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LA Times: We Don't Print Letters That Disagree With Our Positions
Truth Revolt ^ | 10/18/2013 | Jeff Dunetz

Posted on 10/19/2013 3:02:34 AM PDT by markomalley

Traditionally, letters to the editor are the vehicle for a newspaper's readers to voice their disagreement with an article appearing in the paper. The Los Angeles Times has announced that it won't print any letters from readers who differ with their positions, using climate change as an example:

Regular readers of The Times' Opinion pages will know that, among the few letters published over the last week that have blamed the Democrats for the government shutdown (a preponderance faulted House Republicans), none made the argument about Congress exempting itself from Obamacare.

Why? Simply put, this objection to the president's healthcare law is based on a falsehood, and letters that have an untrue basis (for example, ones that say there's no sign humans have caused climate change) do not get printed.

Interestingly, their insistence on conformity to the global warming theory comes at a time when the theory's proponents admit there hasn't been climate change for 15 years. In fact there are many scientists now predicting the earth is heading for an ice age.  

 


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To: markomalley

We’re the Times. If we don’t cover it, it never happened!


41 posted on 10/19/2013 9:33:18 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: dinodino
SS recipients collect far more than they put in.

No they do not.

I know that you will say but they only put five in and took ten out but you forget the interest that was earned on that money.

A savings bond bought for $25.00 in 1980 is worth $165.74 today.

When you calculate it properly you discover that they have actually paid in far more then they ever could collect.

42 posted on 10/19/2013 9:41:26 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

There was no interest earned—the government does not invest your contributions. What I said was correct.


43 posted on 10/19/2013 10:45:55 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino
There was no interest earned—the government does not invest your contributions.

Actually they do. They loan it to the general fund. In other words, savings bonds.

That is why I used that method of calculating the return.

44 posted on 10/19/2013 10:50:42 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

You are being disingenuous. The bonds are indeed purchased, but the proceeds do NOT go to Social Security Recipients—instead, they are returned to the general operating budget of the Federal Government. There is no “trust fund.”


45 posted on 10/19/2013 11:00:57 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: markomalley

46 posted on 10/19/2013 11:05:18 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: dinodino
So there are proceeds, they are just being embezzled.

Therefore there are returns that should be paid back to the SS fund and a bunch of people should go to jail.

47 posted on 10/19/2013 11:54:36 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

You’re going to need a time machine, because this looting of the Social Security fund has been going on for more than forty years...


48 posted on 10/19/2013 2:06:33 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino
Closer to 70. FDR began the looting.

You can arrest the ones that are still alive. And you can begin the repayment into the fund of the money that was looted.

49 posted on 10/19/2013 4:34:36 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

How about we finally put this ridiculous entitlement program out of our collective misery? Allowing individuals to voluntarily opt out of the program would ensure an orderly and fair termination of the program.


50 posted on 10/19/2013 6:09:11 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino

Get back to me when you get schooled on the concept of “compounded interest.” Until then, anything you say about payout not equaling payin is complete and utter ignorant crap.


51 posted on 10/19/2013 6:18:11 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: dinodino
Allowing individuals to voluntarily opt out of the program would ensure an orderly and fair termination of the program.

I don't think that would be enough for you, zippy. I think you want people who have payed in for 40-50 years to give up and walk away from what they are owed. That's what I think of you.

52 posted on 10/19/2013 6:21:04 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Social Security now pays out more than it collects. I suggest you read the following for a start:

http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/PA689.pdf

You will see why your snarky comment about compound interest is wrong.


53 posted on 10/19/2013 6:23:11 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino

You are a thief who would steal the life savings from an elderly person if you could just shake the cane away for a moment.


54 posted on 10/19/2013 6:27:12 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

I wish for every American to have the option to opt out of Social Security. If you are currenty receiving “benefits,” then you would choose to stay in. I don’t understand your ire, nor your opposition to individual choice in retirement planning.


55 posted on 10/19/2013 6:27:57 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino

“I don’t think that would be enough for you, zippy. I think you want people who have payed in for 40-50 years to give up and walk away from what they are owed. That’s what I think of you.”


56 posted on 10/19/2013 6:27:58 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

I’m sorry—are we talking about life’s savings, or are we talking about Social Security? If you think Social Security is a savings account, you are sadly mistaken.


57 posted on 10/19/2013 6:29:47 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Cyber Liberty

Please look up the word, “voluntarily,” in the dictionary before posting a reply. Thanks in advance.


58 posted on 10/19/2013 6:31:07 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino

I’ve been reading your posts down through this thread. You are clearly on the “loot the retirees” bandwagon. That’s all I need to know of your arguments. Thanks for playing.


59 posted on 10/19/2013 6:38:00 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: paint_your_wagon
The truth is, that too many people take out far more than they actually put in.

While I understand that you're talking about the system that is and not the system that should have been, the truth is that if I'd have been putting this much money annually into a simple mutual fund that I'd be seeing a whole lot more money than SS is going to give me.

I've been paying in since I was 15.

60 posted on 10/19/2013 6:38:33 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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