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What do you have to look forward to when Republicans finally do take over the reins of government? This. And it ain’t pretty.
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) believes that a “political rebellion” akin to the American revolution of 1776 is brewing, that the Social Security retirement age should be raised to 70, and that the Wall Street reform bill currently moving through Congress is comparable to “killing an ant with a nuclear weapon.”
In an explosive interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the GOP leader also charged that Democrats are “snuffing out the America that I grew up in.” He added, “Right now, we’ve got more Americans engaged in their government than at any time in our history. There’s a political rebellion brewing, and I don’t think we’ve seen anything like it since 1776.”
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Ensuring there’s enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country’s entitlement system, Boehner said. He said he’d favor increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70 for people who have at least 20 years until retirement, tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than wage inflation and limiting payments to those who need them.
“We need to look at the American people and explain to them that we’re broke,” Boehner said. “If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you’re retired, why are we paying you at a time when we’re broke? We just need to be honest with people.
Honest? The hypocrisy is astounding. Cut down on Social Security but extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich is what this guy is saying. Why is it that honesty is something which the middle class and poor need to deal with but the rich are exempt? The same people who didn’t give a damn for deficit spending during the eight years of insanity and abuse under Bush have now made this their number one priority. And they’re asking to be taken seriously. Really?
Why not get the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan, wars which cannot be won under any conditions, and then they would not have to worry about finding funds to pay for them? Is the trillion already spent on those two pointless wars not enough?
Imagine a Sarah Palin White House with Boehner and McConnell in charge of the House and Senate respectively and know that there is no terrorist organization in existence which could be more destructive to America than what these fools are capable of doing.
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Just keep Boehner, Palin, Beck and Insanity Hannity talking: they’re a godsend for progressive membership drives…
So he wants to pay for the war on the backs of senior citizens…wow, I bet the senior citizens won’t take too kindly to that. Isn’t that akin to forcing someone to work past retirement age? Sounds like some kind of ‘ist’ to me
Boehner should be very careful.
Elderly people won’t vote for someone who wants to keep them from retirement until they are 70 years old, will they?
It’s a cruel thing for Boehner to say. These people scare me. Why are they always jerking us around?
somebody give the Oracle of Orange another drink and shove his ass back into his tanning crypt. then do us all a favor, chain it shut so he can’t escape.
Boehner is not entirely wrong.The SS was begun when the life expectancy was much shorter,so 70 is a reasonable age and would not begin for 20years.The SS tax should stop at $200000 income not $90000 as it is today and no payouts to people whose incomes are above $200000.This would make SS what it was intended for,a safety net for poor and low income people
This is Boehner’s proposal taken to its logical conclusion: http://tinyurl.com/3xc3hct.