Proud members of the Itty Bitty Hissyfit Committee to Support Social Security. Check in.

[Luminous Animal]

Get up. Stand up. Stand for your rights.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Sooooooo meta

DU Committee To Discuss DU Threads About DU Threads will meet in room 103, opposite the Itty Bitty Hissyfitty Committee Pot Luck.

[Luminous Animal]

3. As if the other thread wasn't meta.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Meta Meta Meta Meta, then

So very meta!



Have fun Discussing DU and stuff!

[NYC_SKP]

12. I didn't want to add an explanation.

We don't call one another troll at DU.

Thanks in advance for being more civil in your discussions in our community.

[Safetykitten]

2. Meoooowwwww ME!

[kestrel91316]

4. I've been contributing to SS for 40 years.

I have made my career AND retirement plans based on the assumption that it would be there for me. My career path is set. It is too late for me to change course and fix things if they take away the little bit of SS I am going to get (and NEED) when I am old. If they snatch it, I will literally have to work until the day I drop dead. Not easy for a medical professional.

[Skittles]

6. it is disgusting I tell you kestrel

they've just changed the rules of the game so that people in their 50's and older are thoroughly screwed with little time or recourse to switch gears

[madville]

7. Well it's fully funded through 2033 right now

2027 if the regular SS trust fund has to cover shortfalls in the SSDI program. I'm eligible to receive SS in 2040, who knows what shape it will be in by then.

[kestrel91316]

42. "Fully funded" means nothing. They will STILL cut benefits.

[Luminous Animal]

8. Thank you Kestral. A lot of people don't take into consideration that SS is PART of their retirement

plans. Throw people a curve ball in those plans may result in hardship.

[HiPointDem]

27. 2/3 of retirees rely on it for half or more of their retirement income. which means that without

it about half of retirees would be up shit creek.

[Mnpaul]

23. on top of that

we paid double since the Reagan years to make the fund solvent(I do give Reagan credit for this idea) only to have that sh*thead Bush use the money to hand out tax cuts. In 2001 the SS trust fund was set to buy up all the national debt by 2014 and would have even had money left over even at the peak retirement boom.

TT and Greenspan

[dawg]

9. Mine isn't even all that "itty bitty".

I've got a pretty big hissy fit going on right now.

[Luminous Animal]

10. Glad to hear it. Me, too. I am so tired of the wealthy screwing us over

From the president on down.

Just fucking screwing us. Making us fight for scraps.

[Luminous Animal]

13. Kick

[WorseBeforeBetter]

14. Retirement is for losers.

[Luminous Animal]

15. Makes sensible sense to me!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

17. To you, yes, but those mocking had to have a cartoon explained to them.

And I'm to take them seriously on matters of the social safety net.

If there's anything "funny" in all of this, PUMA Jane Hamster Face (or was it Hamster Jane PUMA Face?) was right about cuts being on the fucking table. And nothing makes them more apoplectic than Jane Hamsher...

[Luminous Animal]

19. Funny that all those who accused Hamsher of being a PUMA will vote for Clinton

if she chooses to run in '16.

For what it is worth, Jane's site and Jane herself, similar to the Admin's on DU, never took an official position during the Obama v Clinton primary.

And yes, Jane has been right about SS cuts.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

20. Obama Derangement Syndrome is quite powerful.

At least many Bush fanatics have come 'round and admitted they were wrong; I don't ever see that happening with some of Obama's True Believers. Maybe when they're trying to live on $1,000/month or less...

[Luminous Animal]

16. Post why you are throwing a Hissyfit!

Don't let the plutocrats win!

Get up
Stand up
Stand up for your rights.

[Starry Messenger]

18. This stuff stresses me out.

If there aren't going to be cuts or reductions to SS, people aren't explaining it very well. My mom is mainly on SS, and that will probably be my main source of income when I'm old. I could give a shit that people think I'm poutraging. If you think I'm a whiner, come and pay my grocery bill when I "retire" (that's the general you, not the you you L.A.)...

[Luminous Animal]

21. Hugs for you. There are millions of U.S. citiizens who have to rely on SS

as a main source of income. And for millions of others, SS is an important part of their retirement plan. For an incredibly wealthy country, our average citizen has squat.

[unapatriciated]

38. My son who has been disabled since age 13...

Qualified for SSI at age 22 and that is his only source of income. It is not enough to cover most of his medical or living expenses. He lives with his brother and I supplement him by paying a lot of his medical cost. Looks like the disabled will be hit big time by this plan. I'm 61 and see no way I will be able to retire because of these cuts. So yeah I'm having a big hissy fit.

[forestpath]

22. Count me in. And like it's supposed to be an INSULT to be compared to a cat?!?

I can't think of a bigger compliment myself.

[Luminous Animal]

25. Nice And as if a hissing cat has no standing to be annoyed.

[Le Taz Hot]

24. I saw that

and thought it was despicable. People standing up for their rights -- something Democrats USED to do -- are now deemed as throwing "hissyfits." Way to turn people off of your message. That person won't be cluttering up my screen anymore.

[Doctor_J]

35. Hissyfits and worse

"liberals"

Ouch

[Le Taz Hot]

36. Used to be

only Republicans used the word "liberal" as a pejorative.

[KoKo]

45. I Trashed the Thread...it looked like some of the stuff that used to

be on META Forum that Skinner shut down. That "Trash Thread" is a wonderful thing. I use it rarely...but that was just meant to try to cause some ill feelings here like used to happen in META.

[quinnox]

26. It just proves that some are not real Democrats but

instead, part of a cult of personality. Anything can be excused, and with absolutely zero principles. As long as it is proposed by the leader, it must be divine and the right thing to do. >

[Le Taz Hot]

37. How very North Korea of them.

[Luminous Animal]

28. Kick.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

29. Checking in!

Messing with SS and the social safety net - not on my watch.

[In_The_Wind]

30. Count me in on this!

[The Link]

31. Rec.

[KG]

32. quite the little sensible circle-jerk the woodchucks got going on over there...

[UnrepentantLiberal]

33. Yo

How dare we criticize Dear Leader?

[Autumn]

34. Never fuck with a hissing cat, they mean business when they do that

checking in.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

39. I interrupt this poutrage with an announcement...

Only fucking degenerates call our President "Dear Leader"



We now continue with your hyperbolic gnashing of teeth.

[The Link]

40. Too frightened to respond to the poster?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

44. "hyperbolic gnashing of teeth"? WHUT?

hy·per·bol·ic (hpr-blk) also hy·per·bol·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or employing hyperbole.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hyperbolic

hy·per·bo·le (h-pûrb-l)
n.
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hyperbole

Which dumbass Circle D blog did that expression come from? LOL

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

41. Checking in.

I wonder if the OP of that thread or anyone who recommended it looked at today's Pic Of the Moment on DU?

[bvar22]

43. But Social Security and Retirement is such a little thing.

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I just don't understand WHY anyone would be upset.
It is FAR past time that someone had the courage to dismantle those last remaining obsolete legacies from that horrible FDR.
As all the new Centrist NeoLiberals know, The Giant Invisible Hand will take care of us all.

Did you see the hunky photos form the Easter Egg Roll?
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