Oh GOOD, Bill Keller, a millionaire who used to manage the typists at the New York Times, is here to fix the deficit for us by summarizing a report by the Third Way that itself is based on Congressional Budget Office statistics taken completely out of context. But it's ok, because the Third Way is a "centrist" organization. ("Centrism," as we all know, refers not to ideas that are actually in the political center, but rather to ideas that are mostly held by rich white men who talk on the teevee or type in columns about GOP ideas but CALL them centrist, thus confusing "centrism" with ideas that they themselves like and have.) So Bill Keller, centrist, is here to save entitlements by making sure that people entitled to them don't actually get what they're entitled to.
In 5 years I&#039;m elgible for about $900 a month in social security (higher then due to COLAs I hope). I&#039;ve never made more than $28,000 in my life. I&#039;ve been basically unemployed for almost 6 years, having worked for cash in food service and now on a farm. HOW ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE <b>SACRIFICING FOR A FUCKING WHILE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?</b>
You know, I am one of the oldest boomers (born in 1947) and I am not yet on Medicare. As it happens, I have voted straight Democratic for my entire life, and I oppose privatization of Social Security or Medicare. There are lots of other boomers who share these views. Unfortunately, there are also lots of boomers who don&#039;t -- because there are, simply, lots of boomers.
But Romney has pretty adamantly stated that he isn&#039;t going to release any more tax info. So, I&#039;d think that stirring a little shit is appropriate. If Romney sticks to his guns and stays dummied up, at least it extracts a little payment in the form of increased suspicion. And, if he does cave in and release more returns, I think we can be fairly sure that at a minimum they will show that he routinely pays relatively small taxes on enormous income.
I see this as just a jab, trying to draw a response. The smartest thing Romney&#039;s team could do would be to ignore it (and if they do, I expect Reid to let it drop).
<i>The centrists are worse than the GOP</i>.
We&#039;re gonna have to disagree about that one, prommie. Although it may just come down to definition, e.g., calling Bill Keller a &quot;centrist&quot; is like calling a Teabagger an &quot;independent&quot;.
(Keller is the son of former chairman and chief executive of the Chevron Corporation, George M. Keller.)
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm so millionaire Bill Keller feels everyone but him and his friends needs to suffer for the sins of the GWB administration? Sounds like the <a href="http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/yglesias\/2010\/08\/02\/198090\/the-pundits-fallacy\/\?mobile=nc" target="_blank">pundit&#039;s fallacy</a>. (Thanks to <a href="http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative...\/larison\/we-have-already-seen-the-daniels-campaign-it-was-called-the-huntsman-campaign\/" target="_blank">Larrison</a> and MY for pointing this type of error out).
In 5 years I&#039;m elgible for about $900 a month in social security (higher then due to COLAs I hope). I&#039;ve never made more than $28,000 in my life. I&#039;ve been basically unemployed for almost 6 years, having worked for cash in food service and now on a farm. HOW ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE <b>SACRIFICING FOR A FUCKING WHILE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?</b>
Stalin had a new one, every five years.
Half-way between rational and Republican is still pretty fucking nuts, even if you label it &quot;Centrist&quot;.
I think it is possible to set up a terminal care directive that means &quot;Keep doing everything you can, until my money is used up&quot;.
What about the nail ladies?
And when it comes to seeing the other options, or hearing both sides of an argument, Helen Keller would have been a better bet.
You know, I am one of the oldest boomers (born in 1947) and I am not yet on Medicare. As it happens, I have voted straight Democratic for my entire life, and I oppose privatization of Social Security or Medicare. There are lots of other boomers who share these views. Unfortunately, there are also lots of boomers who don&#039;t -- because there are, simply, lots of boomers.
BTW, Paul Ryan is 42.
But Romney has pretty adamantly stated that he isn&#039;t going to release any more tax info. So, I&#039;d think that stirring a little shit is appropriate. If Romney sticks to his guns and stays dummied up, at least it extracts a little payment in the form of increased suspicion. And, if he does cave in and release more returns, I think we can be fairly sure that at a minimum they will show that he routinely pays relatively small taxes on enormous income.
I see this as just a jab, trying to draw a response. The smartest thing Romney&#039;s team could do would be to ignore it (and if they do, I expect Reid to let it drop).
<i>The centrists are worse than the GOP</i>.
We&#039;re gonna have to disagree about that one, prommie. Although it may just come down to definition, e.g., calling Bill Keller a &quot;centrist&quot; is like calling a Teabagger an &quot;independent&quot;.
(Keller is the son of former chairman and chief executive of the Chevron Corporation, George M. Keller.)
Well, inspired by BSL&#039;s comment above, and your possibly intentional introductory clause, teh google was easy. Hairy shit, indeed.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm so millionaire Bill Keller feels everyone but him and his friends needs to suffer for the sins of the GWB administration? Sounds like the <a href="http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/yglesias\/2010\/08\/02\/198090\/the-pundits-fallacy\/\?mobile=nc" target="_blank">pundit&#039;s fallacy</a>. (Thanks to <a href="http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative...\/larison\/we-have-already-seen-the-daniels-campaign-it-was-called-the-huntsman-campaign\/" target="_blank">Larrison</a> and MY for pointing this type of error out).