And Lo There Was Much Telling It Like It Is by Republicans Newly Empowered by "Bipartisanism"

Joining his BFF Mitch McConnell in some belligerent chest-beating about how unrepentantly and uncompromisingly horrible their garbage party is, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Ealasshole) said today that "Republicans will continue a push to overhaul programs such as Medicare," and that, despite the promises made to Americans as part of the social contract known as the entitlement programs into which we've paid, we're soon to be shit outta luck and had better start making alternative arrangements for our futures.

That's not hyperbole.

U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) on Wednesday suggested that Republicans will continue a push to overhaul programs such as Medicare, saying in an interview that "promises have been made that frankly are not going to be kept for many" and that younger Americans will have to adjust.

"What we have to be, I think, focused on is truth in budgeting here," Cantor told The Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal. He said "the better way" for Americans is to "get the fiscal house in order" and "come to grips with the fact that promises have been made that frankly are not going to be kept for many."

..."When we came out with our budget, we said, look, let's at least put people on notice, but preserve those who are 55 and older," Cantor said, referring to a Republican-written budget plan that would turn Medicare, now a fee-for-service program, into a program that subsidizes private health insurance. "The rest of us have got ample time to try and plan our lives so that we can adjust to reality here when you look at the numbers. Again the math doesn't lie."

So, basically, the Republican Party is interested in reforms that would take care of people over 55, i.e. their strongest voting base, and the rest of us can go fuck ourselves find a way to save extra amounts for retirement to live on, including paying for healthcare, in the most dire economic situation in more than a generation. Awesome.

That is, of course, wildly unreasonable in addition to being comprehensively compassionless.

But who's gonna stop them...?

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