Posted on 11/10/2010 10:55:54 AM PST by Sopater
Breaking News: Obama Debt Panel Recommends Cut in Social Security Payments, Eyes End to Mortgage Deduction
At foxnews.com
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I hear ya. ;^)
I just wish they would have let me invest my own SS payments.
Done.
Pulling out the “Scare the Seniors” card ping...
“Isn’t it time that a few Republicans started pointing out that Obama has already cut social security”
No, because we need to cut it more.
Take all drunks, druggies, extended family recipients and so called learning disabled (classified) kids off social security.
That would be a great start.
Here’s an idea. ~1 in 10 people in the US work for the Federal Government, not counting the Military. Make that ratio .5 in 10 and get back to us..
First, these cuts usually affect younger people not the current dependents.
Second, I would tell the old lady (if necessary to cut her benefit) that we don’t have the damn money because politicians spent it, that being the reality.
Well POTUS won’t make the cut that would effect his base. So Welfare is out.
I think you were stalked by a big, evil Zenith TV when you were little.
I don’t agree with your double dipping theory. That’s like saying an employee who contributed to 8 different employer 401K’s or Defined Benefit plans is 8 dipping. If I pay into social security for ten years that’s my money, my taxes, and my retirement. And no you don’t get to tell me I’m only allowed one pension. If you argue on the other hand that some of those pension systems are overly generous then I’d agree with you. But that’s an entirely different subject and I’m appalled at how young some folks can retire. A counter to that though is I certainly don’t object to the military 20. The military 20 has always seemed like a great recruitment tool whereby our vets can get two incomes and two retirements. I like it.
As someone who was hoping to get out of renting by buying a house after the first of the year, this simply makes me want to renew my lease through 2012 and hide the extra $$ in my mattress.
warning: language!
Never happen. Barack Hussein Obama wants to be reelected to badly. Cutting SS would be political suicide.
Old people take the hits over and over.
I guess leftists don’t care if old folks can afford a can of dog food for themselves to eat.
agreed. I know 3 or 4 Calif gov retirees, who retired at age 55... living on 80,000 a year pensions. and these were just clerk type fellas... nuttin special..
I don’t get that.. I work for a for-profit company, and I don’t make that much.. and I’m paying their salary !
meanwhile, I doubt I can ever retire.
Fed employee or UNIONIZED State Worker?
The Democrat Plantation slaves are not going to like this!
LOL - They saw the Riots in London, liked it, and think they have found a new way to change the news cycle away from their abject failure of an administration.
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