Santorum talked about SS at the last debate and I was surprised more people didn’t take notice of his blood-curdling plan. He said it was “sharing the pain.”
That was when Gingrich said we had to approach it from a whole different point of view, not pain, but how we can offer options, restructure to make it sound going forward, and eliminate fraud (something Obama has consistently refused to do, even though Medicare fraud is expected to cost 1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years). The thing I like about Gingrich is that he has positive solutions for things and you feel positive when you listen to him.
Santorum sounds bitter and priggish, as if those seniors who are selfish enough to collect something they’ve paid into all their lives are the root of the whole problem and must be punished.
It’s the truth. There are going to be cuts to social security.
The longer we put them off, the more devastating the consequences when the bill comes due and we are insolvent.
We’ve already gone from 65 percent debt to GDP now we’ve almost doubled that in this administration. We simply don’t have the means to continue on as we have done.
This means cuts, and yes, cuts to social security. I don’t believe those should be the only cuts - far from it, but there will be cuts across the board.
If we are asking young men and women to sacrifice their futures in order to pay down the debt already incurred, then we can cut social security too.