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***PATSNUTme*** · 07-13-2011, 09:59 AM

by scaring the old people.

Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security checks will go out on August 3 - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

You know, up until now I personally did not dislike Obama. I didn't approve of his policies but I did not dislike him.

But this is disgusting and way beneath anyone holding the office of POTUS. Many seniors depend on those checks and many of htem have health problems. To add stress to them at this time is low, very low.

It could work politically but ethically is as low as you can go. Obama is just another mean spirited. bottom feeding, politician who happens to have a pleasing personality.

And don't try to spin this by saying he was just answering a question. We all know that the question was a plant by a friendly "journalist".

Mrs.PatsFanInVa · 07-13-2011, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by PATSNUTme

by scaring the old people.

Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security checks will go out on August 3 - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

But this is disgusting and way beneath anyone holding the office of POTUS. Many seniors depend on those checks and many of htem have health problems. To add stress to them at this time is low, very low.

Dude, I know....and he was telling the truth. How dare a president tell the truth?

Still, I agree, how very much worse for him to do than it was for Sarah Palin and the rest of the Republican Party who coined that catchy (but dishonest) phrase about Heath Care. Let me think, what was it again?

Um, can't remember rightly.

Something like "death panel," wasn't it?

***Patters*** · 07-13-2011, 10:11 AM

Obama is certainly playing his hand, no doubt about it. I think he's trying to use this situation to force Congress (both parties) to address long standing issues around both Social Security and Medicare. He's sees this issue as an opportunity to get something major done, since normally each party stymies the other. As a liberal, I'd rather see Obama address this issue than a Republican, because even if Obama does things I don't like, he won't be as bad as Republicans would be in my opinion.

Besides, the answer is quite complex, and there are different legitimate points of view cited in this article:

Can President Obama keep paying Social Security benefits even if the debt ceiling is reached? - The Fact Checker - The Washington Post

Late Tuesday night, however, the Treasury Department cast serious doubt on whether it was feasible to keep paying Social Security benefits if the debt limit had been breached.

“This type of financial engineering is untested, may not work, and is of questionable legality,” a Treasury official told us. “It is not feasible for Treasury to borrow from the public, each day, the precise amount of Social Security payments due without breaching the debt limit. In addition, it is questionable whether it is legal to redeem Social Security trust fund assets in advance of payments. Moreover, this presumes that Treasury will have full access to the financial markets if the debt limit is not raised.”

JackBauer · 07-13-2011, 10:13 AM

It's about time he used the bully pulpit. How about you spare some of that righteous indignation for the real culprits: those who would use the debt ceiling to foist their ideological agenda on the American people?

***DarrylS*** · 07-13-2011, 10:24 AM

What is interesting to see how Fox News Reported it..

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Obama Threatens to Withhold Social Security Checks from Seniors and Vets.

What Obama said...

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“I cannot guarantee that those [Social Security] checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.”

Another day another faux hysterical comment from the Newscorpse...