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Old 03-07-2011, 08:58 AM
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See if this link is any better.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...030602926.html

He directly takes the position that social security is welfare.

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D-Ray
That he does, and I disagree with him.

If he were to call it a Ponzi scheme, or simply another tax in which not all share equally in contributions and/or benefits, I would be more inclined to agree with him. If he were to point out that the fund has been looted by the politicians, who are busy either wanting to cut benefits or inflating the dollar so the benefits you receive are worthless...either way passing out a good old fashioned screwing, I would be inclined to agree once again.

But I have places to go and things to do, so I'll let it go at that for the present.

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Old 03-07-2011, 09:25 AM
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See if this link is any better.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...030602926.html

He directly takes the position that social security is welfare.

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D-Ray
The position he really takes is bent over with his head up his arse. There is a poster of him somewhere, saw in the window of a poster shop in Salt Lake City.
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Old 03-07-2011, 10:11 AM
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Paying that guy anything at all for writing that double spin is welfare.


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Old 03-07-2011, 11:48 AM
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The OP in this thread reflected on misinformation by Robert Samuelson. He's at it again.

Why are conservatives so intent on destroying the middle class? This guy's arrogance makes my skin crawl. Trying to remain civilized, I have tempered my comments. I wonder if the right is really trying to provoke class warfare?

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Well, because the middle-class only accrued its modest affluence by "stealing" it from the wealthy. And that's immoral and unpatriotic. It's simply not right to screw the rich out of the wealth they gained by screwing us.
It makes them angry. Kind of like robbing a thief. Or beating an con man at his own game. It upsets the natural order of things.

Got it?

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Old 03-07-2011, 12:11 PM
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Let's see. I have been contributing, out of wages I have EARNED, to SS since I was eighteen years old. I expect to get that money, or at least some of it, back when I get old.

This is "welfare"??? Money that I have no right to expect when I reach "retirement age"???

See, this is what I'm talking about.

My wages are "exorbitant", my benefits "lavish". Social Security, (And, I'm assuming Medicaid/Medicare as well.) is "welfare". The labor laws that protect things like minimum wage, forty hour workweek, collective bargaining and the workers right to "petition for redress of grievances" is "socialism" that oppresses the employer----and I'm supposed to think that the ideology these people push will lead to a better future???

For who? Not me, that's for darn sure.

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