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bvar22

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14. The FireWall HAS been breached,

Reply to plethoro (Reply #6)

Thu Nov 15, 2012, 09:52 PM

Nov 2012

AND it took a Democrat to rip it out.
No Republican would have EVER been allowed to tear down the wall between Social Security and The General Fund (Deficit),
or use the funding mechanism for Social Security for other purposes.

The damage has already been done.
NOW, any future Republican Administrations (and they WILL come) will be FREE to raid FICA and call it a "Democratic" stimulus.

There really is no going back.
The Rubicon has been crossed.

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Senate Democrats say deficit package must include stimulus [View all] geek tragedy Nov 2012 OP

Infrastructure investments, please. No more tax cuts. They never produce significant stimulus. BlueStreak Nov 2012 #1

+1 nt ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #12

"We have to do something because the economy is not growing fast enough " Myrina Nov 2012 #2

The Democrats have had a jobs/stimulus bill ready for a year or more but Republicans Bandit Nov 2012 #8

Rebuild cities greymattermom Nov 2012 #3

No more payroll tax holidays DJ13 Nov 2012 #4

Extending the "temporary " "Payroll Tax" Holiday is a bad, BAD idea. bvar22 Nov 2012 #5

There is nothing even comparable to how bad plethoro Nov 2012 #10

Are you willing to sacrifice 800,000 jobs next year for your political theory about SS? ProgressiveEconomist Nov 2012 #17

Fear Mongering Bullshit! bvar22 Nov 2012 #18

This is exactly what I thought would happen when the payroll tax holiday was installed. Anyone plethoro Nov 2012 #6

Social Security is not "on its way out." mac56 Nov 2012 #7

Sorry, if the payroll tax cut is extended another year that will be the approximate END plethoro Nov 2012 #9

"I can only attribute it to age." mac56 Nov 2012 #11

Why is that fearmongering? The younger people won't plethoro Nov 2012 #13

The FireWall HAS been breached, bvar22 Nov 2012 #14

That is exactly right. Democrats who may be counting on demographics to plethoro Nov 2012 #15

Bad Idea To Extend The Payroll Tax Holiday DallasNE Nov 2012 #16

Standard deduction hike? No, the people whose extra spending would stimulate job growth ProgressiveEconomist Nov 2012 #19

I Threw That Out There As An Afterthought DallasNE Nov 2012 #20