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In reply to the discussion: Senate's No. 2 Democrat calls for cuts to social safety net [View all]Quantess
(27,630 posts)118. I was quiet about it the year before the election or so
because we wanted Obama to win and not get thwarted by a 3rd party candidate.
But what does it take to change the system? Doesn't there have to be a super-high percentage of senators and house reps who vote in favor? (which is pragmatically unrealistic, other people have said). It sounds like it would take a lot to change the system. Sorry for not having details of the "how", but it can be googled.
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+1. Cutting out of control military & security spending should be a priority for Dems
think
Nov 2012
#46
We spent $700 billion? Next larged was China with $143 billion? Why can't we lop off $400 billion?
RickFromMN
Nov 2012
#94
Congressional pensions, gym, parking, health care? Social Sec. & Medicare for the rich?
wordpix
Dec 2012
#122
The problem is the demographics on the entitlements get worse as the population ages.
dkf
Nov 2012
#84
While I love your idea to cut the expenses of Congress, they probably wouldn't notice.
RickFromMN
Nov 2012
#95
Maybe he's retiring from politics (?) but I bet if we were to check his lunch dates
snappyturtle
Nov 2012
#51
Maybe we should impeach him & let him would OPENLY for the corporate interests 2 years earlier than
Faryn Balyncd
Nov 2012
#98
We'd probably be better off if he did what you're proposing but then we would miss
snappyturtle
Nov 2012
#110
That's essentially what I heard him say in an interview over the weekend.
Gidney N Cloyd
Nov 2012
#66
It truly should be unconscionable for any Democrat to start out a negotiation by caving!
AAO
Nov 2012
#40
I expect a tiny increase in taxes and large cuts to entitlements to be in the works.
Kablooie
Nov 2012
#16
Some want to think that the D's are good and the R's are bad. Makes life simpler.
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#67
By any reasonable measure this was a status quo election with no power change in the WH,
24601
Nov 2012
#89
Too bad Durbin didn't call for a tiny transaction tax on Wall Street. It is their turn to help.
Overseas
Nov 2012
#27
Durbin is always the first to bring out the white flag BEFORE the battle has even begun.
ladjf
Nov 2012
#28
WHAT?????!!!????? this is what folks stood in line for hours to vote asked for????
secondwind
Nov 2012
#29
I will not donate to them if they put social security and medicare in the bargining. It is that
still_one
Nov 2012
#97
First thing we should put up on the chopping block is durbin's "entitlements", including his
still_one
Nov 2012
#42
Social security should definitely be changed - the min age should be 55 with 100% benefits
geckosfeet
Nov 2012
#53
How about a massive cut in military/intelligence funding, DICK?! That ought to solve the problem!
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2012
#105
When he gives every cent this country has every given him back to the debt crisis
Fearless
Nov 2012
#107