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Using your logic, should there be a range of prices at the supermarket?
Yeah, as soon as we have social grocery shopping, where every family goes in once a week and picks up a free box of groceries that provides a basic nutritional floor for them, and then we all get together to decide how we're going to pay for that, and some clown says 'Hey, I know! Let's stick poor people with the lion's share of the costs on this!', then I'd be complaining. But I don't suppose you would, as it seems your thing is basically just to externalize as many social costs as possible off of you and your family and drop them onto others...
Last edited by saganista; 09-26-2007 at 07:42 AM..
Yeah, as soon as we have social grocery shopping, where every family goes in once a week and picks up a free box of groceries that provides a basic nutritional floor for them, and then we all get together to decide how we're going to pay for that, and some clown says 'Hey, I know! Let's stick poor people with the lion's share of the costs on this!', then I'd be complaining. But I don't suppose you would, as it seems your thing is basically just to externalize as many social costs as possible off of you and your family and drop them onto others...
I don't have the slightest problem paying the costs for me and my family. Too bad more people in America don't feel the same way. The entitlement mentality in this country is sickening.
He better keep his filthy, rotton hands off my Social Security! He is a liar and a scumbag. There is no more wrong with our Social Security system than there is with our immigration laws. Social Security is one of the most successful government programs we have ever implemented. It has kept generations of elderly out of total poverty. As companies get greedy and continue to cut jobs, benefits, and freeze pensions, it is at least some security for the future. If they cut it, it will just mean more people on welfare, food stamps, etc. I have worked for 30 years so far, I want to know Social Security is there at least. Bush just wants to get his hands on this money, look at the horrible debt he has gotten us in between this waste of a war (with his contractor buddies profiteering at every turn) and his tax cuts for the wealthy. Why not cut out Social Security after a certain income level, the filthy rich who don't need it anyway? No, that would take balls. Sure, now he wants to cut funds for children's health care and old people's Social Security! He is absolute dispicable. For Gods sakes when do we get rid of this lying idiot!
Montanamom.............You sound like me. I'm so angry this idiot even exsist
Social Security was implemented because whole lots of people did save/invest their money for most of their working lives and it was LOST when the banking and stock markets collapsed. Social security is an insurance against the loss of the basic ability to buy food and pay rent when your savings disappear through no fault of your own. Providing a floor under consumption is the primary reason for the system.
Social Security is not a pension based on compound interest but is a pay as you go system where current payments are covered by current taxes. Or at least it should be but the creation of a social security Trust Fund limited to buying Federal bonds turned it into a regressive tax fraud. SS taxes should be levied on all income from all sources and the rate set to cover the current payments. Payments should be limited to persons below twice the median income. Payment amounts need to be indexed for the real inflation not our current system that leaves out the price increases in food and fuel.
I guess Bush sees the damage that the Democrats did to the Social Security fund last year. //www.city-data.com/forum/immig...ml#post1577116 Checkout the link and read how the Democrats voted across their party line to give Illegal Aliens Social Security Benefits.
The link lists the vote, so you can learn who voted to dry up Social Security that much faster.
Go by the vote, not empty words... Bush did not vote to give Illegal Aliens Social Security, but if you want, you can still blame it on him. It is the Defeatcrat way to blame everything on Bush!
I dont' care who did, it is still wrong. Also, Bush is still an imbicil
I don't have the slightest problem paying the costs for me and my family. Too bad more people in America don't feel the same way. The entitlement mentality in this country is sickening.
Has nothing to do with entitlement syndrome. Has to do with effective management. These 'private markets' that so many see as so precious routinely fail to provide satisfactory solutions to a wide range of problems. Your answer to that is...
Has nothing to do with entitlement syndrome. Has to do with effective management. These 'private markets' that so many see as so precious routinely fail to provide satisfactory solutions to a wide range of problems. Your answer to that is...
Personal responsibility.
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