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Mon Oct 1, 2012, 08:48 AM

OLDMDDEM (1,275 posts)

89. You are absolutely right

I want all of the earned benefits I am now using to be available to my kids and grandkids.

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89 replies	Author	Time	Post
This 53 year old has it right.... [View all]	Playinghardball	Sep 2012	OP
yup. nt	seabeyond	Sep 2012	#1
SWEET!!!	coldbeer	Sep 2012	#14
Yep. The "over my dead body" part is quite accurate.	Duer 157099	Sep 2012	#2
I am 47 I totally agree...	Kalidurga	Sep 2012	#3
Just turned 48 and totally agree	MotorCityMan	Sep 2012	#55
I'm 75 and I agree	HelenWheels	Sep 2012	#84
You are absolutely right	OLDMDDEM	Oct 2012	#89
Out of money is out of money.	dkf	Sep 2012	#4
RE: out of money is out of money	ToxMarz	Sep 2012	#19
+1	Jazzgirl	Sep 2012	#25
Thanks for answering that so capably..	tokenlib	Sep 2012	#51
How can you pay out $70 trillion when total US wealth is less than $70 trillion?	dkf	Sep 2012	#77
ummm	Loudestlib	Sep 2012	#85
There is plenty of money. It just needs to be paid.	Ikonoklast	Sep 2012	#20
The present value of our federal obligations is $70 trillion if you add social security and Medicare	dkf	Sep 2012	#31
You assume that there will be nothing done to change that.	Ikonoklast	Sep 2012	#33
RE: Crazy huh?	ToxMarz	Sep 2012	#37
"We" didn't get "ourselves" on any hook, we were robbed and the money is still there. n/t	Egalitarian Thug	Sep 2012	#39
You throw that $70 trillion number around pretty liberally (so to speak)...	JHB	Sep 2012	#64
The SS fund is not in any danger of not being able to meet its obligations for at least another	sabrina 1	Sep 2012	#30
The net present value of federal obligations is $70 trillion. That equals all the world's assets.	dkf	Sep 2012	#34
Oh FFS dkf	HangOnKids	Sep 2012	#38
You tell me when the US Government has ever defaulted on its	sabrina 1	Sep 2012	#40
They aren't going to default on the Treasury Bonds. It's the rest of the obligations at risk.	dkf	Sep 2012	#42
What obligations are at risk?	sabrina 1	Sep 2012	#46
No...I'm talking about after the trust fund is used up.	dkf	Sep 2012	#54
The trust fund will not be used up. It has three sources of revenue and	sabrina 1	Sep 2012	#56
Do you not understand they have obligated more money than exists?	dkf	Sep 2012	#69
You Understand That The Wealth Is Recycled Over Time?	ProfessorGAC	Sep 2012	#78
So you think it is perfectly reasonable to think that obligations with a net present value of $70	dkf	Sep 2012	#80
The fucking trust fund is SUPPOSED to be used up, fercrhissakes!	eridani	Sep 2012	#58
When you add all the promises it exceeds our assets.	dkf	Sep 2012	#75
The we default to our other creditors and cut back our imperial war machine	eridani	Sep 2012	#87
How about you break that number down, and go into the assumptions behind it?	JHB	Sep 2012	#65
This is the same logic Bush & Issa used to kill the post office	Doctor_J	Sep 2012	#73
there are numerous flaws in the model	cojoel	Sep 2012	#83
+1	DeeDeeNY	Sep 2012	#70
We need more bullshit RW talking points the way we need holes in our heads n/t	eridani	Sep 2012	#57
Did you get your numbers from Drudge Report? ...Again? n/t	Scootaloo	Sep 2012	#61
Really? Tell the 1%ers whose wealth is growing exponentially	dotymed	Sep 2012	#71
There is plenty of money. Its just spent on the wrong things.	olegramps	Sep 2012	#76
Am 64 and will be taking Medicare in Jan. I don't want to see anyone lose these benefits.	southernyankeebelle	Sep 2012	#5
+1000. Just found out that I will have to have a cataract operation	eridani	Sep 2012	#59
I am grateful to get it. I will fight for the younger people to have it also. Not just for my	southernyankeebelle	Sep 2012	#66
Oh, yes, and then some...	MANative	Sep 2012	#6
I resemble that remark	liberal N proud	Sep 2012	#7
I'm 51...	Sophiegirl	Sep 2012	#8
They need to raise the ceiling on FICA.	Blanks	Sep 2012	#9
Exactly	PatSeg	Sep 2012	#22
President Obama supported it in 2008--it's better than cuts..	tokenlib	Sep 2012	#53
I'm 53 as well and that's EXACTLY how I feel.	Matariki	Sep 2012	#10
Especially when they enjoy all sorts of "entitlements" themselves	Art_from_Ark	Sep 2012	#48
I will turn 64 in November	HockeyMom	Sep 2012	#11
I'm 55 & I don't believe the bullshit that I'm safe.	CrispyQ	Sep 2012	#12
Anyone over 55 (or even over 65) who thinks they are safe is delusional	eridani	Sep 2012	#62
I'm a little short of that mark, but not by much...	JHB	Sep 2012	#13
as they talk about stopping Social Security and Medicare	onethatcares	Sep 2012	#15
Remember the "work until you're 70" suggestions of late?	KansDem	Sep 2012	#35
yes, I remember that	onethatcares	Sep 2012	#43
more divide + conquer.	pansypoo53219	Sep 2012	#16
Do the right thing!	HenryWallace	Sep 2012	#17
So how do we fix it?	pediatricmedic	Sep 2012	#18
Change the tax rate paid from 2.9% to 4.25%. Medicare Fixed.	Ikonoklast	Sep 2012	#24
There are a number of tweaks that could be tried	taught_me_patience	Sep 2012	#28
Don't forget Medicare for All. If our per capita health care expenses were the same--	eridani	Sep 2012	#63
Fix what? You just made a false statement regarding SS.	sabrina 1	Sep 2012	#41
mark to come back to	rurallib	Sep 2012	#21
Bullshit. It's only a little adjustment around the margins.	MannyGoldstein	Sep 2012	#23
You think cat food is cheap?	still_one	Sep 2012	#27
Some of it is pretty cheap	Art_from_Ark	Sep 2012	#52
At 61 I'm eligible to file for SS in December--and I am.	mnhtnbb	Sep 2012	#26
I hope he explained that to his parents.	JohnnyRingo	Sep 2012	#29
Retired people need to be made to understand that they are not grandfathered into anything!	brewens	Sep 2012	#32
I happen to be 53, too.	hamsterjill	Sep 2012	#36
I'm 51 and this really pisses me off.	madinmaryland	Sep 2012	#44
Is it possible that hospitals are grossly overcharging and no one is stopping them?	RepublicansRZombies	Sep 2012	#45
I turned 55, this year	Timbuk3	Sep 2012	#47
This 53 year old agrees.	OnionPatch	Sep 2012	#49
I'm 52 and can totally relate - part of why this is being done is demographics	NoAmericanTaliban	Sep 2012	#50
"Fuck the young"	Scootaloo	Sep 2012	#60
What comes after the The Greatest Generation.	Sanddancer	Sep 2012	#67
I just turned 65	OLDMDDEM	Sep 2012	#68
Which is why every single Dem in the WH and Congress should declare,	Doctor_J	Sep 2012	#72
I've been paying into it for 30 years	boston bean	Sep 2012	#74
I'm 49.	Borchkins	Sep 2012	#79
53 next month	LittleGirl	Sep 2012	#81
Amen, I'm 58, sibs are 52, 50 and 46.	joanbarnes	Sep 2012	#82
I'm 48 and feel the exact same way!!!	citizen blues	Sep 2012	#86
Playinghardball	OLDMDDEM	Oct 2012	#88

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