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Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security checks will go out on August 3
CBS News ^ | 7/12/11 | Corbett B. Daly

Posted on 07/12/2011 10:26:51 AM PDT by Nachum

President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. "I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it," Mr. Obama said in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, according to excerpts released by CBS News. The Obama administration and many economists have

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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baby; boomers; cannot; default; economy; guarantee; obama; social
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To: listenhillary

Lair, Lair, Pants On Fire!

nobama is the loser who called wolf.


41 posted on 07/12/2011 10:37:56 AM PDT by hal ogen ( Reeducation camp or expression of my First Amendment Rights.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
A bit early to play this card. They are scared.

No friggin' way is this misbegotten Marxist going to take on the generation that beat the Nazis, Japs, put a man on the moon and knocked down the Berlin wall. He is trying the tried and true Chicago/Machiavellian style tactics. THEY WILL BITE HIM IN HIS A$$! IMHO!

42 posted on 07/12/2011 10:38:12 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Nachum

Let him try this and see where it gets him.


43 posted on 07/12/2011 10:38:12 AM PDT by Chandalier (Obama is a Chicken Hawk!)
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To: sheana
Kinda hard to print checks with the power off.....

Just sayin......

44 posted on 07/12/2011 10:39:21 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: COBOL2Java

Great graphic!


45 posted on 07/12/2011 10:39:31 AM PDT by rightly_dividing
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To: All

I thought it was the “evil” republicans who used “scare tactics” to get their way???? Obama said so, didn’t he????


46 posted on 07/12/2011 10:39:35 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: Nachum
I'd love to see Obama try to cutoff the SS checks. It would definately be the fork in the road if Americans stood still for this while all the fat cat government officials are living large and jetting around the world.

47 posted on 07/12/2011 10:39:56 AM PDT by oldbrowser (Breitbart for a Pulitzer Prize)
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To: sheana
Bump that. The system is designed with the imperative to print & distribute those checks, and has no means to not do so. He knows it; just a scare tactic.

Does raise the issue though that he may in fact be planning to halt welfare payments and ensure the blame falls on Republicans. A little rioting could go a long way...

48 posted on 07/12/2011 10:40:05 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Nachum

With this, he has reached a new level of demagoguery.
Republicans will only be able to hold firm IF they can expose this for the demagoguery it is, shame him, and show
how he’s using this to undermine all those who oppose this latest ploy of raising the debt ceiling. The question is, are they up to the task, are they up to showing that if SS checks are cut off, what other ‘benefits’ will NOT be affected and will keep rollin’ in? If they can’t do this (and he’s giving them precious little time to respond with a full-blown argument), they will lose, and they’ll be blamed for people not getting their checks.
Obama has always seems determined to bring everything to a head , and create a rebellion among the American people.
He’s still gambling that the rebellion will all be on HIS side, and will benefit HIM.
He is as foul as they come. America elected a tin-horn dictator determined to create a permanent state of crisis, deepened beyond anything we’ve seen so far, and plunge America into a second Civil War, or a second American Revolution. A lot of us saw this coming the day he was elected.


49 posted on 07/12/2011 10:41:51 AM PDT by supremedoctrine ("uncurtaining the night,I'd let dark glass/hang all the furniture above the grass." -Nabokov)
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To: Nachum
Launching the Generational Attack Missile.
50 posted on 07/12/2011 10:42:36 AM PDT by PogySailor (The ruling class will not go down easily. And neither will their paid hacks.)
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Does that mean that welfare checks and food stamps stop also???

how about Congressional paychecks?


51 posted on 07/12/2011 10:43:23 AM PDT by haircutter
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To: COBOL2Java

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that...brilliant!

You are so right-—that picture literally defines the budget issue. Just replace the flags with the donkey and the elephant (although the liberals would never hold guns...perhaps their guy would be waving a lawsuit instead, or be clad in black robes swinging a gavel).


52 posted on 07/12/2011 10:43:46 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Nachum

Of course the SS check can go out. The EPA may have to shut down and a few other worthless agencies which would be a plus plus.


53 posted on 07/12/2011 10:43:52 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Nachum

I’m assuming that POTUS and family are still planning on taking that pricey vacation on the taxpayer’s dime, though...


54 posted on 07/12/2011 10:44:46 AM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: Nachum
I believe Da Prez and Taxacheat has to exhaust the discretionary spending first.
55 posted on 07/12/2011 10:45:05 AM PDT by tobyhill (Real Spending Cuts Don't Require Increasing The Debt)
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To: DonaldC
That is the problem with this mess. The folks that can take the interruption the least, will be the first hit.

That's always the plan with government shutdown. Hit the ones who will make the most noise to make the Repubs cave. There will be no interruption in National Endowment for the Arts grants -- THAT is guaranteed.

56 posted on 07/12/2011 10:45:30 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In the land of the pigs, the butcher is king.)
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To: Nachum

Alternate Headline: Obama admits Social Security payments are from borrowed money, trust fund broke.


57 posted on 07/12/2011 10:45:40 AM PDT by PogySailor (The ruling class will not go down easily. And neither will their paid hacks.)
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To: supremedoctrine

“A lot of us saw this coming the day he was elected”

True. It is a little like watching an incoming asteroid. Some of us saw it coming- for all the good it has done.


58 posted on 07/12/2011 10:46:00 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

HOP needs to get out in front of this and tell seniors right now that if checks don’t go out, it is because Obama doesn’t care about them as much as his political cronies.


59 posted on 07/12/2011 10:46:44 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Clintonfatigued; A_Former_Democrat; Impy

The worthless f*ckster has no control over it.

When does Hillary! announce?


60 posted on 07/12/2011 10:47:26 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Perry/Bachmann 2012 - they can share hair care products.)
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