Don't worry, you'll always be able to eat.
Posted on 01/06/2012 6:38:10 PM PST by DJ MacWoW
KEENE, N.H. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum called Friday for immediate cuts to Social Security benefits, risking the wrath of older voters and countless others who balk at changes to the entitlement program.
"We can't wait 10 years," even though "everybody wants to," Santorum told a crowd while campaigning in New Hampshire and looking to set himself apart from his Republican rivals four days before the New Hampshire primary.
Most of his opponents have advocated phasing in a reduction and say immediate cuts would be too big a shock to current and soon-to-be retirees.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
Especially when all knowledgable analysts agree that Medicare, not Social Security, is the deal breaker in the 21st century. Santorum reveals himself to be not only politically incompetent but fiscally ignorant as well. Bad sign. Very bad sign. Color this rookie gone by Groundhog Day.
A lot of "poor" older people have paid off houses and many other tangible assets but little income and call themselves "poor".
Well, Rick did say “changing” and not “cutting”, altho the inference is that Rick wants SS cut. It is strange that this story is standing alone, despite scores of reporters taping his every word. Bob
Oh yeah. I will personally lead the charge against him. Santorum must be destroyed in the remaining primaries.
Just wait one day when it’s quietly reported that
Rick was misquoted by the AP won’t be reporting it!
This is called an ambush hit piece or Rush calls it a drive by media hit.
It’s a lie and a misquote but the victim does not get the benefit
Of an apology or retraction .
That is Chucky B and the AP specialty !
Most of these posters know this is a AP scam .and the
Obama media but their here to smear and fool people
And AstroTurf for their guy .
Many are stealth Paul bots Romney bots or Obama trolls.
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“...if a senior lost money in the stock market, it is no one’s fault but their own.” Yeah. The fact that the subprime mortgage debacle was not prevented by our regulatory agencies and that the SEC failed in its regulatory function is the fault of the people who invested when fully trusting Moody’s ratings—oh, don’t get me started.
You missed out on the interest due. They can pay out at the same rate that they would have for US Savings bonds.
People who talk about, "got more out then they paid in" always forget about interest.
Oh wait, you mean you can't cut them each a check for a million plus?
Oh dear, you do have a problem don't you?
I am a couple of years from retirement and if that needs to be 3 or 4 instead to right the ship I am ok with that as well.
You're whistling Dixie Trumandogz. We Boomers all vote and we will get our way. We will not allow our S/S benefits to be cut. Ha!
Only in the eyes of morons, socialist pigs and other assorted dipshits has Santorum stained his drawers. So there is no doubt you occupy one of those august groups.
Same here. I'd still vote for him against Obama but not in the primary.
My dad worked from inception of S.S. until the day he died and never saw a dime of his money back. I'm 66 and have been getting an S.S. check for four and a half years. I want to live long enough to get back what I paid in plus interest, then live a bit longer to collect dad's too.
Any of you youngins reading this, keep working and paying, I'm a greedy old coot.
How dare they have a house that is paid off.
What? Did I say that? You try living off of $1600 a month, even if your house is paid for, you dolt!
Is that you Barack?
Note how none of these concerned Rick S haters /posters question a report from well known hard left AP Obama operative named Charles.
The AP did the same hit and run pieces/ lies on Perry and
Cain etc.. but these posters some how ignore all !
It’s a sea of posters here to trash Rick S and it does not matter that it’s a lie .
Pretty sad
Don't worry, you'll always be able to eat.
“YOU SHOULD FEEL THE PAIN - THEY’RE YOUR KIDS!”
Good point...
“Entitlements are a HUGE problem in the US.”
Social Security is not an Entitlement...as long as you think so, you are part of the problem. If my 15% (my and my employer’s contribution) had been invested at the unreasonable low level of 5%, I would be able to live comfortably on the interest and have hundreds of thousands to pass on to heirs...even after paying medical expenses, if I were to have any.
And btw, the reason medical expenses are way out of line in this country, is because the FDA/AMA/Drug Cartels want us all to be unhealthy and to be on all kinds of prescription drugs. They love Medicare and Medicade (Medicade is an entitlement program) because it makes them all wealthy. The FDA/AMA/Drug Cartels are evil, just as the real entitlement programs are evil.
You will gladly steal from your progeny and be damn proud of it to boot! You must be a “true conservative”, right?
I agree 100% with all of you!!
Sell your house and use that to live off of, rent a nice small condo in Fla and get real. Most elderly can't keep up their house anyway and have to pay people to take care of it. I have never understood that. I don't know much about reverse mortgages but look into that.
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.
Do the evil capitalists hold you down and shove statins and aspirin down your throat?
If if if if if if if if if.
Newsflash, it wasn't invested. It was spent. It is gone. FACE REALITY.
Ditto ! SS has become a rainy day fund for govt use, and a welfare program. I personally know people who collect, and collect more than most I know ever will, yet they never paid a dime into it! THAT is the problem with SS, not seniors who collect who have paid in all their lives.
I agree that this hurts Santorum, but there are two other candidates in the race who are conservative.
Why cede to Romney so quickly?
Has anyone **SEEN** the exchange? Remember the “withering on the vine” scam commercials re Newt! Bob
He truly means it, he intends to raise the retirement age by a year or so and reduce benefits for those who have high incomes. Should we hang the capitalist bastard tomorrow or Sunday?
Again, it is not my responsibility to take care of the “old folks” and believe that it would have been better for them to save and wisely invest their earnings during their working years.
The seniors need to be self reliant and stop begging at the alter of FDR & LBJ.
I’ve been collecting it for 9 years and am 74.
Hopefuly I will live long enough to get my money back!
Doesn’t matter, they didn’t get a high rate of return so they get to steal from their grandkids instead of working an extra year. True conservatives all.
Most of the people who have thought seriously about this issue, ie Paul Ryan and Rick Perry want to protect benefits for people already on it or within 8 to 10 years of retirement.
That’s only fair.
Cutting benefits would hurt older people. There is not a means test for social security, nor should there be, but for a lot of people it’s their main income.
There were no cost of living increases for 3 years until this year while everything such as gas and groceries went way up.
This is a very ill-thought out stance by Rick Santorum, but if that’s what he believes, I’m glad he told us before we voted for him.
Nice try Obama troll. You know what you can do too. LOL
You missed the point, Virginia...It is about control...that money in my control vs the Govt’s control...the @$$hole$ in the govt couldn’t claw their way out of a wet paper bag...and maybe you would have a problem too, if you are defending the entitlement concept of Soc Sec.
We know it. We’re just playing with the more ultra-partisan supporters, watching them make fools of themselves.
BTTT Applause!!
The truth will come out. I do not automatically believe everything I read but if (big "if") the reporting is accurate, Santorum is toast.
Most of the people who have thought seriously about this issue, ie Paul Ryan and Rick Perry want to protect benefits for people already on it or within 8 to 10 years of retirement.
That’s only fair.
Cutting benefits would hurt older people. There is not a means test for social security, nor should there be, but for a lot of people it’s their main income.
There were no cost of living increases for 3 years until this year while everything such as gas and groceries went way up.
This is a very ill-thought out stance by Rick Santorum, but if that’s what he believes, I’m glad he told us before we voted for him.
“He truly means it, he intends to raise the retirement age by a year or so and reduce benefits for those who have high incomes. Should we hang the capitalist bastard tomorrow or Sunday?”
Ricky. Santorum. Must. Die.
Can you read?
I'll make sure you have a new one of these every year to go with a case of Alpo so you won't starve. < /sarc >
It’s doesn’t matter that it’s lie/ hit piece
pushed by a well documented AP Obama and
Clinton troll peddling lies for the Dems .
Its all about spreading a lie until it becomes well known
Fact .
Goebbels said it first - tell a lie long enough it becomes the truth
Thats Chuck ‘s agenda at the AP.
Yes Newt took huge hits from the same
AP frauds and liars .
Chucky knows his lies have no consequences !
He is a Romney-bot. Check out his posting history. I hope the statist old farts on this board aren’t representative of ....anything
The two other candidates (Gingrich and Perry) are going down fast as well. Santorum was our best hope. How he could make such an idiotic comment that self-destructs is beyond me.
Amen, brother.
I hate to see the hostility here for seniors by a few people.
Things were a lot different during working years for seniors.
My children, for example, learned early on in their working lives to invest in IRA’s and try to provide for their own retirement.
We’d never heard of IRA’s. The best we could do was live frugally and try to get our houses paid off.
We were taught that we would have social security and we need it.
Me too and I am an old fart, age wise that is. Still a freedom lover though.:-)
Bring it to me, PLEASE.
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