>I won’t even bother to correct the rest of your blatherings. You are too class-envious to debate with. You don’t like folks being too “rich” for your tastes when they can no longer work.
This is clear proof of you being delusional. I mean you are just plain off the deep end. I do not ascribe to class envy, and if you actually read what I posted, it would be clear. The fact is Social Security is bust, and a means of weakening its political support is necessary. Reducing it to purely a welfare system by removing the political cover it gets by being ‘universal’ is necessary.
Advocating a way to keep the system from going broke is not the same as class envy.
The fact that you say something as dumb as :
>Vote the bastards out is the answer to these SS and other economic problems, not penalizing producers, savers and investors.
Shows you have no grasp whatsoever of the situation. We’re broke. Things have to be cut. Firing politicians doesn’t change the fact that hard decisions on cuts have to be made. Sure, make it a across the board cut of entitlements. I’m OK with that. It’s less likely to fly, but sure, give it a shot. I don’t care what the direct means are as long as the entitlements are reigned in. You, however, don’t seem to grasp what is actually important, or how dire the situation actually is.
And to put it bluntly, you don't know whose side your on.
Would you advocate for Death Panels to reach your goal?
The most common dance steps are:
the "Cutting Waste and Fraud Will Solve The Problem Two-Step"
the "Get Rid of Every Government Program (Except The One That Covers Me) Tango"
the "Economic Growth Will Take Care Of It Waltz"
and that evergreen favorite, the "Kick The Can Down The Alley (Until After I'm Dead) Fox Trot"
Ahh, but we have enough money for tarp, bailouts, health care, pelosi’s marsh mice and other ridiculous pork projects, - you get the picture. I’m for helping those who need it, but you realize how many are sponging off the system and it’s an art form.
There is absolutely no excuse for taking someone’s money because someone thinks they already have enough. Baloney. What’s theirs is theirs, period - we/they worked and paid for it, it belongs to us. We are not playing Robin Hood economics.
Changing the name of a government entitlement to "Welfare" doesn't change a thing except branding seniors as "being on the dole".
'What's in a name' to proud seniors? Plenty, Mr. Buzzard.
P.S., it's very egotistical of you to believe that you're the only one who recognizes the dire straits we're in. You've spent an inordinate amount of time here advocating cutting SS benefits for the American retiree. I'll be looking forward to reading similarly long screeds by you advocating stopping billions in foreign aid to Egypt and other muzzie countries, free medical care and education for illegals and their countless offspring, and millions in vacations and junkets for Obama and his hangers-on in just the past twenty -four months.
This country's older generation is one of the last groups to fasten on to punish for the wasteful monetary bubble machine merrily bouncing away in D.C.
Leni