Joe Lieberman Says We Need To CUT SOCIAL SECURITY To Pay For Defense

Joe"Elmer Fudd" Lieberman always has been full of sheep dip. Why not cut Lieberman and use we money save to pay Defense. Retire now Elmer and get it over with.

This guy is a lobbyist for Israel. He wants us to have a strong military to serve as a proxy army for Israel. He lobbys to keep the $3B in military aid flowing to Israel. His constituents are dupes.

The man is borderline senile........term limits AND age limits must be implimented in all gov jobs to keep the thinking fresh and with the times.......nothing but outdated good ole boys running the show now!!!!! [and I'm old and retired]

Is he dead yet?

I said it before and I will say it again...Joe Leiberman needs to retire already. He is a broken record and only loyal to AIPAC.

I'm just warmin up...

I think old Joe has gone over the edge. The man is seriously demented, in the words of the kids: "this sucks dude"

This man and the people who vote for him represent everything I hate about America. He was Bush's number one Democrat and he's only gotten worse as time has gone on.

What a despicable asshole.

Joe epitomizes a typical washed-up professional politican grasping at straws to be heard. Nobody has paid the least bit of attention to him after his failed attempt at being a Presidential VP candidate and especially after sponsoring Butt-monkey McCain for pres. Joe's a never-was on his last legs and will say anything for a dime.

What a douchebag!

Just another out of touch white member of the bourgeoisie

Don't mind paying more for social security. Do mind paying more for missiles to go to war.

usa does need to do less out of usa but the UN needs to step up and do a lot more. and they must change there rules to do so. usa is not the world police if we where we should be stopping a lot of what is going on now. we do need police however what we are doing all over the world cost us too much and should be done by UN with troops from all over the world.

i am for it. the truth is we must do things like that if we want to cut the debt. or up taxes to everyone a tonnn more. taxing the rich when they are already the most taxed is not fair. they use less of the social services and it is not fair to charge them more for using less just because they have more. these social services where not even how america was setup.

If only it was a typo... Shouldn't this be the other way around?

Joe, Joe, Joe... for what reason? If you gut SS just to increase the military spending Without closing some of the hundreds and hundreds (last I read, 767) military bases the U.S. maintains outside the U.S., then you are no better than any third world despot who thinks a huge military is the best that can ever happen... Cut defense, bring them home from Iraq (a totally unnecessary war) and Afghanistan (OBL is dead dude)... oh and bring them home from Germany and France and Italy...war has been over 60 years already

Who are we at war with? Why are we spending so much money on combat with criminals using AK-47's and Soviet-era RPGs?

You know what's a technological advancement over the weapons of guerrilla fighters? Any weapons produced after the Beatles first album.

Oh... and what's really cost effective is not launching a war on an ideal. Countries can be defeated in war, a despondent people with dead relatives just leads to more fighters.

Does this include vets on SS?

Uh, NO! I didn't work hard for wars, and I don't want to live in a military state. Thank you very much.

"bipartisan proposal to secure Social Security over the long term, we hope to have that done in time..sounds like something senator Obama said too

but if they don't oh well, its the thought that counts

"Over the the long term" or in other words congress will propose to think about it later

So, bottom line, we can’t protect these entitlements"

but as for now, lets gut that heifer,

need to cut defense to pay for ss. and i used to like this guy

Maybe he's going to retire in Israel and wants to be sure the US Military is strong enough to protect his ass.

Wow, there is a lot of hatred out there for Ol' Joe today. The sad fact is that he is right, if you cut back everything at the same rate, you risk the security of the country. The only way to make up for it would be to cut back from one of the other areas a little more and from defense a little less. The numbers we are talking about can only come from one of the big three parts of the budget: Social Security, Medicaid/Medicare, and Defense. The Federal government brings in more than enough money every month to cover social security and medicaid/medicare. The problem is that the only way to make a profit from the defense part is to sell weapons to other countries, so we have to pull from the other parts to maintain it. Otherwise, we become warmongers to the world.

And Angels will be flying out of my ass with bagpipes and flagons....Sheesh! Does this man have a conscience?

Here is a scary thought: The Souper Con-gress will not be dissolved, even after they manage the draconian cuts they have been pining for. I mean if it work ed for the budget, why not the 14th amendment, or doing away with the Bill of Rights--possibilities are endless, eh?

Does Liberman really think that Americans are this stupid, or does he say these things to get a laugh out his fellow Zionists?

Once again we spend all our time, money and technology on weapons and defense. While other countries spend their time, money and technology on advancing their nation. Hence why we are no longer #1 in anything, besides bullshit.

I'd be surprised if Joe didn't end up as one of republicans pick for this bullshit committee, these asshole dreamed up!

Joe, you are one of the most disgusting politicians in Congress but don't take it to heart, you have many fighting for the same position! Once a scumbag. always a scumbag Joe!

Cut SS for defense of what?

Fuck YOU Joe Leiberman! You are the worst traitor this country has ever known, and lately, you have plenty of competition for that role. Privatization is just another word for theft, only in this case, the theft has already occurred, and privatization ensures that everyone who knows about the theft keeps their mouth shut, and sets up the victims to be forced to pay in even more money, to cover up the theft of their own stolen money.

When are one of these jackasses going to propose that we cut Congressional benefits packages to pay for Defense? And when Leiberman talks about defense, we all know what that means, keep Israel secure on the backs of the aged and infirm in this nation.

These bastards in Congress are who we really need to be defended from. Fuck you Lieberman, put a sock in it before somebody else does it for you. You should be in Guantanamo with Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld and the rest of your traitor associates and friends....and that includes you President Obama. You sold the American people out to the highest bidder. Thanks a lot. We won't forget. Maybe all those supporters pouring money into your campaign fund are grateful, but the "people" of this nation are not, and you can only fool so many people for so long.

"So, bottom line, we can’t protect these entitlements and also have the national defense we need to protect us in a dangerous world while we’re at war with Islamist extremists who attacked us on 9/11 and will be for a long time to come."

No asshole, nobody believes that bullshit anymore. We know damn well that you bastards in government are who we really need protection from, that you stole our Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and are now, and have been, making up stories to cover your own asses for way too long. You all belong in front of a firing squad, not on a podium bullshitting the American people.

Fuck you Leiberman! May you choke on a fly....a drone fly.

We need to cut Joe Lieberman to pay for Social Security. Then he can go ahead and register as a Lobbyist for Israel. The only enemies are the ones you create.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, who used to be a staunch ally for Medicare and Social Security is now throwing away any pretense that he was once a Democratic politician and would rather help destroy the lives of seniors in America to make sure funds flow to continue endless wars on Pam Geller's favorite target: Radical Islamists. In a new bill that he'll co-sponsor with Conservative Tom Coburn, they plan on helping to weaken one of our most cherished and valued programs, Social Security and send the cash over the the Military. he knows that Social Security is solvent for decades and doesn't add a penny to the deficit which has preoccupied the White House, GOP and the beltway media. It doesn't matter that Americans have said over and over again that they prefer defense spending to be cut, not our social safety nets.
Think Progress:

This past April, right-wing war hawk John Bolton suggested during an interview on Fox News that the United States should cut Social Security and Medicare to finance the defense budget.

During debate over the debt deal today on the Senate floor, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) appeared to endorse this call. Lieberman explained that he is working with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) on a Social Security spending reduction plan and that “we can’t protect these entitlements and also have the national defense…to protect us…with Islamist extremists”:

LIEBERMAN: I want to indicate today to my colleagues that Senator Coburn and I are working again on a bipartisan proposal to secure Social Security over the long term, we hope to have that done in time. To also forward to the special committee for their consideration. So, bottom line, we can’t protect these entitlements and also have the national defense we need to protect us in a dangerous world while we’re at war with Islamist extremists who attacked us on 9/11 and will be for a long time to come.

A few things about what he says in that short clip concern me.

He wants to "secure" Social Security by privatizing/cutting it. That is *anything* BUT secure. So, calling BS on him, right (pun intended) out of the gate.

Mr Lieberman working with a Republican (Mr Colburn), is not bi-partisan, no matter what political affiliation Mr Lieberman was using/claiming on that particular day.

He mentions the "Special Committee" a couple of times. I have serious problems with this "Special Committee."

Has anyone heard anything about the life span of the "Special Committee?" Does it go away after the "trigger point" we keep hearing about, or continue to exist? Am I over reacting, or does the "Special Committee" seem to anyone else as a way for the Republicans to circumvent democracy? Since corporations will already own the 6 Republicans (whoever they wind up being), corporations only need to purchase one of the Democrats (if they don't already own one of the ones appointed, whoever they are) and they (corporations) then own the committee. Am I misreading that?

When Joe Liebermann talks about defense he is talking about the defense of Israel. He may live in Connecticut but his true homeland is the Promised Land, and he seems to believe it is America's duty to defend Israel at all cost. When you keep that in mind it is easier to understand the decisions he makes. I like to call him the Senator from Jeruselam. I don't mean that in an anti-Semetic way, it's just where his interests lie. When he was a freshmen senator I admired his courage but he has changed over the years to become part of the establishment he once bucked. He no longer speaks for the CT Democratic Party or the majority of the state's constiuents, only the monied third in Greenwich and Litchfield counties. Don't forget, the only reason he is still a Senator is because he went independent and captured the Republican vote in 2006 after losing the Democratic primary to Ned Lamont. Thankfully he will be gone in a little more than a year, and it won't be a moment too soon.

Look just how low Congress has fallen with all the money whores out their

This asshole should have been run out of town along time ago.

He won,t be campaigning for reelection in 2012 but he won,t be gone he is now angling for a high paying job as a lobbyist in dc for privatizing s.s.Witch brings up another thing we need to work.When these guys retire we pay them a real comfortable amount of money and pay 100% of their health costs.They should not be allowed to go back to washington to work against us

Eisenhower warned:"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

Republicans and some Democrats are against birth control because that would cut down on the future fodder the warmongers need to fight their wars. Old people can't be sent to fight in wars so they have no use in a Military Industrial Complex world.

Order of Priorities for a Military Industrial Complex Benefactor:
1) Wealth
2) Getting wealth
3) keeping wealth
4) Preventing others from having wealth
5) Wars (best way to make wealth)
6) Encourage others (fodder) to fight in wars
7) Wealth

Ol' Joe must have some stock invested in the MIC.

Joel Lieberman may be one symbol of austerity ideology but he's certainly not the force behind the thinking. On the contrary it was partly the oppositions card to play using critique, critical mass, and empathy to disseminate the idea that Americas problem lies in the fact that our citizens are sitting like fat cats under a scheme of entitlements at the first mention of the idea by financial interest.

The tea party or whatever emerges is the fault of maybe a laissez faire neo liberal society which tolerates every idiots opinion until they make waves that crash on our own personal self interested shores. Its a society who lost the ideas of the new deal and allowed itself to be caught in the phony culture war. Its a society who gradually hides its leftist critiques and now the source of intellectual discourse, the university is rapidly becoming an expensive trade school at best for upper middle class kids who hope to land a "management position" in finance. As the fundamental elements of what we call liberalism erode it shouldn't come as a surprise that tea parties, right wing terrorist are suddenly emerging, mobilizing and attacking under the banner of populism. Thus these types of political spectacles come as no surprise to this fellow and while its It's certainly not our fault on individual terms but collectively we bought the wrong farm, now we must rethink our next steps. In the society many had hoped for right wing extremism would've have been impossible not because of totalitarian governance but because it would've been ruled out through common consensus of an enlightened society as illogical and/or inhumane.

The truth as we already know is that society and even the earth as we know it are on the ropes, there is a lot of work to be done on many levels the question is still the same: what is to be done and how is to be done?

I use have respect for Joe but he needs to retire and try living on fixed income.