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Coyotl

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22. I call TOTAL Bullshit.

Sat Dec 14, 2013, 12:27 AM

Dec 2013

First of all, Workman's Compensation is for on the job injury.

Second, there would be plenty of jobs if we redirected spending to repair infrastructure, etc.

Third, it would be easy to pay everyone w/o a job to work at something important to the betterment of society, such as restoring all the lost teacher and education sector jobs, buy simply restoring equitable levels of taxation for the rich and corporations.

Regarding what you propose, there is no there there. "Cyber-era" productivity is generating new jobs and benefiting the economy generally. What is harming the economy is military spending, hoarding capital by the rich, and reduction in taxation depriving the economy of public sector employment and non-military expenditure.

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It's time. Soc Sec needs to be expanded to age 50. If Congress cannot provide a job before [View all] CK_John Dec 2013 OP

That has about as much chance of happening as me becoming doc03 Dec 2013 #1

Right. In_The_Wind Dec 2013 #2

That's what they told FDR. CK_John Dec 2013 #3

We don't have FDR or his congress n/t doc03 Dec 2013 #4

Then it's our job to send reps to the next Congress that can do it. CK_John Dec 2013 #6

I think the ACA has pretty much eliminated that doc03 Dec 2013 #23

Just FYI, SSI is disability for the poor/those who don't qualify for Social Security disability. El_Johns Dec 2013 #5

I meant regular SS, will edit. CK_John Dec 2013 #7

Thanks. I wouldn't have corrected you but that people get the two mixed up & then you get El_Johns Dec 2013 #9

That should be a long way down the list of spending priorities, frankly. Donald Ian Rankin Dec 2013 #8

The real problem is Cyber era productivity can not produce enough jobs. CK_John Dec 2013 #11

Unfortunately, the conservatives already have that one figured out. Archaic Dec 2013 #16

You raise legitimate concerns. JDPriestly Dec 2013 #17

So true sandyshoes17 Dec 2013 #10

45 is about to be the new 55. Archaic Dec 2013 #15

K&R! Phlem Dec 2013 #12

rec'd and agreed.... mike_c Dec 2013 #13

I work with a ton of people holding on for dear life Archaic Dec 2013 #14

If I took Social Security now, I'd be impoverished for life Lydia Leftcoast Dec 2013 #18

My folks are in the same spot from the SocSec point. Archaic Dec 2013 #19

K & R AzDar Dec 2013 #20

Damn right! n/t ReRe Dec 2013 #21

I call TOTAL Bullshit. Coyotl Dec 2013 #22

This is certainly true. Enthusiast Dec 2013 #27

Good idea RobertEarl Dec 2013 #24

Money at the national level(any nation) is a concept. It appear when needed such CK_John Dec 2013 #25

SS has been funding the government RobertEarl Dec 2013 #26