Comments on: Why is Jim Himes Channeling Pete Peterson?

By: BargainCountertenor

BargainCountertenor — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:33:42 +0000

Unfunded liabilities? Un-f*cking*funded liabilities?!?

Excuse me, Mr. Himes, but let’s understand some things. Your guy, Saint Ronald of Ray-gun, raised the payroll taxes at the start of my career. With the exception of the three years that I worked for the Federal Government, I’ve had Old-Age, Survivor’s, and Disability Insurance and Medicare taxes taken out of my paycheck.

Your guy, Ray-gun, said that was necessary to secure Social Security for the future. Now, Mr. Himes, maybe it’s going to be necessary for taxes to be raised to pay that liability. Maybe, just maybe it’s going to be necessary to put a very moderate means-testing on benefits. But if you want to learn what a third rail is, just propose drastic cuts to it.

By: runfastandwin

runfastandwin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:33:36 +0000

They don’t call it the third rail of American Politics for nothing, I am going to say they will fail once again to cut either SS or Medicare. And any politician that tries will soon go the way of GWB.

By: ART45

ART45 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:06:34 +0000

In the 2008 elections, Jim Himes was the poster boy for “better” as in more and better Democrats.

I even gave to the schmuck.

Yuck.

By: MarkD

MarkD — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:53:45 +0000

Anyone whining about inflation at this time is too stupid to take seriously, especially since we’re currently having the opposite problem.

Secondly, it’d be nice if someone had the guts to propose the only true fix for Social Security: raise the income cap to which the tax applies to $200K. **poof** Problem solved!!

Of course, most of the clowns who’d vote on such a proposal (and those who donate to them) would never allow it since it’d affect them directly.

Assholes.

By: Ann in AZ

Ann in AZ — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:45:55 +0000

Gregg Levine has a new post up at the Mothership: “Jim Cooper, Avowed Supporter of Public Option, to Move to Stall Progress Toward Healthcare Reform”

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:41:54 +0000

Would Goldman Sachs have enough retirees to staff Peterson’s bipartisan comission? /s

By: ghostof911

ghostof911 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:41:40 +0000

I doesn’t seem that long ago when breathing a word against Social Security was a death wish for a politician. Should be even more so the case now, with the boomers approaching retirement age. What is wrong with this picture?

By: Margot

Margot — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:38:23 +0000

They don’t care about these programs because they won’t have to subsist on them.
I vow right now not to vote again for my Blue Dog representative. He’s in this group and they are not helping, and I don’t want to pay him to live in luxury on a pension. Not when he threatens to take food out of my mouth.

By: cbl2

cbl2 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:36:10 +0000

thanks.

Cruise ship would be my guess.

or in Peterson’s case, prolly just a week end dinghy :D

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:35:07 +0000

How much money would we save over the next 75 years if we eliminated retirement benefits for retired congresscritters.