Posted on 05/09/2006 6:49:54 PM PDT by elephantrepublican
The chutzpah here is amazing. One year ago the libs were screaming that SS was just fine and that Bush's alarms regardindg the solvency of the program were just political fear mongering. This is the reason they trashed his proposals to reform the system. Now that they succeeded they are screaming that the system is insolvent and it's due to Bush's inattention to the issue. Boy, this is really through-the-looking-glass, bizarro world stuff. No wonder major urban newspaper circulation is falling like a rock.
..you may be right.
Think there's a hairball coming.
You are also assuming that most will live until they are 80 or so. Won't happen, so the boom will fizzle, and they will still want to take 100% of my income (for the good of the rest...)
Newbi doobie dooooooo,
You're smoking hashish.....
I guess you were out to lunch or recess when this was discussed in your economics class. Let's consider some facts. (You know what facts are, they are those pesky truths that crop up when you make an erroneous statement, and make you look like the fool you are...)
Fact 1: Reagan cut taxes. He dropped the top rate from 78% to 28%. Revenues INCREASED at a rate of over 12%/year, almost DOUBLING in the 8 years he was in office. The deficit increased because Congress increased spending by 19%/year.
Fact 2: Since the Bush tax cuts, not only has the economy taken off, with record unemployment, but budget deficit forecasts have been revised DOWNWARD twice already (that I am aware of), and the Treasury is receiving record revenues. All from TAX CUTS!!!!
Suspending the tax cuts, that are fueling our economy, would be the GROSSEST form of fiscal incompetence. BTW, Bush TRIED to fix Social Security, but the DIMS and the AARP wouldn't even consider it....
BURN, TROLL, BURN!!!!!
Reasoning with a die-hard leftist is like talking to a child who sticks their fingers in their ears and screams "La La La" at you. I cite Rosie O'Donnell as "exhibit A" with Cindy Sheehan as "exhibit B"
I mean, just look at the left and their "anti-war" protests.
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