Rep. Issa Prefers Social Security Cuts To Bush '05 Approach (VIDEO)

I say put Ryan's bill up for a vote in September in the House and let's see how many Republicans will vote for it.

Leave it to the Republicans to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. There aren't a whole lot of ways to make them less appealing to voters, but they unerringly found the worst.

Social security is not creating the deficit....quite the opposite. And privatizing social security will by definition put EVERYONE's retirement money in the hands of the bankers....and we've all seen how that is working out.

Privatizing social security is the most hair brained idea.... A base rule for personal investment planning - DIVERSIFICATION. Privatizing social security places even more eggs in the risky banker and stock market basket....at least keep some of Americas retirement money out of the hands of the greedy & crooked stock markets. These small government idiots are so warped.

Stop calling it "privatization."

What Issa and the GOP is proposing is to tax people, and then give that money to Wall Street. It is a perpetual bailout of bankers, far bigger and more notorious than anything we've ever seen.

....the left is signing onto passing Public Option with reconciliation.

Looks like that ain't happening.

You know Social Security, after expenses, had over 2.5 trillion left over last year?

That is after everyone was paid out.

Raise the cap, problem solved.

Since the arrival of RWR and his side kick Alan G. Congress has been including Social Security in the Federal budget to hide over spending by Congress . Also WallStreet has wanted to lay hands on the S.S. funds since it's inception so there has been a public assualt on S.S. by the GOP to frighten the public in to thinking S.S. is in serious trouble . But any intelligent person will deduce from this that if S.S. is in serious trouble why is Congress still using the S.S. funds to hide over spending ? Near the end of last year (a few months ago) Congress announced there was zero inflation to reduce the S.S. payouts which favors hiding even more over spending . To Congress there may have been zero inflation but to Seniors and other S.S. recipients the cost of existing has out paced their income . Now that Congress has pegged the S.S. recipients with a zero COST OF LIVING increase this week they announced an increase in inflation . The Truth ! S.S. has nothing to do with the condition of the budget . Conclusion ! We have a lying Congress and colluding media .

This is interesting opportunity for Democrats and progressives to use the fear card on the elderly and turn the tables on the GOP as they have done on healthcare reform. The main difference however Dems and progressives will not have to make up lies such as "Death Panels". One would have to merely point out if this republican plan was in effect over the last decade when it was originally introduced where would our social security savings be at this point, that the Dow is hovering around 10000 like it did at the beginning of the decade. Secondly republican plan goes against the golden rule of retirement and investment planing... diversification. Essentially the republicans are trying to place all our(national) retirement plan into one basket.

... the fact is there has to be enough income for the outflow ...

except when we're talking about massive tax cuts for the rich (crammed through in reconciliation, ironically enough) and starting two wars, right, issa?

Will someone tell Issa that Social Security is the only part of the government that takes in MORE than it pays out, and has done for a quarter of a century?

I love this. Just wait until the CBO and several of the Independent budget analysis experts take the voucher idea apart and show the country what will happen to their medicare coverage---especially if they get seriously sick. As far as Social Security is concerned, you can count on a vote from Merrill Lynch, BOA, BONY, JPMorgan Chase, Etrade and the rest of the muneyfuckers, but you are not going to get a single vote from today's recipients.

He's the second richest in Congress, after John "Heinz" Kerry:

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)
$164.70 million

Zzzzzt! What's that smell? Oops! Someone just touched the third rail!

This is shaping up to be like the Pat Buchanan stand of "We'll be slaughtered, but at least we'll be pure".

Please, please let it happen!

Best way to get seniors to quit voting Republican is to mess with their SS and Medicare benefits.

BTW, without these two programs, we would have a society like those in say India (the untouchables), or Brazil (the shanty towns outside of Rio for instance), or any 2-class society.

But there are people who believe God willed them their Greed.

Yes, let's put this in the hands of the people who caused the current financial crisis, please.

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these right-wingers and their vouchers.. I think if they had their way we would replace the entire government with vouchers...;~) need to build a road or a school? just go get a voucher..

only American right-wingers can come up with this utterly stupid, bizarre, absurd stuff.. what a bunch of retards, I swear...

Issa is a millionaire who made his money on..security alarms i believe.
His district is in north San Diego County, right next door to the old Randy 'Duke 'Cunningham district. Cunningham's seat is now held by repub Brian Bilbray, who didn't actually live there, but who's mom did, so he used that address to establish residency in order to run.
He's been a total flake on health care reform. Was initially seen as a moderate Repub, but after election, completely steps in time to the leadership.
Down the road is the district of ex "in the pocket of the military industrial complex" Repub rep Duncan Hunter, who somehow didn't get touched by the Randy 'Duke' Cunningham scandal, but interestingly enough, resigned his seat soon after.
His son , Duncan Hunter Jr (of the 'what if they let the hermaphrodites in?' fame was elected to fill the older Duncan Hunter's seat.
All of these guys are completely out of touch with the public. They rarely even show up in their districts, but rest on the coattails of San Diego's Republican machine. lots of people here who have made insane amounts of money and want to keep it that way. as a whole though, the urban areas are trending democratic w/regard to votes. i
thes guys have never worked very hard for their votes.
i would love to see Issa support this measure, i think it might actually lose him a number of votes.

I imagine the anger at Issa is over his report this week connecting Acorn to the subprime debacle. Or maybe it's because the report shows the 'Pres' was less than tansparent about his associations with Acorn. I have no doubt this will all unravel soon............

Something really funny happened.

I just put "issa social security" into the address bar of my browser, hoping to bring up some sites where I could see what Issa's constituents thought of this, and it brought up a website called "ISSA."

I imagined that Google had brought up Issa's personal site.

Then I saw the headline "Social justice, social protection and social security."

Social justice? Darryl Issa?!

Then I looked at the top of the screen. It said "ISSA International Social Security Association."

ROTF...