Rick Perry's book a treasure trove for foes

[Political Junky]

'I wouldn’t have written that book if I was going to run for the presidency,' Perry once said.

Rick Perry describes Social Security as a “violent” attack on core American values. He says Sarah Palin may have been right that the Affordable Care Act created death panels. He says it was “unprincipled” to establish the Department of Homeland Security.

That’s not the provocative, distorted language of a 2012 attack ad — at least, not yet. Rather, those are words right out of the Texas governor’s 2010 book, “Fed Up!” — a slim volume that may be one of the biggest gifts ever given to the opponents of a presidential candidate.

It’s a treasure trove of oppo research, a target so ripe that Perry himself pointed to it last year as prime evidence he wasn’t interested in running for president.

“I wouldn’t have written that book if I was going to run for the presidency of the United States,” he said in one national interview.


Read more: Rick Perry's book a treasure trove for foes - Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com
Read more: Rick Perry's book a treasure trove for foes - Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com

 

[Fyght]

The only mistake Perry made is apologizing.

 

[JoeB131]

Sweet Evil C'Thulhu, I swear I'm in some kind of time warp here.

Now where have I heard this before?

Oh, yeah, 1980. When Ronald Reagan criticized Social Security and Carter said he was going to starve old people.

Reagan won anyway, and had to set up a landmark Social Security Reform that bought the program another 30 years before we are back to the same problem- not enough money coming in to cover what is being paid out.

Even the Community Organizer has admitted that Social Security has problems.

 

[Greenbeard]

The Perry Campaign: "a look back, not a path forward."

 

[CrusaderFrank]

"Nancy Pelosi says the Republicans are cutting Social Security, the leader of the DNC says that Alan West should be ashamed of himself for voting for cutting medicare/social security, and finally, Obama alludes to the myth that we’re throwing grandma over a cliff.

Here are the facts about the history of Social Security:


Dick Kantenberger
Gifted Education Writer
Examiner.com
History Lesson on Your Social Security Card

Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn't know this.
It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it. Be sure and show it to your family
and friends. They need a little history lesson on what's what and it doesn't matter
whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts.

Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and
card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the
United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the
message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION, was removed.

An old Social Security card with the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message.

Our Social Security
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social
Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be
Completely voluntary,
No longer Voluntary

2.) That the participants would only have to pay
1% of the first $1,400 of their annual
Incomes into the Program,
Now 7.65%
on the first $90,000

3.) That the money the participants elected to put
into the Program would be deductible from
their income for tax purposes each year,
No longer tax deductible

4.) That the money the participants put into the
independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the
general operating fund, and therefore, would
only be used to fund the Social Security
Retirement Program, and no other
Government program, and,
Under Johnson the money was moved to
The General Fund and Spent

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed
as income.
Under Clinton & Gore
Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are
now receiving a Social Security check every month --
and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of
the money we paid to the Federal government to 'put
away' -- you may be interested in the following:

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the
independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the
general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically
controlled House and Senate.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax
deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -----

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social
Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the
'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the
Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

Q: Which Political Party decided to start
giving annuity payments to immigrants?

AND MY FAVORITE:
A: That's right!
Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.
Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65,
began to receive Social Security payments! The
Democratic Party gave these payments to them,
even though they never paid a dime into it!

------------ -- ------------ --------- ----- ------------ --------- ---------

Then, after violating the original contract (FICA),
the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want
to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be
planted and maybe changes will evolve.
But it's worth a try. How many people can YOU send this to?"

 

[Seawytch]

Rick Perry's book a treasure trove for foes

Indeed it is. His ideas for SS alone are enough to get him thrown off the national stage.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Rick Perry's book a treasure trove for foes

Indeed it is. His ideas for SS alone are enough to get him thrown off the national stage.

Obama said SocSec is broke...that's better?

 

[Seawytch]

Rick Perry's book a treasure trove for foes

Indeed it is. His ideas for SS alone are enough to get him thrown off the national stage.

Obama said SocSec is broke...that's better?

Naturally you can provide President Obama's exact quote, right?

Perry's idea for SS, outlined in his book, would destroy it...which is their ultimate goal anyway.

 

[grunt11b]

"Nancy Pelosi says the Republicans are cutting Social Security, the leader of the DNC says that Alan West should be ashamed of himself for voting for cutting medicare/social security, and finally, Obama alludes to the myth that we’re throwing grandma over a cliff.

Here are the facts about the history of Social Security:


Dick Kantenberger
Gifted Education Writer
Examiner.com
History Lesson on Your Social Security Card

Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn't know this.
It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it. Be sure and show it to your family
and friends. They need a little history lesson on what's what and it doesn't matter
whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts.

Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and
card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the
United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the
message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION, was removed.

An old Social Security card with the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message.

Our Social Security
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social
Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be
Completely voluntary,
No longer Voluntary

2.) That the participants would only have to pay
1% of the first $1,400 of their annual
Incomes into the Program,
Now 7.65%
on the first $90,000

3.) That the money the participants elected to put
into the Program would be deductible from
their income for tax purposes each year,
No longer tax deductible

4.) That the money the participants put into the
independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the
general operating fund, and therefore, would
only be used to fund the Social Security
Retirement Program, and no other
Government program, and,
Under Johnson the money was moved to
The General Fund and Spent

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed
as income.
Under Clinton & Gore
Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are
now receiving a Social Security check every month --
and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of
the money we paid to the Federal government to 'put
away' -- you may be interested in the following:

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the
independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the
general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically
controlled House and Senate.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax
deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -----

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social
Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the
'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the
Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

Q: Which Political Party decided to start
giving annuity payments to immigrants?

AND MY FAVORITE:
A: That's right!
Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.
Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65,
began to receive Social Security payments! The
Democratic Party gave these payments to them,
even though they never paid a dime into it!

------------ -- ------------ --------- ----- ------------ --------- ---------

Then, after violating the original contract (FICA),
the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want
to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be
planted and maybe changes will evolve.
But it's worth a try. How many people can YOU send this to?"

Reminds of when Obama said that obamacare would be voluntary and you could keep your own insurance if you want to. In the end, we will all be on obamacare, and it will be just as bad if not worse than social security.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Indeed it is. His ideas for SS alone are enough to get him thrown off the national stage.

Obama said SocSec is broke...that's better?

Naturally you can provide President Obama's exact quote, right?

Perry's idea for SS, outlined in his book, would destroy it...which is their ultimate goal anyway.

"I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it" Barack "Social Security Really is Bankrupt" Obama, the Downgraded President

 

[JoeB131]

Rick Perry's book a treasure trove for foes

Indeed it is. His ideas for SS alone are enough to get him thrown off the national stage.

Yeah, keep telling yourself that.

Poll: 81% fear for Social Security - Jennifer Epstein - POLITICO.com

The vast majority of Americans see Social Security headed toward a crisis, and most think the system needs a major overhaul, a new poll suggests.

Eighty-one percent of those surveyed for a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Thursday said they think that if no changes are made to Social Security, the program will be in trouble, while just 15 percent said the system will be fine as it is.

I'm just wondering what kind of "special people" these 15% are. (As in I can't say "retarded" anymore, so they are "Special".)

 

[Sallow]

Rick Perry's book a treasure trove for foes

Indeed it is. His ideas for SS alone are enough to get him thrown off the national stage.

Which is why I am hoping he get nominated. Perry's attack ads are written by Perry himself!

 

[rightwinger]

Does this mean Perry is going to claim he was misquoted by liberals?

 

[Mad Scientist]

Does this mean Perry is going to claim he was misquoted by liberals?

Rick Perry IS a Liberal. Just posing as a Conservative and putting an "R" by his name doesn't make him one.

 

[editec]

Does this mean Perry is going to claim he was misquoted by liberals?

Rick Perry IS a Liberal. Just posing as a Conservative and putting an "R" by his name doesn't make him one.

Here we go again.

Debating not issues and facts but instead word meanings.

Debating semantics is a true waste of our time.

I do SO wish we could settle on the meanings of certain words because I truly think that much of what we waste our time debating stems MOSTLY from the fact that we cannot agree on what a word means.

I'd be more than willing to use whatever meaning we want to assign to these words as long as we all KNOW AND AGREE what those meanings are.

 

[Mustang]

Rick Perry's book a treasure trove for foes

Indeed it is. His ideas for SS alone are enough to get him thrown off the national stage.

Elderly people vote, and they would not put up with a candidate with Perry's views.

 

[Greenbeard]

Rick Perry's book a treasure trove for foes

Indeed it is. His ideas for SS alone are enough to get him thrown off the national stage.

Elderly people vote, and they would not put up with a candidate with Perry's views.

Get Paul Ryan on the ticket with him!

 

[yidnar]

'I wouldn’t have written that book if I was going to run for the presidency,' Perry once said.

Rick Perry describes Social Security as a “violent” attack on core American values. He says Sarah Palin may have been right that the Affordable Care Act created death panels. He says it was “unprincipled” to establish the Department of Homeland Security.

That’s not the provocative, distorted language of a 2012 attack ad — at least, not yet. Rather, those are words right out of the Texas governor’s 2010 book, “Fed Up!” — a slim volume that may be one of the biggest gifts ever given to the opponents of a presidential candidate.

It’s a treasure trove of oppo research, a target so ripe that Perry himself pointed to it last year as prime evidence he wasn’t interested in running for president.

“I wouldn’t have written that book if I was going to run for the presidency of the United States,” he said in one national interview.


Read more: Rick Perry's book a treasure trove for foes - Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com
Read more: Rick Perry's book a treasure trove for foes - Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com

DREAMS OF MY FATHER...........a treasure trove for foes of communism !!

 

[Mustang]

Indeed it is. His ideas for SS alone are enough to get him thrown off the national stage.

Elderly people vote, and they would not put up with a candidate with Perry's views.

Get Paul Ryan on the ticket with him!

I've heard some conservatives say that's their idea of a dream ticket.

 

[Greenbeard]

Elderly people vote, and they would not put up with a candidate with Perry's views.

Get Paul Ryan on the ticket with him!

I've heard some conservatives say that's their idea of a dream ticket.

Well color me conservative because it's my dream ticket, too.