3 yrs ago the Repugs wanted to put Social Security under Wall Street

[lazer47]

investments,,,, wonder how that would be working out today????

[Captain Hilts]

1. Close call, eh? nt

[Demeter]

9. It's Happening Right Now, Anyway

Your social security, pensions and healthcare are all being loaned out by the Fed, either directly or by inflating them into worthlessness. Plus the next two generations. All to make whole the wealthy.

[JDPriestly]

2. Now we know why.

I'm sorry, but I'm a cynic. I think this whole mortgage gambit was a way to get at our 401(K)s and pension money. Republicans just can't stand the thought of money sitting there belonging to someone besides them. The Bush crowd wants all the chips. Remember how pleased with herself Ms. Barbara Bush was when she visited the New Orleans refugees in the refugee shelter in Texas. That's how they feel about the people who have lost their homes to predatory lenders. Oh, well, they didn't have anything before they took on those outlandish loans. They'll be just fine living in tents.

Certain Republicans function at a very low animal level and have no compassion for anyone other than their family and friends. They do not live as human beings. They do not feel the suffering of other human beings. Do you think that Rush Limbaugh feels the suffering of the people he ridicules on his radio show? No way. Vicious monsters, that is what some of them are. I'm sorry to be so emotional, but when I think of what the Republicans have done to my country, I feel like screaming and crying at the same time. How could they be so lacking in any human understanding? And they claim to be Christian. Jesus would cast them out in minutes.

[lazer47]

3. The repugs have beaten this so-called CHRISTAN thing to death

their defination defies anything near what Jesus had in mind...

[trusty elf]

4. Remember Felonious Monkey's masterful explanation of his "plan" ?

THE PRESIDENT: Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to what has been promised.
Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a series of things that cause the -- like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate -- the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those -- if that growth is affected, it will help on the red. Okay, better? I'll keep working on it.

[madokie]

5. at least we smelled the rat and done enough to stop it back then

If but a smidgen of the effort to steal from us and trash our constitution was put towards doing good for the common person I wonder where we would be today. If we used our constitution and and bill of rights as they were written we all could be living in utopia today. Now I'm not even sure when my 1 y.o. grand daughter will be graduating from high school if this will still be the United States of America. I don't like to use the word hate but I have no other to describe what I feel for these treasonous traitors who have hijacked our country.
I personally feel like a failure to have allowed myself to allow this to happen to our childrens and grand childrens world. The world they will have to live in is not going to be the same as ours was if we don't do something starting now, looks to me like.

Why O why would our living a good life be such a threat to the folks who have it all.

[lazer47]

6. You know what is really scary?? Back in the 70s and 80s

they had these people up in Michigan and Minn. that were preparing for the melt down of the Constitution,, they were arming themselves and learning combat tactics,, and a lot of us thought they were crazies,,,,Scary part is they are beginning to make sense..

[gatorboy]

7. What I would give for a reporter to ask Bush if he thinks that's still a good idea.

[Lasher]

8. And you know what, they still do.

By now I have come to realize that 'reform' is Bush code for 'destruction'.