No. You are reading too much into what I said. I implied that if you are having issues paying for your food and your cable, that you should forgo your cable as it is not a neccessity.
Thank you, Robert. At least my posts aren’t completely lost on others.
I didn’t say you were for Obama either.
Oh come on Republicans have talked for some time of wanting to cut govt SS by privatizing it too along with Medicare. But anyway since you obviously missed my point, my point was government benefits of whatever kind can help those in need.
The thread is about Ryan, and you questioned Ryan’s acceptance of survivor’s benefits as somehow hypocritical. He is trying to save Medicare and is not proposing changes to Social Security. Being in favor of certain benefits from government does not mean that you have to favor “benefits of whatever kind.” That’s just plain lazy thinking!
Again, more fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Is privatizing it the same as cutting it? Privatizing is just correcting the moral failure of FDR to set up a sustainable system. In our current system we take from people who work and give to people who don’t work. That will last until working people get fed up.
Robert… As I said… The DNC has been accusing the GOP of wanting to do away with SS and Medicare/Medicad for at least the last 30 years. This hasn’t happend yet, even though we have had GOP controlled Congress and/or the presidency.
You implied that working people are paying for my tv. Hilarious. If we had a tough winter we often have to forgo the luxury of cable was my point. Where you get off insulting me so is beyond me. Telling me what I should do as if you know me and my situation. Now you’re backtracking because you know you were wrong. And I forgive you. Peace
And it will collapse as the number of working people decreases and the number of people claiming their benefits increases.
Exactly. Making changes, such as privatizing, to improve our safety nets is not the same as removing those nets. The counter arguments are sleazy, emotion-driven pleas that never address the fiscal crises these programs are creating (or have created…depending on your perspective).
The Republican Party hasn’t always been the far right extremists they’ve become today and there was no Tea Party 30 yrs ago. This yr is different if Paul Ryan were to somehow become VP, and if the House were to remain in Republican Tea Party hands, and Republicans were to gain control of the Senate. While I don’t expect the Republicans to get 60 Senate seats even if they were to become the majority if that were to still matter, but all of this is another reason why I am voting for Obama to assure some checks and balances of their agenda.
Actually, privatizing is taking Medicare and putting it on Wall Street. Sounds a little scarry considering
When did I ever try to insult you?
A religious biggot?I didn’t say you were for Obama either.
What does that have to do with hearts being hardened anyway? My heart is just as loving at it always is. I can always use more help from our Lord, but I don’t feel the need to become a religious bigot in order to demonstrate my love for the poor.
Convient how you have not addressed any of my other points with factual evidence, and still parrot that the Tea Party are a bunch of extremists.
I also countered this fear-based falsehood about “Republicans becoming extreme right wing” a few pages back. I would direct CMatt to find that post. The only people who have drifted to extreme wings are the left wing liberals. Republicans moved to the middle following the leftward movement and abandoned their conservative principles. Now that they’re resetting to their previously held conservative views that are NOT AT ALL extreme, it is portrayed that way and the perception is skewed by how far LEFT the liberal Democrats have gone.
I think people sometimes think they know another’s situation who might not be as financially well off as they might be or in the case of some of the young posters, as their families might be. Even though they are not walking in your shoes. May God continue to bless you and your family DeSanto.
