So Rubio thinks that all you seniors on social security and Medicare are weak Nellies

[WI_DEM]

This is what the GOP's dream candidate for Vice President said, ""These programs actually weakened us as a people."

So greatest generation that won World War Two and all the others who have followed, you are a bunch of sissies who got bloated and tired because you get a monthly social security check and have some security when you get sick and land in the hospital.

Rubio yearns for the old days when nearly half of the elderly folks in our nation lived in poverty or had to choose between eating and getting an operation.

But--don't touch those tax cuts for millionaires! if any group is deserving of help it's millionaires, billionaires and corporations!

[Harmony Blue]

1. Rubio is a grade A D-bag

It can't be stated enough.

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, we live in a Corporate Welfare State called USA, Inc. Fascist and Proud! I shudder

to think much about what the future USA is going to be for kids today.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Of course it weakened us as a people--the old and sick used to die off

before they were a drain on the system. Survival of the fittest. Now they're among us, dragging us all down. :sarcasm:

[xchrom]

5. +1

[RKP5637]

7. Yep, and today what many don't get is they'll be lucky to even own their

home by the time they have to retire, let along sock away $$$ in a 401k, plus put the kids through college, etc., etc.

That's what always amazes me with some of the teabagger types cheering on this crap when many of them look like one more fat meal to a heart attack, many can't even compose a sentence let alone spell, and some look like they're lucky to have a shirt on their back.

We've had such a brain-drain in this county I swear I think it's an, as of yet, undetected virus.

[TwilightGardener]

10. They like the IDEAS the Repubs espouse--independence, freedom, self-reliance, etc.

Everyone wants to identify with that stuff. The reality of of their policies would be much less popular if they ever passed Congress, though. So, teapublicans basically like to talk a good game, but at the end of the day, it's "keep your government hands off my Medicare".

[RKP5637]

12. Yep! n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

4. That's either a very gutsy or idiotic statement to make when a good part of your constituency

are seniors, retired, etc.

[madrchsod]

8. years ago there used to be a big complaint here in illinois...

about state retirees moving to florida or arizona. people were complaining it was taking money out of illinois and "giving" it to those two states.

any politico that thinks the old people are`t listening to their bullshit better wake up. according to the great education reformers we were the last educated class.

[Harmony Blue]

14. Rubio, like Rick Scott

will be one and done. They are trying to make their power grab push now while they can.

[phantom power]

6. A smart, or even average, Dem campaign could use that to smash Rubio.

Pretty easy to imagine the campaign ads. "Rubio thinks you're worthless and weak (play video clip of Rubio calling us all worthless and weak) -- this fall, send him a message that Americans aren't interested in politicians who don't believe in them!"

etc, etc, etc

[RKP5637]

9. +1000 +++ n/t

[SheilaT]

11. I'm old enough to remember

before Medicare. I remember very well the fight over it, and how the AMA in particular thought it would destroy our country.

Before Social Security, and before Medicare, the assumption was that the elderly would live with their children once they could no longer work and be on their own. That's what all of my grandparents did. Three of the four of them died before Medicare, but the remaining grandmother continued to live with the daughter she'd moved in with many years earlier.

It's as much the various advances in medical care itself that allow people to live longer, and yes there is a genuine issue with dying people simply being kept alive when there is absolutely no quality of life, no hope that they will ever return home. But how to deal with that is a totally separate issue.

Social Security has given everyone a pension, although most people cannot live on social security alone. Social Security is not broke. It's still collecting more money that it pays out. The shortfall that will begin some years down the road can be dealt with by raising the cap, the limit on how high an income pays into SS.

What I don't think a lot of people here realize is that as far back as the mid-1970's, people my age (just beginning to collect early Social Security) were buying into the idea already being put out that "Social Security won't be here when I retire." If you believe that when you're thirty, you won't do anything to make sure it really is around.

[warrior1]

13. Aren't these same

people mostly teabaggers? They are in that group, I don't know to what percentage, but he's talking about the people who are lazy are the same people that put the teabaggers and repukes in power.

They may be that dumb that they don't know he's talking about them.

[dtexdem]

15. Hah, we'll show him: we're weakening the entire U.S.

And we've got the disabled backing us up.