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Marco Rubio Perfects the Seven-Minute GOP Stump Speech - By Kyle O. Peterson - BattleI am a big fan of Social Security and Medicare. Both of my parents are in their eighties, and they are on Social Security and Medicare, and Ill tell you right now, if those programs didnt exist for them, their lives would be very different, Rubio said. I want to save those programs. I dont want to see a single penny of benefit cuts for them during their lifetimes.
Because until the my hero Barry Obama came along, being invested in US treasuries was considered the safest investment in the world.
Fixed it for ya!
"until the my hero"
I think that repair job was above your pay grade or grade level YMMV
Fixed it for ya!
"until the my hero"
I think that repair job was above your pay grade or grade level YMMV
Yeah - maybe I should refrain from being snarky at 6 am...
good catch, my bad...
So Americans are not only lazy, they are also stupid to be using failed capitalism.
Do you want to actually address what I said? I never mentioned anything about laziness or 'failed capitalism'. But you like to infer unrelated, unintended meaning in order to obfuscate, so I'm not suprised to get a response like that from you.
It was surely intended, just a little vague. American people are stupid to hang onto capitalism as they sink with it. Why should American workers be concerned with saving for retirements, when they can have full wage retirements? I understand your point, I am just not sure common sense dictates your reasoning, or shows me anything except a capitalist thinking person who actually thinks workers might be subsidizing their retirements. Most workers are living check to check, so I don't see that idea flying.
What makes Rubio's fantasy so shit laden is that in the days of yesteryear, if family/church/community had been doing an adequate job of taking care of the sick, the needy, and the elderly,
there would have been no incentive for Social Security and Medicare to come into existence.
The incentive was to keep people voting for Democrats
Here's what Rubio said previously.Marco Rubio Perfects the Seven-Minute GOP Stump Speech - By Kyle O. Peterson - BattleI am a big fan of Social Security and Medicare. Both of my parents are in their eighties, and they are on Social Security and Medicare, and Ill tell you right now, if those programs didnt exist for them, their lives would be very different, Rubio said. I want to save those programs. I dont want to see a single penny of benefit cuts for them during their lifetimes.
Another toad from Florida.
Republicans hate the old, the sick, and the disadvantaged.
They love the rich and the powerful.
SocSecurity is broke and Medicare ended house calls and spiraled costs out of control just like it was supposed to
How in the hell can Social Security be broke when it currently has a $2.5 trillion surplus?
Someone should ask him the question. Do his parents, or did they, benefit from SS or Medicare? Or has he personally cared for them in their old age?The substance of Senator Rubio's has nothing to do with the solvency of entitlement programs. Rather, he objects to the government rather than private citizens caring for the elderly. His argument is that if people know the government will take care of the elderly they will not, and that therefore the people are weakened because they are ceding to the government their traditional role. I disagree:
1) Social Security greatly reduces senior poverty. That strengthens us as a people. Social Security wasn't implemented arbitrarily-- it was implemented because communities weren't doing enough to care for the elderly.
2) With Social Security now well established, people still believe that it is their job to care for elderly parents. If an elderly parent needs help, no one tells them to call their Social Security office.
Someone should ask him the question. Do his parents, or did they, benefit from SS or Medicare? Or has he personally cared for them in their old age?The substance of Senator Rubio's has nothing to do with the solvency of entitlement programs. Rather, he objects to the government rather than private citizens caring for the elderly. His argument is that if people know the government will take care of the elderly they will not, and that therefore the people are weakened because they are ceding to the government their traditional role. I disagree:
1) Social Security greatly reduces senior poverty. That strengthens us as a people. Social Security wasn't implemented arbitrarily-- it was implemented because communities weren't doing enough to care for the elderly.
2) With Social Security now well established, people still believe that it is their job to care for elderly parents. If an elderly parent needs help, no one tells them to call their Social Security office.
That is none of your damn business.
SocSecurity is broke and Medicare ended house calls and spiraled costs out of control just like it was supposed to
How in the hell can Social Security be broke when it currently has a $2.5 trillion surplus?
Goggle the term "Unfunded Liabilities".
SS is broke... and like BIG TIME.
SocSecurity is broke and Medicare ended house calls and spiraled costs out of control just like it was supposed to
How in the hell can Social Security be broke when it currently has a $2.5 trillion surplus?
If that were true then why was Obama worried that he might not be able to send out Social Security checks if the debt ceiling wasn't raised?
Here it is, will you believe your eyes and ears?This came from Thinkprogress folks, I think I'd wait to hear what HE REALLY SAID.
^^THIS^^ As the Statists designed it to force dependency.SocSecurity is broke and Medicare ended house calls and spiraled costs out of control just like it was supposed to
