Rick, the Other Prick, Santorum has leapedinto the teabagger DEath Panel Mob™ declaring that people just live too long.
The Social Security Retirement Age HAS to be raised, says the frothy one.
“Does anybody in this room believe that somebody that 62 years old is too old to work in America today?” Santorum asked. “Social Security was established for people who were too old to work and therefore they needed the support of the federal government.”
Rick the Other Prick is 53 years old, but he enjoys the good health that comes with being fabulously paid and having GOVERNMENT health insurance.
He likely has no clue what work or suffering really is.
Which makes his American-hating Republican pedigree that much more republican.
“Do you know what your life expectancy at 65 is? 85. So you have folks living at least 20 years… Ronald Reagan saw this problem and said, ‘Look, we have to do the common sense thing. We have to phase the retirement age back.’ What did he do? Twenty-five years from 1983 he started to phase it back. And we did and that’s where we are right now. We are in the middle of a phase up to age 76 which will be normal retirement age.”
So 62 is too young and we then hear he thinks this age should be jacked up another
14 fucking years.
It's not going to impact him - he's friggin' set. He's typically out of touch.
This is republicans taking one of the best GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS, savaging it and making it the PONZI scheme they want, yet another 2-fer for them. Kill the program, screw the commoners, steal their money.
There are no goddamned jobs right now. Republicans HATE jobs and try to kill off as many as possible.
Who is going to hire people in their mid-60's,even if there were jobs (in THIS country)?
What is wrong with this situation in which these animals that they can say ridiculous shit like this and not be laughed off staged or chased down the street and hung from the nearest telephone pole? They get cheered.
Why are wingnuts, teabaggers and other lamebrains CHEERING the deaths of people in the scheme to enrich the already rich? Why did CNN broadcast all that?
If a Democrat had said such a thing back when Monkeyboy was presidentin' us it would have been near-treason: not it's points for style.
I do not believe the Left is making remotely enough noise and I fear they are too preoccupied with being "polite" - asswipes like Santorum do NOT deserve delicate treatment. They have NOT earned respect and quite the opposite, they make it MANDATORY that they should be followed, protested, denigrated and treated as foully as possible.
God, what a shithead.