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DFab420 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 04:59 PM Original message |
Let's say I have an 80 year old car. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. You're right! I've tended to view these as "all or nothing" issues. Time to review |
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peace13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. let's say I have been making payments for forty years sometimes double payments.. |
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DFab420 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. That would be awful. But that hasn't happened. |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 05:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
37. Precisely |
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mkultra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 11:35 AM Response to Reply #2 |
40. "Double payment"? how does that fit the SS model? |
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peace13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 12:24 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. As a small business owner I pay both halves of the SS payment.. |
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DCKit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
3. The simple truth is they don't want to pay back what's been borrowed against SS. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
4. lets say my pension fund is being robbed.... |
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DFab420 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:20 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Sure.. but it isn't |
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Fuddnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Mine was. |
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DFab420 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. ..Thats your pension plan. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:48 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. It's not broke. It's ahead of the game. The Repukes want to rob it blind. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 08:46 PM Response to Reply #7 |
30. it ain't an 80 year old care either |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
6. I agree with you, but there is a legitimate point to be made about the process in which this is to |
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DFab420 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:32 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. +1 |
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Raine1967 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. Updating, yes. Cutting no. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:49 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. It's not reform, it's vandalism. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 08:44 PM Response to Reply #8 |
29. the fuckers aren't planning to raise benefits |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
11. Bullhshit! It's about targeting the most-successful social program ever. |
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DFab420 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 05:51 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. What attacks? If you read through the cuts on the table |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:32 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Huh? |
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DFab420 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:34 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Here, this is what I read. Did I miss it in there?? |
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DFab420 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:39 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Or maybe here |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:42 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. No better as it relates to your OP - you are just making shit up. nt |
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DFab420 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:51 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. What are you talking about? |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:40 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Huh again? |
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DFab420 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:52 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Well luckily I don't just read what "democrats" deem worthy of me reading |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 02:35 AM Response to Reply #22 |
34. It's obvious from your OP that you don't have much in common with "democrats." |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 10:26 PM Response to Reply #14 |
31. Deleted message |
Bob Loblaw (159 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
23. I'd be open to ... |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
24. Umm no. |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
25. So maybe your car needs work. Are you going to take it to a chop shop? |
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Keith Bee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
26. You lie! |
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DFab420 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:45 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Thanks! |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 03:21 AM Response to Reply #26 |
35. +1 |
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Chef Eric (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
27. Your car runs fine, and your mechanic is a fucking liar. Hire a new one. nt |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
32. How about you drive it up your ass along with your "reform" of my family's future? |
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Keith Bee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
33. Let's say you don't |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 03:23 AM Response to Original message |
36. Nice metaphor. Too bad it doesn't accurately depict the situation. Maybe you should sell it to... |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
38. Some metaphors just don't work. And 80 yr old car = SS is one. Sorry, it just doesn't. |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-13-11 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
39. Very bad analogy. Tax Cuts for the Rich Create Jobs is the 30-yr old jalopy |
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