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RoccoR5955

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2. What a line of hokum.

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 03:10 AM

Mar 2013

The way that you fix the paid insurance plan called Social Security is to raise the cap. No ifs ands or buts!
If we raise the cap to 250,000, up from the current 110,000, the fund would be viable for more than 100 years.

And they are not entitlements, they are paid for benefits, that never were to be part of the general budget.
Social Security should not be touched by any budget other than its own.

The entitlements that MUST be cut, are the entitlements that oil companies, defense contractors, and privately run prisons get.

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Jonathan Alter: Why Democrats must get smarter on entitlements [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2013 OP

Bullshit. MannyGoldstein Mar 2013 #1

What a line of hokum. RoccoR5955 Mar 2013 #2

Yeah, John2 Mar 2013 #9

Threatening last sentence, oddly AFTER the Jonathan Alter ID & email contact. patrice Mar 2013 #3

Ooh- another member of the investor class who thinks the plebes aren't poor enough yet. Marr Mar 2013 #4

the rich can never have to much and the rest can never have too little yurbud Mar 2013 #13

But, there's Big Money for being "stupid" in DC. blkmusclmachine Mar 2013 #5

If the cap were raised, why would SS then need means-testing? patrice Mar 2013 #6

Re Means-testing: Do wealthy receive SSI? LOTS of advertising on TV to qualify anyone for SSI patrice Mar 2013 #7

"Jonathan Alter is a Bloomberg View columnist..." kenny blankenship Mar 2013 #8

I'm sure it's fur-lined. RoccoR5955 Mar 2013 #12

Lots of messengers to catapult the propaganda. marmar Mar 2013 #10

Alter is a far right moron posing as a liberal or "centrist." n/t duffyduff Mar 2013 #11