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"What I'm going to do is challenge this country to make some hard decisions..."

First, the Tea Party will fire treasonous bastards like you and your BFF!

FULG! FUJM!

1 posted on 01/02/2011 10:24:51 AM PST by rabscuttle385
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fyi


2 posted on 01/02/2011 10:25:59 AM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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Linda should work on reducing government employees and their benefits, including her own.


3 posted on 01/02/2011 10:26:51 AM PST by maggief
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To: rabscuttle385

Sorry Lindsey, I don’t think “wealthy seniors” are the real problem here. Comprende?


4 posted on 01/02/2011 10:27:49 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("The Dems have a 'war room' for everything but war..." - Dennis Miller)
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To: rabscuttle385

Leave it to Graham to pick up the chant for CLASS WARFARE!


5 posted on 01/02/2011 10:28:26 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: rabscuttle385
Cotillion season is over and the lady-boy is desperate for attention.
6 posted on 01/02/2011 10:29:00 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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To: rabscuttle385

Let’s start by cutting the salary of congress wienies in half, you sonsa... Show some leadership you treasonous ba$tards.


9 posted on 01/02/2011 10:35:25 AM PST by SgtHooper
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To: rabscuttle385

Graham is a poster child for abortion. Why did his mama not do the right thing. I am anti abortion but in a few cases, exceptions should have been made.


10 posted on 01/02/2011 10:35:56 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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"I'm going to do is challenge this country to make some hard decisions"

Well there are some easy ones too. No more JUANnabie, RINO Senators.

11 posted on 01/02/2011 10:36:53 AM PST by Paladin2
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...wealthy Americans should receive less benefits across the board, says Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

They take your money and they promise to give it back to you.

Then they don't give it back.

12 posted on 01/02/2011 10:37:00 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: rabscuttle385

So much for equal treatment under the law.


13 posted on 01/02/2011 10:39:04 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (DEFCON I ALERT: The federal cancer has metastasized. All personnel report to their battle stations.)
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To: rabscuttle385

It’s those damned chickens again . . . the political establishment is getting desperate. The day of reckoning is on the event horizon.


15 posted on 01/02/2011 10:39:51 AM PST by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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What about reducing Federal Pensions for Wealthy Politicians first and set an example lol I would love to see that they can start with clinton how many millions has he made?

How about all those wealthy Retired Senators why don’t they give their federal pension money up?

Screw them they forced people to pay into Social Security and it is not the wealthy (who determines wealthy anyway?)seniors fault the politicians looted the fund.

About that wealthy part with the Fed devaluing our currency and near zero interest on savings as a result and inflation they are doing their best to strip them of anything they have left as it is.


16 posted on 01/02/2011 10:39:58 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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So let me get this straight....

you’ll NOT collect what you paid in to and an employer matched under either of the below scenarios:

You die before getting old enough to collect

OR

You were too successful in helping the economy hum

Do i got this right?


17 posted on 01/02/2011 10:40:06 AM PST by Fishtalk (Dance like nobody's watching; Sing like nobody's listening; Blog like nobody's r.eading.)
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Here comes that “wealthy seniors”
thing again. Is a wealthy senior one that’s scrimped and saved their whole working life to put $500,000 into a retirement fund for themselves while the governmant gave away their tax money to those who have spent their entire lifetime on welfare?


18 posted on 01/02/2011 10:40:50 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: rabscuttle385

Sure Lindsay, America needs another welfare program.


19 posted on 01/02/2011 10:41:36 AM PST by jwalsh07
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Miss Lindsey can drop dead.

How low do you have to be to suggest that people who have taken risks and worked hard and saved for retirement and paid taxes their whole lives should be stripped of the social security benefits they’ve earned, just so there’s more money for irresponsible losers, bums, and parasites, as well as “crazy check kids” and other “disability” frauds?

I better get every last dime I got coming, even if only to help with my boat payments.

Drop dead, Miss Lindsey.


20 posted on 01/02/2011 10:41:59 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: rabscuttle385

I agree with the idea but to do that you need to have a two teer SS system, a private account SS and an optional public SS system.


21 posted on 01/02/2011 10:41:59 AM PST by WellyP
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How about trimming government spending? How about we make SS only for retired people again?


22 posted on 01/02/2011 10:42:12 AM PST by GeronL
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To: rabscuttle385
Even Lindsey Graham can occasionally stumble across a truth.

Both SS and Medicare will have to be "means tested", increased eligibility age AND benefits frozen at inflation minus x percent to have any chance of bringing the deficit under control without raising taxes.

And yes, it's an approach I support.

24 posted on 01/02/2011 10:43:34 AM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: rabscuttle385

Bottom line is that this is just another proposal to tax the rich. The rich pay into the system, and it is their money that they should receive back. They already pay a lot in taxes.

If they want to give it away to charitable causes or back to the government after receiving it, that is their choice. Perhaps there can be a way to encourage the wealthy to give more to charity or toward a common good purpose, but it must be their choice.

Most of the very wealthy already give back through charity, employment opportunities for many people, and a variety of ways not commonly known or advertised. Their amount and way of giving should be their choice, however.

This is my view on this, and I think Graham is wrong.


25 posted on 01/02/2011 10:43:36 AM PST by Swede Girl
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