Did not say I agree with all his ideas but any cut to the budget has to include medicare, the military and raise the age of Social Security. He is right anything else is not going to work. His dad is also the only one to have balls to say the wars need to end. They are talking about helping Libya, and Paul the Elder rightly said it is not feasible and we can't afford to be the worlds police. Let someone else take care of Libya. Half of the middle east and europe have our equipment let them use it to help LIbya.
I totally support the idea of getting rid of some of these bloated departments and sending them back to the states. We have 2 choices go bankrupt or fix the problem. We can not continue to run trillion dollar deficits, that is insane. The new budgets from both sides is sorely lacking any teeth.
Don't worry about Paul the Elder getting elected president Fox news is already putting up lies about him and there is no way that bastion of neo-conism would support Paul. They will point the sheep at some tired old candidate such as Horny Newt, Crazy Cliche Machine Palin, Flip Flop Romney, or Used to not talk crazy talk but now pandering to the crazies Huckabee.
My prediction for 2012, Paul the Elder plays the role of Ralph Nader and Obama keeps the presidency. The hard core T-party/libertarians are feeling like a girl who woke up in a fraternity. They are realizing the GOP was just wooing them for the votes/sex(Newt was stressed out, and when Newty is stressed, hide your women.) and now that they have been elected it is time for them to leave and make the walk of shame. I am seeing some rumblings of scorned T-party members. Most think the GOP budget offering is some twisted joke. They thought is was more than a one nighter/election.
Before I go on, are you aware the Hon. Sen. Paul accused the President of breaking his
toilet?Furthermore, before I go on, let's talk about Medicare and Social Security, as well as military retirement/disability. Generic Disclaimer: Be glad this isn't elsewhere, where I understand the stupid word is being bandied about en masse today.
I've worked my entire fucking life. I've paid heavily into the Social Security trust fund and have had ridiculous amounts of money deducted from my paychecks so that I, and those who worked before me could live the remainder of their lifes in peace without (too much) worry about medical care and could live off a small pension. These people fought for our country in three wars. If they couldn't fight, those like Rosie the Riveter, would toil away in manufacturing to ensure the guys fighting had the tools to fight.
Fourty-three years ago, our youth were sent off to the jungles of Southeast Asia to fight an
unnecessary and unwinnable war against an ideology our government scorned. Over the next eight years, over fifty thousand of these young men and women were killed, and hundreds of thousands more were permanently scarred - both physically and mentally. To make matters worse, they came home to be greeted not as heroes, but were scorned by the Americans they fought for.
These folks earned the right to live the remainder of their lifes without worrying about medical care and to draw a small pension in order to live. Who in the Hell in Congress, or any legislative body, has the fucking nerve to say these people are suddenly liable to have these benefits
taken away? Those brave men who fought an unnecessary war in Vietnam, now approaching retirement age aren't worthy? How about the hundreds of thousands of men and women who fought
two unneccessary and unwinnable wars in the Middle East? Those two wars our government borrowed money from to fight - an action that actually created this deficit! They're not worthy?
That is Rep. Paul Ryan, newly enthroned head of the House Budget Committee:
Republicans this week conceded that the government's budget can't be balanced this decade without cutting into current retirees' Medicare and Social Security benefits, something they've indicated they're unwilling to do.
So. There you have it. Our country has a deficit, created by borrowing to fight two wars, an unneeded prescription drug plan pushed through Congress by the pharmaceutical companies, and countless tax breaks through the years for the rich. And the only thing our fucking Republican Congress can come up with to resolve the crisis is the
same old shit
Cut taxes on the rich to create jobs.
How many fucking times are we going to fall for this???
Here's an idea. Let's try something different. Something that's actually
worked before!Schumer endorsed the approaches taken by Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, both of whom reduced or eliminated deficits by cutting discretionary spending and addressing entitlements and tax revenues. He identified achievable savings on all three flanks, including cuts to defense spending, agriculture subsidies, and a surtax on millionaires and billionaires.
"I noted with interest last week's Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, the most popular proposal to reduce the deficit out of 23 options surveyed was a tax -- a surtax -- on millionaires and billionaires," Schumer said. "It's not only a popular thing to do, it's the right thing to do."
Dammit. I could have put that in a blog.
