Posted on 09/12/2011 6:54:58 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has taken a lot of heat for his critical comments toward Social Security. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says that Social Security shouldn’t just be jettisoned but that the Texas governor is right to call for reform.
"Well there's no need to frighten or throw under the bus our esteemed elders who have paid all of their working lives into the Social Security system. And the question should be asked of the politicians, where the heck is their money?" Palin said on Fox News.
"What Rick Perry was trying to say I believe is that there needs to be reform. Status quo is not acceptable because these programs are insolvent . . . So he's saying reform is necessary, and we either reform these entitlement programs ourselves or the world capital markets will reform them for us."
Perry’s main competition for the presidential nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, cuts him no such slack. His campaign is passing out a flier in Florida ripping Perry as "reckless and wrong on Social Security."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Sarah sides with Perry.
Good for her.
Please stop playing the blame game.I have seen it clearly, if a poll is favorable of Palin it is breaking news,if it is not favorable of Palin it's a bad, MSM they hate her poll. It is old,sounds bitter,catty and childish and Gov. Palin is not like this. Politically speaking IMO if Palin was even thinking about throwing her name in the hat and running she would never be speaking out like this. I don't think that Politico is the tank for Perry.
Palin bolsters Perry on Social Security
My son, a liberal who is still defending Obama, read the article in the NYT that praised Sarah (to their own stated amazement) and my son said that Sarah is right and he agrees with her.
This is really quite incredible. However, he thinks that since the Gifford’s shooting that she has no chance - on this I disagree.
Sarah changing the mind of my son - not to mention the NYT - is stunning to me.
Thank you Sarah.
It shows class and her unity with Perry.She would make a superb energy secretary.2 dollar gas ANWR drill baby drill.That will make the media scream like the hell that they are.
I find it funny when Perry supporters say Palin’s gonna endorse Perry or be his VP. She hasn’t decided whether to run or not and you are already courting her endorsement. Talk about power.
Here’s an idea that we could make part of Social Security reform:
At regular intervals such as monthly, acturial, financial and census inputs will be crunched and out will pop a set of results, one for each age group at calculation time. Each citizen will combine nis result with his earnings history to get his projected benefit.
By doing this each of us would know what to expect from the Social Security program.
Your solutions would be just doubling down on a Ponzi Scheme - I already pay $6,500 a year into SS and will most likley never see a penny, especially if they raise the age and means test the program.
It’s time to change and reform the SS program, not double down on a failed program.
Jack Wheeler states:
As for the debate itself, Perry won flat out. It was The Rick Perry Show, also featuring Mitt Romney as a polished articulate wonk. Rick Santorum wore a pink tie, Ron Paul conformed to his crazy uncle in the attic role, Gingrich pontificated as the elder statesman-advisor he's morphing into, Bachmann was a wallflower, Huntsman an idiot Warmist, and Herman Cain had a great proposal that the audience cheered:
"I propose my 9-9-9 plan: a straight 9% corporate tax, 9% personal income tax, and 9% federal sales tax. If 10% is good enough for God, 9% is good enough for the federal government."
Perry came off immensely real and likeable. His energy and personality dominated. He didn't back down, he double-downed on Social Security being a Ponzi scheme, "a monstrous lie" to young people. He made fun of Warmism, comparing climate realists to Galileo (and thus "consensus science" to geocentrism). And he drove the audience ecstatic with his response to FM propagandist Brian Williams' question over the 234 death row executions under his governorship:
Williams: "Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?"
Perry: "No sir, I've never struggled with that at all. In the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is you will be executed."
Williams was scandalized, and especially by the audience cheering. So he asked Perry what he made of it. Perry shrugged, smiled knowingly, and answered: "I think Americans understand justice."
Or Perry/Romney, Palin/Pawlenty?
I love Jack Wheeler! This is good news!
I read that article quite a few days ago, NM must have re printed it with a new date?
At any rate they are for Perry so no thing surprising here.
I watched Sarah on Fox live as she said it, taking every word she said, Perry should not be flattered.
I believe you. I saw her movie I don’t need to read her books but I will when I can real soon. What good does it do anybody if she is not even looking like she is running?Perry is Presidential material.How is he not; just because he is not your first choice does not make him unqualified.West is my first choice but I am not going to contrive in my head that he will pull a miracle and save us all.Nor will I call other tea party candidates names or insinuate they are below him.Especially when he is not running.Perry may pick Palin as VP or energy secretary; what is wrong with that?
“She would make a superb energy secretary.”
Wouldn’t she, though? Re oil and America’s other natural resources, I expect that she and Perry are on the same page. Together, they could kick some serious ass.
(I still would rather have her as President.)
Oh such BS....she did an excellent interview...and she stood right up there FOR Perry.
Unlike Gov. Palin, the RINO Rick has YET to be vetted.
Perry is much more a politician than Palin because he’s much more likely to fold into a political compromise/accomodation deal position than Palin.
Palin isn’t likely to compromise or accomodate on matters of principle ... Perry is.
Therein lies the beauty of Palin’s auto-biographies.
Compromise and accomodation are vehicles of moral dishonesty.
Palin, meanwhile is a good woman ... and Presidential material.
Trust me
It is not important that we trust you. But can we trust her and her vision. I truly hope she gives us to opportunity see her vision and gain our trust. I pray she does give us that chance. The nation might depend on it.
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Briefly, Perry reiterates what he said in the debate: while retirees and those near retirement are fine, the program is going broke fast and we need a blunt conversation about that fact and what to do about it.
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