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Mon Dec-14-09 10:36 PM
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Enjoying Health Care Reform? Social Security Reform could be next. |
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Obama did make a promise to fix the so-called entitlement programs after he tackles Health Care Reform. Maybe not such a good idea...
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Mon Dec-14-09 10:38 PM
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1. It is not entitlement IF YOU PAY INTO IT. |
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Mon Dec-14-09 10:39 PM
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4. Yes, it is. If you paid into it, you're entitled to get it. |
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It's not welfare, of course.
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Mon Dec-14-09 10:42 PM
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5. Oops, I misread my response. Miswrote, rather... pity the latter isn't a word. Okay, it is now. |
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:D
But I digress.
It's not entitlement because we paid into it.
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Tue Dec-15-09 09:43 AM
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18. Paying into it has nothing to do with it |
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Of course it's an entitlement. Nothing wrong with that word.
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Mon Dec-14-09 10:38 PM
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2. We'll know Obama truly was the "Manchurian Candidate" if he does attempt to "reform" SS and Medicare |
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Mon Dec-14-09 10:38 PM
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3. In that one, Joe Lieberman will insist on an "On The Ice Floe at 70" provision. |
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Mon Dec-14-09 10:46 PM
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6. Idea: let Lieberman chair the committee. |
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Mon Dec-14-09 10:48 PM
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7. What the hell....let Joe chair ALL the committees |
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Mon Dec-14-09 10:56 PM
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10. I think I know why he and Bush kissed on the floor that time. |
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Mon Dec-14-09 10:50 PM
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8. ss doesn't need reform. it needs the gov to repay the money it borrowed from SS payers |
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& then lent to the top 1% as income tax cuts.
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Mon Dec-14-09 10:55 PM
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Mon Dec-14-09 11:06 PM
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If that happens you' see aging Boomers and their parents turning in their hearing aides and canes for torches and pitchforks.
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Mon Dec-14-09 11:42 PM
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12. I would have thought that true a few years ago. |
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But I think people are just too numb to care any more.
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Mon Dec-14-09 11:43 PM
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13. Don't forget education with Arne in charge |
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Public schools, who needs those.
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Mon Dec-14-09 11:53 PM
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14. Dean Baker's been sounding his concerns about that |
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quite a bit in the last year. (see his daily spot "Beat the Press" at The American Prospect)
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Tue Dec-15-09 10:38 AM
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19. He's pretty pissed at what he feels is the stepped up political whoring |
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by WAPO, especially, for the cause.
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