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To: ColdOne
Obama is trying to starve the Social Security Trust Fund to get consumers to spend beyond their means.

The Republicans should have no part of it.

34 posted on 12/07/2011 12:14:12 PM PST by Praxeologue
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To: Kennard
Obama is trying to starve the Social Security Trust Fund to get consumers to spend beyond their means.

Uh, the Social Security Trust Fund has always been nothing more than an empty shell. What Obama is doing is shifting part of the cost of paying Social Security to current receipients from FICA taxes to borrowing (or Fed money printing).

35 posted on 12/07/2011 12:18:36 PM PST by dirtboy
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