Posted on 03/13/2011 5:17:53 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Mark Warner, D-Va., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Gov. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind.; Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Senators Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Joe Lieberman, independent from Connecticut.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Live from Japan.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz; Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif; John Hofmeister, former president of Shell Oil; Ichiro Fujisaki, Japanese ambassador to the U.S.; James Acton, Nuclear Policy Program associate, Carnegie Endowment; James Lee Witt, former FEMA director.
All I know about the teachers in Indiana is that they are being laid off. Their pension fund is set to be bankrupt in 2019. They were hit hard in the pension fund when the Chrysler deal happened.
State treasurer Mourdock took that to the Supreme Court, where he didn’t exactly win but they left the door open for further consideration.
I’m not crying for the teachers, they make much more than most people in the private sector. But I don’t know what is going to happen to them.
Daniels took away collective bargaining for public sector employees when he first took office in an executive order. That may apply to teachers but I’m not sure about that.
Oh, the government does not hesitate to tell you that you have enough.
I only mentioned that as a absolute last resort if it became necessary to keep the system afloat for those who need it to live on.
There are so many people who really, really, depend on their benefits from social security.
But there are many other things that should be tried before that and well, okay, I take it back.
Hmmmm...
...so this is Mitch Daniels, right? This is the guy who, out of nowhere, is suddenly some kind of darling contender for a presidential bid?
His name has been mentioned prominently by some of the RINO talk drones, including Krauthammer I believe. Bill Crystal, whose picture should be under the phrase “spokesnoid for the Blue Blood GOP’s”...was naming possible candidates at one interview I saw. HE mentioned Mitch Daniels and again, what the hey? In all my visions did I see any sign of this Mitch Daniels in the surround.
But the Blue Bloods, looks to me like they like ole Mitch. And it looks to me like ole Mitch is a Blue Blood Ruling Class and Luger...hey’s he’s another RINO the Blue Bloods want to foist upon you, I can see the forest for the trees all the way from Delaware.
I wish you well. I’m on your side. because they want their Blue Blood club in there and they want their RINOS and they do not like this Tea Party crowd one whit. We don’t know what the hell we’re talking about, we think that just like this...snap fingers here....that you can vote to overturn that which has been for many years or install that which has never been....it don’t work like that, the Tea Partiers do not have a soupcon of the inside knowledge that we...the Ruling Class Blue Blood GOP have...they don’t understand it and we must save them from their folley.
Bill Crystal, snooty long-nosed toot looking down it at us morons who want REAL Conservatives, went on to name a few other guys for GOP presidential then, I’m not making this up, deliberately did NOT mention Palin but, so cutely I almost gagged, he rolled his eyes and said...”is there someone else I’m forgetting here?”...dag how I laffed, damn this man is too clever by half again.
They are not going to give it up and we are not the Democrats who must be reached to across the aisle with soft hands and carefully buffed fingernails. We are the ones that they have no compunction whatsoever with lying about, cheating on, mocking as if the greatest students of Alinsky on the planet....I’m not exaggerating folks. They fight their base, the Tea Party types, like pit bulls being let loosed on Mike Vick.
I wish you well, I’m on your side, stand your principles, wear a crash helmet and dear Lord we’d all love to see this Luger gone.
And by me this Mitch Daniels done sold his soul to the Blue Blood Ruling Class elite devils.
I believe in 2005, Daniels reversed an EO that gave collective bargaining privileges to "highway police, hospital attendants, mechanics and some other state workers".
Other state workers, such as the Indiana teachers, weren't covered by the EO and they retained collective bargaining privileges.
Then, several weeks ago, Daniels backed off on his support of two bills, one which would have removed collective bargaining privileges for Indiana teachers and other state workers who weren't covered in the 2005 EO.
The other bill Daniels backed off on was the right-to-work bill.
Apparently, Daniels is now sucking up the unions, the media, and the RINO establishment, and in return, he gets his name mentioned as a possible presidential candidate.
Sickening.
Thank God for the Tea Party Pats is all I can say.
Totally agree with your post Fish.
IT is sickening. We need to back the Tea party pats who know what is what in Indiana.
Thanks for the additional information.
I knew he wasn’t for the right to work law, and some bills on social issues. He spoke out on some of them before the legislative session started.
To me, he does not act on principle, don’t even know if he has any principles. I’ve heard other stories about him and to me they all point to a lack of character or courage, or both.
The story here is going to end far differently than it did in Wisconsin, because Daniels is NO Scott Walker unfortunately.
Well, thank you, Morgan. I’d say Rodguy has me beat by a long shot - he must have speed typing skills!
Here’s an article that well supports your questioning of means-testing as a fix to SS:
http://www.offthechartsblog.org/means-testing-no-answer-for-social-security/
Let’s hope that our Repubs, who, face it, aren’t showing a whole lot of gumption of late, fight back against this concept.
A lot of Americans envision a Bill Gates type of person. The real money is in people like me and husband. We get about $3,000 a month, that’s with TWO SS checks, that’s $36,000 a year...we’re hardly sitting around on Easy street. But we’re not starving either.
We have a house paid for (hey, we paid it off....we paid it off with profit of sale from a waterfront home to a non-waterfront...very fiscally responsible). We have some money in the bank from our 401-K’s...all legal as provided by American law. We have to start spending it by our ages 70.5 and we will and we will pay taxes on our withdrawals as appropriate.
Husband and I are EXACTLY who means testing for SS would target. As the article states, there aren’t enough Bill Gates/Donald Trump types collecting SS checks that absconding with them won’t do much good at all.
But there are probably MILLIONS of average folk like husband and I...that’s where your money is.
People that have a house paid for, dear Lord the gubmint will say, what you need all that SS for? You don’t have a mortgage when right over here we got lotsa people about to be foreclosed on who could use some of that SS money you get that you don’t need for a house payment. People with 401-K money, dear Lord, use the interest you make from your savings that you worked for and earned all those years that came out of your paycheck and in no way came from any gubmint coffers save delayed payment of taxes on same. We should take even more from your and husband SS checks for all that savings you two have.
Further, says the gubmint, well dear Lord, you both live together and are receiving TWO SS checks? Here you two are saving on electricity, cable service, etc...why you need all that money that was withheld from your paychecks, BOTH of your paychecks, through the years, and matched by your employers? We got some folks over here never been married, been too busy for silly stuff like settling down and all, and they need some of your SS check.
Anybody don’t think this would happen I got a bridge to sell cheap.
So how much of husband and my SS checks would the gubmint take? Maybe a thousand a month for no need for house payment, interest for 401K should be coming in, savings from being married 25 years and living together?
Thus husband and I would be taking in, what? $24,000 a year...so okay, we’d survive I suppose.
But do we really want to go after retired/disabled folk making about $36,000 a year, honest, law-abiding, lived by the rules, paid their mortgage?
Has American really degraded this far?
Cause they ain’t gonna get this money from Bill Gates, folks.
I agree. And I was surprised by what a small difference it would make, since it’s always ranked up there with increasing the retirement age to assure solvency.
The big issue is Medicare, and I think the right free market healthcare reforms would go a long way in bringing down those costs. The system as is is out of control.
I said somewhere else, on another thread somewhere on SS/Medicare, that all my assertions did NOT apply to Medicare. IE...even though I paid 1.3% os thereabouts (WITH an employer match which I always must point out as people forget this) all the years, unlike my payments of 6.2% (WITH the employer match)for SS which should be enough for what I withdraw...in the case of Medicare I’m quite sure that what those on it today will probably pull out will be waaaay more than they paid in, even considering an employer match. This is mostly because of a longer life span but the cost of health care, as we all know, has skyrocketed.
Medicare, in other words, is a problem.
I’m with you. Give all Medicare recipients a voucher and let the free market take over. I’m willing to bet the free market would get health care costs down, yeah even for the elderly.
Not that any common sense solution will happen, damn we can’t even count on the Republicans to make it happen.
Yep, if I had to guess I’d say my parents have received much more than 10x what they put in to Medicare for their healthcare costs. And I wouldn’t want them to have any less coverage. But it took my moving to a state where most plans have you seeing what gets billed to the insurance company to realize just how totally out of control the costs are. The whole medical system needs free market reforms. (The opposite, of course, of Obamacare or Romneycare or Danielscare, etc.)
But I don’t know what is going to happen to them.
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