Medicare, Social Security eyed

AP ^ | January 8, 2009 | N/A

[GailA]

Still, Obama said, "an economic situation that is dire" requires immediate and bold action with unprecedented tax cuts and federal programs.

I won't cut Medicare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0EAP47SdcY

[GailA]

OBAMA'S WAR ON SENIORS which includes the retired Military 65 and over, who get double whammied with obamadeathcare.

Links to various articles are in the threads. Then leave the debt to our great grands to pay. I thought SS was the third rail of politics and the GOP was going to cut and gut it so Granny had to eat dog food...WELL it's the DEMONRATS that are doing the cut and gutting of SS and Medicare/Tricare for Life the retired Militarys secondary health ins, so I guess they want Granny to eat dog food. BTW a lot of those 10,000 laid off Sam's Club workers will be old people on SS supplementing their incomes.

[TheBattman]

YES! We DO need BOLD action on the part of the Federal Government to help us get through this hard economic time! Most definitely - I totally agree on that one point!

Here is the BOLD action the government needs to take:

GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!!!!

[coaltrain]

“”an economic situation that is dire” requires immediate and bold action”

Let’s say the government could actually do something to stimulate the economy. If it requires immediate and bold action, what has Barry been doing for the last 12 months (besides making things much worse)?

[GailA]

YEP, get out of the way, quit raising taxes, and stop telling GRANNY to eat dog food.

I hope all the libs have jobs so they can take in GRANNY after her SS and Medicare bite the dust.

Can someone make the like to the U tube video, I couldn't get it to work.

[blueyon]

Well if he would go after that $500,000 billion he says there is in Medicare/Medicaid waste (fraud) he wanted to use for the Obamacare..................I know it is a rational thinking mans (woman’s) answer which is why he will never do.

[Cobra64]

Obama, the White House Marxist, should look into eliminating these Boards and Commissions:

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

Administrative Committee of the Federal Register

American Battle Monuments Commission

Appalachian Regional Commission

Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board)

Arctic Research Commission

Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation

Broadcasting Board of Governors

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Chief Acquisition Officers Council

Chief Financial Officers Council

Chief Human Capital Officers Council

Chief Information Officers Council Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee

Commission of Fine Arts

Commission on International Religious Freedom

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)

Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States

Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States

Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Delaware River Basin Commission

Denali Commission

Endangered Species Committee

Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board

Federal Advisory Committees Federal Executive Boards

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

Federal Financing Bank

Federal Geographic Data Committee

Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds?

Federal Interagency Committee on Education

Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy

Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer Federal Library and Information Center Committee

Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation

Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission

Indian Arts and Crafts Board

Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group

Interagency Council on Homelessness

Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin

J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board

James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation

Japan-United States Friendship Commission Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries

Joint Fire Science Program

Marine Mammal Commission

Migratory Bird Conservation Commission

Millennium Challenge Corporation

Mississippi River Commission

Morris K. Udall Foundation: Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy

National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare

National Indian Gaming Commission

National Park Foundation

Northwest Power Planning Council

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

Presidio Trust

Regulatory Information Service Center

Social Security Advisory Board

Susquehanna River Basin Commission

Taxpayer Advocacy Panel

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Veterans Day National Committee

Vietnam Educational Foundation

White House Commission on Presidential Scholars – "Presidential Scholars Program"

White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance

[NBCforSure]

I hope the date of this article lessens the chances of this happening. It is over a year old but who knows with this administration. It is so hard for me to believe anything that comes out of his mouth and I find it almost impossible (no, remove the ‘almost’ and make that impossible) to watch him on TV or listen to him on radio. I won’t watch the SOTU address Wednesday night but rather I will watch the commentators after the address has been completed. I don’t get quite as annoyed!!!

[GailA]

You forgot National Endowment for the Arts! No more crosses in jars of urine.

[Chances Are]

As any lib would tell you....

"GASP!!! You're ripping the heart out of America! What would Mr. Rogers say??? Shame on you!!!"

I'm hoping. however, that your list is obtained and acted upon immediately by a new Republican/Tea Party administration!

CA....

[Non-Sequitur]

I hope all the libs have jobs so they can take in GRANNY after her SS and Medicare bite the dust.

Social Security and Medicare account for $1.3 trillion of the federal budget. That's equal to the entire discretionary part of the federal budget. Take every dollar the federal government spends on State, HUD, Education, Treasury, HHS, Interior, Labor, Energy, Education, Labor, Commerce, Interior, NASA, EPA, GSA, SBA - every department and agency with the exception of VA, Defense and Homeland Security - and the government spends half of what they pay for GRANNY. Sooner or later the unsustainable increases in the non-discretionary part of the budget will have to be addressed. I would rather, for the good of the country, that the conservatives did that instead of just using it as a political windfall.

[FromLori]

According to the report on this site he is going to cut all of them.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/13103/Obama_Cuts_Deal_To_Reduce_Social_Security,_Medicare,_Medicaid.html

[GailA]

Doesn't surprise me. He's gonna tell us in the SOU that he's going to give the middle class a tax credit for taking care of their grannies and grandpas...IF he wouldn't cut their SS and Medicare then the middle class wouldn't need a 'tax credit' for taking care of granny.

Obama's message to old folks is EAT DOG FOOD AND DIE already, so I can use your money to fund my crap.

[GailA]

NO newer articles are stating the same thing. Look at the other threads links.

[Cobra64]

You forgot National Endowment for the Arts! No more crosses in jars of urine.

You mean this?

I'm still working on the list of federal government filth-in -spending. It's gigantic.

[GailA]

Read the threads on the link in post 1, there are several articles there, NO COLAs for 2-3 years, this effects not only senior citizens, but retired Military, and retired fed employees. Scott Brown mentioned the Tricare and Medicare cuts in his debate. And why else is he going to propose a tax credit for taking care of granny for the middle class?

[Oceander]

We do need to reform Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security, because right now both have massive unfunded liabilities; however, Dear Leader doesn't intend to reform them, he intends to raid them a la the Kirchners in Argentina, to continue funding his crypto-soviet power grab, and he wants to do so on the backs of the elderly:

Who knows, sooner or later, the Democrats will start going after the veterinarians who treat the family dog:

(After all, the eco-freaks already want to kill off family pets because of their carbon paw-prints).

[Cobra64]

[GailA]

I keep sending Hannity, Beck, RUSH and our local Memphis guy this stuff....nada out of them on it. If this had been GW the libs would be screaming GW wanted Granny to eat dog food and die, where as it's the demonrats that want that so they can raid SS even more.

Memphis city schools pay twice as much per square foot to build the same size school as Shelby Co...difference the city schools need to feel good about themselves so they need fancied up schools with $100G curtain walls, murals by some pervert out of Kali, etc. While the County wants functioning schools with no frills.

[GailA]

yep that's the one!

This offends me greatly, as praise GOD I'm a Child of the King who hung on that cross for me.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

He said that concerns about rising deficits prompted him to turn down advice from some economists who called for spending $1 trillion or more to jump-start the economy. Obama's proposal, which includes both spending and tax cuts, is expected to cost about $775 billion over two years.

Whew, what a relief, only $775B. Glad he's not taking advice from those profligate economists.