Funny people are looking at cutting entitlements.
How many of you rocket scientists think entitlements caused the economy to tank?
Would it make more sense to be outraged at the actual causes of our economic collapse?
Hint, it's not organized labor either.

I love liberals! Love 'em!!
I'm about to retire and you generous blokes are gonna help me live the good life!

Oh, and btw, I'm worth it!!



Did I say, "Thanks!" ??

Not a chance, bub.
I can't speak for McCain......he was tortured.
You think you can speak for him?

BWP-- move to Arizona and lead a fight to vote him out.

You missed corporate corruption, welfare and fraud which is far greater than individual people commit, though they ALL should pay dearly for their actions.

Fishy

So 12 years ago we had a budgetary surplus, please show were entitlements depleted that surplus.
So if you came home and found your dog had destroyed your new couch, would you kill your cat for watching it happen?

No, I like cats... I'd kill my sister instead... I hate my sister.


Speaking of family... Dan, If I buy you the lighter and fluid will you torch my worthless brother in law, who, for the last 20 years has been scamming the system. Now, at the age of 45, He is trying to collect a medical disability because he cant handle the "Stress" of dealing with people at work. By the way he is a f'n broom stand at the Lazy B.

Wowza! Those San Bernadino benefits make the former federal civil service look cheap. And here I thought those were the highest in the country, and Reagan, like him or not, had the good sense to reform that 38 years ago.

So maybe the fiscal cliff is the right way to go; every sacred cow gives up a bit for the cause. Except I think I read SS, medicare, and medicaid are exempt from the cliff. If so, that's fundamentally stupid, given the % of the federal budget those represent.

To late.

Hello that's what they have to address SS because they did steal from it for so long it is now on a path to bankruptcy.

Somebody had an excellent idea once...."put it in a lock box".
Slab is more than welcome to donate his SS back into the system so he can feel all conservative.

The very first "entitlement" we need to cut is corporate welfare, stop tax breaks for oil companies,banksters, etc,etc.....


Fishy

But they might pout and stop hiring people....just like they've done now.

When? Did the party of no change it's ways?

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I've read several different versions of what "means testing" is, but most of them basically said that someone who already has some type of "equivalent/replacment" retirement income from other sources, like a pension, could/would get a reduced SS benefit than someone without that resource...... despite the fact those individuals paid just as much into the system as someone without a pension if they had the same basic salary.

That's not going to sit real well with people at Boeing and other Govt jobs with Pers1 and Pers2 pensions figuring to be a piece of their retirement pie...."sorry Charlie, you have a pension so you get less SS benefit, rots of ruck...."

I find it interesting that the GOP is still trying to buck anything.

I don't kiss people on the forhead.

I have a friend that had a federal job and he got an early disability retirement for Vietnam PTSD. When he turned 62 he applied for and got SS benefits. He was pretty distressed when he found out the amount he received from SS was offset and reduced by his gubmint pension. [/quote]

Maybe that was due to his early PTSD disability and being a Federal employee? I have a buddy who just retired from Boeing and applied for early age-62 SS and he said there was no reduction in benefit due to his Boeing pension. Different rules for public/private pensions' affect on SS perhaps?

Agreed!