUSE everyone gets it. Get it?
A former award-winning journalist and lifelong class warrior, keeping a jaundiced eye on the Washington elite.
Where exactly will all these people work from age 50 until 59.5? Or 62? Or 65?
At any rate it would be wrong to raise the age in one fell swoop. I think it should go up by one year every two years over a ten year period. And only on people who have a ways to go until retirement. If this recession is still going in ten years or twenty years we have a much bigger systemic problem.
starting to think they slipped that one in when few where looking.
Just because life expectancy has gone up to 77, doesn't mean everybody gets there. Especially if they are still working in their 60's.
Millions of people die long before 77. Does this mean they should never enjoy any leisurely years in their life? Get a clue!
I say, put a 3% wealth tax on the rich, and let people retire earlier.
When people like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates can give away billions and billions (not channeling Carl Sagan), and Rupert and Mellon-Scaife can spend billions promoting lies to dupe dim bulbs; I think their tax rates are much much too low!
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
People who live to age 65 have a life expectancy of another 18.4 years. That's why I didn't use the average life expectancy of 77.
I'd rather take the money from a top-bracket 3% tax and put it into education and a program like the Works Projects Administration. Because in order to reduce crime and poverty we have to have smarter kids with opportunities so they don't become criminals. Jobs for them and adults will rebuild the decaying infrastructure and get states back on the right track so they can shift spending from prisons to rehabilitation. Then when the rates of offenders decline, into education. Then people will have jobs and can save for retirement.
in 10 to 20 years the depression will have created a mostly underground economy. It's going to be very ugly with or without a fascist dictatorship to keep it together.
may end up being the best economic engine in your neighborhood.
California is beginning to think so.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum. -Havelock Ellis
for the last decade or so. The only thing that's fucked it up is the illegality has caused problems with gangster bikers committing violent crimes around the industry...
me-oww!
there are none.
Raise the cap, consider means testing on really wealthy retirees who have exhausted their accts who have staggering annual incomes from other sources.
me-oww!
The "third point" you refer to is a good one. If people have a certain amount of income, enough to sustain themselves, then they should not collect SS even if they contributed to it during their working lives. That is, only if the fund is not paid back what it is owed, and the cap is not lifted. I mean lifted, and not just raised. We're supposed to all be in this together, and that means everyone contributes according to their ability to do so. You realize that SS is paid for by the worker, and the employer must match the amount paid. That is why corporate America does not want SS. They don't want to pay into it for others. That coupled with the attempted privatization of SS so Wall Street can rip everyone off, are the two main reasons this issue keeps coming up.
Regarding your other point, however, people should not be forced to work for their entire lives just to collect SS when they are just about dead. That idea is so god damned offensive that I cannot believe anyone other than a republic**t came up with it.
I'll point out that all the people who die before 65 don't get any SS they may have paid into. For people who survive to age 65, their life expectancy is another 18.4 years. That's not the same as being forced to work until just about dead.
raising the age is not the solution. It's cruel. If you cannot see that, then I must ask who's side are you on? Do you believe in a social network or statistics? Will statistics save you from poverty if there are no jobs for you because of outsourcing? Will they save you if you become ill and there is no Medicaid or Medicare? How much homelessness is acceptable to you, statistically? Answer my questions, please.
I believe in single payer universal health care. I believe in SS being a safety net, not a solution for retirement. To bring jobs back trade agreements should be like the United States – Peru Trade Promotion Agreement which required changes in labor and environmental protections. Because stronger protections mean imports cost more which reduces outsourcing.
amateur or a professional?
what are you?
.
And not a "solution for retirement." Really? Can you explain how that was supposed to happen?
For 30 years, we've had stagnant wages (actually, real declines) and huge jumps in housing and healthcare costs. The small percentage of people who actually made enough to save have lost large portions of their 401Ks, and the ones who counted on corporate pensions were screwed by the companies they worked for when they were sold.
The people who worked for their state or local governments, and counted on those pensions? They're going to lose those. (Although notice the politicians never talk about touching their OWN hefty pensions!)
And of course, we know what happened to home equity.
So where does all this mythical retirement money come from, particularly for the now long-term unemployed?
Someone I know who repeated all these same lines you're using is now strangely quiet -- because he's lost half of his 401K in the past two years. He was supposed to be "better" than working people who didn't have savings. Now he's finding out he's not so different, after all.
And by the way, one illness is enough to wipe out everything.
A former award-winning journalist and lifelong class warrior, keeping a jaundiced eye on the Washington elite.
since so few people had retirement funds when the program was initiated? And didn't tons of retirement funds go down the crapper during the CheneyBush era?
me-oww!
Will be the beginning of the end. You can't give Republicans an opening like that. Do you really trust them?
A former award-winning journalist and lifelong class warrior, keeping a jaundiced eye on the Washington elite.
i've noticed it, for 40 years, it is so great to see someone use the verbage.
sometimes i wish the reactionaries would get back in power, let them deal with their own mess, hasten the revolution.
The GOP will choose the war profiteers every time.
Senior citizens just can't make the kind of campaign contributions that war profiteers can...they're on fixed incomes.
any taxes? The answer to this question is really ugly. It could just be short-sightedness, but it could be much worse. Not every single being in the "ruling class" is stupid. Do they have the patience to get rid of us through attrition? Do they really care whether we pay taxes or not? Why do they care about the infrastructure? They rarely use it. Why did we allow the bail-out when we didn't get to vote on it, nor did we get anything from it? WTF????? I'm getting all het up again. ("Het." Horse person's word for agitated, lathered up.) I'm listenting to BB King and Gary Moore doing "The Thrill is Gone." How appropriate. 'Cause it is gone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqAuuIDU2sw
And I never knew what it meant. Thanks for the definition!
A former award-winning journalist and lifelong class warrior, keeping a jaundiced eye on the Washington elite.
I truly think these "people" (Rethugs) have never picked up a newspaper or used the internet. They're absolutely inhuman. They have the power to do so much good in this country. And what do they do? Play tit for tat with the Dems.
The fact that Boner still has a job baffles me.
NOBODY 2012
orange skin baffles me. I can explain the job thing: He puts out. I mean for his corporate masters. He screws every person who gets in his way. That's how he got to the top of the pile.
These people are rich why should we pay for their pensions ? Our pensions have for the most part been eliminated. It has been proven that 401 K's don't replace pensions. If not for SS how do these arrogant jerks expect us to live when we're old ? What jobs does he think are available to someone 68 and in failing health ? It just makes me furious that these people think everyone should have no problem accumulating piles of money for retirement.
Ya know, when we choose war over our people's needs, when we choose death for our people, rather than life.
We are no better than every shitty empire from Gengis Khan to Stalin to Hitler.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum. -Havelock Ellis
Comments are closed on this entry