re: #17 Targetpractice

I shit you not, I had a Boomer just tell me earlier that this might actually help Romney with the retirees. How? According to him, Ryan going out there and telling old folks they have to choose between keeping their benefits and having their kids pay or giving up their benefits “for the children” is going to get retirees to decide to sacrifice their retirements so their kids don’t have to pay taxes for Medicare and SS anymore.

I was kind enough to admit that not all are going to be as “generous” as he, before remarking that in my personal experience, most retirees who don’t think they’ve “earned” their government benefits are not going to be first in line to move in with their kids or be shuffled off to a nursing home so that the younger crowd pays less taxes.

No, what Republicans are going to do is say everyone over 55 gets to keep their SS and Medicare as is and everyone younger (by saying it that way they flatter 55 year old people who are not young heck no one is young over 30) will get the new system.

They will then sell this to the 55 (over 55 year old racists who will need govt assistance would feel safe to vote GOP) and under white man crowd by appealing to their racism. See, in the future all your tax money will be going to pay for minorities unlike the earlier generation which was white to white wealth transfer - if it’s white to white wealth transfer it’s alright! - so this new system will be great for whites (because we all know white guys are the super best kind and work and become millionaires just over the rainbow - and the only thing holding up white men from being even more awesome is all those minorities.

The GOP will use dog whistle words to say what I wrote above but that is exactly what they hope enough white people hear to change the election over to the GOP.