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Post #266,189
by tonytib
8/28/06 7:10:03 PM
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New SS is a scam (giant Ponzi scheme)
Post #266,203
by imric
8/28/06 9:24:38 PM
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New That HAS benefited many worthy people.
I personally have a good friend for which it is a true lifeline.

Medicare, too.

We can do better with it, I'm sure.

Hell - let's do away with SS tax altogether, and just print the currency as needed. That would devalue the currency by the exact amount of the cost of SS, effectively taxing everybody equally.


[image|/forums/images/warning.png|0|This is sarcasm...]

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As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
 
 
Post #266,205
by bepatient
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8/28/06 9:35:57 PM
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New While sarcastic
it probably has crossed the minds of politicians everywhere.

I've no faith in either party to fix it...it will be the downfall of this empire.
Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry.Adrian Belew
Post #266,207
by boxley
8/28/06 9:41:48 PM
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New no one has the balls to declare it old folks welfare
needs based. If I fall disabled I would be getting 1180 a month. That doesnt cover the house pmt so would need to trailerize real fast. Folks with no dependants that have income of 60k plus annually dont "need" the extra 12k or so. But they consider it an annuity and would stalk washington with guns in order to keep collecting it. This is why all older folks (myself included) need to learn spanish.
thanx,
bill
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
Post #266,306
by Ashton
8/29/06 4:03:21 PM
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New 'Doesn\ufffdt anything socialistic make you want to throw up? -
Like great public schools or health insurance for all?"

--Kurt Vonnegut
     It's going to suck when we have to pay the piper - (lincoln) - (43) - Aug. 28, 2006, 01:58:54 PM EDT
         You must be a Republican - (bepatient) - (33) - Aug. 28, 2006, 02:06:06 PM EDT
             And interest on the National Debt is not mandatory? - (lincoln) - (25) - Aug. 28, 2006, 03:23:16 PM EDT
                 What he's done in the past 2 years - (bepatient) - (24) - Aug. 28, 2006, 03:28:29 PM EDT
                     So raise the cutoff. -NT - (Silverlock) - Aug. 28, 2006, 03:32:36 PM EDT
                     Beep says: - (lincoln) - (17) - Aug. 28, 2006, 03:33:43 PM EDT
                         Check your numbers - (bepatient) - (16) - Aug. 28, 2006, 03:51:32 PM EDT
                             US budget is nearly useless - (JayMehaffey) - (15) - Aug. 28, 2006, 05:15:36 PM EDT
                                 Nice use of statistics. - (bepatient) - (14) - Aug. 28, 2006, 06:56:37 PM EDT
                                     Wot, no sarcasm sign? - (warmachine) - (12) - Aug. 28, 2006, 07:57:21 PM EDT
                                         You seem to not understand - (bepatient) - (11) - Aug. 28, 2006, 09:34:26 PM EDT
                                             Who says so? Congress. Who will demonstrate if they renege? - (warmachine) - (10) - Aug. 28, 2006, 09:42:35 PM EDT
                                                 It is not that simple - (bepatient) - (2) - Aug. 29, 2006, 12:06:13 AM EDT
                                                     Then explain it! -NT - (warmachine) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2006, 02:38:42 AM EDT
                                                         Its not relevent, so no. -NT - (bepatient) - Aug. 29, 2006, 07:14:35 AM EDT
                                                 Everybody who has paid into SS. - (imric) - (6) - Aug. 29, 2006, 07:21:54 AM EDT
                                                     Thank you for doing what bepatient has refused - (warmachine) - (5) - Aug. 29, 2006, 08:41:40 AM EDT
                                                         What was the point? - (bepatient) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2006, 12:28:34 PM EDT
                                                             A counter argument, at last - (warmachine) - Aug. 29, 2006, 02:03:15 PM EDT
                                                         Heehee. - (imric) - (2) - Aug. 29, 2006, 02:08:09 PM EDT
                                                             Even the middle aged? - (warmachine) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2006, 02:32:27 PM EDT
                                                                 Yup. -NT - (imric) - Aug. 29, 2006, 03:51:11 PM EDT
                                     Sigh - (JayMehaffey) - Aug. 29, 2006, 10:19:23 AM EDT
                     Great. So starvation and plague is mandatory. - (imric) - (4) - Aug. 28, 2006, 04:04:14 PM EDT
                         There's another way. - (Another Scott) - Aug. 28, 2006, 04:16:56 PM EDT
                         It has nothing to do with class - (bepatient) - (2) - Aug. 28, 2006, 04:27:17 PM EDT
                             Oh, aye. - (imric) - (1) - Aug. 28, 2006, 04:44:22 PM EDT
                                 Regardless of who is trying to "insert your verb here" - (bepatient) - Aug. 28, 2006, 05:07:45 PM EDT
             Not quite. - (imric) - (6) - Aug. 28, 2006, 03:49:33 PM EDT
                 Proposals versus message - (bepatient) - Aug. 28, 2006, 03:55:29 PM EDT
                 SS is a scam (giant Ponzi scheme) -NT - (tonytib) - (4) - Aug. 28, 2006, 07:10:03 PM EDT
                     That HAS benefited many worthy people. - (imric) - (3) - Aug. 28, 2006, 09:24:38 PM EDT
                         While sarcastic - (bepatient) - (2) - Aug. 28, 2006, 09:35:57 PM EDT
                             no one has the balls to declare it old folks welfare - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 28, 2006, 09:41:48 PM EDT
                                 'Doesn\ufffdt anything socialistic make you want to throw up? - - (Ashton) - Aug. 29, 2006, 04:03:21 PM EDT
         welcome to 1980 - (boxley) - Aug. 28, 2006, 02:42:00 PM EDT
         Need Medicare or Social Security? Run! Get out while... etc - (warmachine) - Aug. 28, 2006, 03:26:47 PM EDT
         I have an actual *cough* solution - (Ashton) - (4) - Aug. 28, 2006, 09:38:32 PM EDT
             So your suggestion to solve the 2025 spend crisis is - (bepatient) - (3) - Aug. 29, 2006, 12:18:21 AM EDT
                 no, when the elder patient asks a doc for a script - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2006, 07:50:34 AM EDT
                     Well, he won't be doing that up here - (jake123) - Aug. 29, 2006, 09:17:09 AM EDT
                 A little reductio goes well with the - (Ashton) - Aug. 29, 2006, 03:49:54 PM EDT
         economics according to the brothers Grimm - (cforde) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2006, 01:07:43 PM EDT
             Some of those are interesting - (bepatient) - Aug. 29, 2006, 01:29:18 PM EDT

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