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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:09 PM Original message |
Does anyone really know just how MUCH the government has taken from the Social Security Fund? |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. kick for answers |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I'd really like to know if the answers are out there, or if we need to start demanding answers |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Maybe the Obama Administration could put together a Commission... |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. yes, to the penny; you can get the number in the ssa reports every year. |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
3. $2.6 trillion |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
5. I have no idea, but the IOUs are probably redeemed as needed |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I'd have to see actual proof of that happening |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. it has been happening for the last two years |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
6. Everybody who buys a treasury bill is getting an IOU... |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:15 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I'll bet those treasury bills get paid back a long time before WE do. |
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BlueJac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
10. Pay Back Social Security |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. This is very well written! Thanks! nt |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Agreed! |
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SDuderstadt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
11. By federal law SS account surpluses... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
12. They haven't taken anything other than the fact |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
13. The correct answer is all of it. |
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Indydem (866 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. Absolutely NOT |
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SDuderstadt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:23 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Can you provide a source for... |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
15. "None" or "all of it", depending on how you mean |
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suston96 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
18. The fact that this question is asked so many times means that...... |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
19. All of it and none of it. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
20. The government has taken nothing from the SS fund. |
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