Republican Blasts Dems on Social Security

Republican Blasts Dems on Social Security
By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, April 26, 2005



(04-26) 13:16 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --


The Republican head of the Senate Finance Committee lambasted Democrats and other critics of Social Security overhaul Tuesday, accusing them of offering no ideas of their own on how to keep the system from crashing.


Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said that doing nothing will trigger at least a 28-percent cut in benefits by 2041, showing why the current Congress should work on changes to achieve "sustainable solvency."


"Those of you that are bad-mouthing every other suggestion out there, suggest your own plans," the 71-year-old part-time farmer exhorted, his voice rising. This came after a panelist at Grassley's initial hearing on the politically volatile issue of restructuring the retirement program suggested that benefit cuts and other changes triggered by creation of personal accounts would be more harmful than projected cuts under the existing structure.


"Doing nothing is not an option, because doing nothing is a cut in benefits," the senator declared. "Grandpa Grassley gets Social Security, but my granddaughter, when she retires 56 years from now, if we do nothing, is going to get this cut that you're talking about. You can rationalize it all you want to, but by golly, she's entitled to what I got, because her dad and younger people are paying for it."

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cap...

Assholes!

afterall YOU RUN THE GOVERNMENT

http://www.controlthedebate.com/index.php?id=5

Remove the cap, and double benefits.

By golly!

C'mon now, we came up with Social Security, surely you don't think we are clueless on how to fix it?

from Saddam Hussein's non-existent weapons of mass destruction if we hadn't have blown up Iraq first.

the repukes are making fools of themselves running around like chickens with their heads cut off..

they've lost all credibility with the american public.

then show them that american's are NOT on their side and ask them why they aren't listening to the very people that put them in office

Although you will never see or hear about it on any American Television channels.
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Wildman
Al Gore is My President

we could do nothing and then fix the problem, such as raising the caps, when the Dems are back in power. I haven't heard one Republican even attempt to address the solvency problem of social security.

and who are the ones who are offering no ideas to keep the system from crashing again?

Chuckle-head should present his party's great ideas shouldn't he? They are the majority.

How can we offer an alternative, when they haven't offered anything?

By that I don't mean absolutely nothing but don't change for the sake of change. The system can be fixed in several ways but totally turning it on its head is not a good idea, not that things being REALLY bad ideas have stopped Grassley's side much.

his war crimes or the destruction of Social Security. Ask Bob Woodward. Bu$h basically told him that. Grassley is a lying dolt whose party`s goal has been the elimination of Social Security since FDR started it. With Grassley`s repuke predecessors screaming and kicking all the way. Only a fool would believe one word coming out of that fascist`s mouth. The only work Grassley has done in his life in the Senate is steal from the poor to give to the rich. And I`m supposed to eat his crap about caring about his grandaughters retirement? Not.
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Wildman
Al Gore is My President

go ask Meanspin what he did with MY money!

I "paid in advance" for my retirement.

YOU and your fellow MILLIONAIRE Congressmen/women and that POS at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave have SPENT MY MONEY on AN ILLEGAL WAR and TAXCUTS FOR THE WEALTHY!

Shove that in your pipe and smoke it!

And, by the way - you can eat shit and die for all I care and give your little granddaughter a middlefinger salute for me!

Dems Want to Focus on Other Savings Plans
Mon Apr 25, 4:41 PM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20050425/ap_on_go_co/social_security

the republicans need to be taught a lesson

Do they need a hearing aid or what????

Its the same game my ex-significant other used to use-- pretend not to hear what I said.

Absolutely infuriating.

The DEM OPTION is basically the same as it was in the days of FDR-- with some minor tweaking to adjust for longer life spans/pay out periods and to cover the (TEMPORARY) baby boom blip... which will cure itself in about 20-30 yrs time.

Look at the fucking polls, shitheads. No one believes a fucking word yer sayin'. The polls are going **down** the longer you flog this long dead horse ...... dickwad.

"Grandpa Grassley gets Social Security, but my granddaughter, when she retires 56 years from now, if we do nothing, is going to get this cut that you're talking about. You can rationalize it all you want to, but by golly, she's entitled to what I got, because her dad and younger people are paying for it."

"Grandpa" Grassley will get a big congressional pension on top of the millions he's made in Washington as a corporate whore. Grassley's "social security" check won't amount to a piss in the ocean for him. And his granddaughter will certainly cash in on the family fortune well before she reaches retirement age. I doubt if his granddaughter will ever work for a living at the kinds of jobs most of us have.

So Grassley's speech was pure b.s.

His bio shows

Assembly Line Worker, 1961-1971
Sheet Metal Shearer, 1959-1961
Farmer

He was first elected to Senate in 1980
He was first elected to House in 1974
He was first elected to State House in 1958

When did he become a farmer????????

Is he really a farmer??????