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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) told his colleagues this week that he does not want to vote again on repealing President Obama’s healthcare reform law until after the November elections.
Uh huh, it's all the liberals fault ...
Tell you what -- get your act together and at least elect a Republican caucus that can select a leader who will do what you want. Because as long as the leader of the Senate GOP Caucus won't push for the repeal of the healthcare reform law, all your whining and sniveling about liberals is pathetic and laughable ...
Tell you what -- get your act together and at least elect a Republican caucus that can select a leader who will do what you want. Because as long as the leader of the Senate GOP Caucus won't push for the repeal of the healthcare reform law, all your whining and sniveling about liberals is pathetic and laughable ...
The reason he has to wait until after the election is that he doesn't have the votes in the democrat senate Plus, the idiot in the White House would veto it anyway
Interesting. SSA is capped at the first $106,000 in income and is "potentially" going broke because of the mass boomer retirees soon to hit it. I say potentially because if congress didn't keep borrowing from it, then the SSA may look healthier financially.
so the solution is to raise the retirement age? what does this do? well it (1) assumes more people will die before actually drawing on the bennies paid for in SSA taxes, (2) may result in people working longer well into their late 60's maybe early 70's, and (3) require people to draw down their other retirement accounts before they are eligible for SSA. Wow sounds great, sign me up.
2nd solution, index the SSA benefit based on income? sounds a lot like income redistribution.
here's a better deal - take the massive lump sum hit, pay everyone back their contributions, and let us invest them as we see fit.
next up is to eliminate departments. let's start with TSA. one simple word why the private sector does not want the security responsibility...are you ready....LIABILITY. unless you want to give the private sector a blank check to charge whatever they want to run security @ airports, etc and strip a citizen's right to due process if the private sector screws up, this will never happen.
But guess which agency takes no hit? DOD. wow cuz having the largest military in the world and spending the most on defense really makes us safe doesn't it? especially when you consider that 24 of the next 26 largest militaries combined both in size and spending are our allies....
how's about we stop protecting Europe, South Korea and Japan. bring those troops home. reopen the small bases around the country and protect our borders. want to talk about reinvigorating the American economy and the DOD savings could then be plowed into infrastructure projects.
here's another - instead of taxes, let the US gov't profit more from all the R&D work it funds that develops marketable products.
so many options but such limited, narrow-sightedness on cut, cut, cut and not in the places with the biggest amounts to cut
The lawmakers said they would turn Medicare into a premium support plan that would give seniors the same healthcare plan as members of Congress. They say this would save an estimated $1 trillion over 10 years.
“What we’re doing is telling seniors that you can have the same plan that congressmen and senators have,” DeMint said. “They get the same premium support that we do.”
I may be reading this wrong, because I like booze, but are they comparing fixed income seniors to sitting politicians making 6 figures as far as premium costs? So Senators and Congressmen are paying the same amount for HC as seniors? Not their constituents?
Someone please school me!
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Plus, the idiot in the White House would veto it anyway
