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ShamelessHussy

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Wed Aug-25-10 10:26 PM
Response to Reply #34

41. have faith that they will do whatever it takes to keep the money flowing to the elite

and screw over the people.

right now, most countries NEED dollars to get the energy resources they desperately require to live today. so, we can print money for free as long as that situation exists, and it has for decades now, otherwise, we would have required wheelbarrows to buy bread way back in the 80's... that is why we will do ANYTHING to protect and control access to the worlds energy resources, for our way of life will be instantly over if that world order ever changes.

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-Does anyone actually believe there is an account with trillions for Social Security in it?	madville	Aug-25-10 09:20 PM	#0
- there are Treasury Bills (IOU's) that the elite want to default on	ShamelessHussy	Aug-25-10 09:21 PM	#1
- Yep. Treasury bills, the safest investment on earth.	MannyGoldstein	Aug-25-10 09:54 PM	#16
- Yes, they stole it "fair and square" and they dn't want to give it back.	SharonAnn	Aug-25-10 09:55 PM	#17
- Nope, I believe it has been raided or it never existed to start with...	Subdivisions	Aug-25-10 09:25 PM	#2
- it was there, since they have been taking that money out everyone of our checks for decades	ShamelessHussy	Aug-25-10 09:28 PM	#3
- Your flag is irritating. Takes up too much space.	DURHAM D	Aug-25-10 09:34 PM	#5
- you said it	ShamelessHussy	Aug-25-10 09:35 PM	#7
- It's not a Ponzi scheme - in the 80s the Boomers started making payments	dflprincess	Aug-25-10 09:35 PM	#6
- Why they want to gut it : Willie Sutton robbed banks "Because that's where the money is."	SharonAnn	Aug-25-10 09:59 PM	#22
- And if they cut other things - say the defense budget -	dflprincess	Aug-25-10 10:03 PM	#24
- There's the full faith of the faithless son's of bitches running the show for the last	John Q. Citizen	Aug-25-10 09:31 PM	#4
- It's a book entry, just like your deposit account, investment account, CD's, bonds, etc.	snot	Aug-25-10 09:47 PM	#8
- Exactly	customerserviceguy	Aug-25-10 09:51 PM	#12
- +100.	Hannah Bell	Aug-25-10 09:59 PM	#23
- Some here do	customerserviceguy	Aug-25-10 09:48 PM	#9
- "meaningful spending cuts in nonmilitary spending" are you joking?	ShamelessHussy	Aug-25-10 10:09 PM	#29
- I don't have faith	customerserviceguy	Aug-25-10 10:16 PM	#34
- have faith that they will do whatever it takes to keep the money flowing to the elite	ShamelessHussy	Aug-25-10 10:26 PM	#41
- It isn't a "Ponzi Scheme" at all -- that is a RW meme	LostinVA	Aug-25-10 09:49 PM	#10
- I believe that	customerserviceguy	Aug-25-10 09:52 PM	#13
- My understanding of a ponzi scheme	Yupster	Aug-25-10 09:56 PM	#19
- if so, then all taxes or transfers of income are ponzi schemes.	Hannah Bell	Aug-25-10 10:05 PM	#26
- It's worse than a ponzi scheme it's downright Socialism.	Skink	Aug-25-10 09:57 PM	#20
- Unrec because the OP is a RW meme for dismantling Social Security	LostinVA	Aug-25-10 09:50 PM	#11
- Tell me where the OP is advocating the dismantling of SS	customerserviceguy	Aug-25-10 09:53 PM	#14
- He's clearly wrong on the IOUs	MannyGoldstein	Aug-25-10 10:03 PM	#25
- They;re not Treasury Bills	customerserviceguy	Aug-25-10 10:06 PM	#27
- Then what about the Federal Pension Trust Fund?	Lasher	Aug-25-10 10:15 PM	#33
- The Federal government can always meet its obligations	customerserviceguy	Aug-25-10 10:22 PM	#37
- It's a constant "money in, money out" arrangement	Canuckistanian	Aug-25-10 09:54 PM	#15
- those who call SS a ponzi scheme don't know what a ponzi scheme is, or don't know how	Hannah Bell	Aug-25-10 09:56 PM	#18
- Social Security is "pay as you go"	customerserviceguy	Aug-25-10 10:10 PM	#30
- When I ride the bus, it's "pay as you go"	Lasher	Aug-25-10 10:21 PM	#36
- Your analogy would make sense	customerserviceguy	Aug-25-10 10:24 PM	#38
- Yes. Even during the Great Depression the government honored ALL treasury notes.	Better Believe It	Aug-25-10 09:58 PM	#21
- In a deflationary economy, that works	customerserviceguy	Aug-25-10 10:11 PM	#31
- Yes we do. I own treasuries myself and I consider it savings.	pa28	Aug-25-10 10:08 PM	#28
- WARS cost BIG MONEY.	Mimosa	Aug-25-10 10:12 PM	#32
- What there is is $2.5 trillion in government bonds - - The government borrowed the payroll & self-	Faryn Balyncd	Aug-25-10 10:18 PM	#35
- There is an account actually	nadinbrzezinski	Aug-25-10 10:25 PM	#39
- Do you think the Social Security surplus should have just....	SDuderstadt	Aug-25-10 10:26 PM	#40
- Locked	NRaleighLiberal	Aug-25-10 10:27 PM	#42

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