Discussion: New GOP Congress Fires Shot At Social Security On Day One

bluinmaine · January 7, 2015, 3:19am

Ah Yawn.
The new and refurbished bonehead fires first shot and hits his own foot. 1 down and 1 to go. Then he can bend over while the tp gets to express themselves with the help of the castrator specialist if he has any balls left by then.
On to day 2.

c6Logic · January 7, 2015, 3:53am

With apologies to HL Mencken?

dainla · January 7, 2015, 4:07am

It will be delayed and passed on to younger people not yet getting SS. The older Tea Party crowd won’t miss a thing.

jeffgee1 · January 7, 2015, 4:12am

Karl Rove’s motto in 2000 was “drive it like you stole it” applies here.

blue_grit · January 7, 2015, 4:14am

Don’t say “tax cuts”, say “incentives”.

Don’t say “billionaires”, say “society’s most productive members”.

Now remember these are incentives for society’s most productive members so that they will create low-wage, non-union jobs for lazy ungrateful slobs.

Brought to you by Charles and David Koch

lestatdelc · January 7, 2015, 4:27am

Congratulations “progressives” that couldn’t be bothered to vote in the mid-term.

occamsrazor2 · January 7, 2015, 4:36am

Nonchalant non-voters certainly didn’t see it coming, or simply didn’t care. Now is the decade of our discontent.

josephebacon · January 7, 2015, 4:42am

Hey, I’m waiting for Brownback to order a Day of Prayer for divine intervention to balance his budget.

And the majority of Kansans will be duped into that scam. And when JC doesn’t provide a divine rescue, they will blame Obama…

fgs · January 7, 2015, 4:43am

Dang. The conventional wisdom was that Republicans had to prove they could govern. I totally never saw this coming.

occamsrazor2 · January 7, 2015, 4:43am

It ain’t a tiny splinter group any more. President Eisenhower spoke those words a few years before the publication of Atlas Shrugged.

josephebacon · January 7, 2015, 4:45am

This is precisely what Thom Tillis was saying on the campaign trail!

occamsrazor2 · January 7, 2015, 4:48am

Hillary of Arc?

occamsrazor2 · January 7, 2015, 4:51am

But many “Republicans” don’t want the problems fixed. They are looking for the problems to increase so that they can stick their fingers in FDR’s eye!

misterneutron · January 7, 2015, 4:53am

The disability program has been a favored target for the GOP; members were warning last month that the program could be vulnerable to fraud.

Any disability insurance program, no matter who runs it, is vulnerable to fraud. There will always be a few people who see such a program as a ticket to a life of leisure. The solution, however, is not simply to cut benefits by some arbitrary percentage. The solution is to put more money into administering the program. Each dollar of additional administration would probably save ten dollars of unwarranted payouts.

Of course, if your actual goal is to kill the program, you certainly wouldn’t want to do anything to make it operate more effectively.

edwardf56 · January 7, 2015, 4:54am

I hope they decrease all those Medicare and social security payments to all those stupid Tea Party types who voted for the GOP. Americans have such a propensity to vote against their own interests.

grandpoobah · January 7, 2015, 5:07am

The GOP needs to understand simple English. My social security IS an entitlement. It was MY money, that was deducted from MY every paycheck with the promise that I would receive it back when I retired. I AM…and proudly so…ENTITLED to it! I’m not ashamed to say that: I AM ENTITLED TO MY MONEY!

Why has this somehow become a government handout? The only difference is that the GOP has no respect for working people, any more than they respect those needing assistance (for whatever reason) and hence they want to stigmatize receiving back the money I put in. Maybe they should try working for a living instead.

ctvoter · January 7, 2015, 5:11am

“My intention by doing this is to force us to look for a long term solution for SSDI rather than raiding Social Security to bail out a failing federal program,” Reed said in a statement. "Retired taxpayers who have paid into the system for years deserve no less.”

Just putting out there for anyone who pays attention: “Those losers qualifying for SSDI are robbing our senior citizens of their rightful payments”.<–Make book on it. GOP: “Unmotivated, clueless folks are robbing the good seniors of our nation, and we must do something about this.”

I’m curious, actually. Did Paul Ryan and his family qualify for a form of Social Security?

shadowhappy · January 7, 2015, 5:14am

More and more, the Republicans just seem to be evil.

midnight_rambler · January 7, 2015, 5:33am

…which is precisely why it’s an entitlement and not welfare - you are entitled to it by virtue of being a citizen and not by any test of income or charity.

josephebacon · January 7, 2015, 5:42am

They ARE proving that they can govern…for the Koch Brothers and the Six Walton Heirs!