I’m just not sure what I can add to this-
Next Big Issue? Social Security Pops Up Again
By JACKIE CALMES, The New York Times
Published: March 22, 2010, A1
By 2016, Social Security will begin paying more in benefits than it collects in payroll taxes, according to the annual report of government trustees; reserves in the form of government i.o.u.’s will be exhausted by 2037, after which incoming taxes will cover three-quarters of benefits.
Before his inauguration, Mr. Obama said of Social Security, “We have to signal seriousness in this by making sure some of the hard decisions are made under my watch, not someone else’s.”
Similarly, some Democrats argue that their party should act now, while it controls the White House and Congress, rather than take the chance that Republicans will regain power and try to carve private retirement accounts from Social Security, as former President George W. Bush did unsuccessfully.
Umm… what’s the difference again?
Make sure you speak slowly and loudly like I’m “fucking retarded” and deaf, or even worse- French.
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I’m a liar. I’m lying to you now-
My health care is cheaper than yours and I won’t lose my home if I get sick, even living in the US.
At least when we send the bums in office a message they start to take notice. Sarkozy will be a one term President.
The American electoral system sucks that it allowed a party to override the will of the people and nominate the candidate who came in second.
and lining all the pockets of the military, and military contractors with that money, while returning only IOUs.
… when the Dixiecrats entered the Republican Party, they formed an alliance with the Taft Republicans, and purged the the Rockefeller Republicans, and the Rockefeller Republicans therefore took the place of the Dixiecrats in the Democratic Party.
The Republicans always intended to renege on the deal to run the Social Security trust fund as a rising fund after the payroll income tax increase and then a sinking fund as Baby Boomer retirement kicked in … but of course not to renege on the deal while the regressive payroll taxes were still paying into the General Fund to be used to justify tax cuts on unearned income.
Read this diary. http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…
hum what does that suggest……
they will package it. It won’t be straightforward but some kind of pretzel like the hc thing.
This guy could do it. He’s signalled it enough.