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In reply to the discussion: I am not ready to eat crow and assume the cuts to Social Security are off the table. [View all]snot
(10,520 posts)33. I don't give a f*** about waiting or not. I care about ACTING,
not judging (which is rarely necessary, or even helpful.)
Acting in ways that might affect the outcome.
Most people tell someone what they're thinking about doing before they do it. If they put cutting SS on the table, it's on the table; and they only way it comes off is if we convince them it will cost them more to keep it on.
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I am not ready to eat crow and assume the cuts to Social Security are off the table. [View all]
madfloridian
Dec 2012
OP
Sounds like everybody and their brother are throwing SS recipients under the bus.
forestpath
Dec 2012
#1
Yes, they have been rescuing it for years now. It never gets rescued enough.
madfloridian
Dec 2012
#6
K&R. I'm with you, madfloridian. I don't get where Boehner's failure = SS off the table!
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#5
ssi isn't social security, it's supplemental security income, paid from income taxes; aka
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#17
not medicaid either, separate program, doesn't do medical. it's income support.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#20
reagan, 1983 -- started taxing benefits & there were some other cuts as well, i believe.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#22
Vigilance is the price of liberty. No reason to eat crow, whatever happens. Ignore the agents.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#16
If SS cuts are off the table now I suspect that they will be back on the table soon
Teamster Jeff
Dec 2012
#26
"only way it comes off is if we convince them it will cost them more to keep it on."
madfloridian
Dec 2012
#34