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In reply to the discussion: Just for the record: Social Security is self funded and does NOT add to the debt. rec for the truth. [View all]Go Vols
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Just for the record: Social Security is self funded and does NOT add to the debt. rec for the truth. [View all]
In Truth We Trust
Dec 2012
OP
Wondering, do you find people who dictate for everyon else what vast sets of different things "show"
patrice
Dec 2012
#3
How accurately does my description characterize your post? & I really was just wondering about your
patrice
Dec 2012
#8
I asked you a question which you are refusing to answer. Why is that? You could have SHOWN that
patrice
Dec 2012
#19
You didn't ask me that, LOL. Your first response seemed to imply you were ACCUSING me of being a
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#50
You assume that we know why Obama would put chained CPI on the table, which isn't a cut, btw, it's
patrice
Dec 2012
#51
Wow. You really love to throw that word "fascist" around when YOU are the one ordering MotherPetrie
forestpath
Dec 2012
#16
Perhaps your standards for rationalism are different from mine, more willing to assume big stuff
patrice
Dec 2012
#24
Pardon me if I observe that OPINION is opinion, even if the opinionated refuses to do so. nt
patrice
Dec 2012
#29
That's NOT what you're doing. You keep claiming they said things they didn't say.
forestpath
Dec 2012
#30
What kind of truth? We are talking about millions of people here, so facts are most useful. &
patrice
Dec 2012
#26
The president has now created a new Democratic program. This is now the Obama Austerity program.
fasttense
Dec 2012
#64
Un-rec: If I can reduce the number of middle-wo/men in between what SS deposites in my bank acount @
patrice
Dec 2012
#2
And I'll take it that anyone who disagrees with my budget priority wants SUBSIDIES for FOR-PROFIT
patrice
Dec 2012
#12
And you take people who characterize vast sets of information & persons, about which they know
patrice
Dec 2012
#48
and who is letting them stay there right this minute by permitting ANY discussion of SS?
robinlynne
Dec 2012
#13
Why didn't you take my advice? The answer is at the site. That suggests to me that you are not
spooky3
Dec 2012
#72
Go to the SSA site and look for the FAQ page on the social security trust fund, for a start.
spooky3
Dec 2012
#74
K&R, again. This fact has been shown and shown and shown again, yet even here there are so many
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#20
Too many opinionated people around TRYING to limit the options here to EVER get consideration of
patrice
Dec 2012
#33
Yes, without doing anything, the fund is good to 2037. Forever after lifting the cap.
mbperrin
Dec 2012
#38
NO ONE in Congress is going to stand up for any position that cuts ITS OWN support out from under
patrice
Dec 2012
#34
Rec, but it won't matter. SS and Medicare have ALWAYS been the true target.
NorthCarolina
Dec 2012
#35
The government has borrowed nearly $2.7 trillion as of 2011 from the SS trust fund.
progressoid
Dec 2012
#42
Your post is very welcome. Thank you! Purely criminal behavior to borrow this HUGE sum and then have
In Truth We Trust
Dec 2012
#49
Such "borrowing" with no intention to ever pay it back was begun by LBJ, expanded by Nixon, and
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#56
Any cuts, at all, to Social Security and if Dems have a hand in it...means
TheProgressive
Dec 2012
#54
The problem is that neither party wants to pay back the $2.7 trillion surplus which has been loaned
Faryn Balyncd
Dec 2012
#59