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« on: March 13, 2011, 03:26:26 pm » |
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the ponzi scheme is true in that thats where it started.. but the actual 'fall' of that pyramid was the sept '08 wall street failure.. when that happened, every one including states (and some countries) lost everything..
for SS, the money is there and always has been.. the problem was we've borrowed against it by hoping we'd have the funds somewhere else when the time came to repay those 'loans'.. with the meltdown, everything was lost and right now the only 'account' that has money is SS... but we can't use it to sustain other programs like we have,current recipients and future recipients.. so the idea is to re-vamp SS so we can use it now for other purposes and still pay for current recipients.. and really, fuck the future people.. the pols will be long dead and gone so why do they care..
if anyone seriously wants 'reform' and there really is a SS crisis.. they have to start with current recipients.. anything less is just pandering to get votes and make believe..
(and I don't mean starting with Chuck.. I mean starting with Warren Buffet. He and anyone else of a certain income level, should not get any retirement benefits like SS/Medicare.. and in the case of McCain, and vets of that kind of wealth, they shouldn't get VA benefits either. It doesn't hurt those kinds of people to lose their benefits, even if they 'earned' them.. because they have 17 homes,45 cars and billions in the bank.. but it does hurt Chuck or even Howie to lost their benefits just to keep Buffet and McCain on the gov't teet)
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