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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-11 04:03 PM
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5. Wow. What a new and exciting plan you have there Newtie.
What will be your next "new" idea? Crop rotation? Animal domestication?
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  -Gingrich calls for private retirement accounts brooklynite  Nov-21-11 03:58 PM   #0 
  - OMG didn't someone named Bush try this?  montanacowboy   Nov-21-11 04:02 PM   #1 
  - Nope, wimpy Bush only wanted 2% of your retirement funds to be eligible...  brooklynite   Nov-21-11 04:05 PM   #6 
  - Newt Gingrich gives fat ugly assholes a bad name.  Still Blue in PDX   Nov-21-11 04:32 PM   #19 
  - He's trying to appease the majority who are against privatizing SS  auburngrad82   Nov-21-11 04:02 PM   #2 
  - What about YOUR retirement account, Newtie? Didn't we taxpayers fund it?  CTyankee   Nov-21-11 04:02 PM   #3 
  - If we had done  Rambis   Nov-21-11 04:03 PM   #4 
  - Wow. What a new and exciting plan you have there Newtie.  Liberal Veteran   Nov-21-11 04:03 PM   #5 
  - If he has a mother, I hate her.  russspeakeasy   Nov-21-11 04:11 PM   #11 
  - SCAM ALERT!!!  meow2u3   Nov-21-11 04:07 PM   #7 
  - The Social Security program is not a retirement account per se...  rexcat   Nov-21-11 04:07 PM   #8 
  - Fine, Newtie, why don't you start with yourself  liberalhistorian   Nov-21-11 04:10 PM   #9 
  - So his goal is to kill SS slowly by attrition.....  woodsprite   Nov-21-11 04:11 PM   #10 
  - Semi_subversive calls for Newt Gingrich  Semi_subversive   Nov-21-11 04:13 PM   #12 
  - You're a mean one, Mister GinGrinch.... n/t  iscooterliberally   Nov-21-11 04:16 PM   #13 
  - Sleaze at its best! n/t  RKP5637   Nov-21-11 04:21 PM   #14 
  - Since we are at pay as you go levels now  exboyfil   Nov-21-11 04:21 PM   #15 
  - Translation:  krispos42   Nov-21-11 04:22 PM   #16 
  - "He says private accounts are likely to perform better than Social Security..."  Juneboarder   Nov-21-11 04:24 PM   #17 
  - This man is an ass. nt  Sarah Ibarruri   Nov-21-11 04:30 PM   #18 
  - and the Grinch's senior econ adviser is none other than the screaming Thom Hartmann regular  alp227   Nov-21-11 04:41 PM   #20 
  - I think Hartmann has Ferrara on for comedic relief  aint_no_life_nowhere   Nov-21-11 05:11 PM   #23 
     - If you watch TH on Free Speech TV or online  alp227   Nov-22-11 12:11 PM   #32 
  - Ask all the people who lost everything in their retirement  zalinda   Nov-21-11 04:52 PM   #21 
  - It's a great idea.  tanyev   Nov-21-11 04:53 PM   #22 
  - Has this idiot Gingrich never heard of IRAs, 401Ks, and  demigoddess   Nov-21-11 06:09 PM   #24 
  - It's OK. And thanks for posting this since I don't think everyone realizes what SS is for.  Gregorian   Nov-21-11 06:40 PM   #26 
  - Private as in the Stock Market  liberal N proud   Nov-21-11 06:39 PM   #25 
  - We already have private retirement accounts. Social Security  WestSeattle2   Nov-21-11 07:39 PM   #27 
  - Well he can kiss Florida goodbye now. Probably PA and S. Carolina also.  yellowcanine   Nov-21-11 07:40 PM   #28 
  - Won't help him in the primaries for sure... but S Carolina ...  mwooldri   Nov-22-11 12:39 PM   #35 
     - I was thinking primary for S. Carolina. Lots of old folks there and they vote.  yellowcanine   Nov-22-11 08:18 PM   #36 
  - that's right....  unkachuck   Nov-21-11 08:40 PM   #29 
  - Quick Quiz: How'd the Dow do today?  BiggJawn   Nov-21-11 08:44 PM   #30 
  - Private accounts with $40 million in them are likely to perform better  jmowreader   Nov-21-11 08:56 PM   #31 
  - Trying to steal social security and kill medicare, the republican way.  sarcasmo   Nov-22-11 12:17 PM   #33 
  - Here's my take.  mwooldri   Nov-22-11 12:37 PM   #34 
  - I have a bunch of these already  high density   Nov-22-11 08:29 PM   #37 
 

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