Speaker Boehner Talks about Using Debt Limit to Go after Social Security

[eridani]

Keep those cards and letters coming, folks.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/08/27/20215447-boehner-vows-debt-ceiling-crisis-wont-be-pretty-and-polite

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), speaking about cutting Social Security benefits at a recent Republican fundraiser in Idaho, said, “We're going to have a whale of a fight.” Boehner went on to say, “I've made it clear that we're not going to increase the debt limit without cuts and reforms that are greater than the increase in the debt limit.” According to the Idaho Statesman, Boehner also said that getting the GOP-controlled House to agree to raise the U.S. debt ceiling will only come with a bipartisan deal to make cost-saving changes to Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, farm programs and government pensions.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. Just wait until Obama hears about this.

[SheilaT]

2. Only those who have no need of Social Security can begin to support this.

Godammit! I want to say: What's wrong with him? but I actually do know what's wrong. He has no need of Social Security, and therefore assumes that no one else really needs it also. He lives inside a privileged umbrella, but he has no clue how privileged he is.

[Cha]

3. boner's strutting his stuff for Kochs.. "See how

vicious and petty I can be?" "Do I get employee of the month?"

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Cha for the win!

You nailed it!

[Cha]

6. Good morning, Gen..

[davidn3600]

4. What's sad is how many people who rely on these programs actually vote for the GOP

Talk about voting against your own interests.....

[KansDem]

7. Last month at was at the grocery store...

As I walked through the parking lot I noticed a car parked in a handicapped space with a "Romney/Ryan" bumper sticker.

I couldn't decide if it was abject hypocrisy or just plain cluelessness.

I opted for plain cluelessness...

[Matariki]

8. Why do they want to do this so badly?

Do they feed on human suffering or something?

[wandy]

9. We see the pictures of suffering in other countrys and say.............

How terrible that is. We should do something. We should remove their leaders. We should bomb them.

Ignoring entirety the vermin that exists in our own leadership.

[Triana]

11. Bingo!

We don't "gas our own people" here. We just STARVE THEM TO DEATH and deny them any ability to survive.

[B Calm]

10. and the voters in Ohio keep putting this monster back in. .