Posted on 01/06/2012 6:38:10 PM PST by DJ MacWoW
KEENE, N.H. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum called Friday for immediate cuts to Social Security benefits, risking the wrath of older voters and countless others who balk at changes to the entitlement program.
"We can't wait 10 years," even though "everybody wants to," Santorum told a crowd while campaigning in New Hampshire and looking to set himself apart from his Republican rivals four days before the New Hampshire primary.
Most of his opponents have advocated phasing in a reduction and say immediate cuts would be too big a shock to current and soon-to-be retirees.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
Yup!
“Social Security needs to be reformed, yes.”
No, Social Security and Medicare need to be abolished.
But, until then, we need to make deep cuts in Social Security, Medicare and every other aspect of federal spending.
There are no Sacred Cows!
He's dead in the water. Santorum is a fool.
And now every democrat running for whatever office can claim that the republicans want to cut social security and, for once, not be lying about it, if Santorum is the nominee.
How about cutting foreign aid, benefits for illegal aliens, welfare for layabouts, SS/Medicare/Medicaid fraud and grants for quasi-political orgs like ACORN first?
Yes there ARE sacred cows. That money belongs to the people who paid into SS!
Excellent point!
You’re right. There is so much other garbage that should be cut!
agree as well, 6 months ago I was sure this election would be a cake walk.
He is an idiot. Seniors VOTE.
They will not support anybody who wants to cut their SS.
Cut foreign aid.
I’m not sure what he actually intends. The problem is NOT with people who have paid into social security all their lives. It’s with people who are getting special bennies without having put all that much in. Illegals, among others, and plenty of welfare cheats.
Personally, I am retired and living largely on social security, AND I PAID FAR MORE INTO IT THAN I’LL EVER GET BACK. And I cannot afford more any cuts in what I am getting.
So, I hope he doesn’t mean cutting those benefits. On the whole, it would be best if we cut out some of the welfare angles and the cheaters—people receiving benefits for 20 years after the supposed recipient is dead.
I would take the article cautiously, because everyone seems to be out to undermine Santorum, so it would be just as well to wait and see what he really wants to do, and not what some AP presstitute says he wants to do.
What would he tell people? We took your money and you’re not getting it back?! What the heck is Santorum thinking?
Wow ! Santorum really stepped in it...and, unlike Perry, he wasn’t even wearing his boots !
He’s talking gradually over ten years, isn’t he?
Sanatorium has just submitted his resignation as a potential VP candidate on whoever’s ticket!
Our country is in desperate straights. I think it makes people panic.
“That money belongs to the people who paid into SS!”
If that is the case, write every Social Security recipient a check for the exact amount of money they paid in to Social Security minus the amount of money they have thus far received from Social Security.
Social Security is Socialism.
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