Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The Dark Future of Speaker Boehner
Minority Leader John "Tanman" Boehner had a little exercise in pre hatch chicken counting the other day. His ideas of good legislating should scare the shit out of American voters.Among his proposals,
If Republicans retake control of the House, Boehner promised a vote on a bill repealing the health care law and replacing it with a scaled-down package of tax breaks and court reformsMore tax breaks but you won't get them. What will you get?
Boehner had praise, however, for Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan and stepped-up drone attacks in Pakistan. He declined to list any benchmarks he has for measuring progress in the nine-year war, at a time of increasing violence and Obama's replacement of Gen. Stanley McChrystal with Gen. David Petraeus.Yup, you get more war without end and to pay for it you wait until you are 70 to retire and just for good luck he will trim your benefits. And if he sells the Big Lie that SSI is broke he just may get his chance to screw you big time. Hope you have enough lube, John never brings his own.
Ensuring there's enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country's entitlement system, Boehner said. He said he'd favor increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70 for people who have at least 20 years until retirement, tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than wage inflation and limiting payments to those who need them.
"We need to look at the American people and explain to them that we're broke," Boehner said. "If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you're retired, why are we paying you at a time when we're broke? We just need to be honest with people."
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