The Right Scoop
just read this this morning getting pretty tired of the government playing like a bunch of spoiled brats because they both cant get what they want. what about what the seniors on ssi and disability need and want. many of us rely solely on this money to live. what will happen to all of us and what will happen to those in government who don't care? tell u what they need to lose their positions in 2012. my husband and i don't want to rely on our children to pay our bills maybe all of the seniors should send their bills for the months we don't get checks to the white house to pay. how would they like that from about 70 million people receiving benefits. i know one thing, next year i will think very very hard before i vote for anyone who tries to use the elderly and seniors as dice in the gambling game. am sick and tired of their fighting. they have some much pay they should divide among all of the social security recipents,the ssi people and medicare people and then they can see how it is without any money. let us all voice our opinion to their spoiled views and tell them to think about their jobs next year if they can't take of us who pay their salaries. abosultely disgusting from tennessee
Direct quote, full context:
"If that happens, and we default, we would not have enough money to pay all of our bills – bills that include monthly Social Security checks, veterans’ benefits, and the government contracts we’ve signed with thousands of businesses."
My mistake. The link was to the video, but that does not change the fact that Obama specifically stated "social security checks".
I have the transcript here:
http://ironicsurrealism.com/2011/07/26/obama-debt-speech-july-25-2011/
He needs those lies. If people understood they wouldn't vote for him. He needs them to be afraid, so he can keep promising to save them.
whyimconservative.wordpress.com
Haaa.
But Rshill...the liberals haven't finished putting padding on everything to protect stupid people from their own stupidity...yet.
No wait.
They could just blame the resulting carnage on Conservatives and the Tea Party.
They seem to get away with blaming everything else on us.
"I did not...have sex...with that debt ceiling."
This seemed like panic-level demagoguery to me.
Obama and the Dems are desperate to keep the American public from seeing that the government can operate just fine with a whole lot less money.
So, what's a professional demagogue to do?
He falls back on his old talent of being an Agitator.
Agitate...give soothing words to his base...agitate some more, rinse, repeat.
A good agitator whips up a crowd, pointing at what is the cause of their misery.
Obama's natural ability to do this is what got him noticed in Chicago, and how he made a name for himself within that corrupt political machine.
Obama lies to seniors?
Of course.
Lying is what he does best.
It has served him well.
Why would he ever stop?
>>Treasury can just turn right around and simultaneously sell new bonds to other people to make that up and that would not violate the debt ceiling.
Who is going to buy bonds from a government that refuses to pay its debits?
Am I missing something?
>>Treasury can just turn right around and simultaneously sell new bonds to other people to make that up and that would not violate the debt ceiling.
Who is going to buy bonds from a government that refuses to pay its debits?
Am I missing something?
>>Treasury can just turn right around and simultaneously sell new bonds to other people to make that up and that would not violate the debt ceiling.
Who is going to buy bonds from a government that refuses to pay its debits?
Am I missing something?
Hussein wouldn't know the truth if it slapped him right b/w his greedy, arrogant eyes. Biggest prick EVAH!
Obama is a Marxist and this is what they do. Remember they "never let a good crisis go to waste". I really think Glenn Beck had it right when he said they are using the play books of Saul Alinsky and Cloward and Piven. Overwhelm the system to get as much capitalist (economic) destruction done as possible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9dnLgTo6MU&feature=BFa&list=PL690812C0D5CA057A&index=24
I am, a paid-for-by-42-years-of-work Social Security 'check collector'; I am, an earned-by-three-years-in-the-mud-of-Thailand-and-Cambodia-killing-Communists 'V.A. 'entitlement' collector'.
I know that there is Social Security money there, and I know that there is money to pay 'the military', which includes the V.A.
There is, nothing, Nichevaw nyet, zip, zero, nada, that this elected-by-idiots Socialist has said, that is a truth.
I remember, too, how many 'instant Republicans' were born, after a certain President Carter, froze all military members' checks.
Should these payment not happen, it is by President Obama's personal doing, as a punishment for a nation not not kneeling to his 'solar divinity'.
Now would be a good time to remember that Pres. Bush tried to address the need to reform social security six years - and many billions of taxpayer dollars - ago, in a non-crisis atmosphere. But Congress, even those in his own party, wouldn't back him. Flashback to his visit to the Social Security Trust fund file cabinet: http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2011/07/this-is-it-bureau-official-susan-chapman-told-the-presidentas-they-looked-at-the-cabinet-presi.html
Washington is obligated to pay Social Security benefits, but a Congressional Research Service report last month confirmed that the Treasury Department can delay them if necessary.
"Social Security benefit payments may be delayed or jeopardized if the Treasury does not have enough cash on hand to pay benefits," reads the report, which notes that the Treasury occasionally needs to issue debt to pay benefits, and a failure to raise the ceiling could make that impossible.
A Government Accountability Office report several decades ago also said it is "generally recognized" that, in the event of a national default, the government would be precluded from honoring some obligations -- including Social Security benefits, employee wages and other payments.
Source, Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/13/report-backs-obama-warning-that-social-security-checks-at-risk-in-debt-crisis/#ixzz1TBdLImZm
For all those that say that Bush II got us into this whole debt mess, I have a great solution. Why don't we raise taxes across the board to 90% and have NASA or DARPA use the excess "revenue" to build a time machine to take us back to the 2000 elections and create a clone of Al Gore, and have the two Al Gores run against each other.
Really? Our mortgage payments are just going to go sky high over night? Just like that? One month we pay 5% and then bam- the 30 year locked in rate just changes? Really Mr President?
i thot by now .... you'd realize ... there ain't no way to hide those lyin' eyes .... ooops will the eagles let me quote them on a conservative site ??????
It has come to be expected. obowmao (no I didn't forget the caps) wouldn't know the truth if it hit him squarely, resoundingly, 200mph, between the eyes.
I was talking to my mom last week on the phone. She is 87 and gets my late dad's Social Security, since she never worked outside the home. She had a low opinion of Obama to begin with, but she was absolutely disgusted with him when he said last week that the checks may not go out on August 3. She thought, as I do, that he is just trying to scare old people. Now we see that he was lying about that. My mom also said she wants to live long enough to see Obama defeated next year. Contrary to what she thinks about her health, I believe she will live long enough to see that happen.
Comment Policy: Please read our new comment policy before making a comment. In short, please be respectful of others and do not engage in personal attacks. Otherwise we will revoke your comment privileges.