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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 11:00 PM Original message |
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid cost $1 trillion in '04 |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. And how much for the Fucking |
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Frances (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. Ever notice how cuts to middle class programs are "reforms" |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
3. as if they are the same sort of budget item as bombers and foreign aid |
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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 11:35 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Or lift the payroll taxable income limit. Then you wouldn't need to raise |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 11:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. and, it can come from the employer side |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
6. Interesting. SS was not considered an entitlement prog. at inception |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 10:54 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. ? - it was never a welfare program -and "entitlement" is not proper word I |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 05:12 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Right. That's what I'm saying. Another way to frame the debate. |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
7. The Iraqi War and the Military Defense Bill is HOW MUCH??? |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 01:51 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. defense? . . . not much . . . but OFFENSE? . . . |
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WePurrsevere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 07:00 AM Response to Original message |
9. Americans have to work & pay in to get SS & Medicare. We continue |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 08:53 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Since when is SS and entitlement program? |
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WePurrsevere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 09:31 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Agreed, it is most assuredly NOT an "entitlement program". That's "spin".. |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 10:59 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Right on, to that and your previous post. |
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donkeyotay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 01:45 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. What happened to all that money they took out of your paycheck? |
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area51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 09:47 PM Response to Reply #10 |
22. What fasttense said. (n/t) |
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wishlist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
14. Social Security is running a healthy surplus, shouldn't count in budget |
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SOS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 12:47 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Yes |
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Wordie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
16. A totally misleading article. That $3T is PAID for through FICA taxes. |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
18. And we pay half of that just on the Interest on our National Debt. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
20. They "cost" nothing. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 04:06 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Louder! Please! |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
21. If we had Socialized Medicine we could control cost and |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 04:03 AM Response to Original message |
23. obviously Stephen Ohlemacher is a shill and a right-wing plant. he's not |
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TheBaldyMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 04:57 AM Response to Original message |
25. yipes! maybe Bushco will increase taxes on rich people? n/t |
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