Holy Joe: Fuck Social Security, we need the money to INVADE IRAN!!

[FORD]

Joe Lieberman Says U.S. Should Cut Social Security To Pay For Fighting ‘The Islamist Extremists’

By Zaid Jilani on Aug 2, 2011 at 1:16 pm

This past April, right-wing war hawk John Bolton suggested during an interview on Fox News that the United States should cut Social Security and Medicare to finance the defense budget.

During debate over the debt deal today on the Senate floor, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) appeared to endorse this call. Lieberman explained that he is working with Coburn on a Social Security spending reduction plan and that “we can’t protect these entitlements and also have the national defense…to protect us…with Islamist extremists”:

LIEBERMAN: I want to indicate today to my colleagues that Senator Coburn and I are working again on a bipartisan proposal to secure Social Security over the long term, we hope to have that done in time. To also forward to the special committee for their consideration. So, bottom line, we can’t protect these entitlements and also have the national defense we need to protect us in a dangerous world while we’re at war with Islamist extremists who attacked us on 9/11 and will be for a long time to come.

As ThinkProgress’s Ben Armbruster notes, the Bolton-Lieberman plan is “is basically a reverse Robin Hood scheme: robbing the poor to pay the rich, or really, the Military Industrial Complex on steroids.” As Ambruster points out, “recent Reuters poll found that Americans would rather cut defense spending than raid social services in order to solve the debt and deficit problems.” Americans do not appear to have the priorities of these two war hawks.

End the wars. Tax the rich. Prosecute Droopy Dog for treason. That is all

[Jagermeister]

I can't say for sure but I hope these cuts they refer to don't apply to people that have paid there fair share into the program. I mean how can you say someone doesn't deserve social security if they fuckin paid for it? Come on. That's what pisses me off is when they say shit but don't back it the fuck up. Who do they think is funding thes dam programs? Here's the deal they can cut social security but they can pay me back every cent I paid in over the last 28 years of my life. AND PAY IT BACK RIGHT NOW. I need a vacation!

[ThrillsNSpills]

Why don't we just drop our senior citizens and disabled people on Iranians?

2 birds with one stone, plus we can test gravitational pull simultaneously.

[Seshmeister]

Just to clarify, this fucking bozo wants to take billions from Social Services in the US and give it in bribes to warlords and militia leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How did Conneticut end up with this fuck wit?

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Part of me thinks out loud how anyone could vote Republican in 2012....

And then I think of the typical Republican base voter, and I easily realize why.....

[jhale667]

It's just disgusting.

Part of me thinks out loud how anyone could vote Republican in 2012....

And then I think of the typical Republican base voter, and I easily realize why.....

Exactly. Freak the great unwashed out with hugely exaggerated threats of Islamic terrorism (pay no attention to those Christian ones - they're CHRISTIAN, after all) and make up some more fake bullshit about gays and minorities. Expect "brownification" and "gayification" rants from Bachmann and Co. soon...
Isn't it about time for someone to bring up the "Ground Zero" mosque debate again too, or taking "Under God" out of the pledge of allegiance? Y'know, speaking to the issues IMPORTANT to the Cletuses (Cleti?) of the country?


Liberman's an idiot.

[sadaist]

Why don't we just drop our senior citizens and disabled people on Iranians?

2 birds with one stone, plus we can test gravitational pull simultaneously.

That would eliminate Lieberman too. What the fuck happened to this guy? Damn, dude has really changed a lot over the last 10 years.

[WACF]

Unreal...

[Guitar Shark]

I don't see any reference in that story to Iran. What am I missing?

[Seshmeister]

Fellah seems a bit cross. Unfortunately there is a worrying amount of truth in what he says...

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[Nitro Express]

That would eliminate Lieberman too. What the fuck happened to this guy? Damn, dude has really changed a lot over the last 10 years.

I think most these talking heads are nuts. Olberman is nuts and Oreiley is nuts. Beck is nuts. Even Rachel Maddow is nuts.

[Dr. Love]

i don't see any reference in that story to iran. What am i missing?

DETAILS!

You killjoy!

[Nitro Express]

I can't say for sure but I hope these cuts they refer to don't apply to people that have paid there fair share into the program. I mean how can you say someone doesn't deserve social security if they fuckin paid for it? Come on. That's what pisses me off is when they say shit but don't back it the fuck up. Who do they think is funding thes dam programs? Here's the deal they can cut social security but they can pay me back every cent I paid in over the last 28 years of my life. AND PAY IT BACK RIGHT NOW. I need a vacation!

I hate to break it to you dude but Social Security and other government pensions aren't even counted as liabilities on the balance sheet. If they added them in it would balloon the federal debt many times over. They aren't interest bearing liabilities like Chinese loans and they won't start a war if you don't pay them. They are planning on screwing us and then blaming someone else for why it happened.

[Nitro Express]

I can't say for sure but I hope these cuts they refer to don't apply to people that have paid there fair share into the program. I mean how can you say someone doesn't deserve social security if they fuckin paid for it? Come on. That's what pisses me off is when they say shit but don't back it the fuck up. Who do they think is funding thes dam programs? Here's the deal they can cut social security but they can pay me back every cent I paid in over the last 28 years of my life. AND PAY IT BACK RIGHT NOW. I need a vacation!

I hate to break it to you dude but Social Security and other government pensions aren't even counted as liabilities on the balance sheet. If they added them in it would balloon the federal debt many times over. They aren't interest bearing liabilities like Chinese loans and they won't start a war if you don't pay them. They are planning on screwing us and then blaming someone else for why it happened.

[Little Texan]

Joe Lieberman Says U.S. Should Cut Social Security To Pay For Fighting ‘The Islamist Extremists’

By Zaid Jilani on Aug 2, 2011 at 1:16 pm

This past April, right-wing war hawk John Bolton suggested during an interview on Fox News that the United States should cut Social Security and Medicare to finance the defense budget.

During debate over the debt deal today on the Senate floor, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) appeared to endorse this call. Lieberman explained that he is working with Coburn on a Social Security spending reduction plan and that “we can’t protect these entitlements and also have the national defense…to protect us…with Islamist extremists”:

LIEBERMAN: I want to indicate today to my colleagues that Senator Coburn and I are working again on a bipartisan proposal to secure Social Security over the long term, we hope to have that done in time. To also forward to the special committee for their consideration. So, bottom line, we can’t protect these entitlements and also have the national defense we need to protect us in a dangerous world while we’re at war with Islamist extremists who attacked us on 9/11 and will be for a long time to come.

As ThinkProgress’s Ben Armbruster notes, the Bolton-Lieberman plan is “is basically a reverse Robin Hood scheme: robbing the poor to pay the rich, or really, the Military Industrial Complex on steroids.” As Ambruster points out, “recent Reuters poll found that Americans would rather cut defense spending than raid social services in order to solve the debt and deficit problems.” Americans do not appear to have the priorities of these two war hawks.

End the wars. Tax the rich. Prosecute Droopy Dog for treason. That is all

Hasn't he noticed that the two wars we have going, already, have left the country bankrupt? How are we going to afford yet another unnecessary war, this time with Iran? Haven't we wasted enough money and countless lives in that part of the world for one decade? I say we bring all our troops home and stay the fuck out of everyone's business for a while and focus on our problems here at home.