Posted on 07/12/2011 8:25:51 PM PDT by sickoflibs
This has been one of my favorite subjects for years but today Democrats exposed themselves on it with the threat over the debt limit. Start with Democrat Senate Majority leader Harry Reid.
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday disputed warnings that Social Security is headed for bankruptcy, calling those assertions an “outright lie.” And he says the huge federal entitlement program has not added “one penny” to the federal deficit.”
Sen. Harry Reid Misleads on Social Security Financing , Tuesday, (March 29, 2011 CNS)
OK, so Social Security does not add one penny, not one! If that is the case then this must be explained:
“President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. “I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it,” Mr. Obama said in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, according to excerpts released by CBS News. ”
Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security checks will go out on August 3, (July 12, 2011 CBS News)
Anyone (besides me) think to ask Democrats how raising the debt ceiling is required to make Social Security payments when they are claiming it doesn’t add a penny to the national Debt? Don’t worry. Congressional Republicans appear tied to the imaginary $2T SS trust fund too because that allows them to delay spending cuts until the distant future, you know when the imaginary trust fund runs out? So they are not ratting out Obama and Reid on it.
A tutorial for those new to the issue.
Video: A Liberal Democrat explains the why the Social Security Trust Fund is safe
He is just repeating what Schiff, Faber and Rogers have been saying (accurately) for many years and what Palin, Rush and other Republicans picked up on and pointed out last year.
Putin wishes he could get away with it like we do. He has his own agenda.
YUP
You called this one...
Thanks
I been warning they would do this for a while, but Monday (before Obama even said this) it came to me that Democrats would be exposing their BIG LIE when they did this and I pinged that thought on Monday one day before.
More-so another reason why Congressional Republicans wont expose this came to me too. I explain it in the body of the post.
Politics is a tough game and been pretty good at staying ahead of Democrats next moves.
All of which would not be necessary if the Government hadn’t taken money out of SS for “more worthy projects”, yu know just “borrowing” the money.
How about we quit sending billions of dollars a year to countries that detest and despise the US. Then we wouldn’t have to worry about SS going under.
Excerpt:
* * * [Co]lumnist Charles Krauthammer wrote a subsequent column questioning [the assertion that there is a $ 2.6 Trillion social security trust fund“This claim is a breathtaking fraud. The pretense is that a flush trust fund will pay retirees for the next 26 years. Lovely, except for one thing: The Social Security trust fund is a fiction. … In other words, the Social Security trust fund contains—nothing.”
The Marxist/globalists
have been playing a supremely treasonous and insulting
SHELL GAME
with the skulls of the sheeple
for decades . . .
And the sheeple have been cooperating by playing the role of pea-brained slaves.
” The Social Security trust fund is a fiction. … In other words, the Social Security trust fund contains—nothing.”
I think sickoflibs outlined this very clearly a day or two ago ;-)
A day or two??? How about the thread (body) you are posting on here that I posted last night (during the big McCain debate LOL) ??? Doesnt the title say something about a 'lie' ??
you guys... :)
Sorry on the time line. My big toe on my right foot decided to terrorize me with pain. I ain’t myself the last 2 days ;-)
O U C H
:)
That sleeper is still showing an abnormal interest in me, A few hours ago him and his buddy windbag told me they gave me a brutal beating,
Cliff notes version of their recent comments: “Your client is guilty as sin”, “Armegeddon”, ‘...glutton for punishment’, ‘....paddling your behind ...”
Sounds like I took a thrashing, funny thing is they think they have to tell me I did while pinging me, so I know I did.
The whole surface political/economic system of the last 60+ years has been a deceptive wholesale traitorous sham.
exactly
There never was a trust fund.
Correction: It was an “alleged” trust fund.
They are such liars and deceivers. Will truth ever return.
What about those IOUs that Democrats say are backed by the full faith and credit?? LOL
Not in DC. Republicans have a bunch of reasons why they don't call out this obvious lie, they are all political.
Don't expect much good from them either.
Despite all the advances of 2008, these dufuses carry on, business as usual. Grrrrr
Be afraid. Be very afraid. ;-)
Avoid dark alleys and public showers.
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