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In reply to the discussion: Paul Krugman Tells GOP Senator: ‘Your Facts Are False’ On Social Security [View all]blackspade
(10,056 posts)72. Because they have successfully sold...
a lie that the financial industry IS America.
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Paul Krugman Tells GOP Senator: ‘Your Facts Are False’ On Social Security [View all]
babylonsister
Mar 2013
OP
Wall street did not steal the trust fund money. How would they do that?
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2013
#5
Nope. This huckster/defender of parasites is legion (see what I did there?)
Egalitarian Thug
Mar 2013
#61
Well they cut back on paying that DEBT, as soon as they are willing to cut back on TBill Debt!!
on point
Mar 2013
#35
Johnson got his lying ass handed to him several times on This Week this morning.
Gidney N Cloyd
Mar 2013
#6
I don't see much difference between DWS and the typical non-teaparty GOP'er. nt
NorthCarolina
Mar 2013
#76
answer: we're not. capping SS taxes doesn't subsidize wall street when benefits are also
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#83
Let's not forget the Federal Reserve's role in helping steal middle class assets.
AdHocSolver
Mar 2013
#49
There are many ways to solve it...screaming "don't touch my social security" is not one of them.
dkf
Mar 2013
#11
It would be good to do that only if workers are making more. So raise the minimum wage first
CTyankee
Mar 2013
#23
Honestly do you see the numbers I posted are from the social security administration?
dkf
Mar 2013
#69
Yes, many ways to solve it, but all of them depend on first solving the political problem.
eomer
Mar 2013
#45
The ONLY "problem" with SS is with the politicians who want to destroy it to benefit
duffyduff
Mar 2013
#56
no. it will just give the feds more money to 'borrow' for the next 20 years, at which time we'll
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#84
Rising productivity generally means less labor employed, it's not really a good thing.
xtraxritical
Mar 2013
#27
It's not a question of rising productivity being good (which it generally is)...
YoungDemCA
Mar 2013
#63
historically, it means more labor employed at a wider variety of things and rising incomes, both
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#85
It's never enough for this class that dramatically overestimates its size and influence,
Egalitarian Thug
Mar 2013
#78
GOP pols, pundits, and other talking heads are expert at disseminating outright lies, distortions,
indepat
Mar 2013
#17
You are very right, our founding fathers unanimously disdaned the corporate entity concept.
xtraxritical
Mar 2013
#29
And Social Security would be in much better shape IF THE MIDDLE CLASS HADN'T BEEN
wiggs
Mar 2013
#24
Republicans are basically trying to argue that U.S. bonds are "worthless"
Jeff In Milwaukee
Mar 2013
#41
Third-Way, I'd laugh if not for the fact that there are so many morons pushing this idiocy here,
Egalitarian Thug
Mar 2013
#64
It's such a simple and painless solution, remove the cap. My husband earns above the cap, and I
spicegal
Mar 2013
#74
They did the only thing they could do under the laws governing Social Security. Which in this
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#88
"Republican-backed cap on payroll taxes for income above a certain level" = baloney. The cap
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#81