Does Obama have a plan to deal with bad Social Security news?
Just caught this on AOL’s home page (edited by the left-leaning Huffington Post):
The bad news headline links this article: Social Security Is Failing Even Faster Than We Thought. Read the whole thing.
I know that at least one of the presidential candidates has expressed concern for the popular program’s fiscal problems and has put forward some ideas for reform. Has the president?
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It’s pretty clear that Obama defers to the ‘ideas’ for reform that were proposed by the DNC, specifically their commercial featuring a Paul Ryan look-alike pushing an elderly woman off a cliff in a wheelchair. That could have been a great jumping-off point (pun intended) for the parties to engage in productive negotiations, but the GOP’s intransigence has thwarted all progress on the issue.
Comment by Sean A — February 15, 2012 @ 2:23 pm - February 15, 2012
No.
Obama and the Democrat Senate may not have stalemate control after 2012. They know it as well as anyone.
Therefore, they will bulldoze anything and everything on their agenda into force whether it is Constitutional or not.
Understand that Obama can not be impeached. The Republican House would be eviscerated for committing what would immediately be branded as the ultimate act of racism. Even if the House did impeach Obama, the Senate would ram-rod a not guilty verdict through at break-neck speed.
Obama is in the midst of “deeming” all manner of stuff into existence without so much as a nod to the legislative process. No one is objecting, because no one can stop him. No Democrat remains who would stand up to his thuggery. No Republican power exists but to try to wait him out.
Obama is not about the reality of entitlements. He is about the promise of Utopia. He is about fundamentally transforming America into a land of givers, takers and the master class of administrators.
Social Security is not broke in Obama’s world. It is on an endless row of back burners where it simmers away with all the other entitlement pots.
Obama keeps winning in his contest. He began ignoring the Constitution in small ways and now he growing openly bold in scoffing at it.
Comment by Heliotrope — February 15, 2012 @ 3:10 pm - February 15, 2012
Obama’s plan is to spend us into a super-massive fiscal black hole to feed his union cronies & prop up his crony Socialism via “green jobs.” By hook or by crook, Obama wants to transform America into the Euro-States of America before we become North Korea…
Comment by Sebastian Shaw — February 15, 2012 @ 3:26 pm - February 15, 2012
Like all Democrats, Obama’s plan is to ignore it and hope the tsunami doesn’t hit until he is out of office.
Comment by V the K — February 15, 2012 @ 4:44 pm - February 15, 2012
Greece: Coming Soon to a Nation Near You.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — February 15, 2012 @ 5:45 pm - February 15, 2012
What about the lock box?
Comment by SoCalRobert — February 15, 2012 @ 9:03 pm - February 15, 2012
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