NH-Sen: Teh Google Must Be Broken

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Social Security benefits will be reduced for those younger than 55, and the retirement age will be increased.

Also, it will be privatized, so Wall St. "brains" can figure out new ponzi schemes. When the people at the bottom lose everything--Oh well...

Another big cut is to Medicare - starting in 2021, new enrollees would be given vouchers to purchase private health insurance.

As with privaste school vouchers, the amount of the voucher won't equal the amount of the premium (or tuition). Retirees will have to make up the difference out of their own pockets or go without.

It also eliminates income and payroll tax exclusions for employment-based health insurance starting next year.

It also includes the same discretionary spending freeze (for 10 years) that Republicans mocked President Obama for proposing last week.

And it will create a surplus--by 2060!

All candidates, but especially the GOP candidates should let the voters know where they stand on these proposals clearly and unequivocally.

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Sat Feb 06, 2010 at 07:30:36 AM CST

If teh Google is broken (0.00 / 0)

Try teh Yahoo!, because even though they aren't very Swift, they are a bunch of Yahoos.

A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift.

Swift describes the Yahoos as vile and savage creatures, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, far preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term "Yahoo" has become synonymous with "cretin," "dinosaur," and/or "Neanderthal."
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_%28Gulliver%27s_Travels%29

...the Doo Dah Man once told me you've got to play your hand. Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime if you don't lay 'em down.

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by: rambler american @ Sat Feb 06, 2010 at 07:34:54 AM CST