Why do you find it so difficult to do your job? You are supposed to be some of the brightest, most well educated people in the United States and instead you act like a shopaholic with a credit card and a teenager arguing with their siblings. Why exactly do we need more debt? Why can you not balance the budget? Why are you selling my children’s and grandchildren’s future?
According to this Gallup Poll raising the debt ceiling is unpopular among the majority of Americans and gaining. President Obama says we need to eat our peas and Speaker John Boehner says that President Obama’s strategy is like jello. Quit playing with your food, sit down and look at real improvement. Speaking for those who depend on Social Security and Medicare to live, you can’t keep cutting the benefits and expect people to actually live. Those who depend on it solely are already living below the poverty level.
I have heard a lot of people saying that we need to do away with entitlement programs and I believe they are speaking of Social Security Retirement, Disability and Medicare. Let me ask you if your house burnt down, would you expect your insurance company to pay for a new one? We have been forced to pay into Social Security for years and now it seems to be an inconvenience to pay the benefits back.
President Obama, threatening elderly and disabled people’s main source of income is despicable especially when there is money to pay them and if you don’t know it, you should resign. There is enough money in the ‘bank’ to pay the interest on our debts, and all of the social security, military retirements and other direct programs that you are responsible for paying. Personally, I think that every politician should have to come live for a month on the income of their lowliest constituents. It would be a revealation.
I am not the brightest economic mind in the world but it seems to me that the United States really needs to start focusing on Americans. Hire Americans, take care of Americans, buy American. Quit worrying about the rest of the world and balance our budget. Start paying down our debt so our government doesn’t implode and take the rest of us with it.
Frankly, I am at the point where I don’t want to vote for any incumbent whether they be Democrat or Republican. Our country is a mess and both parties are equally responsible. Quit pointing fingers at each other, Man Up and take care of business. As a voter, I am telling you that you need to clean it up! How does that commercial go? ”I’m Mad As Hell And I Am Not Going to Take It Anymore!
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I have to ask how you get to president obama threating elderly. was it not the tea party saying entitlements had to be dealt with? wasnt it boner and the other young gun republicans demanding we cut spending? not the big budget items that do not have a seprate deduction on the pay check such as dod and doj. nope they wanted to cut benefits people paid into. i havent went back and checked but what were your posts concerning the debt ceiling being raised in 06? were was the republican out rage then? not raising the debt ceiling and telling your creditors sorry cant make the payment is just stupid. what do we do in our personal lives? wed dont fire the nurse for granny as our only means of paying off our bills. instead we get a second job or find a way of increasing our pay. kinda like the snow flake principal. think of that as taxes. and those taxes cant come from those that put money back into the syatem which is low income to midincome people. it has to come from those who some would claim are the job creators.i say if you shop jobs over sea’s you loose your tax breaks. you bring good paying jobs back to the state’s then you get your tax breaks. will this solve all our problems? no and that is what i have seen from obama. he has said and offered to cut spending. and yes grandma/grandpa will have to be effected. i mean that was why they had big families right?
what i dont understand is why we as Americans havent realized that we need to take care of our parents and grandparents when they need it. be it through our fica taxes or they move in with us or both.
All they are is concerned about keeping their jobs instead on doing the right things and accepting compromises. All they need to do is meet in the middle and get it over with, but i feel like they cant even do that these days. Everything is so partisan, they don’t try to represent the people, only their own party.
Quite simply Phillip, when you threaten not to pay an elderly person’s only source of income, it’s a very serious threat and for people who rely on Social Security it is life threatening. I am not a Republican. I don’t believe that Social Security retirement is an entitlement because we paid into it for most of our lives. We were given no choice. No one asked us if we wanted to pay it and now politicians act like they are doing us a kindness by paying it.
I absolutely agree that the government needs to cut costs and there are so many places where it could be cut but we also need a fair tax system where EVERYONE pays their fair share.