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GOP - pay China & shaft SSI recipients
GOP Wants to Pay China Before Social Security Recipients
Mon Jan 31, 2011 at 0909 AM PST You might think the GOP hates the poor and the elderly and, really, all of those that rely on entitlement payments of one sort or another. But I'll bet you didn't know how much they hate them. They hate them enough to introduce a bill that prioritizes paying off our debt to China over their monthly checks. That's right. Congressman Tom McClintock of California has introduced H.R. 421 – "To require that the Government prioritize all obligations on the debt held by the public in the event that the debt limit is reached." This bill would prioritize payments to China and our other creditors over our own citizens should Congress not raise the debt ceiling. The Rest: Daily Kos: State of the Nation... |
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Yea Country First.
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It isn't just China and Japan that own our debt. It is also little old ladies and regular Americans that have bought T-bills and T-bonds, hoping for a safe haven to park their money.
Defaulting on our debt obligations sounds great, until you realize two things: 1) Plenty of Americans (including seniors) are going to lose, as well as China. 2) Defaulting on our debt ensures that our dollar becomes worthless on the world stage. This is bad for America, and it is even worse than cutting grandma's Social Security check, or telling her that Medicare can no longer pay for a $ 2 million dollar medical treatment for her. Sustained deficit spending has brought us to this point. It's time for a reasoned discussion on how to keep the country from going down the tubes, not for an emotional, "they're going to kill grandma" argument. |
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the GOP doesn't want to kill grandma. they just want her to eat dog food. all those senior tea baggers waving the "down with socialist government" signs while drawing SSI & Medicaid are getting what they deserve.
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What ? Didn't you hear ... China has now shut-down the outside world for fear the Egyptian revolt will spread there ...
For here in America ... if Tucson didn't start the (R)/Tea Bag revolt of the burning down of America what makes you think they will now ? |
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The fact is, we don't have the money to keep on paying everybody who currently gets a check at the same rate we are currently paying them. Without borrowing, which is guaranteed to sink us, the US is like the kid at the candy store with a hand full of change asking what he can afford to buy. At some point, we will just have to embrace the horror. People on the government dole (through paid in entitlement, employment, or welfare) will have to start making do with less. You'll note that Texas is trying to change state law to permit teachers to be paid less. Currently, our state and local deficits necessarily means that folks WILL lose their jobs. Wouldn't it be better for those folks to take pay cuts, rather than just lose their jobs? Wouldn't it be better for seniors to have their SS checks cut, rather than have our whole government go tits up, at which point there aren't anymore checks? |
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Most of what you say is correct. But this is still America, defeat isn't an option, especially for our fellow Americans.
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toss the illegals off/out and AFDC and housing allowances.... WORK or starve....
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I know we stuck with the 'first' wave that Reagan regretted in free.....
so maybe '86 up?? that seems fair.... take their babies and medical costs and go HOME....WE the AMERICANS BORN HERE are not paying for your asses.....sorry, but tough shit....
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they did "work" & they paid into the system along with their employers. this is *their* money.for millions of these folks it's all they have. it's their total income.these are hard working, loyal Americans,many of who did did back breaking, hard ass physical labor just to survive.. now you want them to "work or starve?" way to be such a blatant hypocrite by favoring those "Commie Bastard Chicoms" as your Putrid Prophet Rushbo calls them.
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that includes the banks, ALL the banks.....screw the Bilderburgers, Rothschilds, Rockyfellers, Morgans, DuPonts, etc...... and yes even Fords.....
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We're all immigrants, it just that some people are exceptionable to some eyes ... not any more. America has grown up, but not all of Americans. |
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Is your world getting a little to small for yea ... ?
Get those Shuttle Tickets while they're still affordable. Don't "Fear", there's till an opportunity to be Master of your own Planet |
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400 friggin GRAND, and no jobs, won't BE any either..... not with all these companies going commie in China....WTF we owe the rest of the world I dunno..... |
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The sooner the poor and elderly die, the sooner they come off the books.
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