What have we found out from today’s episode of Morning Joe? Obama has wasted four years while the entitlement collapse continued to pick up steam, and even after four years, he still doesn’t have a plan to address it.

You may have just found that out, but I have known that for several years now.

Amazingoly on September 24, 2012 at 2:10 PM

Unfortunately, yep. He is right about Medicare being more immenent.

UnrepentantCurmudgeon on September 24, 2012 at 6:41 PM

Death panels are starting to seem more palatable to me… The old people voted themselves the wealth of future generations. Then spent more of the wealth of future generations. Now that there is nothing left… Why keep em alive?

The magic word of course is “balance”, which is nothing but a platitude. On the other hand, Romney must offer a smorgasbord of specifics. Amazing: Obama and Axelrod do nothing but spew propaganda but get away with condemning others for not nailing it down to nickels and dimes.

Basic reality: both Medicaid and Social Security are on the fast track to bankruptcy. So if now is not the time to discuss reforms, then when?

SS will never be fundamentally sound as long as we let the politicians raid the fund for general fund use.

Wade on September 24, 2012 at 3:45 PM

It will never be sound if the children of others are the funding source period.

Stealing from the poorer generation to give to the richer generation will never be fundamentally sound. Particularly when people abort the kids who might support them, and then poorly educate those who get past the killing feilds, and those poorly educated kids will never be as capable of defending against a media onslaught of propaganda as they would have been if they were well educated… You see where this is going.

It is not the raiding of the money. It is where the money comes from and where it goes. It drives a perpetual degeneration of future generations that will not end until it all explodes. By the time it explodes, the idea is that the people will be too stupid to resist socialism and communism and the new order of things.

Axelrod is right, of course. SS is fundamentally sound for the next two decades and the problems are known an easily addressed, once Republicans stop trying to kill the program outright. Medicare is by far the more important issue and the more politically contentious.

urban elitist on September 24, 2012 at 11:28 AM

SS will never be fundamentally sound as long as we let the politicians raid the fund for general fund use.

Memorandum
To: Ed Morrissey
Subj: Hot Air column

Obama has wasted four years while the entitlement collapse continued to pick up steam, and even after four years, he still doesn’t have a plan to address it.

Ed, lets get something clear, eh? HE NEVER INTENDED TO. Anyone who thinks that the state of the economy under Obama is due to incompetence or accident is mistaken. There is nothing accidental or unplanned about anything that has happened. Obama has had a lifelong plan, inherited from his communist father, his communist grandparents, his ditzy mother and all of his Marxist friends, for the destruction of America. He is working that plan and has actually been d*mned successful.

Sincerely,

me

clippermiami on September 24, 2012 at 11:29 AM

Yup!

Also I want to see this brought up by Mitt in the debates. Loudly and forcefully.

No more pillowfight time. These people are incompetent, lazy and arrogant and they need to be FIRED.

Steveangell on September 24, 2012 at 1:44 PM

Follows closely my view of things.

States rights. I think allowing states the power to fire supreme court justices would fix much of that. Another constitutional Amendment.

astonerii on September 24, 2012 at 1:11 PM

I agree.

But no one running is proposing that. At least not enough to have any chance what so ever.

Todd Akin was one. But we saw the attack Priebus and Romney hit him with.

For now I am in favor of neither the Republicans or Democrats. Though I do hope the Republican Party can be taken back by Conservatives. For now the Republican Party is the number 2 enemy the Democrat Party the number 1 enemy.

Romney is proposing nothing to fix America and is actively working against those that actually want to fix America. He is little better than Obama. But worse in that he would make it darn near impossible for the Conservative Majority in the Republican Party to retake the Party.

Steveangell on September 24, 2012 at 12:53 PM

Senators popularly elected,
Income tax authority
Social Security
Poor Education
Poor reporting
War on religion

These are the foundations upon which the communist/socialist take over of America rest upon.

I think it is time to let Social Security die and be the first pillar to fall. I think after that, it will not be so hard to get well educated kids who follow religious teachings to care for their family, since everyone will want to have productive children to help them in their old age.

Well educated and god beleiving children will be less swayed by, and thus will not support with ad dollars the progressive media.

Well educated and go believing children will also know their personal charity is far superior to that of government’s and no longer desire to fund it. They will have the personal desire to be charitable.

Income tax can be thwarted with a cap on spending and balanced budget constitutional amendments.

States rights. I think allowing states the power to fire supreme court justices would fix much of that. Another constitutional Amendment.

Really? Isn’t an election a time to discuss plans for the nation’s future, especially on pressing fiscal issues?

Yet, the left arm of the Obama campaign (MSM) has been prodding Romney all along to get the specifics of his proposals out…

…in his snotty way telling Mark Halperin that he doesn’t have any standing even to ask the question.

Axey is getting snarky with the lap dog media… heh, the MSM looked pretty lame with Univision going after The Boy King during the Florida infomercial.