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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 01:56 PM Original message |
Cutting entitlements would increase poverty |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
2. It will also remove money from the larger economy |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
3. umm we pay INTO those things, they are not entitlements Mr. Wilson nt |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 02:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Exactly. We paid into this system with every paycheck & it is A REQUIREMENT - not an ENTITLEMENT - |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 02:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I agree n/t |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 03:11 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. It is an entitlement. I paid into Social Security for over 50 years |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 03:24 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Yeah, well, the Republicans have hijacked the definition of "entitlement" to mean "handout". |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 03:32 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Exactly!! n/t |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 06:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. Well, so what? I am still happy to be collecting that handout. n/t |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 07:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. it'd be best if we didn't let the gop hijack words at will. |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 08:08 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. That is the truth n/t |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 09:32 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. While you're at it, you might instruct the media as well. Good luck with that. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Medicare pays 4x the amount people contribute to it. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 03:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Costs should be addressed. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 03:58 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. By punishing savers through inflation. Sure. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 06:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Inflation does not follow directly from government spending. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 06:13 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I agree with you that in certain environments like now it is relatively benign. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 06:24 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Our debts can easily be paid. |
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Aerows (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 03:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Health care costs are too high |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 06:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
23. fwiw...you need to look up entitlement in a dictionary. |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
8. Would have never dreamed cutting social security and Medicare, thereby putting an untold |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
9. May the names of all responsible for this obscene depravity live forevermore in |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 03:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Yes!! n/t |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 08:18 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. Obama tops on that list. |
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99th_Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
15. Not to mention that SS puts money INTO circulation, as Sr.s buy basic goods/services |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
17. More money for the 1%. People also die faster. Leaves more for them since the planet is crashing. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
22. The right says your local church will help. |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 08:11 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Local churches are often full of poor people as well as those barely hanging on. n/t |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-16-11 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
26. K&R Excellent article!!!!! n/t |
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