Senator McConnell,
Your plan is frankly immature and off-point. It is centered around “who gets the blame” rather than STOPPING THE SPENDING. Please give your countrymen more credit for their meddle. We know that cutting back will bring some hardship and we are braced for it.
The first thing to do is to protect the military budget. The next thing to do is introduce social security reform such as means-testing. Then, keep the ceiling where it is and let the president decide what gets cut. If he tries to take away SS or food stamps, Republicans can wonder why he’s keeping the funding of opera and modern art via the NEA. These are rich man’s pursuits that should not be publically funded. By exposing his priorities, republicans can put a lot of pressure to cut the ridiculous examples of pork spending. The best strategy for republicans is to remember who their constituents are, and HOLD THE LINE!
It does the same thing.
Do you even live here?
You can shove that idea up your rear end.
People who scrimped and saved and did without during their entire working lives so that they could accumulate a nest egg and enjoy retirement should be hosed out of their social security so SS money is available for the partiers who lived high on the hog and spent beyond their means, and didn't save jack squat for their own retirement?
Yeah, that should go over big.
you don't want to hear what I think about that, Jimmy.
You want “means testing” ??? Then you are a socialist and you are advocating raising taxes for all of us who have paid into SS in good faith for years expecting a certain outcome no matter what our “means,” and for cementing social security into a welfare program that encourages people to spend all their retirement money so they too can be favored by the Feds. You also advocate stealing.
If you are going to do that, then you also need to advocate cutting social security benefits (and “disability”) to third world levels that are just BARELY enough to live on as a safety-net welfare program. If you do not advocate that, then you become just another advocate for “progressive” income taxes and SOCIALISTIC redistribution of the wealth, just like the Obama wants. But even that would be advocating unconsitutional acts.
And it is also unconstitutional to "let the president decide what gets cut." Congress is supposed to hold control funding.
No Freepers should use that suggested letter.
/flame off
Since of course we all doubt that any Freeper is a socialist, you should just revise your advocacy and remove “means testing” and simply phase out social security. And stop advocating that the executive branch gets to decide what gets funded.
And if you want a welfare program for poor elderly people, then you should advocate that your STATE does it legally, instead of advocating that the FEDS do it illegally, since it is not an enumerated power of the federal government under our US Constitution.