Reply #6: Robbing Peter To Pay Paul

[KharmaTrain]

But that's what the federal government has always done.

The bottom line here is Obama's job. I'm sure he and his people all but eat and breathe the unemployment numbers and if you ask them one statistic that hurt them in November, that's the one they'll point to. They also know that unless that number goes down, they'll face more tough going in 2012. Thus you spend and try to fend off the wolves for another two years and hope the "status quo" means things won't necessarily get better, but they won't get worse.

For many families, the extra money is needed now...few are thinking about when they turn 65 or 67 or whatever the SSI will be when they're elligible to collect. Many don't expect there even to be SSI when they get to that age. Thus I would bet if you polled the question of getting the money now for sure vs. making sure its there in 20 or 40 years, the numbers wouldn't be close.

The fact they'll see more money in their paychecks is all that counts...it doesn't matter where it comes from or what it's called.