GOP: We can easily avoid default Thursday by not paying Social Security checks

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by John Aravosis
I’ve been trying to figure out why so many of the Tea Partyers who now run the Republican party are so convinced that there won’t be dire consequences to not raising the debt ceiling, and it finally hit me.

Conservatives think that, come Thursday, we can service the debt by “simply” not paying any more Social Security checks.

This dovetails nicely, or mean-ly, with last night’s admission by House Tea Party leader, GOP Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, that the Tea Party won’t stop the default unless Democrats agree to cut Medicare. Democrats have argued for a while that the Republican party has had a thing for killing seniors, and now we know it’s true.

Conservative thinker George Will yesterday walked Fox News through how “easily” we can pay our debt by simply cutting all other spending.

Note that Will’s intent, and the intent of the conservative site that posted the dialogue, is to prove how “silly” it is that anyone is talking about an imminent default. It’s easy to avoid default, they argue – just stop issuing Social Security checks to seniors

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http://americablog.com/2013/10/gop-we-can-easily-avoid-default-by-not-paying-social-security-checks.html

[jsr]

1. Tim Huelskamp, Kansas Congressman, a chief architect of the government shutdown

http://www.pitch.com/FastPitch/archives/2013/10/09/tim-huelskamp-kansas-congressman-a-chief-architect-of-the-government-shutdown

[Loudly]

16. Stripped of his committee assignments for being such a jerk.

Don't let this asshole run unopposed Kansas!

[meti57b]

2. "Let them eat cake."

[2naSalit]

14. More like

"let them eat sh*t"

[samsingh]

3. and yet so many seniors support the repugs

[ruffburr]

6. Not for long

[Ikonoklast]

24. Some of them who depend on the government are finally seeing the light, the Republicans hate

them, too, right along with everyone else.

They thought that the Republicans they voted for would only take benefits away from those lazy inner-city people and leave God-Fearing Americans have their government benefits they so richly deserve, because they worked hard for them.


They suddenly realize that the Teabaggers they supported want Granny to die.

[samsingh]

25. hopefully they will have some intelligence to do what's right for themselves

[Chief D]

4. "Please proceed Governor"

[unblock]

5. ah, yes, will the intellectual. why default when you can just refuse to pay your obligations?

[LiberalEsto]

7. That's just about the last straw

The teahadists remind me of Stalin in that they don't care if millions of people starve.

[Frustratedlady]

10. The seniors are just about the only group left

that the Pugs haven't totally turned off. just suggesting this action of not paying Social Security recipients should be enough to get the "bird" from seniors.

They'll be lucky to have any group vote for them in 2014. We must remember to remind voters of their childish behavior in 2013 (as well as 2010, 2011, 2012...)

[LiberalEsto]

13. A lot of us former hippie war protesters are becoming seniors

and we won't take kindly to having our only safety net cut.
We're accustomed to protesting.

[Frustratedlady]

22. I hear ya. I've been on SS for a long time and I'm not too old to

fight back on those who stand in my way.

I used to volunteer to deliver Meals on Wheels and can testify that those recipients were among the most grateful I have seen in my lifetime. How the Pugs could even think of withholding funds from that program is beyond me.

We just have to stay alert to their shenanigans, as they will be running double-time to get their revenge. Normal people would slither away with their tail between their legs after losing this fight and making such asses of themselves in the process.

I must admit I was looking forward to watching their slither.

[octoberlib]

8. What's the definition of a Tea Partier?

People covered by Medicare who hate socialized medicine. I bet most of them are on SS.

[Oilwellian]

27. And they like to protest

[octoberlib]

28. That sign is hilarious...... and sad. nt

[workinclasszero]

9. Cut the Empire budget!

[Warren DeMontague]

11. I hope everyone's paying attention.

[bluedeathray]

12. Who the hell keeps voting for these morons? nt

[GeorgeGist]

15. Morans.

[bluedeathray]

18. You owe me a keyboard...

I just ruined this one. It's funny how simple the truth can be.

[Downwinder]

17. By the same token, we can Nationalize all teaparyists

assets and apply them to pay the debt.

[Scuba]

19. Do it! Just one check! Please!

No Republican would ever be elected again.

[bluestate10]

20. I have a saner idea, cut farm subsidies to factory farms, cut oil subsidies to already rich oil

companies, cut corporate welfare to big banks and big business. Those yawning mouths suck more vitality out of the country than anything imaginable.

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. Refusing to pay SS benefits *IS* default.

Retirees are one of the main holders of government debt.

[Renew Deal]

23. Stopping social security checks is a great idea for republicans

I encourage them to do it

[Downtown Hound]

26. Yeah, that'll go over real well with seniors, one of the last staunchly GOP bases of support

Republicans seem to forget that those people worked for that money, it's not a "government handout."