If I Had To Bet, I’ll Get My 72 Virgins And Check From Soros First

[kpete]

If I Had To Bet, I’ll Get My 72 Virgins And Check From Soros First

by John Cole

A reader emailed a good point.

I’ve been paying into Medicare for three decades now, and the GOP has decided to basically shitcan the program for anyone under 55. Fine, how can I expect my refund for the tens of thousands I’ve paid in to Medicare to be reimbursed? Will Paul Ryan and friends just have the treasury cut me a large check? Will they just give me a credit and I won’t have to pay any taxes for a couple years? Will they send me a couple large every year until we are even?

Or is this my “shared sacrifice,” and I’ll be told to eat a bag of salty dicks while they cut taxes for the Koch brothers and the rest of their fat cat donors and big business?

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/04/05/if-i-had-to-bet-ill-get-my-72-virgins-and-check-from-soros-first/

[Raven]

1. Yeah, when are the refunds coming? n/t

[emulatorloo]

3. You will be issued a discount coupon good for 50 cents off Quilted Northern

or Brawny Paper towel.

Or perhaps another one of Koch Industries fine products.

[shraby]

2. Ryan conveniently "forgot" the amount of money that's been

paid into the insurance fund from present workers. Guess he just wants to keep it for the upper tier of welfare people making a million or more a year.

[damntexdem]

4. And shitcanning it for those under 55 means doing so for all.

It is paid out of CURRENT revenues -- and the GOP doesn't want to recognize the validity of the U.S. bonds making up the trust fund.