Romney & Ryan = death to Social Security

[Days]

Ryan's plan, which passed in the house but died in the Senate, would have eliminated income taxes on capital gains, the corporate income tax, estate tax, and privatize Social Security and Medicare.

Remember GWB's plan to privatize Social Security? These guys are still at it.

 

[Jen]

A Vice President doesn't have that kind of power.

 

[Days]

Romney is embracing the Ryan budget.

You know, I was sitting 2012 out. Now I'm not so sure I will. SSDI pays the rent. Without it, we are homeless.

 

[Jen]

I don't believe there ever has been a plan to take SS away from people already receiving it.

 

[MaryAnne]

Just our kids and Grand kids. I am not worried about me.

 

[Dino]

And if you look up his plan, of course there is no such thing.

 

[OldGaffer]

And if you look up his plan, of course there is no such thing.

You are correct, he just wants to privatize it. I am sure Bain would love to get their hands on the countries social security funds, what a blast they could have.

 

[Jen]

People nowadays are much more finance savvy than ever and I am betting that they will enjoy getting more pay each month (7% or so makes a difference) and if they invest / save it well, their return will be far more than SS would ever have given them. But that being said, I doubt it changes any time soon............ so our children may not have that concern and our grandchildren may grow up in a world with other options that they will adjust to just as we adjusted to the world as we've known it.

 

[OldGaffer]

Half the seniors in this country have no other income than social security, and an extra 10 bucks in a minimum wage workers pay envelope is not going to be put into the stock market. So after a few years, you have half the workers with no social secuirty, no savings, no health care becuae they cant afford a private policy with their voucher, and the next step, work houses and poor farms like they had in the 1920's.

 

[JuliefromOhio]

People nowadays are much more finance savvy than ever and I am betting that they will enjoy getting more pay each month (7% or so makes a difference) and if they invest / save it well, their return will be far more than SS would ever have given them. But that being said, I doubt it changes any time soon............ so our children may not have that concern and our grandchildren may grow up in a world with other options that they will adjust to just as we adjusted to the world as we've known it.

folks who had half their retirement investment wiped out in the 2008 Great Republican crash see it differently.

 

[NCmusicman]

YOU LIE - Ryan's plan was to save it, not let it die on the vine as Obama is doing.

Ryan's plan, which passed in the house but died in the Senate, would have eliminated income taxes on capital gains, the corporate income tax, estate tax, and privatize Social Security and Medicare.

Remember GWB's plan to privatize Social Security? These guys are still at it.

 

[JuliefromOhio]

Ryan's plan, which passed in the house but died in the Senate, would have eliminated income taxes on capital gains, the corporate income tax, estate tax, and privatize Social Security and Medicare.

Remember GWB's plan to privatize Social Security? These guys are still at it.

republicans have wanted to dump SS since 1935 and they've wanted to end Medicare since 1965.

they are not to be trusted......EVER.

 

[OldGaffer]

republicans have wanted to dump SS since 1935 and they've wanted to end Medicare since 1965.

they are not to be trusted......EVER.

Absolute truth.

 

[LeRoy_Was_Here]

YOU LIE - Ryan's plan was to save it, not let it die on the vine as Obama is doing.

LeRoy: It was Newt Gingrinch who was quoted as saying he yearned to see Medicare die on the vine. And, unless he has very improbably switched political parties in the last day, Newt is still a Republican.

 

[Days]

this is a brave new budget. GWBush was the first to try and privatize SS... not a good idea.

 

[wobblies]

Great summary of the possibilities.

Ryan's plan, which passed in the house but died in the Senate, would have eliminated income taxes on capital gains, the corporate income tax, estate tax, and privatize Social Security and Medicare.

Remember GWB's plan to privatize Social Security? These guys are still at it.

 

[wobblies]

Jen~
You are distancing yourself from the GOP mantra and the Tea Party faction that espouses these very things. The right wing of the GOP has been pusing this since the mid-thirties but never spoke so candidly until the far right and big money took complete controll of the party.

Do you support Ryan's proposals on Medicare? Do you want to end SSI as we know it? Your candid answers will define the race.

God Speed,
David

A Vice President doesn't have that kind of power.

 

[Days]

Romney is adamant about increasing the Defense budget, lowering taxes on the rich, and paying for it all by slashing entitlements. Medicaid is already underfunded. I received a letter about a month ago with a long list of items that they are cutting. People who live on Social Security (moi) are not too thrilled with this VP pick, if I didn't live in Illinois, I would feel motivated to crawl out of my shell and vote.

 

[Woolleybugger]

I know I trust Goldman Sachs with my retirement. My 401k is worth 100 million pennies.

 

[Days]

How many people lost everything they had in the 2000 NASDAQ meltdown and the 2008 crash? Ryan wants to strip the Security from Social Security. Anyone with a lick of sense and dependent on Social Security, needs to start paying attention to this ticket. These guys have designs on America, and it is scary as hell.