Why would the unions care? Their member have big fat pensions...........that are going broke?................
The left should not fear about President Obama doing anything to Social Security.
Ponzi schemes collapse on their own.
They SHOULD worry.
It’s pretty clear to me that he hates useless old white people who are still around and collecting benefits.
I’d worry if I were them, too.
No cost of living increase yet under the zero administration's 2 years. How do you go downward from that?
Don't tell me, I already know.
I would be willing to opt out of collecting Social Security and they can keep everythig I put into it- if I can stop making payments into it right now.
Medicare and Medicaid too. There is not going to be any health care when I reach that age (at this rate) anyway... so screw it. I am going to prepare a hole in the ground and just tell my family to shovel me into it when I am too old to take care of myself.
I DO NOT want to be in a hospital room connected to IV’s at several thousand dollars per day until I die anyway
Why is the left REALLY concerned about Social Security? Are they really concerned about Republicans cutting off benefits to the elderly (which isn’t going to happen), OR are they worried about losing their control over individuals? After all, if We the People seize our right back to save for our own retirement, then we won’t be beholden to Medicare and Social Security in our golden years.
My FRiends, it’s all about control.
My worry in this is that the president and democrats will try to goad Republicans into taking the lead on “cutting SS & Medicare”. And then when Republicans do take the lead, dems will villify them for it. I hope the Republicans recognize it as a trap. The Republicans should take their clue from the presidents State of the Union speech and his budget. If he encorages SS & Medicare cuts then they can get involved. If not, then they should work to reduce discretionary spending.
Remember, the democrats and public unions get a lot of power from discretionary spending of our tax dollars. If Republicans work to cut entitlements and lose their majority doing so, it will just give the democrats the opportunity to spend more money on the discretionary spending that entrenches them in power.
Avoid the trap, Republicans...let 0bama take the lead on entitlment cuts. Let him tour the country (like Bush did with his SS proposal) trying to encourage everyone to agree to “his proposal” before you jump on the bandwagon.
In the meantime unions are killing jobs and state budgets with their overgenerous benefits and perks.
And what would Republicans get out of this ‘deal’? Or worse yet, what (else) would they have to give in on to get it?
Republicans walking the plank on SS right now sounds like a bad idea. As with tax cuts ‘for the rich’ Obama would claim that Republicans forced him to cut Social Security.
They need to do something about the system or it will collapse.
Nevertheless, the GOP had better be VERY CAREFUL about how they deal with that viper in the Oval Office. He’s a REAL political animal. Don’t put it past him to shift the blame for any adverse fall-out to the GOP and then say he was forced by them to do it, later on in a political campaing.
Any changes to SS need to have the fingerprints of BOTH political parties all over it so any public resentment is equally distributed.
The bastard already did that! There hasn't been a COL raise since the Commie bastard was elected.
Liberals know that Social Security and other entitlement programs are IOUs. If they are not reformed, every single dollar will go to them... think of it as climate change for Big Government.
That ought to concentrate their minds.
A lot of unions don’t even pay into social security.
Why would they care?