I like his willingness to tell folks who’ll be hurt by a cut, before the election. Still not sure he’s our best shot, but I like this.
Wanna bet?
Well, if the barbecue is federally subsidized using tax payer funds then I certainly hope so.
Pawlenty said Social Security’s retirement age must “gradually” increase for people who are not yet in the system.
What does this mean? You are in the system the minute you pay a penny towards this program. So basically raising the age will be for 15 year olds and lower.....16 year olds will run out and get a job just to get into the system.
Pawlenty has potential to be the Paul Ryan of this race: willing to propose tough solutions to REAL problems. He may not be as teleprompter-dependent as Hussein, but he ought to be considered as a better man than the current occupant of the Oval Office.
By the way, I am still waiting for someone to tell me how Hussein's two nights at Buckingham Palace are part of his LASER LIKE FOCUS ON JOBS.
Sometimes you have to let a drunk hit rock bottom before you can convince him that he has a problem. Drink up America.
Wow. The man states the obvious and gets skewered for it. I’m all for candidates telling the truth rather than us having a “best liar contest” every four years.
Will he go to the border states and demand higher, longer fences?
In this election, it's going to take a candidate with not only a backbone of his own, but one who's also willing to wear the enemy's vertebrae as a trophy necklace.
Pawlenty’s going for the ‘big balls’ approach to politics. It has worked for Christie and was working for Trump for a few weeks.
I think I like it. He’s definitely on my list.
It aint working Tim, I wish it was but it just aint.
The old folks ears close up tight as soon as they hear the words "medicare" and "reform" in the same sentence, and stay shut through the part about a later kick-in date that won't affect them at all. I know how old retirees think because I not only worked closely with many of them in FL, I'm now one of them myself.
BTW, just to make my self clear, I'm all for Pawlenty's plan. If there aren't some major changes medicare will fail totally and my kids won't recover ANY of their past, current, present, or future payroll deductions in the form of partially pre-paid medical expenses. But try telling that to my retiree neighbors and the only sound you will hear are the creaks and groans made by their ears closing. Personally I think it's probably a union mindset thingy, but that just may be because I'm as biased against unions as I am against Obama's commie friends in the White house.
Mondale lives.
Ryan’s plan or any other kind of real reform is far better than what the Democrats had in mind to do to seniors with ObamaCare; you know, letting nature take its course. That should be part of the discussion whenever Republicans talk about the issue or we’re not going to get anywhere with the Dims playing dirty with Mediscare.
Pawlenty is a fool and needs to step aside now, Saying we need to cut the debt is good, saying we need to cut medicare and then bring Ryan’;s plan up is political suicide.
I wish Bibi could run for president as he is what w need right now and one of a few who has balls to take obama on and call out the media who have been paid off by George Soros
I’m waiting for the guy who is FIRST going to cut all the $$ we send other countries who hate us, then going to have a real plan to find and stop the fraud and WASTE the govt spends. Then he will stop all government funding of Planned Parenthood, public television, medicare waste in the form of hundreds of mailings that no one reads, stop funding ridiculous studies such as men and women are different.
After attacking these and many other nonsensical spendings, then he can talk to me about cutting senior citizen programs or American workers programs.
That’s where I see no candidate yet and I am sure I will not anytime soon. Proof none of them is serious about the money problems of our country.
Tim Pawlenty is telling people what they need to hear and the reaction is the same regardless of political party. Everyone wants it fixed so long as they are not impacted. Can’t be done folks. I expect America to continue its decline and one day she will hit bottom.
He is RIGHT! The Ethanol subsidy must be eliminated, and the sooner the better.
The irony of it is that corn farmers do not get the subsidy — the gasoline distributors (those who mix the ethanol with Real Gas) get it.
And, ending the subsidy will not reduce the ethanol corn crop because the Feds have decreed that ethanol must be added to gasoline, and have even decreed how much ethanol must be produced each year.
IOW, farmers will still grow corn, and ethanol will be produced and mixed with Real Gasoline. It is a dumbass program, but it will not end until and unless We the People demand that it end — and there are a lot of valid reasons to eliminate ethanol FRom gasoline that are off topic here.
BTW, this federal ethanol program represents pure Stalinist tactics at work, TYVM US Congress!
In respect of SS, I believe that the program eventually must be privatized and placed on an actuarially sound basis.
Governor Pawlenty is a brave man, and I commend him for telling it like it is. More power to him, and I hope the high mark he is setting encourages others who would be President.