Nothing better to use to tighten the noose around the neck of a Republican than a direct quote about cutting Social Security. This comes from House Minority Leader John Boehner, the Ohio Republican who has his eye on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s job.
This will make middle America sleep better.
Ensuring there’s enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country’s entitlement system, Boehner said. He said he’d favor increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70 for people who have at least 20 years until retirement, tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than wage inflation and limiting payments to those who need them.
“We need to look at the American people and explain to them that we’re broke,” Boehner said. “If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you’re retired, why are we paying you at a time when we’re broke? We just need to be honest with people.”
CAFFEINATED POLITICS 
Something Stinks in Denmark…
.by Skip Weis on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 3:25pm.Some politicians are calling Social Security an Entitlement!
What is wrong here?
Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only 30K over your working life, that’s close to $220,500. If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employers contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working (me) you’d have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years, and that’s with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you’d have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month. The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had.
Foot Note : in 1964 Pres. Lyndon Johnson put Social Security into the General Fund & took it out of the Lock Box. In 1993, Pres Bill Clinton made Social Security taxable. You pay tax on 85% of SS.
Some politicians are calling Social Security an Entitlement!
When you win the election by a landslide, there be no room for compromise.
Let the defeated sit in the chair of the defeated and the winners sit in the chair of the victors. You do not capitulate with the enemy. You dictate the terms of surrender to the defeated.
The very people who are destroying economic prosperity and who refuse to fix it, then set themselves up as its great defenders. That’s the point of all this. Meanwhile, who is taking money out of Medicare? Obama! Who is destroying jobs? Obama! Who is destroying home ownership? Obama! Who is destroying the value of pensions and investments overall? Obama. Who is responsible for now an out-of-control escalation in the prices of health care? Obama. It may well have been true that in years past all of this irresponsibility in Washington was a joint effort, but whatever went on in the past pales in comparison to what one man and his party have done in three years.
The ton of cash was put there by Ronny-Ray-Gun who be lowering the corporate tax filled the coffers with a growth rate in business activity and yes it was good that this pussy kicking Clinton used Ronny’s money to balance the budget. Never has the defect grown so fast as under Nobama.
The Democrats have been accusing Republicans of wanting to take Social Security away from you for 50 years, and over the years Social Security recipients have believed it, and they’ve been persuaded to vote Democrat on the basis of that charge.
I don’t care who they are: They cannot deny the financial state of Social Security. They cannot deny that they have destroyed it. They cannot deny that it’s a cash cow for other spending. They cannot deny what the Social Security trustees themselves say. So they attack anybody who says it’s a Ponzi scheme or it’s unsustainable, and then they try to position themselves as defending it.
The problem is not only the Democrats, but the establishment Republicans. The establishment Republicans join in trashing conservatives who want to actually fix this and other problems. But even the establishment Republicans, for all their problems and weaknesses, are not destroying jobs. Yes, it was Obama who cut $500 billion out of Medicare in order to bring the cost of Obamacare under the magical, mythical figure of a trillion dollars so that it could be scored on a bogus basis by the Congressional Budget Office. Premiums are way up, more and more people are losing their health insurance, and we have only just begun to implement this program.
The full damage is nowhere near being implemented yet. Most of it won’t happen ’til after 2012 or 2013, once Obama’s no longer accountable for it. The Ruling Class, which would include the establishment Republicans, tell us we can’t talk about Social Security because they don’t want us to talk about Social Security, because they want to use that money when they get back in power for their own purposes. That’s the truth. So this problem is real, and it’s another reason why there is the Tea Party: Responsible Americans who understand that what’s going on is no longer sustainable. The status quo can no longer be.
But I guess you can’t see this. Right Bucko? cjw.
——————————————————————————–
To: Subject: Re: Remember when you had a brain?
From: Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 03:52:02 -0400
Cute, Skippy, but isn’t it funny that when Billy-boy Clinton left office we had tremendous ‘Hope’ and a ton of ‘Cash’. When George Bush the Turd left office we had neither and no way to fix the problem. So why are you blaming Obama?!! As one of your Wisconsin Tea-Pot-Party elected officials said, his platform was to vote against everything Obama proposed. Never before has this occurred in America. America was founded and prospered on compromise! And in tough times, the parties came together to help get America back on its feet. But not this crop of Republicans, they’d rather fiddle while America circles the drain. Oh, one more thing, you’re an Idiot!
~BF