I know that social security is one of our huge debt holes. and everyone is talking about taking checks away from the elderly. but really? why aren’t we talking about all those people out there on SSI disability? there is so much fraud involved in that! There are so many people receiving disability who aren’t disabled! I wonder how much of the debt could be reduced if they made it so you actually had to be seriously disabled to receive SSI.
You got that right.
We lost this. I don’t care how you slice it.
The committees that will come up, will be all over the news when the time comes, and R’s are going to get blamed for cutting medicare AND cutting the military.
Boehner is a bonehead.
First off, Dems don’t care if granny suffers. They don’t care if the military gets cut. The ONLY thing they care about, is getting on TV and saying the republicans cut such things.
Already, I am seeing commercials on the television with old folks claiming congress is cutting their medicare (which means Republicans, dontcha know)
Why does it have to be old folks?
The deal should not have been “come to an agreement or we are going to cut medicare and the military” the dems win on BOTH of those points.
The deal should have been “come to an agreement by this date, or all welfare to illegal immigrants is cut off immediately”.
Better yet, how about really tackling the problems... like anchor babies and the cost they have on our economy? Or welfare for illegals? Or foreign aid?
How about this? Come to an agreement by such and such a date with your committee, or gub’mint workers lose the right to organize?
No, we lost this, I don’t care what they say. The dems are great on this sort of stuff, they think long term, they think in election cycles, where repubs think about “getting along”.
The only good thing about this last 2 weeks, is it cast in stone the RINO’s and flushed them out (in case some folks who are slow on the uptake didn’t get it before). The “hop-along get’along” gang were flushed out like roaches when you turn on the light switch.
The RINO’s stuck it to us again, they handed the dems some long term campaign issues to use against us, and we got nothing in return. Nothing. Deficit reduction? Your kidding me. When all is said and done, they raised the ceiling, and that reduction, after all yearly adjustments will turn out to be another increase. I bet it doesn’t save 10 bucks over 10 years.
Oh, some will claim that we saved the bond market. BS, the bond market is a bubble. How can someone invest in something that has more debt than income and no oversight? Folks who invest in the US Bond market need to have a wake up call. All these municipalities, and the fed floating bonds to pay pensions are out of their mind, and it deserves to crumble under it’s own weight. The pill will be smaller to handle now, than 10 years from now.
Sorry for the rant, but this deal stinks to high heaven, and I am listening to folks on the radio celebrating as if it was VDay. I’m sorry, but I think its more like a gallows laugh than anything else.
Who is talking about taking checks away from the elderly? Everyone? Really? Link please? I am calling shenanigans on this one.