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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:26 PM Original message |
Presidential Kabuki Theatre Update: When Obama Says Social Security Checks Might Not Go Out...... |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. Unrec...nt |
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Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Rec to offset the one with universal healthcare |
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AlabamaLibrul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:21 PM Response to Reply #3 |
32. I'll match your rec |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 08:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
55. always a good reason to rec; thanks again for reminding to rec! |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. Obama is flat out lying to generate a rise out of old people. Disgraceful politiking. |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 08:36 AM Response to Reply #2 |
56. "disgraceful" is an understatement. nt |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
4. The payments might be protected--the people who process and ship them are NOT. |
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Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Direct Deposit doesn't require human intervention |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 08:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
22. Someone's gotta run the computers and do the books to make the direct deposit. |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
6. Let's assume all of this is true even though it's not |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. It is all true |
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truth2power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Neither one of those possibilities is acceptable, i.e., that he lied or |
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Fla_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 09:40 PM Response to Reply #12 |
28. Have you seen the "D" after his name? |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
30. A sovereign currency regime doesn't have to borrow to spend. |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 07:27 AM Response to Reply #30 |
52. I don't think I understand nt |
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Roselma (297 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
7. It all sound so promising. But...who buys those marketable |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:56 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. The same people who are buying treasuries now |
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Roselma (297 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Seriously...who are the "same people". Once the |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 08:39 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. The government doesn't default until it misses an interest payment |
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DemocracyInaction (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
9. The SS Lockbox |
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Zen Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
10. If you have three times more obligations than cash .... there are NO guarantees. |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Yes, but those IOUs are counted under the debt limit |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
14. Read on how traditionally debt obligations are covered |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
15. Oh FER FUCK'S SAKE! The so-called progressive scream and cry for a year |
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October (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 04:23 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. +1 /nt |
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Kind of Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 04:35 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Wow! Sure sounds like truth. |
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BumRushDaShow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 08:52 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. +infinity |
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Bobbie Jo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 09:05 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. Damn. Thank you. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 09:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. LOL, I love that post. Yes, if the US doesn't raise its debt ceiling it is global apocalypse. |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:00 PM Response to Reply #15 |
29. "leftist enablers" sounds like Rahm dissing progressives; otherwise erroneous post |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:20 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. I like that you scrambled to do additional research |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:22 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. The correlation between monetization and inflation is indirect, at best. |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:28 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Yeah |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:33 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Chicago School drivel. |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:35 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. LOL! |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:40 PM Response to Reply #37 |
42. "Inflation!" is the only rebuttal they can ever proffer.. |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:40 PM Response to Reply #37 |
43. I'm not so worried about inflation |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:43 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. but you just said you were worried about inflation; now you say you're not; |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:46 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. Don't play little games |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:50 PM Response to Reply #47 |
50. you say you're worried about inflation but that you're not worried about inflation |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:57 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. Yeesh |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:27 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. disingenuous post; and, inflation is hardly an immediate concern, whereas getting a Soc Sec |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:38 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Your initial two solutions were insufficient |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:41 PM Response to Reply #39 |
44. the point remains: there is a way to make Soc Sec payments in times of default |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:43 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Obama was correct |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:47 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. you've proven the article's point; if it's not clear what a default would look like, then |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:49 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Quite the opposite |
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demgrrrll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:39 PM Response to Reply #15 |
41. For what its worth I'm with you. You can almost sense when |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
17. Obama hates OLD PEOPLE!!!!! |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
21. He's gonna kill all the elderly with them thar death panels, anyway. Who cares? |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
25. It's all theater on both sides |
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bornskeptic (951 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
26. Very selective editing here! What is the reason for that? |
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The Magistrate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:37 PM Response to Reply #26 |
38. Exactly, Sir: This 'Fact Checking' is Anything But.... |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 10:39 PM Response to Reply #26 |
40. not really; |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
53. k&r |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 08:12 AM Response to Original message |
54. it's called 'politics' |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
57. I pick fear-mongering. |
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