Cantor Suggests Entitlement Promises Will Be Broken .

Quelle surprise!


Cantor Suggests Entitlement Promises Will Be Broken - WSJ


WASHINGTON—House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Wednesday suggested that Republicans will continue a push to overhaul programs such as Medicare, saying in an interview that "promises have been made that frankly are not going to be kept for many" and that younger Americans will have to adjust.

"What we have to be I think focused on is truth in budgeting here," Mr. Cantor (R., Va.) told The Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal. He said "the better way" for Americans is to "get the fiscal house in order" and "come to grips with the fact that promises have been made that frankly are not going to be kept for many."

His comments suggest that Republicans are committed to overhauling entitlement programs such as Medicare even after President Barack Obama signed into law a debt package under which Medicare recipients weren't hit with direct cuts. Congress left Medicare recipients untouched directly in order to win enough Democratic votes for the debt package to become law.

But Republicans could make a new push to cut back on Medicare as the debt-reduction deal is implemented. The law initially provides for $917 billion in spending cuts over a decade, but a bipartisan committee of lawmakers must come up with by Nov. 23 a proposal to find another $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction. The panel's members—half of whom will be Republican lawmakers—could try again to change Medicare.





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"Make no mistake. The President as well as both houses of Congress are solidly aligned to gut these programs."

If I were Obama I'd make Cantor eat those words. (one can wish)

supposed to live a life of works and the golden rule. help others, God says over and over. Care about and love each other. The entirety of the old testament could be summed up 'YOU ARE YOUR BROTHER'S KEEPER'. His 'works' are going to bite him in his ass. Karma for him will be a bitch.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

and hears about it from the God that expects him to be everything that he currently isn't.

rather than do anything about the economy or jobs.

than turn the camera to the actual unsustainable practices: WAR, Corporate Socialism, Cronyism

as in Andrea Mitchell etc "Oh the teaparty has brought attention to the deficit and that's a great thing..."

talk about cronyism!

... to just sit back and take it.

Not like in the sixties.

they are mesmerized with social media and stupid TV, at least in the mainstream

These seem to rule their world best I can tell. I saw a young couple doing a double date a few weeks ago and they were busy text messaging people. You'd have never known it was a double date; it was a triple date if you add the text message to the mix. Sad really -- this just shows how detached many people have become thanks to technology.

Cell phones/text message first, everything else is last. :(

My dad was nuts to take me to a lot of intense films at a young age. But it taught me about reality, not some kind of sanitized world that is what parents seem to wish for their darlings now.

The real culprit in this financial disaster!

:puke:

This is behind all of their "negotiation" terrorising tactics.

The finagled this "deal" in bad faith, just like everything else they have done