Comments on: Poll: 58% oppose Medicare cuts

By: celt

celt — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:32:38 +0000

Well I’m 50 and been paying into both programs since I was old enough to work.

Let;s raise the retirement age to 70 and medicare too. It’s not like if I lost my job at 62 I couldn’t afford medical insurance. It’s not like if I were in the workforce at 63 employers might not want to hire me assuming I will retire in less than 10 years.

Here’s a thought, the govt can pay me back everything I put in with annually adjusted inflation and we call it even.

I’m VERY Conservative but some of this stuff being floated that penalizes me, someone who has been gainfully employed and paying into the system since 1979 is BS.

Here’s a thought….

Weed out the takers claiming to be disabled who can easily drive a car or play video poker for hours. Cut off foreign aid to any country that doesn’t reciprocate back with an equal amount of power, goods or influence in our best interest.

Tighten down on Welfare, housing and the crap like Obamaphones…

Don’t tell me after well over 30 years of paying into a system with at least 12 more – the only thing you can do is raise my benefits to 70 and if I don’t like it I can become some ward of the state living in a ghetto.

This is Bullshit and one of the reasons I didn’t like Ryan with his “55 years or older” idea for reform.

I did vote for Romney as I have for every conservative since Reagan, but if this rhetoric keeps up with me being screwed after all this time as the only way to fix problems I’ll wait the next ones out.

By: astonerii

astonerii — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:55:11 +0000

Cannot believe it is that low.

By: RoadRunner

RoadRunner — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:52:38 +0000

The people have discovered they can vote themselves bread and circuses. The barbarians will be here shortly (or have already started their attack — see la Raza).

By: Drained Brain

Drained Brain — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:42:10 +0000

When you make people dependent on something they think they’ve paid for, it’s hard to take it away, especially when there’s an overlay of “fairness” and “equity” for all.

That’s why the Brits cling to the NHS and the Canadians to their single-payer medicare.

Just wait until Obamacare kicks in.

By: jawkneemusic

jawkneemusic — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:41:40 +0000

I’m so sick of these people. Who the hell do they think they are to keep demanding more and more from tax payers and younger generations? I saw an 80 year old woman on oxygen with Obama stickers all over her car. Nothing irks me more than grannies who rob from me and my kids so they can get their free sh!t. Rey should know better. My grandfather did may he rest in peace.

By: michaelo

michaelo — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:38:21 +0000

Of course, they don’t point out the 15-20% lost to fraud and outright waste.

By: CorporatePiggy

CorporatePiggy — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:38:01 +0000

I don’t doubt 58% want to just pretend nothing is wrong. Barky and Co will encourage this by saying ‘Hey, we need those rich folks (people earning over $10k a year) to start paying their fair share.

By: Rocks

Rocks — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:34:08 +0000

“The people we’re surveying think you should close maybe eight to 10 of the major Cabinet offices before you get to cutting this program,” Blendon said Thursday. In Washington, “Every meeting I go to is ‘let’s get it on the table, let’s start working.’”

Who the heck are they surveying? I doubt many under 30 would even know what it is.

By: thirteen28

thirteen28 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:29:39 +0000

Fix the deficit!

Fix the debt!

Just don’t cut anything!

By: CPT. Charles

CPT. Charles — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:27:42 +0000

Let. It. Burn.