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Title: House GOP leader John Boehner proposes raising age to collect Social Security (in order to pay for WOT)
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USA Today
URL Source: http://content.usatoday.com/communi ... e-to-collect-social-security/1
Published: Jun 29, 2010
Author: Naomi Jagoda
Post Date: 2010-06-30 10:10:27 by F.A. Hayek Fan
Keywords: None
Views: 159
Comments: 7
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review today that he would support raising the Social Security retirement age to 70 to help pay for the war in Afghanistan. "If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you're retired, why are we paying you at a time when we're broke?" he said to the paper in an interview. Democrats are pouncing on Boehner's remarks, arguing that they foreshadow the approach to government Republicans would take if they win control of Congress in the 2010 midterm elections. Boehner's comments come as lawmakers in both parties, but especially Republicans, have expressed concern with the growing national debt. Boehner said in the interview that entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare will need to be reformed to address the problem. Boehner also criticized President Obama's proposal to revamp Wall Street, which is working its way through Congress. Boehner compared the measure to "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon." Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, who chairs the campaign arm of House Democrats, said the comments are a "wake-up call to the American people about the dangers of turning back the clock to a Republican Congress." The Boehner interview is available here. Updated at 6:01 p.m. ET. Boehner spokesman Michael Steel notes that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., discussed a similar idea during a speech this month. "On the spending side, we could and should consider a higher retirement age, or one pegged to lifespan; more progressive Social Security and Medicare benefits; and a stronger safety net for the Americans who need it most.," Hoyer said in the speech. (Reported by Naomi Jagoda)
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#1. To: All (#0)
LOL! I love it! If FR and LP are any indication, it's the Geezers who are pushing hardest for the WOT and who are the biggest supporters of the MIC, so let them help pay for it. Next we need to have a draft. The more people who are personally and negatively affected, the faster this shit will stop.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everything against the State - Jan Lester, Escape From Leviathan "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. - Zhuangzi
Slavery for the military, So American, so family values.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" I don't advocate slavery. The only reason I advocate a draft is because I believe the people would rise up against the bastards in DC and put a stop to the WOT. As it is, the American people are so economically ignorant that they do not believe the WOT affects them so they ignore it. Once they actually feel the pain upfront and personal, I am of the opinion that there would be riots in the streets not seen since the Vietnam War.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everything against the State - Jan Lester, Escape From Leviathan "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. - Zhuangzi
Gotcha man. Having to work till aged to support the Trillions these wars and Empire does not serve the vast majority of the citizens.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" No it doesn't, but it is these same citizens that are pushing the hardest for the WOT, the MIC and the subsequent police state that it has and will continue to breed.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everything against the State - Jan Lester, Escape From Leviathan "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. - Zhuangzi
Evidently Boehner wants to commit political suicide in the upcoming election which may well be decided by the votes of Baby Boomers who are now on the very cusp of retirement age.
Or, maybe he recognizes that the children of the Boomers are of similar numbers, and are more or less libertarian (little "L") and have had enough of this welfare mentality. Me, I'd peg my future more on the votes of the incoming majority than on the votes of the outgoing majority.
"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC
#2. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)
#3. To: tom007 (#2)
Slavery for the military, So American, so family values.
#4. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#3)
#5. To: tom007 (#4)
Gotcha man. Having to work till aged to support the Trillions these wars and Empire does not serve the vast majority of the citizens.
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#7. To: Shoonra (#6)
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