FOX News: Simpson: Leaving Entitlements on Auto Pilot Will Crush the U.S. Economy

[Bluebear]

"Why quote Fox news????1111" - Why not? This will be the talking point of your neighborhood FoxHead before long, so you may as well know what's coming. Witness how Simpson, whom OBAMA APPOINTED, denigrates Obama's own spending freeze, then goes on to trumpet "digging into" Social Security and Medicare. With friends like this, President Obama . . .


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President Obama's calls for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending, as well as Republican demands to turn back the budget clock to 2008 spending, will save "peanuts" and do nothing to turn around the country's "sacrosanct" entitlement culture, one head of the president's deficit commission said Sunday.

Former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, who was appointed by Obama along with former Bill Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles to lead the president's panel for reducing the nation's debt, said leaving Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid on auto pilot will crush the U.S. economy.

"I'm waiting for the politician to get up and say, there's only one way to do this, you dig into the big four, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and defense. And anybody giving you anything different than that, you want to walk out the door, stick your finger down your throat and give them the green weenie," Simpson said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/06/simpson-leaving-entitlements-auto-pilot-crush-economy/#ixzz1DDXNCQR9

[villager]

1. Leaving military adventurism, to protect corporate lords, on autopiliot: A.O.K!

Ah, "plus ca change!"

[bobbolink]

2. Yet if we poor people complain about Obama and the way he is sacrificing us, we are shouted down.

I said back in '08 that Obama wasn't going to help poor people at all.

"Of course he will... he was a neighborhood organizer."

"What do you mean???? He grew up poor!" (which he didn't...

And now look what is happening, yet those who defended him REFUSE to stand up against this, and choose instead to let poor people suffer and die.

Shades of the Raygun Democrats.

:nuke:

[CatholicEdHead]

3. He is correct in a way

Frontline has talked about how long term adjustments need to be made to the entitlements in future years. They can be adjusted without drastic cuts, it just means evening out the taxation structure. Of course Republicans still want to pull back everything FDR and LBJ put into place with the New Deal and Great Society. We can still have things long term without getting rid of everything.

[Bluebear]

6. Adjust our foreign occupations then get back to us.

[earth mom]

4. More b.s. from Faux. Social Security is NOT broken. nt

[SpiralHawk]

5. Nah. The Pubbies (R) already screwed the shit out of it for 8 years

...the effects of their deviant, perverted RepubliConomics are now coming home to roost. This is just more BS to try and divert attention from that ugly Republicon reality.