GOP House leader Eric Cantor calls for the end of Social Security and Medicare

by Gaius Publius on 3/31/2011 11:28:00 AM

Now that's rather straight-forward of him. From NPR Morning Edition (my emphasis):

[NPR reporter Audie] CORNISH: That's House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor at a recent speech at the Hoover Institution. Cantor tried to send a clear signal to key voters with concerns about the GOP's plans.

Rep. CANTOR: I mean, just from the very notion that it said that 50 percent of beneficiaries under the Social Security program use those moneys as their sole source of income. So we've got to protect today's seniors. But for the rest of us? For - you know, listen. We're going to have to come to grips with the fact that these programs cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be.