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NH-Sen: Teh Google Must Be Broken

by: Dean Barker

Sat Feb 06, 2010 at 08:04:34 AM EST


I keep checking my Google Alerts, but something must be wrong.

I don't see anything from Kelly Ayotte, Ovide Lamontagne, Bill Binnie, and That Other Self-Funder about whether they support the GOP House plan to privatize Social Security.

I find this odd, because:

a) the aforementioned Republican senate candidates are always talking about our out-of-control federal deficit, and

b) our previous Republican junior senator, John E. Sununu, was not just a supporter of privatization, but a champion of it, and

c) they want to be our next Republican junior senator.

Therefore, 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.


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



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