Cantor Suggests Entitlement Promises Will Be Broken .

[roxiejules]

Quelle surprise!


Cantor Suggests Entitlement Promises Will Be Broken - WSJ


WASHINGTON—House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Wednesday suggested that Republicans will continue a push to overhaul programs such as Medicare, saying in an interview that "promises have been made that frankly are not going to be kept for many" and that younger Americans will have to adjust.

"What we have to be I think focused on is truth in budgeting here," Mr. Cantor (R., Va.) told The Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal. He said "the better way" for Americans is to "get the fiscal house in order" and "come to grips with the fact that promises have been made that frankly are not going to be kept for many."

His comments suggest that Republicans are committed to overhauling entitlement programs such as Medicare even after President Barack Obama signed into law a debt package under which Medicare recipients weren't hit with direct cuts. Congress left Medicare recipients untouched directly in order to win enough Democratic votes for the debt package to become law.

But Republicans could make a new push to cut back on Medicare as the debt-reduction deal is implemented. The law initially provides for $917 billion in spending cuts over a decade, but a bipartisan committee of lawmakers must come up with by Nov. 23 a proposal to find another $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction. The panel's members—half of whom will be Republican lawmakers—could try again to change Medicare.





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"Make no mistake. The President as well as both houses of Congress are solidly aligned to gut these programs."

[LaurenG]

1. Coming from Cantor I do not want to believe it

If I were Obama I'd make Cantor eat those words. (one can wish)

[roguevalley]

11. as a Jew (grandmother was and she was awesome) he is

supposed to live a life of works and the golden rule. help others, God says over and over. Care about and love each other. The entirety of the old testament could be summed up 'YOU ARE YOUR BROTHER'S KEEPER'. His 'works' are going to bite him in his ass. Karma for him will be a bitch.

[txlibdem]

12. Cantor strongly believes in The Golden Rule

He who has the gold makes the rules.

[roguevalley]

13. true, that. :) But he will be utterly surprised when he gets to heaven

and hears about it from the God that expects him to be everything that he currently isn't.

[flamingdem]

2. Cantor and the teapublicans want to foment generational war over "scraps"

rather than do anything about the economy or jobs.

[roxiejules]

4. They would rather have us believe 'entitlements' are not sustainable

than turn the camera to the actual unsustainable practices: WAR, Corporate Socialism, Cronyism

[flamingdem]

6. Agree. Too bad the MSM likes to humor them

as in Andrea Mitchell etc "Oh the teaparty has brought attention to the deficit and that's a great thing..."

[roxiejules]

8. Andrea Mitchell, the wife of Alan Greenspan

talk about cronyism!

[SharonAnn]

16. They stole the money "fair and square" and don't plan to pay it back, ever.

[ananda]

3. Too bad younger Americans are willing...

... to just sit back and take it.

Not like in the sixties.

[flamingdem]

7. Young people to me appear to lack the risk taking gene

they are mesmerized with social media and stupid TV, at least in the mainstream

[CountAllVotes]

9. they have the text message gizmos

These seem to rule their world best I can tell. I saw a young couple doing a double date a few weeks ago and they were busy text messaging people. You'd have never known it was a double date; it was a triple date if you add the text message to the mix. Sad really -- this just shows how detached many people have become thanks to technology.

Cell phones/text message first, everything else is last. :(

[former9thward]

14. Maybe their parents destroyed that gene under the guise of "protecting them"

[flamingdem]

15. My parents let me run a bit too wild, but I grew into adulthood okay

My dad was nuts to take me to a lot of intense films at a young age. But it taught me about reality, not some kind of sanitized world that is what parents seem to wish for their darlings now.

[CountAllVotes]

5. end the entitlement(s) called war(s) without end

The real culprit in this financial disaster!

:puke:

[ashling]

10. Not surprising

This is behind all of their "negotiation" terrorising tactics.

The finagled this "deal" in bad faith, just like everything else they have done

[Cobalt-60]

17. Not acceptable.