Great...A Senate Democrat Says Young People Won't Miss Social Security...

[jtown1123]

This is what we're up against...Democrats who won't defend Social Security for my generation. This is appalling:

Inouye: Reform Social Security and close loopholes-ASSOCIATED PRESS. Inouye, the 86-year-old president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, said he wants to protect retirement benefits for most existing workers, but people just entering the work force today wouldn't miss Social Security benefits as much. "You don't have to cut away anything that, say, someone who is retiring today or 20 years from now will be receiving," Inouye said from his office in Honolulu. "But someone who is just starting to get into the Social Security cycle, and he won't be receiving any benefits for the next 50 years, he won't know." http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/38779--inouye-reform-social-security-and-close-loopholes

I really don't know who I can count on to protect Social Security from cuts for my generation...it seems like any Democratic Member or Senator (with few exceptions) can be convinced by anyone (GOP? Blue Dogs?) to cut benefits.

[xoom]

1. it's a strange world we live in.

[Turbineguy]

2. To have a plan that makes you less dependent

on a government in which one party has no compunction about breaking its promises is not a bad thing.

[jtown1123]

4. "less dependent on government?" Thanks for that GOP talking point n/t

[Turbineguy]

7. That was not my intent.

It was breaking promises that was the operative part. Maybe you can help me. How else can I describe somebody whose only source of income is Social Security?

[jtown1123]

10. Right, but SS is so popular & there has always been unified opposition from Dems, "breaking promises

was never an option...now? I have nothing to fear but weak and corporatist Democrats. What has our party become when factions break off and say benefit cuts are OK?

[Turbineguy]

14. I went to school in California

when Reagan was governor. He taught me a lot about trusting Republicans. Unfortunately, it seems some Democrats have joined the dark side, unless it's just political games.

[emcguffie]

18. For most people who receive SS,

It isn't their only income, but it helps them get by. Not many people could get by on SS alone. Not anyone who had to pay normal bills.

[indurancevile]

33. 1/3 of retirees depend on social security for 90% or more of their income.

2/3 depend on it for 50% or more.

Contra your claim, for most retirees SS is their PRIMARY source of income.

You may not run with that crowd, but they are the majority.

[newspeak]

27. and the reason we even have social security

do we trust a global corporate market to protect seniors? Remember the great depression? Oh, I know they will all have 401ks, where wall street can control their money. Instead of a solid payment, they will have to depend on the market and hope they don't get enronized. My FIL's 401k was partly invested in allegheny airlines, that's what the chief financial director invested in. Anyone hear of Allegheny today? He lost over half of his 401k.

A bunch of greedy, sociopathic leeches.

[jeff47]

30. Yes, far better for our plan to be dependent on Wall Street

Clearly we can trust them to operate only in good faith.

[n2doc]

3. Au contrare. They WILL know. Because they will see the taxes taken out

And will know you greedy bastards took those taxes to pay for useless wars and tax breaks for the rich. Oh yes, they will know.

[jtown1123]

5. Yes. So we're going to be taxed at the same rate and get less benefits...we'll fucking notice n/t

[Supersedeas]

13. the most regressive tax of all hits those who will benefit from it the least

if the young Senator has his way.

[RKP5637]

6. The democratic party has morphed into something I don't recognize. Many of the

politicians have become "me toos," akin to republicans IMO. Many democrats today are wishy washy and bend with the wind. Not all certainly, but many. And a good many are really republicans in the democratic party IMO.

[ehrnst]

8. People don't realize they're poor if they're not told. Catfood is delicious, anyway.

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[eShirl]

11. What good is he then?

He might as well switch to the GOP and get it over with if he's going to roll over and give up like that.

[jtown1123]

12. Exactly. I always thought Inouye was one of the good guys...I was wrong n/t

[nykym]

15. but people just entering the work force today wouldn't miss Social Security benefits as much.

And they would miss Inouye even less, if your not with us your against us.

[jtown1123]

17. Haha, well said. I'm not a constituent but I'm going to write a letter anyways.

I have some good links to polls to back me up, but millennials want to protect SS.

[Bonhomme Richard]

16. Sometimes I wish some congresscritter would just say we are moving to Darwinism.

Social Darwinism. So get your guns ready, band together in tribes, trust no one, and fight over the leftovers between yourselves. Get over it. You are on your own if you want to survive.
It seems the direction we are moving in.

[FiveGoodMen]

19. AGAIN: This is why we should defend

democracy rather than the Democratic Party.

The assumtion that they're still on our side isn't warranted.

[jtown1123]

21. +1

[luckyleftyme2]

20. JUST HOW DUMB ARE YOU

Young people will feel it because they will be left with parents with no income after their working days are over! you say pensions,what pensions? you say ira's.401k's etc. well look at how easy it is to drop the stock market! do you think the little guy or the big guy lost money?
you bet your butt the little guy got burned!
I'm all for replacing the social security net when a guaranteed replacement is secured!
But so far all I see is a bunch of cold blooded business investors trying to get that money you pay weekly into the economy so they can make it disappear into their portfolio's

Wake up america their trying to drain your last drop of blood!

[QC]

22. With Democrats like these....

[OhioChick]

28. I hear you n/t

[theophilus]

23. I used to respect him. He remained too long on the job. IMO. n/t

[Frustratedlady]

24. What a stupid thing to say. I suppose they won't notice the deduction on their checks, either?

Take a nap, Inouye.

[bvar22]

25. I don't have ANY use for "The NEW Democrat Centrist Party."

I want my OLD DEMOCRATIC PARTY back.

---bvar22
A Proud Mainstream Center FDR/LBJ Pro-Working Class DEMOCRAT!




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[DonCoquixote]

26. THIS is why

even when we had the Senate, we never really had a LIBERAL senate.

[KamaAina]

29. Ah yes, good old Senator In-Your-Way.

He jumped the shark after Watergate, I'm afraid.

I used to do Hill visits with both Hawai'i senators. Sen. Akaka's people were nice and friendly, like you expect kama'aina (local Hawai'i people; now you know) to be. He even posed for a picture with us! Inouye's staff, on the other hand, were as frosty as if we had shown up at a corporate board meeting wearing cardboard "Will Work for Food" signs. Once they even tried to move their meeting with us to the Senate cafeteria (!) , because his two-story office was supposedly booked! Our sign language interpreter was having none of it; a noisy cafeteria is NOT the place to interpret an important meeting!

[boston bean]

31. is that bastard collecting SS? nt

[indurancevile]

32. inouye means "asshole" in japanese.

[marew]

34. Just incomprehensible and grossly unfair.

Okay, I get SS- I worked for over 33 years (and spent a number of years in school) but this pisses me off beyond belief! Our priorities are so completely screwed up. I am so sorry. This is so disgusting! I wasn't going to vote because I am so unhappy but I see now that is so wrong to the people coming after me. We are all in this together!