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Santorum: Trim Social Security now even if painful
Associated Press ^ | Jan 6, 2012 6:35 PM (ET) | CHARLES BABINGTON

Posted on 01/06/2012 6:38:10 PM PST by DJ MacWoW

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To: Randy Larsen

Yup!


21 posted on 01/06/2012 6:56:47 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

“Social Security needs to be reformed, yes.”

No, Social Security and Medicare need to be abolished.

But, until then, we need to make deep cuts in Social Security, Medicare and every other aspect of federal spending.

There are no Sacred Cows!


22 posted on 01/06/2012 6:59:00 PM PST by trumandogz (Rick Perry Scored 10% on the Iowa Test.)
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To: CGalen
This is an example of why he lost re-election of his home state by 20 points. He is an idiot.

He's dead in the water. Santorum is a fool.

23 posted on 01/06/2012 6:59:19 PM PST by ExtremeUnction
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To: onyx

And now every democrat running for whatever office can claim that the republicans want to cut social security and, for once, not be lying about it, if Santorum is the nominee.


24 posted on 01/06/2012 6:59:53 PM PST by Abby4116
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To: DJ MacWoW

How about cutting foreign aid, benefits for illegal aliens, welfare for layabouts, SS/Medicare/Medicaid fraud and grants for quasi-political orgs like ACORN first?


25 posted on 01/06/2012 7:01:18 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: trumandogz

Yes there ARE sacred cows. That money belongs to the people who paid into SS!


26 posted on 01/06/2012 7:01:37 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Excellent point!


27 posted on 01/06/2012 7:05:40 PM PST by Randy Larsen (I'm backing Newt!)
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To: TigersEye

You’re right. There is so much other garbage that should be cut!


28 posted on 01/06/2012 7:06:07 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

agree as well, 6 months ago I was sure this election would be a cake walk.


29 posted on 01/06/2012 7:07:27 PM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: DJ MacWoW

He is an idiot. Seniors VOTE.
They will not support anybody who wants to cut their SS.
Cut foreign aid.


30 posted on 01/06/2012 7:07:27 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I’m not sure what he actually intends. The problem is NOT with people who have paid into social security all their lives. It’s with people who are getting special bennies without having put all that much in. Illegals, among others, and plenty of welfare cheats.

Personally, I am retired and living largely on social security, AND I PAID FAR MORE INTO IT THAN I’LL EVER GET BACK. And I cannot afford more any cuts in what I am getting.

So, I hope he doesn’t mean cutting those benefits. On the whole, it would be best if we cut out some of the welfare angles and the cheaters—people receiving benefits for 20 years after the supposed recipient is dead.

I would take the article cautiously, because everyone seems to be out to undermine Santorum, so it would be just as well to wait and see what he really wants to do, and not what some AP presstitute says he wants to do.


31 posted on 01/06/2012 7:08:42 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: TomGuy
It is not possible for the government to not spend any money in any “trust fund” — there is no real trust fund and there never was
32 posted on 01/06/2012 7:08:57 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: Randy Larsen

What would he tell people? We took your money and you’re not getting it back?! What the heck is Santorum thinking?


33 posted on 01/06/2012 7:09:27 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW
ss IS government
34 posted on 01/06/2012 7:10:06 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: DJ MacWoW

Wow ! Santorum really stepped in it...and, unlike Perry, he wasn’t even wearing his boots !


35 posted on 01/06/2012 7:10:27 PM PST by baysider
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To: onyx
TMI and wrong timing.

Notice how, when politicians get ahead in the polls, they seem to go temporarily stupid. They think they are immune from reality and can say anything they want.

Bachmann did. Perry did. Cain did. Gingrich did. Now Santorum did.
36 posted on 01/06/2012 7:10:42 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: DJ MacWoW

He’s talking gradually over ten years, isn’t he?


37 posted on 01/06/2012 7:10:42 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Sanatorium has just submitted his resignation as a potential VP candidate on whoever’s ticket!


38 posted on 01/06/2012 7:11:57 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: reefdiver

Our country is in desperate straights. I think it makes people panic.


39 posted on 01/06/2012 7:12:25 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

“That money belongs to the people who paid into SS!”

If that is the case, write every Social Security recipient a check for the exact amount of money they paid in to Social Security minus the amount of money they have thus far received from Social Security.

Social Security is Socialism.


40 posted on 01/06/2012 7:14:14 PM PST by trumandogz (Rick Perry Scored 10% on the Iowa Test.)
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