Lol, he wants to raise the retirement age and reduce benefits for those with high net worths and you have him starving Granny. Pathetic.
All you bleeding deacons who think you're too good to vote for Gingrich or Perry, think again, assholes. Your choir-boy just shat all over himself and self-destructed.
This is not gonna sit very well with the cane and walker crowd.
We may walk slowly but we walk to the polls.
Is Rick Santorum doing a Gingrich now, saying everything that floats into his head. Might be time to shut up.
But if he truly means this, it changes my opinion of him for the worse.
Kamikaze statement. H’s toast! We’re stuck with Romney. Time to fold up our tents and go home. First about blacks and now this about social security. Dumb as a bagful of hammers.
I’ve never expected to receive a dime from Social Security.
Just how conservative are these people complaining about what Santorum said?
Calling SS an entitlement really pisses me off. Working for thirty plus years and contributing my hard earned money....it Burns me using that word.
So very sad. I will not be a slave!!!!!
Santorum, and all the others, have to realize that they have to get Elected to accomplish anything. Ever heard the expression, “too much information”? The public lives off the Headline and the Talking Point. We pay attention, most people don't. That is the reality we face.
The Liberal Media will use this against every other Republican Candidate from now until the end of the Primary Season. Santorum has poisoned the well. Does he not realize, like all of us FReepers, that the Media and the DNC are one in the same?
Like it or not, SS and Medicare are not Entitlements to the people who paid into them. The Politicians added people who never paid in and expanded the purpose of the programs and we are now reaping the idiocy foisted upon us.
When the Pyramid scheme was raking in money, nobody batted an eye. Now everything has changed and it will only get worse. It can only be fixed when you have the power to fix it. Perhaps Rick was getting a little full of himself, who knows?
Rick “grit your teeth” Santorum has about as much chance of winning the nomination as my labrador, Hunter, does.
Actually, Hunter would make a good candidate! He’s handsome, smart and knows when to keep his mouth shut.
I’m getting to the point that when any of these candidates opens their mouths, I just hear Charlie Brown’s mother: “Waa Waa Waa”.
We are royally sc**wed, folks. The field looks more and more like the group in Bob Newhart’s psychiatric office.
And you better believe that Axelnuts, Plouffe and Val are fist bumping each other right now.
Shall we move on to the Senate and work on that for a while?
Let me know how the debate is tomorrow night. I’m going to erase messages from my Inboxes instead.
Privatize the new generation, Cut spending and let those who earned SS keep it.
Just my thoughts.
How about cutting this crap first before cutting SS
The average American hasn’t a clue how much of our tax money Obama has sent down Muslim sh*t holes while he threatens to slash the military, cut medicare and withold senior’s social security checks!
BILLIONS FOR JIHAD!
Obamas 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pandemic Flu was revised and passed by the full committee.
It gives billions http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/05/1...
of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support Sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies.
Read the summary from David Obeys office that was quietly released last week with nary a word from any media.
$3.6 billion, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces
$400 million, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces
Afghanistan:$1.52 billion,$86 million above the request
West Bank and Gaza:$665 million in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza
Jordan:$250 million,$250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance
Egypt:$360 million,$310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance,$50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance
Pakistan:$1.9 billion,$591 million above the request
Iraq:$968 million,$336 million above the request
Oversight:$20 million,$13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
Lebanon:$74 million
International Food Assistance:$500 million,$200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis
Refugee Assistance:$343 million,$50 million above the request, including humanitarian assistance for Gaza. Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)
Disaster Assistance:$200 million to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia
Peacekeeping:$837 million for United Nations
peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic
Department of Justice:$17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system
Obama gives your tax dollars to rebuild Muslim mosques around the world
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/... #
ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL GIVE AWAY NEARLY $6 MILLION OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO RESTORE 63 HISTORIC AND CULTURAL SITES, INCLUDING ISLAMIC MOSQUES AND MINARETS, IN 55 NATIONS. See the State Department document here.
http://exchanges.state.gov/media/pdfs/office-...
And THAT’S just the tip of the iceberg.
THIS will blow your mind!!
http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/
They should have 2010 up, but they don’t. That’s where you’ll find Obama’s largesse towards Muslim countries really go off the charts.
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http://www.foreignassistance.gov/DataView.aspx
charts:
http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/data/fast-facts.html
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We need to CUT the ghetto disability scams...
Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, says changes should include a higher eligibility age to qualify for Social Security benefits, and tighter restrictions on benefits for upper-income people. Americans now qualify for reduced Social Security benefits at age 62 and full benefits at 66, soon to rise to 67.
Social Security pays proportionately higher benefits to low-income people. But Santorum says wealthy retirees' proportionate benefits should be trimmed further. He did not offer details.
This week, he told New Hampshire audiences that Americans over 65 were society's poorest age group in 1937, when Social Security was created. Now that group is the wealthiest, he said.
All of this is absolutely true. And it is bizzare to watch so many FReepers pile on Santorum for speaking the truth here.
Santorum may have a point-—as long as he substitutes the fat cat retirement and health plans that congress gives themselves.