OT - Letter to the US President

"Dear Mr. President , I heard you say you will not guarantee SS checks
if the debt ceiling isn't raised. Why is it the scare always has to do
with SS, Medicare, & our Soldiers pay? Why not stop your own pay or all
of Congress to save much more money for our country? Why use the
Seniors, Soldiers, & our Needy as examples? Take the money from those
who take no risks and reap the benefits? Repost if you agree!"

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On 7/14/2011 11:04 PM, CatNipped wrote:
"Dear Mr. President , I heard you say you will not guarantee SS checks
if the debt ceiling isn't raised. Why is it the scare always has to do
with SS, Medicare, & our Soldiers pay? Why not stop your own pay or all
of Congress to save much more money for our country? Why use the
Seniors, Soldiers, & our Needy as examples? Take the money from those
who take no risks and reap the benefits? Repost if you agree!"


Interesting fact: the White House staff all just got pay *raises*.


--
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CatNipped wrote:

Why is it the scare always has to do
with SS, Medicare, & our Soldiers pay? Why not stop your own pay or all
of Congress to save much more money for our country? Why use the
Seniors, Soldiers, & our Needy as examples?

I will agree that anyone voting against the debt ceiling raise should
have their pay stopped.

However, stopping the pay of the entire Congress and all high-level
administrators would not alleviate the problem, so your criticism is
misdirected. The president is merely trying to bring home to
Republicans (and voters) that failing to raise the debt ceiling will
have consequences. Failure to raise the debt ceiling would not only
endanger the lives of the populace, it would endanger the US and world
economy, and would destroy the "full faith and credit" of the United
States.

Obama's brinksmanship ploy probably won't work, because the Republicans
don't care about the welfare of the people nearly as much as they care
about thwarting that [racial epithet deleted] in the White House.
Historically, over the last fifty years, Republican administrations have
always raised the debt ceiling far more than Democratic administrations,
and Rebublican-majority congresses have had no problem with that. The
very Republicans who find they can't, in conscience, allow the debt
ceiling to be raised under Obama, all voted for such a raise several
times under Bush the Younger.
--

Wayne M.

"Wayne Mitchell" wrote
CatNipped wrote:

Why is it the scare always has to do
with SS, Medicare, & our Soldiers pay? Why not stop your own pay or all
of Congress to save much more money for our country? Why use the
Seniors, Soldiers, & our Needy as examples?

I will agree that anyone voting against the debt ceiling raise should
have their pay stopped.

However, stopping the pay of the entire Congress and all high-level
administrators would not alleviate the problem, so your criticism is
misdirected. The president is merely trying to bring home to
Republicans (and voters) that failing to raise the debt ceiling will
have consequences. Failure to raise the debt ceiling would not only
endanger the lives of the populace, it would endanger the US and world
economy, and would destroy the "full faith and credit" of the United
States.

Obama's brinksmanship ploy probably won't work, because the Republicans
don't care about the welfare of the people nearly as much as they care
about thwarting that [racial epithet deleted] in the White House.
Historically, over the last fifty years, Republican administrations have
always raised the debt ceiling far more than Democratic administrations,
and Rebublican-majority congresses have had no problem with that. The
very Republicans who find they can't, in conscience, allow the debt
ceiling to be raised under Obama, all voted for such a raise several
times under Bush the Younger.
--

Well, not quite "all" of them....One has never - in twelve Congressional
terms served - voted to raise the debt ceiling, never voted for an
unbalanced budget, never voted to raise congressional pay, and doesn't even
participate in the congressional pension program.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUNIeOB0whI

On 7/15/2011 7:46 AM, Wayne Mitchell wrote:
wrote:

Why is it the scare always has to do
with SS, Medicare,& our Soldiers pay? Why not stop your own pay or all
of Congress to save much more money for our country? Why use the
Seniors, Soldiers,& our Needy as examples?

I will agree that anyone voting against the debt ceiling raise should
have their pay stopped.

However, stopping the pay of the entire Congress and all high-level
administrators would not alleviate the problem, so your criticism is
misdirected. The president is merely trying to bring home to
Republicans (and voters) that failing to raise the debt ceiling will
have consequences. Failure to raise the debt ceiling would not only
endanger the lives of the populace, it would endanger the US and world
economy, and would destroy the "full faith and credit" of the United
States.

Obama's brinksmanship ploy probably won't work, because the Republicans
don't care about the welfare of the people nearly as much as they care
about thwarting that [racial epithet deleted] in the White House.
Historically, over the last fifty years, Republican administrations have
always raised the debt ceiling far more than Democratic administrations,
and Rebublican-majority congresses have had no problem with that. The
very Republicans who find they can't, in conscience, allow the debt
ceiling to be raised under Obama, all voted for such a raise several
times under Bush the Younger.

It doesn't have to be their salaries - that was just to make a point -
but there are *LOTS* of other things they're spending our tax dollars on
- things that don't involve hardships to our poorest citizens.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped
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On Jul 15, 10:58*am, CatNipped wrote:
On 7/15/2011 7:46 AM, Wayne Mitchell wrote:
* CatNipped *wrote:
Why is it the scare always has to do
with SS, Medicare,& *our Soldiers pay? Why not stop your own pay or all
of Congress to save much more money for our country? Why use the
Seniors, Soldiers,& *our Needy as examples?

I will agree that anyone voting against the debt ceiling raise should
have their pay stopped.
However, stopping the pay of the entire Congress and all high-level
administrators would not alleviate the problem, so your criticism is
misdirected. *The president is merely trying to bring home to
Republicans (and voters) that failing to raise the debt ceiling will
have consequences. *Failure to raise the debt ceiling would not only
endanger the lives of the populace, it would endanger the US and world
economy, and would destroy the "full faith and credit" of the United
States.
Obama's brinksmanship ploy probably won't work, because the Republicans
don't care about the welfare of the people nearly as much as they care
about thwarting that [racial epithet deleted] in the White House.
Historically, over the last fifty years, Republican administrations have
always raised the debt ceiling far more than Democratic administrations,
and Rebublican-majority congresses have had no problem with that. *The
very Republicans who find they can't, in conscience, allow the debt
ceiling to be raised under Obama, all voted for such a raise several
times under Bush the Younger.



It doesn't have to be their salaries - that was just to make a point -
but there are *LOTS* of other things they're spending our tax dollars on
- things that don't involve hardships to our poorest citizens.
CatNipped
I, too, am dismayed over the threats to SS retirement and Medicare
medical benefit
payment, and don't blame you for your "letter" post.
But when you make a politically centered post in *any* ng...don't make
stuff up just to
"make a point" or politically savvy regs of both parties (and in this
thread, a third as well)
will land on you with all four feet as they may very well not be just
"venting" like I think
you are.....but have all their ducks in a row fact-wise, especially re
who does what with
how much in D.C., USA.
There are more upcoming dire happenings to SS income/partB deductions
this approaching
Dec. but I am not going into them here. You got hypotension? I suggest
SS.gov and the Medicare
website which will, upon detailed scrutiny, raise your bp
considerably.
Some friends here and I are constructing a "letter" to the NFL Powers
that Be about the lockdown.
That....we are well informed about, unlike polical sneaky doings.

On 7/15/2011 1:34 PM, hopitus wrote:
On Jul 15, 10:58 am, CatNipped wrote:
On 7/15/2011 7:46 AM, Wayne Mitchell wrote:
CatNipped wrote:
Why is it the scare always has to do
with SS, Medicare,& our Soldiers pay? Why not stop your own pay or all
of Congress to save much more money for our country? Why use the
Seniors, Soldiers,& our Needy as examples?

I will agree that anyone voting against the debt ceiling raise should
have their pay stopped.
However, stopping the pay of the entire Congress and all high-level
administrators would not alleviate the problem, so your criticism is
misdirected. The president is merely trying to bring home to
Republicans (and voters) that failing to raise the debt ceiling will
have consequences. Failure to raise the debt ceiling would not only
endanger the lives of the populace, it would endanger the US and world
economy, and would destroy the "full faith and credit" of the United
States.
Obama's brinksmanship ploy probably won't work, because the Republicans
don't care about the welfare of the people nearly as much as they care
about thwarting that [racial epithet deleted] in the White House.
Historically, over the last fifty years, Republican administrations have
always raised the debt ceiling far more than Democratic administrations,
and Rebublican-majority congresses have had no problem with that. The
very Republicans who find they can't, in conscience, allow the debt
ceiling to be raised under Obama, all voted for such a raise several
times under Bush the Younger.



It doesn't have to be their salaries - that was just to make a point -
but there are *LOTS* of other things they're spending our tax dollars on
- things that don't involve hardships to our poorest citizens.
CatNipped
I, too, am dismayed over the threats to SS retirement and Medicare
medical benefit
payment, and don't blame you for your "letter" post.
But when you make a politically centered post in *any* ng...don't make
stuff up just to
"make a point" or politically savvy regs of both parties (and in this
thread, a third as well)
will land on you with all four feet as they may very well not be just
"venting" like I think
you are.....but have all their ducks in a row fact-wise, especially re
who does what with
how much in D.C., USA.
There are more upcoming dire happenings to SS income/partB deductions
this approaching
Dec. but I am not going into them here. You got hypotension? I suggest
SS.gov and the Medicare
website which will, upon detailed scrutiny, raise your bp
considerably.
Some friends here and I are constructing a "letter" to the NFL Powers
that Be about the lockdown.
That....we are well informed about, unlike polical sneaky doings.


I certainly don't want to start any more hard feelings here, nor flame
wars - I'm not up to it either physically or mentally. Just please
google "Dear Mr. President George W. Bush" and see how many hits you
get. They may not have the exact same verbiage - in most cases they
weren't *nearly* as polite (and, BTW, I agreed with those too - I have
no fondness for *any* professional politician of whatever party). As
far as "facts" - this isn't about facts, it's about feelings, as in how
I (an a lot of Americans) are fed up with *everyone* in D.C. and their
illogical, ill conceived notions of what's good for our country -
*spitting in the face of their constituents*.

With that said - I am very, very sorry I started this thread. I am not
the author of this letter, it was copied from FB (another good reason
for me to stay away from that site). It was a simple plea for
politicians to quit threatening SS, Medicare, Welfare and all the other
programs that help our poor while *TRILLIONS* of tax dollars are spent
on war and *NONSENSE* research programs that could be cut without
affecting those who have nothing to begin with. I'm tired of such scare
tactics because I'm tired of living in fear.

You see, I'm not a rich republican - I am a "surviving on the edge"
democrat/libertarian. A cut in SSDI, or Medicare, and I lose my home
and my (future) medical benefits (and right now if I lost my home I'd
lose the lives of the four beings who depend on me and are the only ones
who keep me wanting to live... and if I lost my medical benefits I would
soon lose my *life*).

I certainly did *NOT* post it to provoke nastiness.

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Hopitus, you're right... I think I'm done with being a victim and in
that spirit I think I'm going to quit reading your posts.


--
Hugs,

CatNipped
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CatNipped wrote:

"Dear Mr. President , I heard you say you will not guarantee SS checks
if the debt ceiling isn't raised. Why is it the scare always has to do
with SS, Medicare, & our Soldiers pay? Why not stop your own pay or all
of Congress to save much more money for our country? Why use the
Seniors, Soldiers, & our Needy as examples?

Well, the money has to come from somewhere, and it's a lot easier to take
it from people who are relatively powerless, have no clout, and can't hurt
them back.

Joyce

--
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going
somewhere. -- Groucho Marx

CatNipped wrote:
"Dear Mr. President , I heard you say you will not guarantee SS checks
if the debt ceiling isn't raised. Why is it the scare always has to do
with SS, Medicare, & our Soldiers pay? Why not stop your own pay or all
of Congress to save much more money for our country? Why use the
Seniors, Soldiers, & our Needy as examples? Take the money from those
who take no risks and reap the benefits? Repost if you agree!"

AMEN!!!! Once elected, our Congressmen are guaranteed medical care for
life, and I was shocked to hear on the news that the sleazebag who had
to resign after he posted nude photos on the Internet will still get
OVER A MILLION DOLLARS in government pension!

On Jul 15, 12:04*am, CatNipped wrote:
"Dear Mr. President , I heard you say you will not guarantee SS checks
if the debt ceiling isn't raised. Why is it the scare always has to do
with SS, Medicare, & our Soldiers pay? Why not stop your own pay or all
of Congress to save much more money for our country? Why use the
Seniors, Soldiers, & our Needy as examples? Take the money from those
who take no risks and reap the benefits? Repost if you agree!"

He's following an old and little-publicized tradition. To give it a
name, it is "When your budget gets cut, make it hurt the public."
Politically, just biting the bullet and cutting in areas other than
the ones he did would have much less bite. I'm not being partisan.
Everyone does it that way.

--
Will in New Haven