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Showing Original Post only (View all)COBURN: Medicare and Social Security ‘Are Things We Don’t Absolutely Need’ [View all]
Last edited Mon Dec 10, 2012, 02:01 AM - Edit history (1)
Tell this PINT-SIZE weasel to GFH! Their TRUE agenda is starting to bleed through.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is encouraging Democrats to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits because the programs are things we dont absolutely need. Speaking to ABCs George Stephanopolous on Sunday about the so-called fiscal cliff, Coburn said that he would be willing to accept tax hikes for the top 2 percent of earners if Democrats and President Barack Obama agreed to reform Social Security and Medicare.
The ABC host pointed out that Obamas health care reform law had already achieved about $716 billion in Medicare savings and many Republicans including former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney ran against those cuts.
The $700 billion in savings doesnt save the government a penny because what it does is takes that $700 billion and spends it on other people, Coburn insisted. Weve seen the president demand that were going to solve 7 percent of this problem [with tax hikes on the rich] but hes totally inflexible on the other 93 percent.
It doesnt really matter what happens at the end of this year because ultimately the numbers and the bond holders throughout the world will determine what well spend and what we wont. So, we can play the political game that is being played out in Washington right now or we can be absolutely honest with the American people and say, Medicare is going bankrupt, Social Security disability will be bankrupt in two years, Social Security trust fund will be bankrupt in five years, Social Security total will be bankrupt in 16,17 years.
The fact is we are spending money we dont have on things we dont absolutely need, he concluded. And theres no grownups in Washington that will say, Timeout, stop the politics, lets have a compromise rather than play the game through the press and hurt the country. Were already going to get another debt downgrade just from whats happening now because nobody in positions of power are willing to do whats important and necessary for our country.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/09/coburn-medicare-and-social-security-are-things-we-dont-absolutely-need/
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COBURN: Medicare and Social Security ‘Are Things We Don’t Absolutely Need’ [View all]
Segami
Dec 2012
OP
The closer we inch towards December 31st, the greater the fear-mongering howls become.
Segami
Dec 2012
#3
I'm not sure we need congress, either. I'd rather use a system of democratically elected volunteer
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#12
Yes,, Coburn doesn't need it so it isn't necessary - Out of touch! n/t
socialindependocrat
Dec 2012
#29
Yeah, the moochers who have paid into both these programs all their working lives.
SammyWinstonJack
Dec 2012
#16
The corporations and rich have historic low tax rates so we HAVE to cut programs people need.
ErikJ
Dec 2012
#11
He is such a liar. And I did not hear George Stephanopoulus interrupt him when
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#15
Get the sales Dept. out of the news room and then you will have real journalists again!
Lady Freedom Returns
Dec 2012
#18
I'm with you 100%!Lies and more lies and the press let's them go on and on!Coburn is a big fat liar.
The Wielding Truth
Dec 2012
#22
Did you intend to say " what America would LOOK like if those programs disappeared?
Segami
Dec 2012
#23
Exactly, I did intend to say "what America would look like if those programs disappeared."
ReRe
Dec 2012
#42
Weren't the Republicans trying to attack Obama on the false claim he took 700 billion from Medicare
RyanThomas
Dec 2012
#28
It is way past due that the pensions and healthcare that congress gets when they leave office be
still_one
Dec 2012
#30
And drug tested if they want to continue receiving their welfare government cheque.
Segami
Dec 2012
#32
You know you're a #bananaRepublican when you claim Social Security isn't "necessary.
aquart
Dec 2012
#33
$700 billion a year for unwinnable stalemates vs. medicare and social security for all.
Initech
Dec 2012
#34
Just because this fucker doesn't need them doesn't mean that others don't
liberal N proud
Dec 2012
#54
"Other states will take the Okies as we continue our efforts to turn this country to dust..." (NT)
Heywood J
Dec 2012
#57
they are counting on the sheeples never actually waking up to what is really going on, never
niyad
Dec 2012
#64
Fine, we don't need to pay your salary and your benefits are permanently revoked.
Panasonic
Dec 2012
#66
Obama often praises Coburn and says he is his friend, an honest man and all that.
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#69