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In reply to the discussion: Social security is designed to provide a minimum degree of security upon which a worker builds. [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)71. I understood you completely mon ami
Just adding to the discourse
We do need validation as to the vapidness of some long term squatters and I enjoyed your post. Grounded me, lol.
They are in lockstep, those Special Snowflake Rugged Individualists. If one of them ever has an original thought in its' one track mind it may totally screw up the space/time continuum....
you can trade them out like PEZ dispensers. No matter if it's Chewbacca or Popeye, that plastic jaw is only spewing PEZ pellets...
The Goood News: Only a few more hours to deal with them THIS year
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Social security is designed to provide a minimum degree of security upon which a worker builds. [View all]
dkf
Dec 2012
OP
I've been reading people lately saying SS is fine--if the US economy grows at 3% a year
Romulox
Dec 2012
#1
then stop opposing unions and higher wages for people if you want them to save more
CreekDog
Dec 2012
#12
At some point in the future worldwide wage levels will probably level out for respective
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#27
Yep, the greatest fear of all governments is people talking and making decisions ... it's a
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#84
"To expand the system to more than a minimal payment we must increase payroll taxes." Bullshit ...
Scuba
Jan 2013
#75
It is for an increasing number the primary source of retirement funds
ProgressiveProfessor
Dec 2012
#5
It's a great addition to workers destroyed & looted pensions. If not for SS poverty would be HUGE!
JaneyVee
Dec 2012
#4
True. But that's not what it was designed for. It's an edge against homelessness.
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#76
Well maybe you need to address the specific problems instead of expecting social security
dkf
Dec 2012
#28
It's called trolling. Some trolls manage to walk between the rain drops on this website. For years
Guy Whitey Corngood
Dec 2012
#64
I figured you're hip to what's going on. I just feel the urge to say it out
Guy Whitey Corngood
Dec 2012
#70
"...as a basis upon which the worker, through his own efforts, will have a better chance to provide
Brickbat
Dec 2012
#11
This quote comes from an era that was mostly rural and it was much easier to provide extras from
jwirr
Dec 2012
#14
But then employers decided that since there is social security they didn't need pension systems.
JVS
Dec 2012
#17
My mother lived on Social Security and Union retirement income...just barely.
Agnosticsherbet
Dec 2012
#31
You attacking Social Security or Medicare or tax increases for the rich isn't exactly a surprise. nt
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#44
You mentioned the key word there. PENSIONS. When SS was introduced, almost everyone had one.
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#47
There is a slight chronology problem here, but it doesn't change the essential argument.
JVS
Dec 2012
#52
Those investors still have their money in those mutual funds in their 401ks.
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#78