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byeya

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4. SS operates on a 1% overhead. How can adding a layer of profit and sky-high salaries

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 09:20 PM

Nov 2012

improve a great agency.

SS cannot add to the national debt and has been having the federal government borrow its assets to fund
other programs for years.

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Social Security: The Phony Crisis [View all] eridani Nov 2012 OP

I hope no Democrat will approve of any attempt to connect SS to the Deficit. Millions sabrina 1 Nov 2012 #1

we can not fool ourselves beachbumbob Nov 2012 #2

Cut the rightwing bullshit, please eridani Nov 2012 #3

SS operates on a 1% overhead. How can adding a layer of profit and sky-high salaries byeya Nov 2012 #4

The problem is that billionaires don't want to pay any more than a guy making $110,000... Scuba Nov 2012 #5

The deficit is a phony crisis -- as is the "fiscal cliff" nichomachus Nov 2012 #6