Bring On The Death Panels, Cut Social Security

[Joanne98]

When it comes to budget deficits, one thing is clear about the Teabagggers and their allies. They don’t have the slightest idea about federal spending or revenues.

All they know is that the budget is out of control.

They have a notion that it if we just eliminate waste, fraud, foreign aid and welfare, along with throwing in another tax cut, we could balance the budget. They have some impression that the cure for deficit spending carries no pain for them

Ignorance is bliss.

The basic numbers are these:

In FY 2009 we took in $2.1 trillion and spend $3.5 trillion. A deficit of $1.4 trillion.

Here’s a scary thought. These numbers understate the deficit.

Thanks to Ronald Reagan, we started counting Social Security tax revenue as part of general revenue to make the deficits seem smaller.

Because of unusually low interest rates, the national debt is temporarily less than half of what it ordinarily is.

It is worse than you thought.

What are we to do?

We Need To Cut Social Security

The first thing we need to do is eliminate the word “ENTITLEMENT” from our vocabulary.

It carries with it the notion that Medicare, Social Security, etc. are enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Maybe they also are part of The Law of Gravity?

Running for the Senate, Charlie Crist demagogued that Marco Rubio was going to raise the age to collect full Social Security from 66 to 70. Rubio called it a lie.

The responsible truth is that, along with at least a 10-year freeze on increases, we need to quickly raise the age to received full Society Security to 70.

Bring On The Death Panels

We need to tell Medicare recipients we’re broke.

We can’t spend tens of thousands on dialysis for a 92-year-old woman with full blown dementia. We need to close down expensive care for the thousands in a vegetative state. One Terri Schiavo is one too many.

We need death panels.

Nobody is stopping a family from spending their own money to keep to keep the brain dead alive. Just don’t keep spending my money to get over your own guilt.

Cut Overpriced Defense Programs

We need to completely revise the Defense budget. Between 2001and 2009, it grew from $250 billion to $782 billion.

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[JDPriestly]

1. Kids, just kill your parents. That's how you balance the budget.

Don't prosecute the criminals who caused the budget, Bush and the members of Congress that gave tax cuts to the rich while borrowing to fight two wars. No, just kill your parents. Starve them to death.

That is what cutting Social Security and Medicare mean: patricide.

Let's just call it what it is.

[Chipper Chat]

2. Ha ha - BOEHNER'S Death Panels!

Take that Teebaggers.

[The Uncola]

3. What a steaming pile. unrec

[R. P. McMurphy]

4. Unrec for the Social Security section. n/t

[bluedigger]

5. Random thoughts?

I like pie!

[Demeter]

6. Why not stop 3 wars and abandon 80% of our military outposts?

Too easy, huh?

[mudplanet]

7. Is the poster mocking teabagger policy points or does he really think

that eliminating social security and medicare are a good way to balance the budget.

And, if I'm going to die in order to balance the budget (i.e., in order to make sure that we can continue to buy $1 billion airplanes) why is that a good thing? "My child may be dying of a completely preventable/curable disease, but at least I know I'm free."

And, can I really believe that we can't afford national health when we can spend $750 million a year on Guantanamo Base alone? (it's a rhetorical question - fuck anyone that can answer and affirmative to that one)

[cyr330]

8. What Hell

However. . . . I DO agree that it is an entire waste of our nation's resources to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for dialysis and other life-sustaining treatments for somebody who's 92-years-old with dementia. I am NOT saying that we should kill/gas/burn/cremate ANYBODY. I AM an RN, and I see this kind of shit every day. It's really awful for the patient, and it's certainly not sustainable financially in the long run. Do I think we need single payer insurance? YES! But there are certain caveats we must follow if we are to remain within our healthcare budget, and knowing when to stop needless treatment is something we all need to learn.