GOP Congress Signals Big Social Security Reforms (Cuts) On the Way
There is no mystery anymore. We all know how this is going to play out. Republican austerity zealots are going to get 99% of what they want, and be able to pillory Democrats for gutting social security because “Democrats” like John Carney and Tom Carper suck outright and make the whole party look like a bunch of sniveling idiots and/or craven douche-bags.
The new House Budget Committee chairman hinted Monday that he had big plans for Social Security reform in the next two years, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
A week after the House voted on a rule that critics say could force a manufactured crisis in the disability program in late 2016, a potential leverage point for Republicans aiming for changes, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) told a conservative audience that he wanted his committee to tackle Social Security.
“What I’m hopeful is what the Budget Committee will be able do is to is begin to normalize the discussion and debate about Social Security. This is a program that right now on its current course will not be able to provide 75 or 80 percent of the benefits that individuals have paid into in a relatively short period of time,” he said at a Heritage Action for America event in Washington, D.C., according to AJC. “That’s not a responsible position to say, ‘You don’t need to do anything to do it.’”
Price, whose predecessor Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) never put forward major reform proposals in his otherwise ambitious budgets, offered means-testing and increasing the eligibility age as possibilities. He also hinted at privatizing Social Security.
Chris Coons and a bunch of Republicans introduce a bill to dramatically expand the importation of foreign HI-B tech workers. Depressing. I could describe the bill in detail but let me just print the names of the sponsors and I think you will get the gist:
“because “Democrats” like John Carney and Tom Carper suck outright and make the whole party look like a bunch of sniveling idiots and/or craven douche-bags.”
And this is… because of why?
Because why? Because Carper and Carney are basically Republicans who have 100% bought into all he GOP voodoo, trickle-down economic nonsense. [Every bit of which, by the way, has failed publicly and spectacular to do anything other than further enrich people who already had a net worth of $5,000,000 or above in 1980.] And their collaborations with the GOP give the horrible economic policies (which have failed and failed) a veneer of bi-partisanship – thereby shielding Republicans from the scorn and abuse they should be receiving.
Actually not the answer I was looking for, (despite its veracity). The real answer in the real world is because we let them…
Pure and simple. If we could stop them, they wouldn’t do it. If we could stop them, they’d do what we wanted instead.
Only Father Time can stop Carper. If Democrats decided to withhold votes from Carney for his adherence to this known bullshit and for giving Republicans so much cover, it might discipline him. However, I doubt you could get many Democrats to do that in view of the fact that the alternative is the election of a Republican.
I’ll always consider 2014 the year I gave up. I’m just a crusty old spectator kibitzing from the peanut gallery at this point. Hence the “There is no mystery anymore. We all know how this is going to play out….” vibe to everything these days.
@puck…the H1B is a sell out to the banks who don’t want to pay better wages to the analysts they need to fill the jobs they don’t fill. And of course Coons will be right there to help them instead of giving the jobs to Americans or taking the time to train Americans so they can do the jobs, we go for short term gains and hurt our own nation
Such crap
i really thought coons would stand up against this sort of stuff. pretty disappointing.
I don’t why, as Delawareans we expect any different from the people elected. They haven’t acted any differently since Bush was in office. They aren’t bipartisan, they aren’t blue dog. They are corporate supporters in THE incorporated state. To expect otherwise is silly