My point was there wouldn't BE a national default if we were not spending so much money elsewhere! As far as I am concerned Obama and the rest of the fat cat people who's wallets he seems so determined to protect can just take a huge pay cut and this country can stop paying out the war money NOW before they'll ever get to cheat my folks out of their livelihood. There are some things politically you just don't threaten to do. Cutting off the elderly, the vets, the people who depend upon SS most, that's just stupid and wrong, particularly when you have a war budget to maintain.
War can only be waged for so long before everyone involved goes bankrupt. When you can't afford to pay the soldiers you're keeping on duty or the vets your making it's time to call a halt to it all and bring them all home. Obama has been promising to do that since before he was elected, but for all the supposed troop cuts we still have a budget for war when we can't even pay our old folks? Our vets?
Excuse me for saying so but that's f- up! Broke or not it seems like the USA can still afford to pay for all kinds of things except for the things that really should be first. Congress can still make the mega bucks, they can still hold White House dinners and so forth, and Obama can collect what it is 400K, but my folks just might lose their checks?
Uh NO.
That's what's making me really mad. All of DC is getting paid, Obama is getting paid, the military bill is getting paid, but my folks and people like them won't?
Obama has no idea of what he's started with that threat. Locally several retirees associations, military and otherwise are already talking about busing people to DC if anything like this happens. If it goes down the way I think it will? All those pissed off seniors are going to make the Vietnam war protests look like a Sunday tea party by comparison and you know what? I'll be right there beside them calling for Obama's resignation, impeachment, whatever too! You BET I will because I am so sick of all this BS it's not even funny.
It's one thing to mess around with more taxes. I don't like it, but I get the need for it, sometimes. But you can't touch SS, vet benefits and/or pensions for people like my folks. No way, no how. I won't stand for that. They earned that. They paid into that system in one way or another and the bureaucrats cannot just dismiss that and bankrupt them. They made this d-ned deficit. They can just cut their own salaries and all that inexcusable spending first!
Originally posted by GeneV Your statement was way over the top as have been the summaries of what he said.
He did not say he would not pay social security. He said those checks were among the 70 million checks for which difficult "Sophie's Choice" decisions would be made, and that he could not guarantee that they would be paid. Should he, instead, reassure all Americans that a national default will have no effect on them?