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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Entitlements Are 'Earned' (Video)
Breitbart.com ^ | 12/12/2012

Posted on 12/12/2012 1:01:09 PM PST by Beave Meister

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on the house floor

"I believe it should be pronounced here today, that the reform of the entitlements based upon slipshod, reckless, deliberations or should I say actions are a non-starter. There is no way, Mr. Speaker, that we should raise the eligability age for Medicare, that we should not think carefully about how we approach the reform of Medicaid. And that we don't the American people that Social Security is solvent. So, I would say move quickly to pass the middle class tax cuts that would be for all Americans, 100 % up to 250,000 dollars."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; entitlements; fraud; liberals; medicaid; medicare; obama; obamacare; sheilajackson; taxes; texas
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If she's not an idiot, she made a world-class effort at simulating one. On a good day she's a half-wit.
1 posted on 12/12/2012 1:01:18 PM PST by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but if you live in the right congressional district it doesn’t matter how much your mind is wasted.


2 posted on 12/12/2012 1:03:25 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Beave Meister

Wasn’t she the foreman on OJ’s jury?


3 posted on 12/12/2012 1:04:47 PM PST by massmike (At least no one is wearing a "Ron Paul - 2016" tee shirt........yet!)
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To: Beave Meister

,,, well Sheila jack@$$ Lee ,, one of them is earned ,, SSA payments are the rest are earned OK ,, by someone else .


4 posted on 12/12/2012 1:08:17 PM PST by Lionheartusa1 (-: Socialism & Communism are the equal distribution of misery :-)
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To: Beave Meister
"I believe it should be pronounced here today, that the reform of the entitlements based upon slipshod, reckless, deliberations or should I say actions are a non-starter."

Is that English or Ebonics?

5 posted on 12/12/2012 1:10:41 PM PST by COBOL2Java (GOPe: Already prepping for their 2016 loss - Jeb Bush!)
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To: VRWCmember

Jackson-Lee make Wasserman-Shultz look smart.


6 posted on 12/12/2012 1:28:27 PM PST by Beave Meister (Die Hard Cubs Fan.....if it takes forever.)
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"Earned"

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.


7 posted on 12/12/2012 1:54:45 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Some cultures are destined to remain stupid and we need to quit trying to uplift them.)
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To: Beave Meister

ROTFLMAO. Tell em Sheila while you sit your fat ass in a Mercedes screwing your constituents royally.


8 posted on 12/12/2012 2:10:04 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Beave Meister
Queen Sheileka Committees:

Committe on Homeland Security

Committee of the Judiciary

Geez!

9 posted on 12/12/2012 2:37:32 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Beave Meister

I’ve had meatloaf with more intelligence that that moron skank ghetto bimbo slug.


10 posted on 12/12/2012 2:38:00 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Don't whiz on the electric fence. Awwwww-yeah!)
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To: Beave Meister; machogirl

entitlement culture


11 posted on 12/12/2012 2:40:44 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Beave Meister

would it be possible to require at least a 2-digit IQ score for people to “serve” in Congress?


12 posted on 12/12/2012 2:48:37 PM PST by faithhopecharity (--)
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To: Beave Meister
Well, Sheila's right, and the people will have "earned" their entitlements, but voting for them.

Ben Franklin was right when he said the following, but the voters only believe the first half of the statement:

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
13 posted on 12/12/2012 4:07:11 PM PST by adorno (Y)
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To: Beave Meister

It really makes you wonder what the literacy rate (if any) there is in any Congressional district that would elect this moron as their representative.


14 posted on 12/12/2012 4:12:36 PM PST by johnd201 (johnd201)
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To: Beave Meister

SSA and Medicare are not entitlements. They are insurance programs. How do I know? That’s what the Dems told us when they passed the programs.

I don’t understand the resistance to raising the eligibility from 65 to 67 when the same idiots want to “means test” the same programs. Means testings proves they were never “insurance” programs.


15 posted on 12/12/2012 4:16:09 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Let the Dems destroy the economy!)
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To: Beave Meister

This is a bit of a misrepresentation of what she said. She didn’t say “Entitlements are not handouts but they are earned,” she said “entitlements THAT are not handouts but they are earned.” Looking solely at the grammatical structure of the sentence, that’s a huge difference, as it limits the word “entitlements.” In context, she appears to be talking about Medicare and SSA - which are, judging from my paycheck, “earned.”


16 posted on 12/12/2012 4:51:11 PM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

The problem with anything that Jackson Fleas asserts is ... wit for it ... she’s so ignorant that she probably means something other than what comes tumbling out of her poseur mouth1


17 posted on 12/12/2012 4:55:50 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: johnd201

Jackson-Fleas greatest problem is that she is not Barbara Jordan whom she is trying to sound like.


18 posted on 12/12/2012 5:04:27 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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Was Babs Jordan this insane?


19 posted on 12/12/2012 5:12:38 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL

Absolutely not! She was a very intelligent and well spoken LADY.


20 posted on 12/12/2012 5:23:26 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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