Boehner Proposal Would Hurt Current Retirees

I just saw Lawrence O'Donnell speak about this statement from Robert Greenstein, President on Budget and Policy Priorities, on Boehner's New Budget Proposal.

CBPP.org:

House Speaker John Boehner’s new budget proposal would require deep cuts in the years immediately ahead in Social Security and Medicare benefits for current retirees, the repeal of health reform’s coverage expansions, or wholesale evisceration of basic assistance programs for vulnerable Americans.

The plan is, thus, tantamount to a form of “class warfare.” If enacted, it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history.

This may sound hyperbolic, but it is not. The mathematics are inexorable.....

.....In short, the Boehner plan would force policymakers to choose among cutting the incomes and health benefits of ordinary retirees, repealing the guts of health reform and leaving an estimated 34 million more Americans uninsured, and savaging the safety net for the poor. It would do so even as it shielded all tax breaks, including the many lucrative tax breaks for the wealthiest and most powerful individuals and corporations.....


I suggest you read the entire report by Greenstein which outlines the catastrophic disaster that the Boehner plan creates-----> http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3548

Shame on Boehner and the Republicans.