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In reply to the discussion: Look folks, politics aside, we might have to cut SS benefits 30 years from now... [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)72. That WOULD make it easier to talk about DEVELOPMENT, e.g. HR 676 Expanded & Improved Medicare for
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Look folks, politics aside, we might have to cut SS benefits 30 years from now... [View all]
cthulu2016
Dec 2012
OP
Why don't we instead talk about de-coupling the means by which PUBLIC debt is financed from
patrice
Dec 2012
#10
One does wonder how this rhetoric looks to younger generations. Link please? I need to read up.
patrice
Dec 2012
#2
Right on! & I think one route that would help would be to stop talking exclusively in terms of
patrice
Dec 2012
#68
As members of a younger generation, we have to remember there was a lot of history before us
jeff47
Dec 2012
#81
Agree. I'm betting that 20/30 years a 8% or so cumulative "cut" from Chained-CPI will look good.
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#16
Wow, pass it on to next generation. If we think it is going to happen, why do that?
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#19
I'm sorry, the younger folks are in essence paying our benefits. We have to consider them.
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#76
Actually, it's not a Tbag talking point. A poster right here said cut the next generations benefits
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#80
Cut it all is OK with me, but it's a drop in the bucket. As to your last line, have a good life.
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#85
Okay, so where is that 30 year figure coming from? Shouldn't we go after that source?
patrice
Dec 2012
#13
Colbert is a genius, but yeah, supposedly RWers think he's really one of them. What kills me is that
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#18
"Its not things that are lacking, regardless of growth and demographics, its fair distribution." +1
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#31
Hahahahaha... you have a dry sense of humor. We need to raise revenue and protect it all. Done.
The Wielding Truth
Dec 2012
#14
Not me, but I'm not for f*cking over my generation and our children either
democrattotheend
Dec 2012
#21
it's your post characterizing the OP as right-wing talking points i refer to.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#42
Link to any member of the GOP saying that cutting benefits now to prevent future benefit cuts
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#47
This is nonsense. SS needs only two things to make it solvent for the next 75 -
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#34
Exactly. And ss has nothing to do with the budget. It is all about reps
Evergreen Emerald
Dec 2012
#38
The TF already has over $2.5 trillion dollars in securities in it. How about the general fund pay
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#43
Engage with reality, would you? Congress is debating MORE TAX CUTS along with SS cuts.
Romulox
Dec 2012
#87
BUT their math doesn’t add up, and their hostility isn’t really about dollars and cents.
Jefferson23
Dec 2012
#58
You heard them--they don't expect to be alive in 30 years, so they don't care...
Romulox
Dec 2012
#89
+++1 & put the money saved into developing authentically NEW forms of entrepreneurship which
patrice
Dec 2012
#70
if we cut our military spending in half, we'd still spend more than the next 4 countries combined
Major Nikon
Dec 2012
#79
That WOULD make it easier to talk about DEVELOPMENT, e.g. HR 676 Expanded & Improved Medicare for
patrice
Dec 2012
#72
Immigrants will one day want to collect Social Security, themselves. Either the plan is sound
Romulox
Dec 2012
#92