whysoserious
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the candidate with the guts, vision and leadership to reform our budgets and save social security, medicare, medicaid and our state pensions
ie, NOT barack the slasher hussein
he won't even CALL hurryup harry
leadership, anyone?
I take that as, "I don't know.."?
service on the debt, mere interest alone, is fast approaching a full one trillion dollars per year
News Headlines
LOL!
you can say that again
a half million dollars in and next to nothing out is the biggest boondoggle this side of red china
if social security is such a success why is it (again) in such dire need of fixing
Schieffer: Racism underlying Trump's assertions
"Donald Trump has moved on from the "birther" conspiracy to allege President Barack Obama didn't get good enough grades to warrant entry to Harvard Law School, an assertion that CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer called absurd on the "CBS Evening News" on Wednesday.
"That's just code for saying he got into law school because he's black. This is an ugly strain of racism that's running through this whole thing. We can hope that kind of comes to an end too, but we'll have to see," Schieffer said."
Read more: Schieffer: Racism underlying Trump's assertions - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
robbed?
at 1176 a month?
LOL!
social security was sold to 3 generations as insurance, not welfare
but single payer, according to the bbc two weeks ago, is "cruel and devastating"
BBC News - Surgeons raise alarm over waiting
it appears these lovers of all humanity don't really like people very much, after all
oh well
party on, petrograd
It will work fine for the next 27 years.
What other government program can make that claim.
Schieffer: Racism underlying Trump's assertions
"Donald Trump has moved on from the "birther" conspiracy to allege President Barack Obama didn't get good enough grades to warrant entry to Harvard Law School, an assertion that CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer called absurd on the "CBS Evening News" on Wednesday.
"That's just code for saying he got into law school because he's black. This is an ugly strain of racism that's running through this whole thing. We can hope that kind of comes to an end too, but we'll have to see," Schieffer said."
Read more: Schieffer: Racism underlying Trump's assertions - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
ah, so it only rips off the better part of a lifetime's investment from folks UNDER age 40
that's a relief
except it's not: My Way News - Social Security now seen to run permanent deficits
well, you make a point
LOL!
SS can run fine by either reducing benefits, raising the cap or extending the retirement age.
ah, that's all it needs---easy
LOL!
a program that can't keep its fundamental promises, especially a program of such staggering scale, is a failure
Bob Schieffer? Are you serious? Could there be any more a biased member of the Obama sycophant wing in journalism today? This is crap! Ya know?
j-mac
It's OK that social security runs deficits. It is no surprise. Over the past 20 years it ran a profit, built up $4T in equity, which will carry it to 2037. Even then, SS can run fine by either reducing benefits, raising the cap or extending the retirement age.
The only reason that SS is an issue is that the government has been using FICA receipts to pay for its general revenue shortfall (including funding the Bush tax cuts of 2001). The reason that tax receipts went up after the bush tax cuts had nothing to do with income tax revenue going up (it actually went down from 2001 to 2005) and everything to do with FICA receipts (payroll taxes) going up and inflation. FICA receipts have been "covering up" the bigger problem for quite some time.... now people think the solution to the bigger problem is to take it out on social security (not pay back the money it borrowed, in essence, stealing from the working people to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.)
In other words, we borrowed from a Ponzi Scheme. Of course it was profitable, it took in way more than it payed out - just like a "profitable" Ponzi Scheme should.
But don't worry, every thing is fine and long as we pay back the 'borrowing' and change a few things... anyone got 4T spare change and a powersaw to cut benefits?
We're gonna have to open cut-rate nursing homes in China.
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To pull out the race card any time this mans policies, actions, or anything to do with what he does in office instead of focusing on the real reason that 70% of the country thinks we are headed in the wrong direction, is weak, and a tactic that is worn out.
j-mac
In other words, we borrowed from a Ponzi Scheme. Of course it was profitable, it took in way more than it payed out - just like a "profitable" Ponzi Scheme should.
But don't worry, every thing is fine as long as we pay back the 'borrowing' and change a few things... anyone got 4T spare change and a powersaw to cut benefits?
We're gonna have to open cut-rate nursing homes in China. We'll call it "retirement tourism".
No, the ponzi scheme was the Bush tax cuts.... the government decided to "cover-up" the falling income tax revenues with increasing payroll tax revenues (social security) to say "look, tax cuts work".....
So, anyone that wants to tell me that the social security debt can not be paid back CANNOT tell us that 47% people pay no federal income tax, because all wage earners paid FICA and under this Republican scheme of use it as tax receipts and not honor social security obligations, it has made the payroll tax nothing but a very regressive income tax.
the ponzi scheme was the Bush tax cuts
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