Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Chris Christie is floating his big, "presidential," idea: Screwing seniors out of Social Security


Guess who's sorta running for president, but hasn't come out and said it, yet? New Jersey Governor, Christie Christie. And guess what appears to be the main idea for his platform? How he's gonna "fix" Social Security.

Never mind that it ain't broken and will never go broke because the Federal Government can never run out of dollars to pay. Alan Greenspan schooled Paul Ryan on this, remember? And the government "paid back" nearly $69 trillion to holders of public debt securities LAST YEAR. SIXTY NINE TRILLION.

So it's pretty clear we can't run out of money.

But don't let that phase Christie; he's just another clueless, callous debt fanatic. A guy who's pretty much run his state into the ground. Near last in job growth. Credit ratings cut by rating agencies. Led the last three years out of four in people leaving. Cuts to education, health care, social programs, but of course, tax cuts for the wealthy. He's right up there with guys like Sam Brownback of Kansas and Scott Walker of Wisconsin

Christie's plan to fix Social Security is to screw seniors out of benefits by cutting payments and raising the retirement age. Wonderful. More taxes on the most vulnerable and those who worked all their lives and contributed to the system and helped build the country. That's fair.

By the way, with Christie coming out with this plan, expect the other ignorant debt fanatics/hypocrites to do the same and, oh yeah, that means Hillary Clinton, too. Her husband is all about cutting Social Security. His "guy" was none other than Erskine Bowles of Simpleton/Bowels infamy.

All I have to say are two things: Are we still really having this discussion about what is causing income and wealth  inequality?

And...

Say goodbye to Social Security as we have come to know it. It's going away.

P.S. Guys ike Christie are truly disgusting.


1 comment:

Peter Pan said...

Richard Wolff has termed this approach 'scapegoat politics'. It has worked for Scott Walker.

P.S. Was that picture photo-shopped?