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LLStarks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-03-11 04:26 PM Original message |
Thought experiment about entitlements |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-03-11 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. If the democrats do not have a hand in SS reform, like means testing and such, the GOP will |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 06:08 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Could you explain this please? |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 01:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Have you not noticed the attack on unions by the GOP? In WI? And some have |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-11 05:06 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Organized labor |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-11 10:33 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Well I was getting alot of my worries from pro union people on the DU. If you say |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 03:18 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Pro union people need to be careful? |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 01:39 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I'm for unions. I don't want to see talk of corporations destroyed because |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 02:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Again, I've never heard of unions wanting to destroy corporations. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 08:32 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Can we say that 100% of people on the DU are pro-union? Yes. I have come across numerous posters |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 08:14 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I believe almost all of us would prefer |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 08:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I don't have a problem with people on the DU, Union supporters, who just want |
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fivepennies (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 08:49 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Do they really want the corporations destroyed |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 09:32 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I agree there is such a thing as too big, too powerful, too evil. And these things |
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fivepennies (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 10:00 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I have a friend who is almost exactly as you portrayed |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 10:08 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. It starts with talk, words and pieces of paper. That is how the GOP have indoctrinated |
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LaydeeBug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 07:00 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. BULLSHIT!! this is a false choice as repigs will try to privatize it anyway. nt |
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alc (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-03-11 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. nobody is guaranteed entitlements. from ssa.gov |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 06:28 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Long haul solutions are quite easy |
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MH1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
11. It's not a thought experiment, it's REALITY -you have to pay into the system to get SS and Medicare. |
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fivepennies (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
17. Whenever I hear the word entitlements |
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Zenlitened (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. That's not how it works, at all. You have to pay into the system to collect. |
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