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Modest Social Security Reform Proposal Sparks Political Firestorm
American Liberty ^ | 04/8/2024 | Norman Leahy

Posted on 04/08/2024 8:59:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

That is why I call it a Ponzi scheme with guns.

Bernie Madoff would still be solvent if he had the mob requiring new “investments”.


41 posted on 04/08/2024 11:03:45 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: SeekAndFind

Looted by the rats decades ago and being used for everything and everyone who did not contribute they now have come up with a reform that will increase the age to collect hoping you dont make it there


42 posted on 04/08/2024 11:06:53 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

If we don’t stop them, the Rethuglicans will ban using Social Security to pay for third-trimester abortions.

Vote Biden!


43 posted on 04/08/2024 11:08:24 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: JoeRender

I’m sure most would like it. But obviously they will never do it. It’s just going to get worse from here.


44 posted on 04/08/2024 11:09:00 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Owen

THere will be no benefit cut to SS. SS will be part of the deficit spending.


45 posted on 04/08/2024 11:09:41 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: alancarp

Raising the retirement age is political loser. Are you crazy? Only 20% of workers work past the age of 65. Age descriminnation is real What are these people suppossed to do for work?


46 posted on 04/08/2024 11:12:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Owen

Abortion and SS are the uniparty weapons.


47 posted on 04/08/2024 11:14:38 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

I am working part time at Home Depot they hire a HUGE number of seniors AND they pay $25.00 an hour all of my Medicare supplementals are through Home Depot at 1/3 the cost I was paying before it is a great job!!


48 posted on 04/08/2024 11:16:04 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: central_va
Dunno if you're being serious or sarcastic, but political considerations aside -- which is obviously the ONLY way any meaningful change could possibly get done -- raising the age bar to something above the average lifespan is the only real solution [though I'd also add raising the salary cutoff as others have mentioned above].

(But please excuse me for a bit... I gotta go stumble around outside in the dark.)

49 posted on 04/08/2024 11:31:51 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tweaking a ponzi scheme. Yeah, that’s the ticket.


50 posted on 04/08/2024 11:35:52 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Owen

7. End the program and phase it out.


51 posted on 04/08/2024 11:38:17 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Lurker

Take 12.6% from me - promise benefits to people that paid 6 or 8 % in is just theft. Let the future generations opt out. Ponzi scheme is not sustainable.


52 posted on 04/08/2024 11:40:38 AM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: wgmalabama

The 6-8% people also paid 12.6%. Their employer covered the rest. This is the standard procedure.


53 posted on 04/08/2024 11:42:16 AM PDT by Owen (.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why tweak the SS age? The pubbies always shoot themselves in the foot before a major election. We certainly have billions maybe even a trillions to support countries that hate us, illegal aliens, welfare etc.


54 posted on 04/08/2024 11:43:40 AM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: central_va

That’s right. When they do layoffs they terminate the oldest. Nobody wants to hire geezers.


55 posted on 04/08/2024 11:50:46 AM PDT by gcparent (God Bless America )
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To: Owen

They last increased it it 1990. Go look it up.


56 posted on 04/08/2024 11:52:35 AM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Thanks. I did my time. I waited til 65. I enjoy sitting in my ass collecting my social security and my pensions plural. I did my time.i had no problem paying my supplemental.


57 posted on 04/08/2024 11:53:18 AM PDT by gcparent (God Bless America )
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To: kenmcg

No one is shooting themselves in the foot.

This is Swamp filth shooting Trump in the back.


58 posted on 04/08/2024 11:54:49 AM PDT by Owen (.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

The 2 closest HD by me only hire minorities. The service is awful. I will say that my cousin an engineer graduate from Annapolis was laid off from his job after 35 years. He went to work at HD and really liked it. But that was NJ.


59 posted on 04/08/2024 11:59:42 AM PDT by gcparent (God Bless America )
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To: alancarp

Yes by all means talk about in an election year. Real smart.


60 posted on 04/08/2024 12:55:46 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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