Both sides say they are willing and neither side actually does it. It's a bunch of bi-partisan finger pointing bs. Your just gullible enough to buy into it. The democrats have you right where they want you. Blindly believing in everything they do and always blaming the other side.
American politics at its finest.
The Democrats have made spending cuts and proposed others including our most wasteful spending, the military. What tax cuts have the other side proposed???
The working class created the SS surplus as they pay 90% of payroll taxes. The top 1% pay virtually no payroll taxes. So eliminating the tax cuts to the 1%, who got their tax increases at the expense of the SS and the working class that built up the surplus would not be taxing them again. They would simply be repaying their debt.You're not getting it. Our taxes created the surplus, which was squandered. We would have to be taxed AGAIN to replace it. The money doesn't come from anywhere else but us.
Doing those things reduces the deficit, but does not replace the SS surplus that no longer exists.
Nothing necessitated robbing SS, are you kidding me?
In the case of a private contract, no, I am. But if "government owes us" $1000, it charges it to OUR collective credit card. We have to pay ourselves back when government squanders our money.
Why exactly is the military our most wasteful spending? Protecting our country is a bigger waste than the majority of things our government blows money on? You can't be serious.
Because we waste more money on it than any other program. For the last decade we have spent almost as much as the rest of the world on the military/industrial complex. Tell me what other US program that we spend as much as the rest of the world on???
The key term there is waste. I believe American lives are worth protecting. I would not risk the lives or safety of Americans, or any nationality for that matter to save some money. That is a rediculous idea.
The working class created the SS surplus as they pay 90% of payroll taxes. The top 1% pay virtually no payroll taxes. So eliminating the tax cuts to the 1%, who got their tax increases at the expense of the SS and the working class that built up the surplus would not be taxing them again. They would simply be repaying their debt.
Part of the deficit is the money owed to SS. You seem to be very confused.
If their had been revenues for the Iraq war there would have been no need to borrow money from SS to pay for it.
We do have a contract. That is what the Social Security program is.
As I explained above, the working class pays for the SS program,
and the tax cuts to the wealthy is what created the debt in the first place.
What American lives did the $2 trillion dollar war in Iraq save? From what I've read it cost us almost 5,000 American lives and tens of thousand wounded and maimed for life.
We spend almost a Trillion dollars a year on the military when we could spend 3/4 less and still spend more than the next top spender on military.
You just ignore the millions of people oppressed under Saddam?
The 10's of thousands of people he mercilessly slaughtered? The US had a means to stop him. To help protect those people. Are you really so heartless that you'd like to see an entire nation of people suffering to save a few dollars.
Money isnt everything. There is no better use for money than helping to free people living under those conditions.
My favorite part of the discovery that you made all on your own and posted that ended the discussion - "trust fund reserves are exhausted in 2036"
We’ll start with the basic numbers. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issued its most recent projections for Social Security’s income and outgo Jan. 26, along with its twice-yearly "Budget and Economic Outlook." What those numbers show is that Social Security ran a $37 billion deficit last year, is projected to run a $45 billion deficit this year, and more red ink every year thereafter.
Look up ad hominem to see what you just did.
You just ignore the millions of people oppressed under Saddam? The 10's of thousands of people he mercilessly slaughtered?
You mean as opposed to the millions of people that were oppressed when we were his ally, or as opposed to the millions of people that are oppressed under the new corrupt regime.
We were his ally then, and US companies even provided him with the precursor for the Mustard gas he used.
But that was different, Iraq had not nationalized their oil and kicked out the western oil companies. Funny, how things changed after that, eh?
So when he was the U.S. "buddy", what did the U.S. do to help those millions of people oppressed under Saddam?
Well if the US didnt do anything in 1974 I suppose that justifies ignoring anything that ever happens their. No flaws in that reasoning. It's disgusting that you people put the value of money above the value of life.
No, what's disgusting is that the U.S. supports dictators at ANY point and time or does business with them. Also, what about the millions who are slaughtered in Africa under dictators? Where is your concern there. What about the millions that have died and are suffering under North Korea's regime? Where is your concern there.
Simply put there were other more horrible places that the U.S. could have actually done some good, but it wasn't "profitable" enough for the U.S.
Whether you like it or not, U.S. interest and money play the part in who gets saved and who doesn't.
Are you insane? The US and Iraq have not been allies for quite some time dude.
And regardless of the history that any two countries may or may not have it doesn't change anything.
Saddam needed to be removed from power.
And if this new regime is just as bad or worse then the US government should be held to blame for pulling out and not completing what they went in their to do.
The United States has a means to stop these things from happening. People are being tortured at the hands of some of these governments. I believe freedom, not just freedom for Americans, is worth more than money.
And are you really justifying Iraq's use of mustard gas? That is sick. You need help.
But I guess you are one of those who thinks humanity ends at America's borders and the rest of the world deserves to suffer.
WTF are you talking about? Do you REALLY think that's how I see things? That they are "less worthy"?
Man you got a ****ed up world view son.
You, a person, are free to buy whatever you want, eat what you want, MORE POWER TO YOU. With your own money, that you earned.
When you are on the tab of the TAX PAYER, essentials. Yeah, it sucks, I get that, but that's life. Governmen t isn't there to help you enjoy the nice things in life, it's there to help when you need it most. If you're buying luxury items... YOU DON'T NEED THE ****ING HELP.
My problem is people using OTHER PEOPLES MONEY instead of their own.
What part of that do you see as oppression?
I absolutely do not get how you see my stance as anything about "unworthy" or oppression.
We were Saddam's ally whey he was at his murderous worst, but Western oil companies had not yet been kicked out of Iraq, so.............
The regime we helped set up was corrupt, how would us staying there longer change that???
There are plenty of countries where people were being tortured, but none other with the worlds 2nd largest reserves of oil.
I am the one that believes that property rights don't end with our borders. Sorry don't believe in killing innocent people for their property. Its just the way I was brought up.
Your greed is disgusting.
The rich now get 65 cents out of every dollar of income in this country, and it is the 99% that is greedy.
The 99% constantly buy whatever the 1% are selling.
Maybe they should stop whining and think about boycotting.
The rich now get 65 cents out of every dollar of income in this country, and it is the 99% that is greedy. Got it!
We were Saddam's ally whey he was at his murderous worst, but Western oil companies had not yet been kicked out of Iraq, so.............
blah, blah, blah..............
That system was thrown out because it cost too much money to maintain. It's cheaper to issue cards than pay people to sack and hand out groceries at special facilities. Controlling mechanisms costs money and the finer the control the more it costs. At some point increasing control over a system reduces overall output and efficiency.Great move by the House of Representatives. Now they just need to change the food stamps program so you show up and pick up bags of groceries rather than being given carte blanche to purchase whatever you want. "Ok Mrs. Smith, you've got a family of four so here's your food allotment for the week, and since your son is lactose intolerant, we've replaced the appropriate items. See you next Thursday."
That's bull. Their spirit starts dying long before they resign themselves to public assistance. Having to beg the government or anyone else for support is just one more slick spot on the downhill slide, it's not the beginning nor the end.The American Spirit dies in a person the moment they start taking money from the Government to begin with, so that's a moot point in this discussion.
I think eventually computer technology will be useful here. Stores already use cash registers as a kind of first step inventory tracking. If programming were focused that direction it shouldn't take much to lock out certain items from special cards. I don't think we're quite there yet but if the government were to "suggest" this kind of system then some beta testing could start on newer inventory programs and maybe even on updates of some existing ones. It wouldn't be perfect but it would be a good teaching mechanism.I'd favor that over the current 'buy cigs and energy drinks - nevermind the food' - my solution to this issue is to have stores that offer goods which are all pre-approved and foodstamps would be in-store credit at these stores only.
I see more people buying that than apples and oranges. . . hence why congress and state governments have woken up and realized what's going on.
People abuse the privilidge and freedom given so it gets taken away.
The 99% have buying less, not voluntarily however, just because the 1% own most of the wealth.
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