“We’re going to be an assisted living home with an army”
CHRIS HUGHES, FACEBOOK CO-FOUNDER: But I think he’s been very clear. The administration, the president in particular, has gone to the table for a grand bargain several times and it seems that the — much of the Republican caucus in the House has not — has not accepted some of the sacred cows that the administration has put on the table. The president again talks about this in the interview in detail.
RADDATZ: George, quick.
GEORGE WILL: Again, I come back to the rule of life. A dollar spent on A cannot be spent on B. You wonder why discretionary spending is so low? Because nondiscretionary spending on entitlements is crowding out the Marine Corps, scientific research, everything else. And this is our future. We’re going to be an assisted living home with an Army. That’s going to be the American government.
Blowback
Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.
Trackbacks/Pings
Trackback URL
Comments
And all that army is good for is wasting resources that could be better spent on the retirees!!!1!
Jeddite on January 28, 2013 at 10:59 AM
More likely will be an assisted living home and EBT dispensary with no army to speak of.
forest on January 28, 2013 at 10:59 AM
Most people either don’t believe this, won’t accept it, or just don’t care.
/Obama’s stash
Paul-Cincy on January 28, 2013 at 10:59 AM
The Sun never sets on The Villages, with their Arnold Palmer and Nancy Lopez golf courses.
Flange on January 28, 2013 at 11:00 AM
If we hadn’t aborted all those babies, we’d have too many people on welfare and unemployment right now, and that would be a huge drain on money being dumped into Medicare and Social Security!
Obviously the solution here is to tax those rich people!
Nethicus on January 28, 2013 at 11:01 AM
About sums it up. And note ‘Assisted living home’ with the assistance being spotty. One of the fastest ways to reduce Medicare coverage will be to shove as many into assisted living as opposed to nursing homes, even those who need more care than that. Won’t matter that lives will be lost, as long as costs are kept down. The nursing homes will end up stacking patient 8 to a room before it’s over and will more resemble concentration camps anyway. Better to die earlier at home.
michaelo on January 28, 2013 at 11:02 AM
Well, the Left has already moved the goal-posts on the beginning of life – may as well even things up at the other end.
OldEnglish on January 28, 2013 at 11:08 AM
George, you’re being too optimistic. We ain’t gonna have an army.
Doughboy on January 28, 2013 at 11:09 AM
So the Facebook guy is a O-communist?
Color me shocked.
CorporatePiggy on January 28, 2013 at 11:13 AM
Until nature develops a more lethal flu virus.
Oil Can on January 28, 2013 at 11:14 AM
Keynes hated the idea of capital scarcity, and only having one dollar certainly sounds like scarcity, but luckily we have a printing press, even though we don’t need one anymore, so we can print as many as we need. Modern money theory pretty much says the same thing. Yah, higher education.
DFCtomm on January 28, 2013 at 11:14 AM
And the army part is up in the air.
rbj on January 28, 2013 at 11:15 AM
A small army.
DarkCurrent on January 28, 2013 at 11:16 AM
“Then print more dollars! Duh!”
-left
Bishop on January 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM
The good news is Obama can always replace the army with a civilian national security force.
Doughboy on January 28, 2013 at 11:22 AM
Dressed in nice organic earth tones.
Ward Cleaver on January 28, 2013 at 12:44 PM