Obama: SS checks in jeopardy

Politico44 ^ | 07/12/11 | GLENN THRUSH

[ColdOne]

Add one more terrifying item to the what-happens-if-we-default list: No Social Security checks.

That’s precisely what President Obama predicted Tuesday when new CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley asked him if he could guarantee that retirees and the disabled would get a huge batch of Social Security checks due to go out Aug. 3 – the day after the country’s debt limit is reached.

[ColdOne]

Read comment section.

[ozark hilljilly]

Obam the Destroyer is a liar!

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Tell the admistration we don’t negotiate with TERRORISTS...stop trying to scare the people...God I hate this administration for the lies and threats it makes...
Freegards,
Lex

[BillT]

Let's see: If the Government stops writing SN check can we stop paying into SSN?

The Democrats need to learn that 1. you cannot spend your way to prosperity! 2. you cannot borrow your way to prosperity!

[Doogle]

never happen

[Huskrrrr]

So this is an admission that SS is now insolvent?

[beaversmom]

He is such a slimeball.

[Smokeyblue]

Death panels and Social Security defaults.

Obama loves the old folks.

[isthisnickcool]

How toolish of him....

[Palter]

That is BS! Everyone knows Social Security is safe in a lock box somewhere!!

[blackdog]

"That’s precisely what President Obama predicted Tuesday when new CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, que'd up the advance question handed to him by the administration, asking the president if he could guarantee that retirees and the disabled would get a huge batch of Social Security checks due to go out Aug. 3 – the day after the country’s debt limit is reached?."

There, fixed it.......

[The Great RJ]

Republicans should counter and not give pay checks to Executive branch employees. Obama is a slime ball and will cut little old ladies off from social security while union thugs,his czars, and any army of bureaucrats get their money.

[Sprite518]

Wait I thought there was a Social Security Trust Fund??? (Sarcasm off)

This is all the proof WHY the government cannot be trusted with the peoples money. They mismanage money and then want to be rewarded for their failure to act responsible in order to continue their lavish lifestyle. The feds have trillions of tax dollars AND THAT IS STILL NOT ENOUGH.

Obama wants to raise the taxes just like President Hoover did right before the great depression.

[SkyDancer]

Maybe the Republicans can trot out that image of grandma being shoved down the stars the way the Democrats did way back. Turn about is fair play. OTOH, isn’t SS a different budget item or something, not tied to the national debt?

[KansasGirl]

Will Obama still get his check?? Will Obama and his wife still be gallivanting around on Air Force One to fancy resorts and partisan fundraisers?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Algore’s basement ?

[Cheetahcat]

“Read comment section.”

LOL Obaloon is not well liked!

[TSgt]

Great points that the GOP needs to be making!

This is like skipping your mortgage payment so you can take a vacation to Hawaii!

God I hate this SOB.

[katana]

Out of the first twenty there’s only one from a basement dweller opining that stopping the SS payments would dry up funding of “astroturf” Tea Parties and urging his (maybe her) feckless leader on. The other 19 read as if they were pulled from a FR thread. Would that imbeciles actually made up just 5% of the population in the real world. Life would be so much better for all.

[SMARTY]

Now everybody can see how what a flake “O” is. I think he makes it up as he goes along because he has no f’ing idea what he is doing.