Alright... Lets Get Deadly Serious... IF... We Are Going To Fuck With Soc Sec, Medicare, Medicaid...

[WillyT]

I want a full blown Truth Panel ala South Africa at the end of Apartheid.

I want ever one of these mother-fuckers (EITHER PARTY) to have to stand up on national TV and actually tell us how they've ripped us off, and stolen our funds. I want them to identify what role they had in this theft, I want them to rat out anybody who suggested that this was the way to proceed, I want them to tell us why they thought they could get away with it, and why they thought it was morally correct to do so.

In my little Just World, they'd only get to keep their freedom by telling the truth.

And yeah... I know... THAT, would be truly revolutionary.

:shrug:

And...

Alan Simpson: Cutting Social Security Benefits to “Take Care of the Lesser People in Society”
By: Jane Hamsher - FDL
Thursday June 17, 2010 4:02 pm

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In the absence of any transparency coming from the committee about what transpires in its secret meetings, Simpson’s comments to Alex are the best insight we have into what is being discussed there.

Bottom line: bon apetite, Grandma!

ALAN SIMPSON: We’re really working on solvency… the key is solvency

ALEX LAWSON: What about adequacy? Are you focusing on adequacy as well?

SIMPSON: Where do you come up with all the crap you come up with?

SIMPSON: We’re trying to take care of the lesser people in society and do that in a way without getting into all the flash words you love dig up, like cutting Social Security, which is bullshit. We’re not cutting anything, we’re trying to make it solvent.

SIMPSON: It’ll go broke in the year 2037.

LAWSON: What do you mean by ‘broke’? Do you mean the surplus will go out and then it will only be able to pay 75% of its benefits?

SIMPSON: Just listen, will you listen to me instead of babbling? In the year 2037, instead of getting 100% of your check, you are going to get about 75% of your check. That’s if you touch nothing. If you like that, fine. You’ll be picking with the chickens yourself when you’re 65.

So we want to take care, we’re not cutting, we’re not balancing the budget on the backs of senior citizens. That’s bullshit. So you’ve got that one down. So as long as you’ve got those two things down, you can’t play with anymore, that we’re not balancing the budget of the United States on the backs of poor old seniors and we’re not cutting anything, we’re stabilizing the system.

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Much More: http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/06/17/alan-simpson-cutting-social-security-benefits-to-take-care-of-the-lesser-people-in-society/



:shrug:

[SoutherDem]

1. Truth has no place in politics! n/t

[WillyT]

3. Ain't That The Truth... Oh Wait...

:yoiks:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Why do that when they can be cut with a trigger that requires inaction instead of action?

:think:

[dkf]

4. Do you even know what he was talking about?

He wanted to increase the lower tiers of the bend points so the minimum is more adequate. This would have made things more progressive.