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In reply to the discussion: Paul Ryan: 60 Percent Of Americans Are 'Takers,' Not 'Makers' [View all]rogrot
(57 posts)31. Can't help saying
that one way to fix our economy might be to give everyone on SS a $3500/month raise in their benefit. Shouldn't be a problem for a country many times richer than the second wealthiest and that extra benefit would almost certainly be pumped back into the economy by retirees who need it to survive. Who ever decided that a retired person is worth a few hundred a month? Or that a congressperson is worth a bill and a half plus bennies, plus a handsome pension, not withstanding that they're probably millionaires to begin with.
It's all ass-backward.
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It's killing me now! Why does no one bring up how much some of the wealthy take from taxpayers?
brewens
Oct 2012
#4
I heard part of his story was saving his social security benefits he got because his dad died
brewens
Oct 2012
#67
Says the guy who has spent his entire life sucking the government tit.
OffWithTheirHeads
Oct 2012
#8
This coming from a guy who became a millionaire working for the federal government
Bjorn Against
Oct 2012
#9
Well at least he's clarifying the Republican view to the people in his district
undeterred
Oct 2012
#16
I want to whack that brat on the side of the head and tell him to get a real job.
valerief
Oct 2012
#30
As a Social Security recipient of that few hundred a month I worked 40-plus years for, I say...
classof56
Oct 2012
#46
Virtually all the Republican voting states are "takers" and not "makers" like those
byeya
Oct 2012
#34
Babies are makers; check their diapers. Doesn't mean that they are superior for it. n/t
porphyrian
Oct 2012
#50
Says the guy who received Social Security benefits from age 15 through college after his father died
Ikonoklast
Oct 2012
#54
Excuse me, but what has Ryan himself ever made? What an asshole. - n/t
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#58
What has Paul Ryan ever made? What about der Fuhrer Ayn Rand? Or how about Romney?
aint_no_life_nowhere
Oct 2012
#64