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As baby boomers have started retiring and the economy has collapsed, that day of reckoning is here, nine years earlier than expected. That's why we were so suspicious of projections that health care reform would produce surpluses two decades hence. Such estimates of costs are always wrong and always low.
1 posted on 03/30/2010 7:03:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Can you say Ten Trillion Dollars...? So this is just more of the same.

US meets wall.


2 posted on 03/30/2010 7:06:10 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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That’s ok, they’ll cover it with your tax sheltered private retirement accounts after they confiscate them.


3 posted on 03/30/2010 7:07:22 AM PDT by arealconservativeforachange (Tell JD Hayworth to run for McCain's seat! http://www.jdhayworth.com/contact.php)
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All the members of Congress who spent our money from the Social Security trust fund and replaced it with IOUs should have to pay it back personally.


4 posted on 03/30/2010 7:07:37 AM PDT by freespirited (I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. --Robert Frost)
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bob dope 1996

helped spend the social security surpluses

in an act of “bipartisanship” with democrat congresses.


5 posted on 03/30/2010 7:10:51 AM PDT by ken21 (i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
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Hey, no problem! All SS has to do is cash in that huge stack of Treasury Bonds it has amassed over the years that Congress exchanged for SS surpluses.


6 posted on 03/30/2010 7:11:33 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Misleading headline

Link to data

Balance as of 2007 $2 trillion +

Yes they are going to give out more in balances than they take in. But they aren't going to run out of funds any time soon.

7 posted on 03/30/2010 7:23:55 AM PDT by DannyTN
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Drug addicts can collect social security because they’re “disabled”... just one of a million deadbeat groups that dems support bankrupting the system.


12 posted on 03/30/2010 7:38:59 AM PDT by GOPJ (Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!)
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I thought our government had raised taxes back in 1989 and that saved social security???

My God we are being lied to !!!

/sarcasm -off


14 posted on 03/30/2010 7:42:02 AM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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PONZI SCHEME ALERT!


19 posted on 03/30/2010 7:54:31 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (REPEAL 0BAMACARE NOW!)
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Stephen C. Goss said that payments rose "unexpectedly"

"Unexpectedly" Alert!

20 posted on 03/30/2010 7:55:39 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (REPEAL 0BAMACARE NOW!)
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"No sooner had House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, carrying the gavel used when Medicare was enacted, taken a victory lap around the Capitol Building after passage of the health care bill than did the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration report that his part of the social safety net had a big hole in it and would run a deficit for all of 2010.

Pictured below is Pelosi with that oversized gavel:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other grinning rat hyenas took a muted victory lap today after the historic House vote on health care reform. In the meantime we can boycott gay Frisco, since they keep Pelosi in congress:

We will never be able to defeat Pelosi, the Mafafi witch, due to the love affair between her and the gay agenda pushers/voters in Gay Frisco.

However, Gay Frisco can be brought to its financial knees.

Gay Frisco is having a severe economic meltdown due to the benefits for union thugs and illegals.

If every American Adult, who dislikes the Health Care farce pushed on us by Pelosi, boycotted San Francisco re visits, meetings and products, we can make that liberal gay hell hole a miserable place to live and try to work in.

Boycott Ghiradelli Chocolates!

Boycott Trans America Financial Products:

Boycott Charles Schwab Financial Services/Products, 211 Main St, San Francisco, CA 94105

Boycott Gap Products/companies: Levi Strauss/Dockers Gap Inc./Outlet , Banana Republic, Gap, Old Navy

Boycott Williams-Sonoma | Headquarters 3250 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94109 Williams-Sonoma is the premier retailer of premium cookware and accessories in the United States.


26 posted on 03/30/2010 9:20:07 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Use your $'s as weapons! Boycott Gay Frisco, since they keep Pelosi in congress.)
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“Stephen C. Goss said that payments rose “unexpectedly” during the economic downturn as jobs disappeared and people feeling no hope and seeing little change opted to apply for benefits sooner than planned. Revenues also shrank due to fewer paychecks to tax. “

Plus Social Security has been depleted by numerous add-ons such as SSI and Disability, which are liberally used by both legal immigrants and illegal aliens.


27 posted on 03/30/2010 10:16:03 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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Richard W. Fisher, President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank: Storms on the Horizon, May 28, 2008
"Add together the unfunded liabilities from Medicare and Social Security, and it comes to $99.2 trillion [snip]

I want to remind you that I am only talking about the unfunded portions of Social Security and Medicare. It is what the current payment scheme of Social Security payroll taxes, Medicare payroll taxes, membership fees for Medicare B, copays, deductibles and all other revenue currently channeled to our entitlement system will not cover under current rules. These existing revenue streams must remain in place in perpetuity to handle the “funded” entitlement liabilities. Reduce or eliminate this income and the unfunded liability grows. Increase benefits and the liability grows as well."


29 posted on 03/30/2010 11:33:47 AM PDT by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; Conservatives believe what they see.)
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