Mass. Republican Sen. Scott Brown to seniors: Social Security, Medicare could be cut

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Boston Globe:

US Senator Scott Brown today warned seniors worried about Medicare and Social Security cuts that their benefits could be slashed because “we’re in a financial emergency right now.”

“We have some very, very real challenges,” the Massachusetts Republican told about 100 Russian and Chinese seniors gathered in an auditorium at Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly in Brighton. “If anybody’s telling you that ‘Everything’s OK, and don’t worry about it, and you’re going to get all your benefits, and everything’s fine,’ then they’re not really telling you the truth.”

The truth, Brown said, is that unless major entitlement programs are overhauled, “they won’t be there for your family.”

Brown did not offer a specific remedy to fix the programs. Instead, he urged a general spirit of cooperation in Washington.

Link:
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/08/brown-seniors-social-security-medicare-could-cut/bw6SASjRaIBIAKlSmsTtJO/index.html

[earcandle]

1. Your challenge, dickhead, is to levy some taxes on those freaks you put in office.

[valerief]

2. Man, I soooo hope Elizabeth Warren boots him on his ass. nt

[Angry Dragon]

3. It is past time to get rid of Congressional pensions and health care

the country is in financial emergency and we can not afford to have congress sucking off the government teat for the rest of their lives

Fair is fair

[Dawson Leery]

4. A progressive Democrat can kick his ass to the curb.

[Old and In the Way]

5. So,continued taxcuts for the very richest Americans or cuts to the social safety nets...

I wonder what the citizens of Massachusetts will support? We need this seat back in 2012....he's no Ted Kennedy, that's for sure.