Enjoying Health Care Reform? Social Security Reform could be next.

[Cetacea]

Obama did make a promise to fix the so-called entitlement programs after he tackles Health Care Reform. Maybe not such a good idea...

[Deja Q]

1. It is not entitlement IF YOU PAY INTO IT.

:banghead:

[tonysam]

4. Yes, it is. If you paid into it, you're entitled to get it.

It's not welfare, of course.

[Deja Q]

5. Oops, I misread my response. Miswrote, rather... pity the latter isn't a word. Okay, it is now.

:D

But I digress.

It's not entitlement because we paid into it.

[FLDCVADem]

18. Paying into it has nothing to do with it

Of course it's an entitlement. Nothing wrong with that word.

[brentspeak]

2. We'll know Obama truly was the "Manchurian Candidate" if he does attempt to "reform" SS and Medicare

[Ken Burch]

3. In that one, Joe Lieberman will insist on an "On The Ice Floe at 70" provision.

n/t.

[Cetacea]

6. Idea: let Lieberman chair the committee.

Why waste time and hope?

[Ken Burch]

7. What the hell....let Joe chair ALL the committees

It's HIS Senate, anyway.

[Cetacea]

10. I think I know why he and Bush kissed on the floor that time.

[Hannah Bell]

8. ss doesn't need reform. it needs the gov to repay the money it borrowed from SS payers

& then lent to the top 1% as income tax cuts.

[Cetacea]

9. +1

[leftstreet]

15. +2

[Hatchling]

11. !!!

If that happens you' see aging Boomers and their parents turning in their hearing aides and canes for
torches and pitchforks.

[Cetacea]

12. I would have thought that true a few years ago.

But I think people are just too numb to care any more.

[liskddksil]

13. Don't forget education with Arne in charge

Public schools, who needs those.

[chill_wind]

14. Dean Baker's been sounding his concerns about that

quite a bit in the last year. (see his daily spot "Beat the Press" at The American Prospect)

[Cetacea]

16. Thank you. n/t

[chill_wind]

19. He's pretty pissed at what he feels is the stepped up political whoring

by WAPO, especially, for the cause.

[Jamastiene]

17. We are so screwed.

:cry:

[Cetacea]

20. Soon.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/15/cnn-exclusive-obama-weighs-ordering-new-debt-commission/