L!given who and what 0Buttcrack is all about....
Since when is SS an entitlement program? It’s a contract. The feds have been extorting my money for 50 yrs and using it.
I want my money back.
Brutal austerity measures = reality
A memeber of Congress after 15 years can get their pension at age 50 — bastards!!!
Best to decrease the surplus population.
L!The Second American Revolution is coming sooner that we all think.....red
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New Year’s prediction for our upside down nation:
Barkey will give another speech memorializing victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. He will claim that SS cuts will prevent gun violence and the MSM will take this up as part of their battle cry. Barkey’s approval rating will soar to 75% and grandmothers will march in favor of the cuts in front of the White House.
Course when Dubya wanted to reform this in his administration to gradually phase in private retirement plans for the younger and future generations, we all remember how the Democrats were blowing blood vessels and spouting lies about how the Republicans wanted to take away Grandma’s SS funds.
Actually, he is working VERY hard for SS cuts, medicare cuts, medicaid cuts, welfare, etc .... all "entitlement" programs.
The main problem, though, is the method he is choosing to do so. By driving up the debt to epic levels with near-Ø interest levels, winding up the proverbial spring so-to-speak, so that when we no longer can borrow/print, the interest rate jump collapses the dollar. Entitlements? Gone... Poof!
I think we've been conditioned for so long to believe that justice will be done, and that the right things will occur in the end, that we forget that history is filled with those individuals who were treated unfairly and for whom justice was never done in the course of their lifetimes. So, yes, it is entirely possible that you and I and all of us who have paid into social security will never significantly benefit from it, while able-bodied mentally healthy people who did not work hard and did not pay into it will reap benefits from it. It is also entirely possible that the entire working life efforts and savings of people who are now close to, or already in retirement will be diluted so much by the devaluation of our currency that they will never come close to the kind of retirement lives that they worked so hard for - and will not have nearly as much to give their children and/or grandchildren as they thought they would in return for their hard work and sacrifice.
I'm not being fatalistic here, but I think it's very important that we all keep in mind that the world won't automatically be fair for us. We have to work to prevent injustice from happening to those we love, and to us, and this is a long and continuous process.
I told my wife just this past week that I suspected in the near future that they would come up with some deal to cut SS by 1/3. Cut that, say $1,000 monthly check to $700 or so each month, even to those already getting it, not just futures.
Take a look at Obama’s SS cuts closely. He is proposing to keep payments to those that paid into it low while not affecting payments to the moochers who get SSI. For us serfs that Social Security supplemental security income, for the moochers it’s known as crazy money. More people have gotten SSI over the last four years than got jobs.
Plunder & Death = Socialism/Totalitarianism 2.0
Plunder the productive, abort the elderly/infirm/useless eaters.
boner and obama are working together. And this is why the republicans didn’t want the white house or the senate. obama can cut SS, the senate will rubber stamp anything he wants and the house will finally be compromising.
It WILL be cut for
1) those who haven’t suffered ‘historical disadvantage’
2) those who vote Republican