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It foreshadows a brokered and bloody GOP convention next summer.
Never mind that, we got to get through the debt ceiling in November. I think Boehner will ultimately say "f-it" and raise the debt ceiling with the help of Democrats (as he has done in the past), but all the kabuki theatre from the tea bag folks may be just enough to get us downgraded on our credit rating. Again. Some people are incapable of learning from their mistakes.
Besides that, with a lunatic representative as Speaker, you can rest assured nothing will ever get passed until either party has a trifecta of POTUS, House and filibuster-proof Senate.
In all fairness though raising the retirement age is a common sense measure. Social Security was not designed for people to draw benefits for 20+ years. IIRC when the program was set up back in the 1930s they designed it for the average person to draw benefits for 5 years ... and they still set the age high enough that a considerable number of people would die before becoming eligible.
I favor raising the retirement age to 70.
I don't know where you got the idea that back in the 1930s they designed it for the average person to draw benefits for 5 years. But if you are trying to argue that life expectancy is higher now, except that the people who really depend on Social Security, those in the bottom half of the distribution, aren't living much longer. So you’re going to tell janitors to work until they're 70 because lawyers are living longer than ever.
The other thing is that Social Security has no current problem. Everything detractors predict is decades in the future. So, detractors recommend cut benefits today to avoid cutting benefits at some point in the future.
This was expected to happen. I spoke about it 4 days ago.
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This individual announced on Chris Wallaces's political show this morning that he will be mounting a challenge to Keven McCarthy as Speaker of the House. Says that McCarthy does not have the votes to pull off a win.
watching FOX news laughing my --- off its rumble time in DC- small bully bunch trying to push the majority and nothing is working and Boehner will have to stay until someone --nobody knows who-- is elected and probably will be after Jan. so he will clean house( barn) of all that stuff they sitting on. HA-HA got exactly what they wanted by pressing McCarthy-OUT
NOW Paul may be looking for the presidency in the future- be a fool to get mixed up in this mess. The small rug rats do not have a PLAN they can destroy and tear down, but no plan to build and NOW even FOX commentators are saying it. Totally frustrated time to watch the PILLOW fight! time to get some pop corn
Never mind that, we got to get through the debt ceiling in November. I think Boehner will ultimately say "f-it" and raise the debt ceiling with the help of Democrats (as he has done in the past), but all the kabuki theatre from the tea bag folks may be just enough to get us downgraded on our credit rating. Again. Some people are incapable of learning from their mistakes.
Besides that, with a lunatic representative as Speaker, you can rest assured nothing will ever get passed until either party has a trifecta of POTUS, House and filibuster-proof Senate.
What a joke politics have become in the US.
Mick
Politics was never intended to be easy. It shouldn't be either.
watching FOX news laughing my --- off its rumble time in DC- small bully bunch trying to push the majority and nothing is working and Boehner will have to stay until someone --nobody knows who-- is elected and probably will be after Jan. so he will clean house( barn) of all that stuff they sitting on. HA-HA got exactly what they wanted by pressing McCarthy-OUT
NOW Paul may be looking for the presidency in the future- be a fool to get mixed up in this mess. The small rug rats do not have a PLAN they can destroy and tear down, but no plan to build and NOW even FOX commentators are saying it. Totally frustrated time to watch the PILLOW fight! time to get some pop corn
Yep......Paul over party......
To be fair he probably believes he would have a hard time getting the votes and if he didn't it would really harm any future aspirations.
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time to watch the PILLOW fight! time to get some pop corn
