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Frank Guinta: Fealty to the Rich Over All

by: Dean Barker

Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 08:14:24 AM EDT

Frank Guinta has been clear about his desire to dismantle the American safety net. He doesn't want his children to know what Social Security is, and he voted to end Medicare for those under 55.

(Since that vote, he's earned an upside down favorability rating.)

Incredibly, Democratic President Barack Obama is willing to chip away at those programs for the sake of a "Grand Bargain" on the deficit, a concession that is both remarkably poor public policy and politically disastrous. What he wants in return from Republicans is to end the Bush-Obama tax giveaways to the wealthiest.

Equally incredibly, Frank Guinta lays out his own priorities:

"I have a core belief that I've maintained that raising taxes doesn't solve the problem,'' said Representative Frank Guinta, a New Hampshire Republican who was elected with support from Tea Party activists.

He's spectacularly wrong, of course.

But to the larger point: our President has given Frank Guinta the chance to chip away at the safety net, but he won't bite if it disturbs the free ride the rich have had for the past ten years.

Remember this when the government defaults and you don't get your Social Security check in the mail.

(find me > 140 on birch paper; on Twitter < 140)

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Frank Guinta: Fealty to the Rich Over All | 4 comments

Freeloaders have got to stick together. (0.00 / 0)

You know, like birds of a feather.

Humans sometimes refer to their own kind who aren't too bright as bird-brains. That's really ironic since birds not only take care of their young, but, with the exception of pigeons, they clean up their own nests. Compare that to freeloading human incompetents.

by: hannah @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 13:42:22 PM UTC

Hannah? (4.00 / 1)

Are you suggesting that Mr. Guinta (where does my money come from?) is incompetent or a freeloader or both?

by: mevansnh @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 14:28:39 PM UTC

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Well, I think it's pretty obvious that Mr. Guinta has no socially useful practical (4.00 / 1)

skills, other than running his mouth. He needs to be financially supported. Which, as far as I'm concerned, is how a freeloader is defined.
As I've said repeatedly, we can support them and, indeed, if there were no incompetents, whom would the competent do for? Where we run into problems is when we let these incompetents make decisions about what we do with our resources and what services we provide.
Imagine the diners telling an expert chef how to cook. The result would be a mess, if the chef didn't quit in disgust.

by: hannah @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 17:47:53 PM UTC

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