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Boehner is a disgrace to the entire country. The right need to get a clue and vote who is actually the best candidate, not who simply has an (R) next to their name, or you'll end up with clowns like this.
why not just support yourself and stop depending on people smarter than you who have enough confidence in themselves to gamble all they own to take a chance and suceed. thats My America
So giving the rich a pass on the taxes the middle class pay on their wages so they can spend it investing overseas is wrong ?
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.
It would just create more stress on the nation, which is why SS was enacted in the beginning. Bottom line is that most people cannot work much beyond 65, willing or not.
When will American's realize that most people face hardships and need help because they cannot, could not arrive at any other place? No one intentionally decided one day to end up on a soup line, or shelter line.
As we traveled the country, we saw people living in the woods, the swamps, and urban alleys. They had bare feet, tattered clothes, dirty faces. I met a few while walking my dog. One woman was so overjoyed that we actually acknowledged her that she wept while petting him.
Face it, America, we've got some serious problems, and they've been around long before this present economic situation. Making laws isn't going to do anything if people still cannot get shelter, food, and clothing. Darn it, we don't even give them a place to bath! How are you going to get them to work?
And then I haven't even touched on AGE DISCRIMINATION that is totally alive and thriving in major employment arenas.
Okay, rant over. Sorry if I upset your dream world, go back to sleep.
I don't usually swear, but Boehner can go **** his orange dyed hide goodbye Imagine, let's continue to pay war expenditures, and rebuild things abroad, and nothing at home. The guy should be in jail.
Yes, this failing of government started very recently.
No one before now, no policies already in place, set the groundwork for what is seen today.
The fund wasn't robbed to pay for other programs for the past 30 decades (that I've been watching it).
I'm not saying it's good or bad, it just is.
Life expectancy is much longer than it was decades ago, and the full retirement age has been changing over the years.
I see no reason why the retirement age shouldn't be raised. We are living much longer lives now, than we we used to.
However, it'll have an overall small effect on the SSI payments and money problems. They should simply remove SS withholdings from the general fund, and put them in their own fund.
Of course that would mean we couldn't fight wars anymore, and that God forbid we can't continue the stupid Bush tax cuts, but alas, you can't have your cake, and eat it to.
As we traveled the country, we saw people living in the woods, the swamps, and urban alleys. They had bare feet, tattered clothes, dirty faces. I met a few while walking my dog. One woman was so overjoyed that we actually acknowledged her that she wept while petting him.
I'd take a guess that dirty faced barefoot swamp people are both an exception to the norm in America and wouldn't likely be impacted in any way by social security age being raised three years.
I might as well point out that as we traveled the country we saw people living in huge suburban homes with multiple cars in the driveway, talking on cell phones on their way to the restaurant to eat out.
Democrats have blocked serious SS reform for 50 years. Its their fault and only their fault that SS is in the mess it is in.
when you are 50 TRILLION Dollars in the hole, you cant just write a check to cover it.
It is funny to see liberals on CD wanting to shoot the messenger.
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Imagine, let's continue to pay war expenditures, and rebuild things abroad, and nothing at home. The guy should be in jail.
