Lindsay Graham threatens to destroy US solvency

[Luddly Neddite]

Lindsay Graham: I Will Destroy America's Solvency Unless The Social Security Retirement Age Is Raised | ThinkProgress

I’m not going to raise the debt ceiling unless we get serious about keeping the country from becoming Greece, saving Social Security and Medicare [sic]. So here’s what i would like: meaningful entitlement reform — not to turn Social Security into private accounts, not to take a voucher approach to Medicare — but, adjust the age for Social Security, CPI changes and means testing and look beyond the ten-year window. I cannot in good conscience raise the debt ceiling without addressing the long term debt problems of this country and I will not.

Here we go again.

They would just love to force another blow to our credit.

 

[g5000]

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/267252-the-way-forward-raise-the-retirement-age.html

 

[BreezeWood]

after supporting the 9 year unfunded Iraqi war, he's now after the elderly and poor to pay for it.

 

[Dot Com]

Why is Lindsey doing this? He already knows that the President said that he wasn't going to let the GObP use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip (tool of extortion) to the budget negotiations.

Obama to GOP: No More Debt Ceiling Blackmail

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Raising retirement age = Kicking the can down the road and grossly unfair to people who have paid in

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Lindsay Graham: I Will Destroy America's Solvency Unless The Social Security Retirement Age Is Raised | ThinkProgress

I’m not going to raise the debt ceiling unless we get serious about keeping the country from becoming Greece, saving Social Security and Medicare [sic]. So here’s what i would like: meaningful entitlement reform — not to turn Social Security into private accounts, not to take a voucher approach to Medicare — but, adjust the age for Social Security, CPI changes and means testing and look beyond the ten-year window. I cannot in good conscience raise the debt ceiling without addressing the long term debt problems of this country and I will not.

Here we go again.

They would just love to force another blow to our credit.

His proposal is perfectly reasonable.

Why are you people so insistent on stealing from our children and bankrupting our nation?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Raising retirement age = Kicking the can down the road and grossly unfair to people who have paid in

How is raising retirement age "grossly unfair to people who have paid in?"

 

[SniperFire]

If Reid and Obama would just do budgets, we wouldn't have such a crisis each year.


But they of course don't want to give up Obama's totalitarian power.

So, fuck them very much. They can come begging to the Tea Party for money to spend.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Raising retirement age = Kicking the can down the road and grossly unfair to people who have paid in

How is raising retirement age "grossly unfair to people who have paid in?"

We made a deal, you can't change the terms in the middle of the deal

 

[OKTexas]

Right, there's no reason to look past tomorrow and what your dear leader wants, is there? Short sighted ignorant liberals are the one who now refuse to look at the near 100 trillion in unfunded liabilities looming that will crush our economy. But what the hell, future generations can deal with it, RIGHT?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Im going to stop paying in, but you have to start paying out today

 

[jillian]

Lindsay Graham: I Will Destroy America's Solvency Unless The Social Security Retirement Age Is Raised | ThinkProgress

I’m not going to raise the debt ceiling unless we get serious about keeping the country from becoming Greece, saving Social Security and Medicare [sic]. So here’s what i would like: meaningful entitlement reform — not to turn Social Security into private accounts, not to take a voucher approach to Medicare — but, adjust the age for Social Security, CPI changes and means testing and look beyond the ten-year window. I cannot in good conscience raise the debt ceiling without addressing the long term debt problems of this country and I will not.

Here we go again.

They would just love to force another blow to our credit.

lindsay is afraid of getting a primary

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Lindsay Graham: I Will Destroy America's Solvency Unless The Social Security Retirement Age Is Raised | ThinkProgress

I’m not going to raise the debt ceiling unless we get serious about keeping the country from becoming Greece, saving Social Security and Medicare [sic]. So here’s what i would like: meaningful entitlement reform — not to turn Social Security into private accounts, not to take a voucher approach to Medicare — but, adjust the age for Social Security, CPI changes and means testing and look beyond the ten-year window. I cannot in good conscience raise the debt ceiling without addressing the long term debt problems of this country and I will not.

Here we go again.

They would just love to force another blow to our credit.

Well, 2 credit downgrades on Odumma's watch.... Brilliant!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Privatize it

 

[Dot Com]

Raising retirement age = Kicking the can down the road and grossly unfair to people who have paid in

How is raising retirement age "grossly unfair to people who have paid in?"

We made a deal, you can't change the terms in the middle of the deal

Dont Taz Me Bro is right. Most young people, when asked if they ever expect to see any SS $, openly guffaw. Raising the retirement age by a couple/few years would make the program solvent longer & make it more in line w/ the better health/longer life-spans than when the program was created. Now, if we could just keep the politicians from looting it for other things .

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Raising retirement age = Kicking the can down the road and grossly unfair to people who have paid in

How is raising retirement age "grossly unfair to people who have paid in?"

We made a deal, you can't change the terms in the middle of the deal

Oh really? Because I'm pretty sure it's already been a done a few times.

When Social Security was first enacted the retirement age was 60 and that's because the average life span was only 60. Today the average life span is almost 80 and yet the retirement age has only been raised up to 65 in the last 80 years.

You must be a Baby Boomer because only your generation is this selfish.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Privatize it

People can't be trusted with their own money, only the gubmint can... Oh, wait... Never mind.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

lindsay is afraid of getting a primary

Too late for him on that one.

 

[Dot Com]

I agree w/ most of what Lindsay says BUT now is not the time. 'lest we forget, Boehner & Cantor walked away from a $4 TRILLION deal before this.

 

[SniperFire]

I agree w/ most of what Lindsay says BUT now is not the time. 'lest we forget, Boehner & Cantor walked away from a $4 TRILLION deal before this.

Obama told you to say there was a deal. That is what his sheep are to do, repeat his lies.

There was no deal.

This is Obama's ONLY offer:



President's budget sinks, 97-0 - The Hill