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Tansy_Gold

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12. #23 is deceptive -- makes me distrust the rest of the claims, ayuh.

Thu Jan 5, 2012, 11:05 PM

Jan 2012

#23 In 1950, each retiree's Social Security benefit was paid for by 16U.S. workers. According to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are now only 1.75 full-time private sector workers for each person that is receiving Social Security benefits in the United States.

a. Part-time employees pay into FICA as well as full-time
b. Public sector employees -- firefighters, teachers, police officers, county clerks and auditors and assessors and sheriffs, judges, DMV employees, postal clerks, military personnel, national park service employees, IRS auditors, USDA helth inspectors -- pay FICA taxes the same as private sector employees.

If this one datum can be debunked so easily, by someone with as little knowledge as I have, the others have to be suspect as well.

Once again, someone is trying to manipulate our minds with fear. . .. but it's fear of the wrong things.

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Debt may be a long term problem, but it certainly isn't an emergency [View all] eridani Jan 2012 OP

You might want to take a look at this thread from a couple days ago on the same topic -- Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #1

What you apparently fail to grasp, is that a Treasury Bond isn't money "borrowed". A HERETIC I AM Jan 2012 #2

Actually, I know very little about bonds Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #3

Then I'll do my best to help you understand them just a little more. A HERETIC I AM Jan 2012 #5

Excuse me, but I think you just agreed with me, except where you misunderstood me Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #6

It depends on which debt. westerebus Jan 2012 #4

Dear Westerebus, Po_d Mainiac Jan 2012 #7

The reason to Keep Your Powder Dry is on the way... westerebus Jan 2012 #8

$20? Po_d Mainiac Jan 2012 #9

Randon notation AG. westerebus Jan 2012 #19

I tend to fergets the $40-48 ramp job. Dog farts have lingered longer than that. Po_d Mainiac Jan 2012 #23

Curious and curiouser. westerebus Jan 2012 #24

Assassinations, 9/11's and other 'Black Swan' cover-ups don't come cheap Po_d Mainiac Jan 2012 #25

datum can suck Po_d Mainiac Jan 2012 #10

What's wrong with transfer payments going up? eridani Jan 2012 #11

That wood be an option Po_d Mainiac Jan 2012 #20

Or we could shorten work weeks and raise or maintain pay eridani Jan 2012 #22

#23 is deceptive -- makes me distrust the rest of the claims, ayuh. Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #12

The key words are 'private sector' Po_d Mainiac Jan 2012 #13

But the numbers are still deceptive Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #14

You are talking money (which is worse) Po_d Mainiac Jan 2012 #16

But even the number of contributors isn't apples to apples Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #17

It ain't a left or right thing Po_d Mainiac Jan 2012 #21

You're All Having a Par-tay, And Didn't Invite Me? Demeter Jan 2012 #15

It didn't start out as a par-tay Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #18

As long as the debt is denomonated in dollars it makes no difference. Sam1 Jan 2012 #26