Dick Armey: Let social security be a choice. Let Medicare be voluntary'

[Joanne98]

Run time: 01:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkh9xvPq6nU   Posted on YouTube: August 19, 2010 By YouTube Member: ThinkProgress2 Views on YouTube: 50   Posted on DU: August 19, 2010 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 994

 

[Parche]

1. Dick: Armey of one.......fukwad

:grr::hi:

[joeybee12]

2. Ok, I can't watch this at work...but wasn't the idea that medicare could be

voluntary during the HCR debate...that people had the option to buy-in? Has Dick gone all socio-fascist-Canadian on us?

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Let Dick Armey vanish..in a puff of smoke...never to be seen or heard from again.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. They already are.

There is no requirement to sign up for either your ss or medicare benefits. I am all for nutbaggers not signing up. On the other hand the taxes are mandatory and need to stay that way.

[Murray_R]

10. so what you're really for

is other people paying for your retirement and medical care. Got it.

[thelordofhell]

13. Idiot alert

:dunce:

[Warren Stupidity]

17. Absolutely!

Anyone who wants to volunteer out has my blessing.

p.s. I've already spent the last 40 years paying for other people's medicare and social security.

[JDPriestly]

12. Precisely, Warren Stupidity.

If he doesn't want to take his benefits, that is his choice.

But we all need to pay in. That is because you can be very wealthy today and have no money for retirement when you are 89. And if you are penniless at 89, you should have contributed to the funding of a system that takes care of people like you.

Interestingly, I have a very good friend who claims to be a Fox-loving staunch Republican. She CHOSE to defer a knee operation until she turned 65 -- so that Medicare would pay for it. She had the operation within a week after her 65th birthday.

Most Republicans choose Social Security and Medicare benefits when it comes time. They are just cheap and don't like paying for anyone else. What a bunch of selfish people.

[HillbillyBob]

5. All the while the fat B------- gets health care and a pension

from our taxes. I really hate the pukes form the idiots that voted for raygun all the way down to the tards and their signs. (tard as in intentionally stupid and ignernt, not the differently abled ).

[liberation]

6. OK, let's make the Pentagon's budget a voluntary contribution in our tax returns then

Why no one ever calls these fools in their bluff?

[Plucketeer]

16. I'm for that!

I wanna opt out on providing this jackass' retirement bennies!

[Roy Rolling]

7. opt-out

I'll entertain that notion if I can also opt-out of the giant portion I have to pay for defense spending and just buy my own defense. That's how it used to work up until World War 2. The US didn't have a full-time gigantic weapons producting industry, they built as needed. Most of the weapons systems produced over the last 50 years are aging and obsolete so that money was spent for nothing.

[lumpy]

9. Why doesn't that drunkard mind his own business instead

of messing with ours.

[KansDem]

8. You mean like a "public option," Dick?

By the way, what side did you come down on for a "public option" during the health-care debate?

[OHdem10]

11. Dick Armey knows this is fastest way to end the program. All

must particpate or it does not work.

[Bitwit1234]

14. So social security at the most is about 1300 a month and

if they republicans can sucker people into giving it to wall street, tell me where would all those people who GAVE IT TO WALL STREET like Bush wanted be today. Those with 401Ks and all those retirement plans were completely WIPED out. Most had to go back to work if they could find a job. So what would this POS be telling those who lost their social security now. And Medicare be a choice, if so, what in the hell would Armery give them as a choice. THEY SURE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO PAY THE COST OF A HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN. the price for a lot have risen so high even those people making a reasonable salary cant afford health care insurance. The republicans are just messing their pants and getting that old cojoans a heck of a lot bigger thinking about all that social security money they could have.

[RockoPrez]

15. Dick Armey...

What a...

Well... his first name!

[stlsaxman]

18. No shit- I, for one, would volunteer for MediCare IMMEDIATELY...

you sure wouldn't have to force it on me, Y'Dick!

:rofl: