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ProfessorPlum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 03:25 PM Original message |
Far from being broke, the Social Security program is one of the richest entities in the country |
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madmax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. Hello Professor |
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ProfessorPlum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
19. Hmmmm. That's a good one |
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madmax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 10:42 PM Response to Reply #19 |
39. Yes, good place to start |
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madmax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 11:35 PM Response to Reply #19 |
44. The comments section offers a lot |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well said. Now cue the folks that will tell you Treasury bonds aren't worth the paper they're... |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
3. If it wasn't so "rich" it wouldn't be such a juicy target for the wolves. |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 03:41 PM Original message |
Bingo. |
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ProfessorPlum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. You are no doubt right. and all it will take for them to rob us is for us to let them |
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Dyedinthewoolliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
4. There must be money there, |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
5. The Democrats aren't losing the spin on this. They're complicit |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 04:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. They are STILL letting the repukes manage the message....it is pathetic. |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 08:54 PM Response to Reply #5 |
34. Bingo - "The Catfood Commission is NOT being set up on the Republicans' watch" n/t |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
6. Oh, shush, and eat your catfood for the good of the capitalists. |
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COLGATE4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 03:41 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Yeah - nothing to see here. Just move along... |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
8. Kicked and recommended. |
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pa28 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. When a false narrative becomes conventional wisdom it's hard to overcome. |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 04:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. The Dems have allowed the Repukes to make the conventional wisdom be one of SS |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. Recommend |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
11. Great discussion with Nobel Prize winning economist Peter Diamond on NPR yesterday |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 10:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
41. And which fucking freeway culvert does this asshole |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
14. Its a pot of gold just waiting to be looted! nt |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
15. SS has $2.5 trillion in T bonds (IOUs), China and other |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
16. Not exactly. Although there was a Trust Fund etablished it has |
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ProfessorPlum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. A Federal Treasury Bond is a tangible fucking asset |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 06:55 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. There is no "physical" asset backing it. No actual cash or |
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ProfessorPlum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 07:17 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. your point is? |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 08:19 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Remeber Al Gore's "lockbox"? This is what he was talking about. |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 08:31 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. "But, how is it going to pay for those bonds?" How about restoring the taxes on the rich to what |
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ProfessorPlum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 08:48 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Exactly. the poster you are responding to acts like there isn't any |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 09:31 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Did you even read my last post? I said I supported raising the cap |
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ProfessorPlum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 10:34 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. my apologies, I didn't read it carefully enough. |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 09:34 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. I support raising taxes on the rich, as I stated in my post. |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 10:58 PM Response to Reply #16 |
43. Cut the war budget |
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Generic Other (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
17. Also a baby boomlet now underway equal to the end of the last baby boom |
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ProfessorPlum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:52 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Yep, that's a canard |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 05:54 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Really, there seems to be this attitude that the Boomers will live forever and destroy SS. |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 06:23 PM Response to Original message |
23. Exactly why the assholes on Wall Street are trying to snatch it. nt |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
24. Yeah, well by that logic a bunch of defunct banks are wealthy critters |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 06:53 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Deleted message |
cutlassmama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
25. Simple solution, raise the cap |
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felix_numinous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
32. The people's retirement fund |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
33. knr nt |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
37. That's why foreigners in Saudia Arabia, China and Switz. want to get their hands on it |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
40. Raise the cap, tell the Chinese, Japanese and Brits to |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
42. $Trillions for fucking wars ... but let old folks eat dog food |
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madmax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-10 11:46 PM Response to Reply #42 |
45. I may not know how SS works, is funded and the |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-10 12:20 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. I read that we've slipped down to #42 when it comes to Health Care... |
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madmax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-10 12:46 AM Response to Reply #46 |
47. Has the US received any money at all |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-10 12:56 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. AFAIK - not a dime... |
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madmax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-10 01:44 AM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Just so |
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