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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:32 PM Original message |
an honest question |
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bbinacan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. It doesn't sustain without a change. n/t |
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TheIdiot (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. It doesn't... |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. or not.... |
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texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
3. Take up the limit to $200,000 |
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JustFiveMoreMinutes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. And population in 1935 and today? |
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bbinacan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. And the age of the population today? |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
6. Go back and examine life expectancy past 65 and adjust for more people living to adulthood |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
7. It doesn't, either we have to pay more or expect less. |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
9. Here is my own example. I retired this year at 62 if I take what me |
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mudplanet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
10. Quite simply, we pay more. SS deductions have been adjusted upwards |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 06:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. That is just wrong, a person pays into SS up to an income of |
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mudplanet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 08:00 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Yes. I would deny an individual an income from SS if that inidividual had |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 08:46 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. SS is not, and never was intended to be a welfare program |
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mudplanet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 11:33 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Read a book, doc03. Try something on The New Deal. |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-10 06:29 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. You wish wish you had steel mills in Mississippi? |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
11. The bulk of life expectancy gain is reduced child mortality |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 09:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. I am sure you are right about the child mortality |
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WorseBeforeBetter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
16. Ezra Klein: Making Social Security less generous isn't the answer |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-10 05:31 AM Response to Original message |
18. thank you all |
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