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Mon Apr 23, 2012, 10:01 PM

dflprincess (19,522 posts)

33. And wasn't that before Obama cooked up the 2% cut in Social Security taxes?

We've been had and badly.

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51 replies	Author	Time	Post
Social Security heading for insolvency even faster [View all]	Omaha Steve	Apr 2012	OP
Does he look very attentive? or waiting for a	orpupilofnature57	Apr 2012	#1
is it going to affect him?	onethatcares	Apr 2012	#2
Billions for Foreign Aid... Billions for War...Billions for China....	lib2DaBone	Apr 2012	#3
You know how little money we spend on foreign aid?	TheWraith	Apr 2012	#5
What we spend on unnecessary wars, however...	maddiemom	Apr 2012	#38
Much foreign aid is hidden in the military budget. n/t	Chemical Bill	Apr 2012	#51
Its not so much as whats spent as whats not coming in.	cstanleytech	Apr 2012	#12
Don't take these projections too seriously.	TheWraith	Apr 2012	#4
While it's folly to predict anything longer than ten years away	customerserviceguy	Apr 2012	#19
those are my thoughts	newspeak	Apr 2012	#39
projections' accuracy isn't the real story, IMHO	0rganism	Apr 2012	#48
and so it begins	fascisthunter	Apr 2012	#6
Yup. Predictable as hell.	woo me with science	Apr 2012	#14
Increase the cap and bring in more funds.	WHEN CRABS ROAR	Apr 2012	#7
Well, you can't just do that alone	customerserviceguy	Apr 2012	#20
I like your idea. It could induce a bit more	shcrane71	Apr 2012	#45
and yet the payroll tax	newblewtoo	Apr 2012	#8
No means testing	PSPS	Apr 2012	#15
our president/congress have loads of $$$ for the military industrial complex	msongs	Apr 2012	#9
Yay! The whole thing is going tits up the same year I become eligible!	Throd	Apr 2012	#10
If Congress does nothing	customerserviceguy	Apr 2012	#21
what "painful action?"	mike_c	Apr 2012	#11
Obama's "Deficit Commission" (Simpson-Bowles) recommended a $50,000 cut in lifetime benefits	MannyGoldstein	Apr 2012	#27
And wasn't that before Obama cooked up the 2% cut in Social Security taxes?	dflprincess	Apr 2012	#33
Monsters desperately want to steal the SS pool of funds.	Fire Walk With Me	Apr 2012	#13
Here's a secret: It's been stolen.	customerserviceguy	Apr 2012	#23
Congress has been paying it back since 2009	happyslug	Apr 2012	#25
They're paying interest on the principle	customerserviceguy	Apr 2012	#34
debt service	melm00se	Apr 2012	#50
:(	Fire Walk With Me	Apr 2012	#36
Better hide your book or they'll steal that too.	radarluv	Apr 2012	#37
They can default on the treasury bonds held by SS, but	closeupready	Apr 2012	#40
Except that those bonds are not marketable.	ieoeja	Apr 2012	#42
Nope. Default on them, and our credit rating is kaput.	closeupready	Apr 2012	#44
So don't "default."	Igel	Apr 2012	#46
Long before they would default	customerserviceguy	Apr 2012	#49
well i guess i`ll be dead by then so i`ll get mine!	madrchsod	Apr 2012	#16
I'll be dead then too.	RebelOne	Apr 2012	#17
The bipartisan war on Social Security continues	MannyGoldstein	Apr 2012	#18
I thought Obama killed Social Security 2 years ago.	JoePhilly	Apr 2012	#22
I thought Obama killed the Bush tax cuts 2 years ago.	MannyGoldstein	Apr 2012	#26
The difference is, my post is ON TOPIC. Yours, not so much.	JoePhilly	Apr 2012	#28
Rep. Conyers: Obama Demanded Social Security Cuts--Not GOP	MannyGoldstein	Apr 2012	#29
Except your first claim is false.	JoePhilly	Apr 2012	#31
So appointing the two biggest foes of Social Security to run a "deficit commision"	MannyGoldstein	Apr 2012	#32
Super secret maneuver!!!	closeupready	Apr 2012	#41
Just able to pay 75% of expected beneifts is "Exhaustion"????	happyslug	Apr 2012	#24
"Trust fund exhaustion."	Igel	Apr 2012	#47
We simply need to raise the cap on SS funding, and eliminate the Reagan tax cuts.	grahamhgreen	Apr 2012	#30
capitalists and their political stooges....	unkachuck	Apr 2012	#35
Set a fixed amount for everyone	4th law of robotics	Apr 2012	#43

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