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Warpy

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48. My then 86 year old dad once told me the bankers always said the same thing

Tue Nov 27, 2012, 04:42 PM

Nov 2012

and that they'd been saying it since the 1930s when Social Security was set up and that they're as wrong now as they were then.

Blankfein and his bloodless, vicious ilk would like nothing better than to kill Social Security so they have more dollars out there to grab. It's our job to make sure they continue to be frustrated.

Should they make a credible try this time, I await the tumbrils. There can be no other response.

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