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Melissa G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-11 09:44 PM
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Question: If we cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, where
Edited on Tue Aug-09-11 09:49 PM by Melissa G
will the money go?

Answer: It will be sucked up by the War Machine and esp by the Owners of the War Machine.

PS. Yes, the Bankers will finance a way to get their cut also.

This is not a plan to cut the deficit- just a plan by the TPTB to raid our health and retirement savings.



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readmoreoften Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-11 09:45 PM
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1. Indeed it is.
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-11 09:48 PM
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2. Already raided.
Now, TPTB have a shot at the interest$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

More is the only word that matters to TPTB.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-11 09:54 PM
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3. Exactly! Their plan is to siphon off all the monies while convincing "The Stupid" factor of
this nation that it's good for them. If private health care works so well, why is it so F'ed up. And savings, what a F'en joke, .58% interest, WOW. And imagine collecting off 401k's during market downturns. It's all a bunch of unmitigated BS.

And it will go to the War Machine to mutilate and kill people, about the only thing the US knows how to do anymore. 10 years in these wars! Are our soldiers that incompetent, or is the MIC making too much money, and the contractors, and all the rest. I think the latter, there is soooooo much money made by these inane wars.

And social security? The banksters and wall street crooks are drolling to get their hands on the money.

Wake the F up Americans! Get your asses in gear! And fight this sh**!



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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-11 11:03 PM
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4. If we cut it it's because the funds collected under the current rate aren't enough to cover it.
The cuts aren't scheduled to happen until the supposed trust fund has been paid back by the general fund.
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Melissa G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 01:00 PM
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6. Do you have a link to this assertion? n/t
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sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:43 PM
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10. There better NOT be any cuts, now or in the future to SS.
Any politician responsible for that can kiss their political career goodbye.

And your constant misrepresentations of the SS fund are growing boring at this point.

Here are the facts. SS is SOLVENT. The Fed. Govt. is in debt. The Fed. Govt has assets. They are going to pull up their bootstraps, stop throwing temper tantrums, cash in their assets, and start paying their debts, starting with the American People's fund.

It is NOT a problem that the SS fund may not take in enough in taxes to cover its obligations, this is NOT unusual, it has happened many times before. The SS fund has other sources of income, and even now, without enough payroll taxes, it STILL HAD A SURPLUS. You are constantly misrepresenting the facts, and I don't know if it is because you don't know, or something else.

The SS fund is solvent until the year 2075 and can pay all of its obligations until then, 100%. The only way that doesn't happen, is if there is a GRAND THEFT by traitors to the American people. And I don't think we are going to accept that.
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hughee99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-11 11:09 PM
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5. The banksters don't care about this stuff...
You can give the money to the war machine, and they'll end up getting their hands on it. You can use the money for medicare and medicaid, and it will go to pay for health care, and they'll end up getting their hands on it. The MIC uses banks, but so do big pharma, hospitals, doctors, etc...

You can do something good with the money, you can do something bad with the money, but it all ends up in the banks either way.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 01:01 PM
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7. We need to give social security money to the repubs so GE won't have to pay taxes ever!
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 01:04 PM
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8. Not only that, I betcha FICA will still come out of your
wages as usual. It's just you won't get anything back after you retire.
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Melissa G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:00 PM
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9. True that! n/t
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