Republicans are Popping Out of the Woodwork Praising Social Security Cuts

[jtown1123]

Lindsey Graham, Mark Pryor, Saxby Chambliss etc. Can't wait till they realize their tea bagging Republicans followers are going to shit when they hear their cutting plans:

Pryor: http://arkansasnews.com/2011/01/04/pryor-medicare-social-security-must-be-on-table-for-spending-cuts/

Chambliss: http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/as-new-congress-convenes-795105.html

Graham: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/need-to-reform-social-security-sen-graham-2011-01-02

These people need to be called out on their blatant hypocrisy. Tax cuts for billionaires? Sure! $700 a month so grandma can pay for groceries out of taxes SHE paid for? Oh no, this deficit is out of control! We need "shared sacrifice."

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Of COURSE it's shared sacrifice.

We sacrifice and the rich share what they get from us.

[jtown1123]

2. I love how they think they speak for everyone.

They truly believe all their constituents think these programs are "unsustainable."

[RKP5637]

3. In this country most provide for Wealthy Welfare in the Corporate Welfare country known

as USA, Inc., as most of the country sails over the cliff into financial despair. ... but not to worry, trickle down voodoo economics works so very very well. Most Americans are on their way to being serfs, they don't get it, they've been brainwashed.

[sadbear]

4. Pryor is technically a democrat

[jtown1123]

7. That's frightening.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. We got rid of a lot of BLUEDOGS last year but we (AR) are still stuck

with Pryor and Ross(Rx).

I wonder how it would be different if they would just be done with it and change sides.. 3.2.1....

[bullwinkle428]

6. I fear we're creeping ever more closely to a torches and pitchforks moment...

[spanone]

8. with great help from the media

[somone]

9. President Obama announces another milestone in bipartisan cooperation in deficit reduction

is what we will hear very soon

[emulatorloo]

10. Maybe your crystal ball is broken

For one thing these Republicans have no idea of the big ole pile of shit they are stepping into. Even teabaggers think cutting social security for deficit reduction is a VERY BAD IDEA.

[Javaman]

11. Perhaps we should now poll the over 65 tea baggers. nt

[RC]

13. Are they still demonstrating to keep the government out of their Social Security?

Along with Medicare and Medicaid?

[Javaman]

16. There are a few still out there.

amazing isn't it?

[gratuitous]

12. It will soon be too late for the pebbles to vote, the avalanche is beginning

It started with the "bipartisan" Deficit Reduction Commission, featuring a cast of millionaires ranging from the center right to the hard right. They ignore their own rules, blew their deadlines, didn't issue a final report, but they mulled over a bunch of ideas for cutting the deficit. The ones that don't please our corporate overlords will be ignored. The others will get serious consideration because of the cover provided by the "bipartisan" Catfood Commission (It was appointed by President Obama, you libruls, what are you complaining about?).

In the name of deficit reduction, look for serious discussion of reducing social security benefits for future retirees, raising the retirement age, and means testing to make social security a "welfare" program for people who weren't smart enough to choose careers as investment bankers.

If you point out that the Catfood Commission never issued a final report, or that the recommendations it was mulling over were never legally ratified, you will be dismissed as Not Serious About Deficit Reduction, the Greatest Problem Facing the United States Today. Nitpickers like that can then be ignored as the millionaires in government talk to their millionaire friends in the popular media, and surprise of surprises, they decide that our biggest problem is a bunch of greedy geezers or soon-to-be geezers who want a free check every month from the government.

The big cudgel, though, that they're hefting behind their backs, is the payroll tax "holiday" for social security. Look for a "bipartisan" review of social security solvency to be undertaken in the next three to six months. The result? Horrors! Because collection of payroll revenue is down, social security's solvency has been ramped back from being able to pay full benefits for the next quarter century or longer to being able to pay full benefits for only 20 years or so. It's a 20% drop in social security's solvency! Something Must Be Done!

That's when the avalanche will get going in earnest.

[Edweird]

14. That sums it up.

[TBF]

15. Of course they are - along with our president Mr. Compromise. nt