From "it's unconstitutional to fund the social safety net":
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How are you going to pay for it? Oh, I know, redistribute wealth, take money away from people who busted their ass to live the dream and then just use the gobberment to snatch it away. What part of the US Constitution gives them that power? |
to "don't worry about all the politicians who want to defund the social safety net; they don't have enough votes":
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Who says they are going to do any of these things so much as have a chance in hell of getting any such changes through Congress?
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Don't worry about the crazy I promote because someone will probably stop it?
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Obama has been fear mongering Social Security on the population since the Debit debate. When he knows fully well that it is solvent for quite a few years.
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I don't think it's Obama calling it a Ponzi scheme or a monstrous lie or a fraud. The most "fear mongering" he's done is say that checks may not go out if we default on our treasury bonds, which form the bulk of the Social Security trust fund, and pay for the administration of much of the rest of government.
Social Security is fine for decades
if left alone. It's not fine if we default on our debts.
There are plenty of things I don't like about Obama, but in all of them the Republicans are worse.