I thinkSocialSecurity should be mean tested.

[Jackpine Radical]

That wasn't a typo. Not MEANS tested, MEAN tested. Anybody as mean as the average teabagger shouldn't get it.


OK, so it's late & I just spent the day fishing with a 6 year-old and some of her humor wore off on me.

[pnwmom]

1. I think almost everything should be mean tested.

:)

[Demeter]

2. Unfortunately, that's unconstitutional

There's no law against being mean or stupid. Except Natural Law. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.

[SoutherDem]

8. Teabaggers don't care about the constitution

Maybe evolution will eliminate teabaggers in a few more years.

[Demeter]

12. The Crisis and its consequences will put them out of business

[sasha031]

3. then it would become a welfare program and lose popular support

what they should do is raise the cap.

didn't read your entire message, yes it should :)

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Go back & re-read the OP.

[ClassWarrior]

4. I swear, there's something funny in the water up there in the north woods.

:hi:

NGU.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Yo, CW.

C'mon up & try the water.

[ClassWarrior]

9. I wanna!

If the offer's sincere, maybe I'll make a detour the next time I go visit my son in the Cities.

NGU.

[Jackpine Radical]

16. Of course it's sincere.

I'm easy to find. Lemme know when, & if we can arrange it, we will.

[Warpy]

7. No. People who paid into it all their lives should draw it when they hit 65

It's insurance and always has been. You pay the premiums, you get the benefit.

Anything else is unfair.

FWIW, I'm eligible and haven't applied as yet. I'll wait until 70 if I can, leaving me very few years to collect, because right now I don't need it.

However, it needs to be there because at times that money taken out of a small check represented food out of my mouth.

I paid a lifetime of premiums. It's mine. Means testing that is like means testing all other forms of insurance: "Oh, you make a good paycheck, you can afford to get your car fixed." Or "Oh, you've got savings. Pay for your own health care."

The only change to it should be taking it out of the general fund and away from all the greedy paws in Congress. Return it to the stand alone insurance plan for working people it always was. And if there's a shortfall, raise the damn cap on taxable earnings. Just keep your greedy paws off stuff that belongs to other people.

[scarletwoman]

11. Please read the whole OP. (nt)

[scarletwoman]

10. I like it! I think "mean testing" should be extended to all sorts of things.

Political candidates, for one. If they fail "mean testing" they don't qualify to run for office.

Corporate CEOs. Fail the "mean test"? You're fired.

Supreme Court Justices - no confirmation if you can't pass the "mean test".

The Department of Defense(sic): instant fail, of course.

This is a GREAT idea!

:D
sw

[nashville_brook]

13. hee hee -- i like 6-year old humor :)

[Kahuna]

14. Do you mean, mean people shouldn't get it?

I agree. ;)

[Jackpine Radical]

17. Exactly.

That would pretty much exclude Republicans.

[Cereal Kyller]

15. It's awright

Recced.