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edhopper

(33,587 posts) Wed Dec 19, 2012, 06:49 PM Dec 2012

And then, when everyone sees that SS doesn't pay enough to live on.

They can start all the privatization bullshit again.
The right wingers do long term plans very well, setting things up to fuck us later.
Obama is giving them a giant screwdriver with this CPI crap.
We will all get screwed in the end.

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And then, when everyone sees that SS doesn't pay enough to live on. (Original Post) edhopper Dec 2012 OP

Thanks, Eeyore BeyondGeography Dec 2012 #1

Social Security has never been enough to live on.... Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #2

Social Security was never intended to be enough to live on. marybourg Dec 2012 #3

See? We have more than a two party system. There's always a Third Way! progressoid Dec 2012 #4

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)

1. Thanks, Eeyore

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Wed Dec 19, 2012, 06:54 PM

Dec 2012

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)

2. Social Security has never been enough to live on....

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Wed Dec 19, 2012, 06:56 PM

Dec 2012

nor was it intended to be the sole source of retirement income. People who have only their SS benefits to live on, live at or below the poverty level in this country. I think all this focus on Social Security benefits is a very cunning way for republicans to distract the nation from the fact that way too many Americans have no separate pension plans.

marybourg

(12,633 posts)

3. Social Security was never intended to be enough to live on.

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Wed Dec 19, 2012, 06:59 PM

Dec 2012

We need to have some sort of pension and additional lifetime savings also. But S.S. ain't bad! I could live on mine if I needed to.

progressoid

(49,991 posts)

4. See? We have more than a two party system. There's always a Third Way!

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Wed Dec 19, 2012, 07:00 PM

Dec 2012

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