http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/17/boehner-admits-there-is-no-immediate-debt-crisis-but-wants-cuts-anyway/
Appearing on This Week, John Boehner sat down with interviewer Martha Raddatz to rattle off the latest Republican talking points. While he gives President Obama credit for engaging in discussion with members of the GOP, Boehner still stands firm against raising taxes on “the American people.”
Remember now, anytime we hear him use that phrase, we should automatically amend that to mean “the top 1%” or “my rich benefactors.” Either way, he’s against raising their taxes by even a few percentage points. Nope, he’d rather make cuts to social programs.“We do not have an immediate debt crisis. But we all know that we have one looming. And we have– one looming– because we have entitlement programs that are not sustainable in their current form. They’re gonna go bankrupt.Washington has responsibility– to our seniors and our near seniors– that we firm up these programs so that they’re there for the long term. Because if we don’t do it, not only will they not get benefits, we will have a debt crisis right around the corner. We have time to solve our problems. But we need to do it now.” (Source)
oops, is this an admission of right wing political posturing taking up time and taxpayer money and avoiding real problems like jobs bill, and everything else they have been blocking stopping the people of America from moving forward after they put out those police spikes that flatten America's tires and stop those things that could fix them.
In GOP-speak this translates as “We don’t really have a reason to but let’s gut Medicare and Social Security, anyway.” The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Medicare’s hospital insurance fund will be gone in 2024. But let’s take a look at what they said in 1980: oh look, Medicare insolvency will be here in 1994! And in 1990, they said it would be bankrupt by 2003. Well, that’s not how it went, is it? The fact is, the date always keeps moving further down the road. But heck, let’s just make sure and cut benefits anyway. Better safe than sorry, eh? After all, we can’t possibly ask the ultra rich to pay even a teensy bit more, can we?The goatf**k that is the sequester is starting to make itself known. Once it really gets rolling, it will certainly be more noticeable to the average American. With a figure of $85 billion in cuts, how can we not be feeling the pinch soon? But the Republicans insist on their ideological stand of no taxes on those who are doing the best in this economy and cutting benefits of those who need them the most. And we are on track to lose 3/4 of a million jobs if the cuts remain in place through September. Which means that more people will need the social safety net that the GOP wants to shred.
and what does the republican conglomerate do, blame the Pres. an publish the re-re-re-re release of their plan that they forgot to blow the dust off to see that it is 4 years old. with all the credible warnings they will do this and depend on "we the people" to blame Pres. the one we elected and trust as opposed to those we did not and we don't trust, damn their reasoning is as bad as their math
