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As the painter heads for ever deeper left field . . . good grief, he's gone right through the fence and into the parking lot!
Oh, those evil wealthy and horrible big businesses, ever the bane of the left. Where is your evidence that only the wealthy recieve social security? Y'all (proper spelling) are missing the fact that the President's plan calls for conservative investments, of which there are plenty in the stock market. Sounds to me like you and your buddies bought into the dot-com stocks, which were doomed from the outset. And, as I pointed out somewhere myself, the only gaurantee with the system the way it is now is that Congress will continue to mis-spend money and perpetuate the problem until it does become the full-bore crisis that the President (and Clinton before him) has the foresight to try to head off.
Which raises another problem: Where was all this objection when Clinton proposed exactly the same solutions in 1999? Or did his being a liberal Democrat make him immune from criticism?
And, glenn, thanks for the good wishes! One week was restful vacation, the other was 16-hour days at a trade show. Good to be back!
posted by
WriterofLight
on March 22, 2005 at 7:19 PM
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there is no social security crisis.
period
posted by
Xeno-x
on March 16, 2005 at 6:42 AM
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you are what makes me liberal
it started with Nixon, Reagan and now Bush Jr.
and every time a conservative speaks, I become that much more liberal.
you all are hiding a lot.
there are things to do with SS that will save it -- and make it better.
I mentioned that somewhere.
raising the salary cap will -- help -- richer people pay more fairly since they get the whole SS anyway.
putting it into a guaranteed interest account will also.
putting it into the stock market -- helps the stock market initially, like the influx of money market accounts did at first
but the market has levelled off and when it crashed, many with investments lost considerably -- some of my coworkers lost 40%.
the stock market is as big a crapshoot as anything. there are no guarantees.
at least with SS the way it is there's more of a guarantee.
Bush, like Republicans for the past 150 years, is on the side of Big Business -- not the common person.
posted by
Xeno-x
on March 11, 2005 at 7:27 AM
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WriterofLight,
What are you talking about? You sound like Newt Gingrich! Interesting two buffoons in one! I do wish you restful and healthy vacation. Enjoy!
posted by
Glennb
on March 7, 2005 at 9:17 AM
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