Comments on: Boehner Pledges To Privatize Social Security: ‘We’re Going to Get Serious About This’

By: disgrunt » 109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress

disgrunt » 109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:57:02 +0000

[...] 53. Conservatives repeatedly tried to privatize Social Security, a change that would lead to sharp cuts in guaranteed benefits. [Link] [...]

By: Think Progress » 109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress

Think Progress » 109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:13:27 +0000

[...] 53. Conservatives repeatedly tried to privatize Social Security, a change that would lead to sharp cuts in guaranteed benefits. [Link] [...]

By: rochesterturning.com: turning the tide upstate

rochesterturning.com: turning the tide upstate — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:50:26 +0000

[...] Unlike some people at the White House, I think it’s fine to change your mind. There’s just one problem: I don’t think Kuhl is telling the truth here. If we are to judge him by the company he keeps, it should be noted that McCrery, after backing away from privatization has how come out in favor of reintroducing it after the November elections. It’s also worth noting that McCrery has given the Kuhl campaign $10,000. And here’s what House Majority Leader John Bohner (who spoke at a fundraiser for Kuhl not long ago) said about privatizing Social Security: Q: Where does Social Security reform stand? [...]

By: neocleo

neocleo — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:41:52 +0000

I suggest the SAFE commission, the eejit in the oval office and boehner roll up their social security reform suggestions and shove them up their collective wazoo. The damn republicans have been trying to destroy social security since it was first passed.

Social security IS NOT AN ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM, YOU FREAKIN LIARS–welfare is an entitlement. I PAY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND HAVE DONE SO FOR OVER 25 YEARS.

This program can be fixed. All these @ssholes need to do is RAISE THE CAP for deductions and quit LETTING the people who earn higher wages off the hook. The program is for ALL social security. If the cap is raised, the problem goes away. I am so damn sick of the ever widening gulf between the haves and the have nots since this greedy, diseased excuse for an administration took power and began class war against the middle and poor working classes. It’s time for pitch forks and torches at the gates folks.

Anyone who believes the crap these liars are spreading about social security deserves the government they get. Too bad they also drag the rest of us down with their stupidity.

By: ash

ash — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:31:17 +0000

I think it is a simple task of removing the cap. For the life of me I do not understand why those who are blessed financially would not want to help those less fortunate. It seems alot of people in the USA have an “everyman for themselves” attitude.

Also for the life of me I do not understand why the rich cannot see that if they do not help to keep SS solvent then there is a very good chance the USA implodes with revolution. Those without the financial means to survive if SS and medicare dissolve will simply do what is necessary to survive. If this is a significant percentage of the population then the rich can kiss their capitalist paradise goodbye.

Such selfishness and short-sightedness.

By: Janet Fraser Smith

Janet Fraser Smith — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:52:00 +0000

THERE ARE A FEW PEOPLE, WHO HAVE POSTED HERE, WHO MUST HAVE BEEN ASLEEP FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS. EITHER THAT, OR THEY LOVE THE DICTATOR WHO, ALONG WITH CHENEY, RUMMY & THE REST OT THE NEO-CONSERVATIVES, STOLE THE WHITE HOUSE WITH ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES (NO PAPER TRAIL). WHAT PREVENTS SOME FROM SIMPLY REALIZING, HISTORICALLY, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS COUNTRY AND “WE THE PEOPLE,”? THE “ADMINISTRATION NOW IS SPYING ON ITS CITIZENS W/O A LAWFUL WARRENT. OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES ARE BEING STRIPPED AWAY IE: THE PATRIOT ACT, OVER 45 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE, THE ECONOMY IS LIMPING TO A HALT, EMPLOYMENT IS NOT TO BE FOUND BY MILLIONS, OUR SOCIAL PROGRAMS ARE BEING THROWN IN THE GARBAGE SO THAT HALLIBURTON, ET AL, CAN RIP US OFF FOR BILLIONS. WE ARE IN AN “OCCUPATION” OF SEVERAL COUNTRIES WHERIN THE PEOPLE THERE ARE MURDERED BY OUR MILITARY MIGHT. NOT TO MENTION THE THOUSANDS OF OUR OWN YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE DYING FOR BU$H LIES AND BIG OIL!!!! MEDICARE HAS BEEN TAMPERED WITH TO THE POINT WHERE THE ELDERLY ARE BEING KICKED OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND ARE ON THE STREETS DYINGOF ILL HEALTH. NOW THE BILLIONAIRES WANT TO STEAL OUR S.SEC.FOR WHICH MANY HAVE LABORED FOR THEIR LIFETIMES. PRIVATIZE?? HUMPH! PRIVATIZE = GIVING OUR SS $ TO WALL STREET IS WHAT THAT IS!!. ENJOY YOUR LIFE, CHASE. WHY ARE YOU SO WILLING TO SWEEP AWAY OTHER PEOPLE’S LIVES AND FREEDOMS? WHY ARE YOU SO WILLING TO CHANGE/THROW AWAY THE CONSTITUTION THAT HAS MADE US THE GREAT, BELOVED, RESPECTED AND LOVING COUNTRY WE ONCE WERE? HMMMMMM??????
A PASSIONATE PATRIOT.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:10:39 +0000

There is an easy answer for getting SS in the black – Cap removal!
Apply the tax across the board without exempting the amounts over $96,000 a year and the program is instantly solvent.
My legislator also pointed out that the interest rate that the government pays when it “borrows” the SS money is dictated by Congress. So they just up the rate a quarter point and voila, solved permanently. This whole “entitlement” straw man is a code word for ’screw the middle class’!

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:07:18 +0000

Go Bane of all Boners, you go, rock on!
Make sure everyone knows that the Social Security program dismantling that was Bush’s first legislative defeat of his second term is your new baby! Go Go Go!!

By: rochesterturning.com: turning the tide upstate

rochesterturning.com: turning the tide upstate — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:50:25 +0000

[...] The aptly-named John Boehner — the new bagman for Jack Abramoff Republican House Majority Leader — will be in town doing a fundraiser for Kuhl on Sunday. It seems that Boehner thinks it is time the House “get serious” about phasing-out (or what’s the euphemsim they like? “privatizing”?) Social Security. [...]

By: Robert Sawdey

Robert Sawdey — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:59:15 +0000

It’s spelled ‘Boner’ but it’s pronounced ‘Dickhead’! (sarcasm)

Chase, you say you want to become a persecuter… have you ever considered that the US incarcerates people at 10 TIMES the rate of the European Union? (Whose culture is very similar) That the US is number ONE in the incarceration of their citizens, both in total numbers and percentage? And the total imprisonment of citizens is increasing at 1000 people per day! (Not to mention those imprisoned without charge, without representation, for indefinate periods without Habeus Corpus rights? Have you even READ the Constitution?) Isn’t that the DEFINITION of repression? The majority of the imprisoned are convicted of victimless ’sex and drugs’ morality crimes… and the majority of the rest are imprisioned (at a cost of $30,000 plus per year) for stealing to live, when a $30,000 dollar support would eliminate their problems. Convicts make no income, pay no taxes, while their dependants require welfare to survive, vastly increasing the real costs of imprisonment. (not to mention social and psychological costs). If you truly loved the IDEA of an inpartial law, you MUST fight the actuality of ‘rich man’s justice’ vs. ‘poor man’s justice’! Should the Prosecutor’s budget be limited to equal that of the defense? Or do you (wrongly) assert that money has no influence on judicial outcomes? Why, then, are the poor convicted at far higher rates than the rich? Why were the MAJORITY of the citizens on Death Row in Illinois found INNOCENT when DNA tests were permitted? If I’m going to consider you a ‘MENSCH’ you’ve got to show me you’ve supported the PEOPLE over the AUTHORITARIANS! Doesn’t seem to be the case…. you definately would NOT get my vote for Prosecutor… I think the US needs far LESS fascists than MORE! Your proposed itinerary will do more damage to the US citizenary than help.

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:45:23 +0000

Viagra not Vigra > lol

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:44:34 +0000

Give B-O-N-E-R a ton of Vigra please > he will become so stiff that he will not be able to move or destroy Social Security, then give him to Jeff Gannon for his pleasure > lol.

By: Paul Pastrano

Paul Pastrano — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:24:50 +0000

It’s not a matter of does Social Security need to be reformed, it’s a matter of how and when. Private Accounts are not the answer, but we should get serious about reforming the system as soon as possible.

By: Bluein Texas

Bluein Texas — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:58:11 +0000

On drug program: the donut hole will not hit until September for most retirees, let’s see how satisfied they are then.
On Social Security: I am 52 years old, I have been paying into SS since I was 16 years old, these f**king republicans will steal my SS over my dead body.

By: jeff johnson

jeff johnson — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:55:55 +0000

i think alll good americans ought buy and send john a pack of his favorite smoke. c’mon john, smoke, smoke, smoke. are ya smoking yet? that sweet carolina smoke.

By: Someone Else

Someone Else — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:34:34 +0000

Both of my parents and all of my aunts (no uncles) paid into Social Security all their lives. They died at 66, 60, 59, and 42. None collected their Social Security. Don’t assume you’re going to live long enough to have to worry about it anyway.

By: ALD

ALD — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:17:00 +0000

What drugs is number #14 “The prescription drug plan demonstrates that individuals are capable of making their own decisions about the plans that suit their needs best, so a similar set of choices that allow citizens paying into SS to buy bonds, stocks, REITâ€™s, whatever has now been demonstrated to be feasible.

Comment by Jason M. Hendler â€” July 31, 2006 @ 6:32 pm ” taking?

The prescription drug has demonstarted nothing except that drug companies profits can go up when the US government chooses to screw not just the elederly, but all the tax payers. And yes bush still hasn’t totally paid back wall street, so you want to see citizens retirements stolen in fees…again just so the few can get richer.
Shame on you for supporting any program that fool puts out…to trust a man that has bankrupted every thing he’s touched is foolish!

By: Mass Revolution Now! » Blog Archive » Another Reason To Vote Democrat In November

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:02:18 +0000

[...] I think that there are probably one million reasons why I vote Democratic and now I can make it one million and one. House Majority Leader John Boehner is promising that should Republicans hold the House in 2006 that they will make a major push to privatize Social Security. Yes, they tried this once and it failed but when your Party has nothing, and I mean nothing, going for it all you can do is bring back the ideas that have failed and hope they win. [...]

By: Robert Teiken

Robert Teiken — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:44:51 +0000

PLC’s comment in #104 above is spot on. And this is this point about the real purpose of Social Security is one that the Republicans always want to avoid. Instead they obscure it by talking about “reform” (i.e., privatization) or “ownership society” or “it’s your money”. Their underlying motivation is to eliminate the program as it is and replace it with something that makes these funds available to the investment industry (i.e., greed). They will have a tough fight with the older generation, most of whom realize that the changes will not affect them; however, they have the experience, wisdom and compassion to understand the value of the program to their children and to our society. I think that many younger folks will as well…particularly those who have zero savings, negative net worth and are increasingly pensionless. There is no doubt that the system will need either increased revenue (e.g.., taxes, like removing the cap) or decreased benefits (e.g., increased eligibility age) to remain solvent with the baby boomers reaching retirement. Obviously there are not enough Senators or Representatives with the courage to debate the real issues honestly and openly in this Republican controlled government

By: Steve53

Steve53 — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:33:09 +0000

I trust Bush and Co. with my money and my future.NOT IN A MILLION FU*KING YEARS

Comment by American Patriot
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That sums up my point-of-view quite nicely as well,AP.