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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:29 PM Original message |
I told my son this afternoon, "you will never receive Social Security" |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. Don 't do that. |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. Probably rhetorical. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 01:01 AM Response to Reply #1 |
36. +100. |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
2. I'm in my early 50's, but I never expected to receive, it really... |
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redirish28 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
3. I know that was the hardest thing you probably had to tell him-one of the hardest. |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
4. My sons and I had this same conversation. Who ever would have |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
5. That's what Republicans were saying 40 years ago. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. That is called seed planting. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:47 PM Response to Reply #8 |
22. The GOP has wanted to take down Social Security since its inception. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:39 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. 40 yrs ago the country had a manufacturing base.... |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:44 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. It was a bogus meme 40 years ago, and it's bogus now. |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 11:17 PM Response to Reply #21 |
31. Stop! You're making sense!!! |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
6. If that's the case someone owes us all a shitload of money... |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:42 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. word |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
7. If it was going to be killed, it was going to be from Democrats |
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reformist2 (998 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
9. It's way too early to give up - the Repugs would love that. |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
10. I don't think it's too controversial a thing to say the with the Citizens United ruling, it has... |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
11. ... and denying young people steady work over the last two decades means neither |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
12. Sorry I think this "KILLING OF SOCIAL SECURITY" thing is overblown |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:41 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. well that would be right in the real world but... |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Why not? Reagan raised the rate back in 1983, and he was an R. |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 08:52 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. it is weird |
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Divernan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 06:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
26. 120 B I L L I O N DOLLARS! Of course it affects social security revenues. |
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kelly1mm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 07:22 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. just like the Bush tax cuts ..... oh ...... wait a minute. nt |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 09:20 PM Response to Reply #12 |
30. Just like the Bush tax cuts were supposed to expire this year. |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 12:54 AM Response to Reply #12 |
34. Two years, hon. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
14. Not the way to approach it. Instead, we have to make sure that the third rail works. |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
15. That's freaking mean, and very likely not true. nt |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
19. Hysteria founded on ???? |
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dpibel (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 01:36 AM Response to Reply #19 |
38. Who's clueless? |
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Zen Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
23. My dad never thought he'd get it. He's been receiving it for 25 years. now. |
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Snotcicles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
24. As of 12/2009 I and my employers contributed $142,966.00 on my behalf to Social Security. |
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katty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
25. it's sad--i tell myself that every year-so i am prepared |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
29. Pretty sure the Republicans aren't going to be claiming "tax cuts killed the economy." |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 12:46 AM Response to Original message |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 12:56 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. How awful of you to suggest the poster lie to his/her children. |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
33. Big Corp can play hardball... so can I. |
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NCarolinawoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
37. I still remember my Republican brother saying, |
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Liquorice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 01:36 AM Response to Original message |
39. I have little doubt that Social Security will be there for your son. nt |
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marlakay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 01:43 AM Response to Original message |
40. Both of my kids got jobs with pension |
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