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Social Security Warns Benefits Could Get Cut
The Wall Street Journal ^
| 8 Oct 13
| Damian Paletta@damianpaletta
Posted on 10/08/2013 6:49:13 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Buckeye McFrog
but....its in a SECURE TRUST FUND with MY name on it....right?? You betcha. There is a "lock box" with "your money" in it - so don't worry.
;^>
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:11:42 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: RedStateGuyTrappedinCT
The occupier in the WH , wants max pain for the most peopleNo. Only for certain people.
Social security, veterans benefits, national parks and the military will be cut.
The Obamaphones and EBT cards will still work. Golfing and vacations will continue for the First Family.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:11:45 AM PDT
by
ladyjane
(For the first time in in a long time I am proud of my country.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Normally you and I agree on a lot, but I must take exception here.
Social Security is not an entitlement program.
I paid for it - to the tune of 15% in some years and 12.5% in others. I paid so much in FICA that I maxed out for more than 20 years of my working life.
That’s *MY* money, taken from me forcibly by the Gubmint.
I want it back.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:12:59 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: JRandomFreeper
>>>All of the entitlements need to be cut. Including SS.>>>
They’ve succeeded! They have us fighting among ourselves.
How nice for you that you’ve made enough money so that you can go galt and not pay taxes. Most of us paid S.S. all our working lives and were promised S.S. in our old ages. $50 paid in S.S. in the 1950’s would have paid for food for a family of five for a week. Today it pays for a tiny fraction of the food bill. And, yes, we managed to do without anything not necessary to survive, and put some aside for our old age, but the banks are not paying interest on our savings and food prices, etc. continue to rise.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:13:48 AM PDT
by
kitkat
(STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY.)
To: ladyjane
Social security, veterans benefits, national parks and the military will be cut. The Obamaphones and EBT cards will still work. Golfing and vacations will continue for the First Family. You don't know how correct you really are.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:13:58 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: JRandomFreeper
Yep, all of them. And many of those on SS DBL need to be tossed off it if they are able to work.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:14:10 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: SkyPilot
But when you proposed cutting their program or check (Social Security, Medicare, SS Disability, etc) then you will get an earful.Sure, let's cut social security - even though people paid tens of thousands of dollars into it their entire working lives.
But let's continue Obamaphones. How can you have a flashmob without them! and let's continue EBT cards. The casinos and strip joints will go broke without them.
That's fair.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:17:16 AM PDT
by
ladyjane
(For the first time in in a long time I am proud of my country.)
To: shibumi
Your money was stolen, put into the general fund, and spent.
Of course, you want it back.
You probably won't get it back, though.
/johnny
To: kitkat
Your money was stolen and spent. It's not there. It sucks, but that's reality.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
I did some calculating when I got my first SS check last year.
I need to live to around 115 to break even.
I’m choosing to regard it as a challenge.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:20:20 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: shibumi
Im choosing to regard it as a challenge.I'll be rooting for you. 115 or bust.
/johnny
To: shibumi
A challenge it will be with the zerocare death panels in place.
To: SkyPilot
As a group, seniors did NOT vote for Zer0 so for him, an easy choice.
So, go ahead you fraud, withhold my SS retirement check....I f***ing DARE you! I'll last longer than you will with that s***storm that you will bring down upon yourself.
DO IT!!!
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:23:39 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Dealing with POLITICIANS is the true war on terror)
To: SkyPilot
Only Republicans will be hurt as no Democrats receive SS checks./s So, bring it on Obozo!!
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:24:13 AM PDT
by
jch10
("Normandy was closed when we got there too!")
To: shibumi
Not only you but your employer contributed as well. You and I worked our whole lives for it and we did not have a choice - it was a forced contribution. If the government had treated it like such, and not added disability, etc to it would be solvent.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:25:15 AM PDT
by
gramho12
To: RedStateGuyTrappedinCT
The occupier in the WH , wants max pain for the most people. If he can blame it on the GOP hell withhold SS payments to grandma in a heartbeat. I suspect the WH occupier will make an exception for 'disability' checks - otherwise Detroit will stop functioning.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:26:04 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Brieitbart sent me... Freeper newfreep)
To: SkyPilot
Barry better watch his step, you don't screw with old folks...
:: like the saying goes ::
...they won't fight you, they'll just kill you.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:26:19 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
To: JRandomFreeper
SS is not an entitlement. It is money you were forced to pay into a broke system and are just getting part of it back. It is also not a benefit either. You wouldn’t consider a tax refund as an entitlement or benefit.
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posted on
10/08/2013 7:26:46 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Clinton & Gore sure referred often enough to ‘my LOCKBOX’.
Is there a single politician in the entire country who tells the truth to citizens???
To: SkyDancer
SS is an entitlement paid out of the general fund. The SS taxes you were forced to pay at gunpoint were stolen and put into the general fund and spent.
That's reality.
/johnny
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