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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-11-04 06:48 PM Original message |
Kiss your Social Security goodbye |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-11-04 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. Then why is the younger generation putting money into it? |
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Martin Eden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-11-04 07:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. because to stop putting money into it... |
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The Zanti Regent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-13-04 11:10 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Social Security is Survivors and Disability payments too |
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forgethell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-11-04 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
3. This has been known for decades |
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Martin Eden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-11-04 11:41 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. It's not a Ponzi scheme, it's a covenant |
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forgethell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-12-04 11:04 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. There isn't a separate fund |
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Martin Eden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-12-04 01:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Social Security IS a separate account |
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forgethell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-13-04 06:51 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. The Social Security Fund is a fiction |
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Vitruvius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-13-04 09:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Not so. The SS Trust fund owns US Treasury Bonds -- which are just as |
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Chicago Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-13-04 10:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I Believe that for "Deficit" purposes these T-Bills are not counted |
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Vitruvius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-14-04 07:53 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Yes, there is an ACCOUNTING fiction -- whereby the publicized "deficit" |
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Chicago Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-14-04 09:54 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Thank you for clearing this up! |
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forgethell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-14-04 01:11 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. If the SS funds |
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rfkrocks (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-11-04 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
4. The laughed at the lock box |
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Vitruvius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-12-04 07:11 AM Response to Original message |
6. Here's the ending (since the article has already been scrubbed |
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LastDemocratInSC (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-12-04 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
8. Redistribution of wealth |
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woodstockjimi (112 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-14-04 02:22 AM Response to Original message |
14. Hear me out please!!! |
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rfkrocks (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-14-04 10:18 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. This site is a freeper-Heritage foundation and Cato Foundation links-alert |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-25-04 02:36 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. I don't believe this |
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DennisReveni (203 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-25-04 06:45 AM Response to Original message |
20. Don't forget |
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