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The America John Boehner grew up in?
Check out the GOP platforms at the time
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/07/the_american_john_boehner_grew.html

Ever since John Boehner accused Dems last week of "snuffing out the America that I grew up in," people around the Web have taking stabs at defining the America of Boehner's youth.
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Boehner was born in 1949. In 1956, he was seven; in 1960 he was 11; and in 1964 he was 15.

* The Republican Party platform of 1956 called for "broadened coverage in unemployment insurance" and "better health protection for all our people." It vowed to "continue vigorously to support the United Nations."

It pledged support for "progressive programs" to expand workers' rights. It vowed an immigration policy that ensured that America would remain a "haven for oppresssed peoples."

* The Republican Party platform of 1960 hailed the GOP's success in extending unemployment insurance. The GOP counted as an achievement its efforts to raise the Federal minimum wage.

The platform hailed expanded Social Security coverage and pledged an aggressive Federal effort to help those struggling with health care costs (in those pre-Medicare days, the primary focus was on the elderly). It pledged to continue robust Federal intervention to preserve the environment.

The outlines of today's GOP became more visible in the Republican Party platform of 1964, which makes sense, since it came after Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency. It decried Johnson's efforts to expand the Federal government and called for more market-based solutions to poverty.
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But as Mike Tomasky notes, the Republican Party of Boehner's youth was fairly moderate and embraced Big Government spending -- a far cry from today's GOP. Contemporary conservatism was merely a gleam in Bill Buckley's eye. If this is what Boehner is nostalgic for, that would be news indeed...

If you really wanna make that stupid fucking drunk feel like an idiot, ask him what the top tax rate was when he was a kid...







(of course, what Boehner really means is that when he was a kid, Black folk knew their place...and for that matter, Latino's didnt even exist, at least not in his town)

well, Boehner is the most tanned guy on the hill

He's the most tanned guy in Ohio too.

House Minority Leader John Boehner, fresh out of a meeting with business and trade group lobbyists, announced a new idea this afternoon: A moratorium on all new federal regulations, for a year.

"I think having a moratorium on new federal regulations is a great idea it sends a wonderful signal to the private sector that they're going to have some breathing room," he said,


more


http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010 ... gulate.php

The funny thing about Boner is, he doesn't even realize that he is just an insignificant tool for the GOP, if they had a majority there is no way in Hell John Bhoener is house leader.

They're wrong about that, too, because we were very quickly overturning their ideas of our place.

And rubbing their noses in it, too.

Workers pay into the Social Security system on earnings up to $106,800 in 2010. If wealthy retirees were taxed on all of their income above $106,800 annually, but did not earn extra benefits based on those contributions, the Social Security trust fund’s projected deficit would be completely eliminated, according to a U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging report released in May. If the additional taxes count toward benefits, 95 percent of Social Security’s future shortfall would be corrected. However, wealthy workers would face significant tax increases if this proposal were implemented. An individual making $400,000 per year, for example, would pay $18,178 more per year and his or her employer would pay a matching amount.


http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/pla ... anges.html


Of six possible ways to address concerns with the Social Security system in a recent USA Today/Gallup poll, a majority of Americans favor two, both of which would affect only wealthy Americans. Less than a majority favor proposals that would involve increasing taxes, reducing benefits, or increasing the eligibility age for larger segments of the general public.





http://www.gallup.com/poll/141611/Ameri ... ity.aspx#1

Here's another thought. Federal workers do not pay Social Security. So why not make guys like Bonehead pay into it as well. Take away their tax payer funded retirement and make them pay into social secirty and a 401k like everyone else.

That color is NOT tan!

Good work Jimmy. Bohener is a boner.

To many Golf Junkets perhaps http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/07/john-boehner-would-rather-be-golfing.html

boners got competition.............

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