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B Calm

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4. I remember getting into an argument with my dad about 30 years ago

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 07:03 AM

Nov 2013

on social security. I was buying into the right wing argument about privatizing social security. He blew up on me and said one day you'll be collecting it and it will be there for your son too! He was right.

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For the first time in a very long time [View all] Fearless Nov 2013 OP

K&R ReRe Nov 2013 #1

Dear and absolutely necessary to our very survival........nt Enthusiast Nov 2013 #7

Hear, hear! k&r n/t Laelth Nov 2013 #2

In spite of all the rhetoric about "American Exceptionalism" being horseshit Half-Century Man Nov 2013 #3

I remember getting into an argument with my dad about 30 years ago B Calm Nov 2013 #4

I'm glad that you now recognize there is no alternative to social security. Enthusiast Nov 2013 #6

K&R. But, Enthusiast Nov 2013 #5

I'm glad someone can expect SS CFLDem Nov 2013 #8