Get Your Hands Off My Social Securityby: Dean BarkerTue Jun 29, 2010 at 22:56:03 PM EDT |
This is the guy who will be telling Charlie Bass how to vote if the Republicans win back the House:
Ensuring there's enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country's entitlement system, [House Minority Leader John] 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.That's right. My own money, contributed from my wages, going into the Social Security system is now considered an "entitlement". And if the GOP leadership gets their way, I would be one of the millions of working Americans "who have at least 20 years until retirement" who would get less money in return. This is theft. And We the People aren't stupid either: there were only two attributes a candidate might have that were seen as worse than a Palin endorsement: Supporting Bush's economic policies; and supporting the elimination of various Federal agencies and/or Social Security. |