Throw Grandma and Grandpa out on the street.

[cornermouse]

(Just calling Bush's "social security fix" what it is.)

[SoCalDem]

1. Retirement Roulette

:)

[BrainRants]

3. Excellent "framing" of the debate!

I like, let's start using it!

[cornermouse]

4. Alternatively, it could be the

Just Me, My (wife/husband), Kids, Parents, In-laws, and assorted Step-parents All Under the Same Roof bill.

And if you take into account the possibility of covenant marriages... This much happiness has probably not been seen for 200 years or more in this country.

[BrainRants]

10. Maybe we've stumbled across the "Family Values" tactic!

Dismantle SS & all the other social programs to bring everyone back home!

Damn! That's brilliant!

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NOT!

[necso]

2. "Weak to the wall." /nt

[TWiley]

5. Well, thats the way they did it during the Grand Ole Days

of the Republic. Republicans love to watch folks starve and die in the streets. A little of that is needed to insure a large enough labor force to keep the wages at the slave level.

Maimed Civil War, or WWI vets merely died in the streets if they had no extended family, or church to care for them.

Now shrub wants to move all social programs to the church. Does this ring a bell? He wants to support the troops in the Grand Ole Fascism.

[Patriot Acts]

6. Yes, I cant wait....

.....to see my parents suffering, and eventually living on the streets in my old age.

[slor]

7. But does that not make them...

free? And we all want freedom, right? Free to roam the streets, free from the bonds of dignity and safety! Let freedom ring!

[SoCalDem]

8. Hip hip hooray for "Free Range Grannies"

:)

[slor]

9. LOL...

Free range Grannies! ;)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. I'm talking about this

to everyone who will listen, and there are many many sympathetic ears.

[SoCalDem]

12. If you love Granny, you must set her free

:)

Run Granny...Run.....Free as a Bird:)

[SoCalDem]

13. and when they get tired, they can rest... Aaaw.. Gramps!!

[katinmn]

15. Free range grannies in action

[slor]

20. LMAO!!!

[markus]

14. Nah, Gram and Gramps will be fine

However.

Depending on how old you are, you or your parents will be screwed.

Not only SS, but the wholesale replacement of pensions with 401k accounts means that all of our retirnement savings are at the mercy of the whims of the market.

[elehhhhna]

17. you are forgetting that in the south, grandparents are like 38 yrs. old.

[slor]

22. Are you kidding?

Those trillions in transition costs have to come from somewhere. This will cause problems for even them, within a few years.

[elehhhhna]

16. The "No Grandma Left Behind" program: Clean the guest-bedroom.

[freddyc]

18. should be called

the Even Finish program

[elehhhhna]

19. Good one! post it there, please:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3115462

I figure we need a thread on naming...

[lonestarnot]

21. Don't forget orphans and disabled...n/t