Social Security audit finds dead people getting checks

Well, whether or not you think it can happen, it is. We're on the brink of a depression, that's not a 'scare tactic', it's a reality. They'll use that to their every advantage, they're doing so already. It will take until my children are well into middle adult hood to get back to where we should be, if it ever happens. I care about this b/c of my children and their future and I'm watching it be destroyed by these corrupt, power hungry assholes in Washington.

I worried about Reagan's deficit spending for the same reason. George H.W. Bush tried to get Reagan's deficit under control and lost the election to somebody who did, and Junior caused it to shoot right back up. Funny that the whole "deficit" problem is suddenly something "new" that conservatives worry about.

Where is the "New" non-GOP conservative plan for deficit reduction? Their latest proposal in the health care debate would also cost the taxpayers $1.5 trillion. Imagine that. They want to "cut spending" which is a two-word talking point meaning zilch because they know damned well that "cutting spending" on existing domestic programs means loss of precious votes they so desperately need.

Just FYI... The majority of Americans like their healthcare as it currently is...

As Obama Pushes National Health Care, Most Americans Already Happy With Coverage - Political News - FOXNews.com


and just FYI... Government run healthcare is a huge success in Mass...LOL 26% consider it a success... LOL

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You really need to wake up and start thinking for yourself... You do know that Government run means more taxes for the people right? Maybe you don't pay taxes so it's a great idea for you but for us who pay taxes it's not fair....

By the way have you seen Medicare lately... Why do you think it is a success? I wait anxiously for your answer....LOL

Amen brother... There is absolutely NO incentive for the government to increase effiency in something when they know they can just increase taxes to fix their mistakes.... It's amazing people are too dumb to see this... and these people vote!!!!

I think you will find the majority of people who don't care about this don't have children... so they are the most important person in their life and when they are gone their view is "F" the rest....

The overall opinion by 72% plus/minus a point or two, is that people want health care REFORM. However, they either don't agree on how it should be paid for, or they don't want to pay for it at all. Fox and Rasmussen are only two polls, obviously the ONLY ones ever checked for "validity" by the right-wingers. Here's ALL OF THEM!!! (With a new Quinnipiac poll coming out today):

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I vote only after I educate myself. Try it sometime. To say that NO government program is efficiently run is historically just not true. NASA? The abolishment of the draft for an all-volunteer military? Even Social Security is well-run; if the well weren't running dry because more people are living longer, SS is one of the most effective and efficient government programs ever. And then there's Medicare. Do some homework for a change. You don't have to order the book, just read the analysis.

Prospective Payment: Medicare's Secret Success Story -- Cunningham 26 (3): 896 -- Health Affairs
This slender volume offers value on several dimensions. First, it is an explication of recent history that connects the dots from prospective payment to Medicare-based deficit reduction to cost shifting to managed care. By the same token, the story here serves as a bracing corrective to the mythology of market-based reform and the assumption that government’s role in health is inescapably a negative one.

My children were small when Reagan's deficits emerged and they still managed to have productive lives in spite of it. They didn't decide not to have children because the Iraq war was being charged to other countries. Your base argument is moot.

What's going on today is unprecedented. Spending is completely out of control. Where are YOU now? You have the nerve to talk about worrying about Reagan's deficit spending yet you sit here and defend what is going on today?

Read some of my other posts. I don't defend it because deficit spending has ALWAYS been a concern of mine. My point was that apparently it has not been for you guys until now. That said, there will always be a certain amount of deficit spending. We do not operate on the gold standard anymore.

'You guys'? You find one post on here where I've ever championed deficit spending by anyone. I am anti-government, period. There is no political party that represents me today, the entire government is out of control. You'll spout off about Regan in a partisan tirade and then turn around in thread after thread and champion the Democrats and what they're doing today. You're the one who looks the fool.

Are these the same dead people who are voting?

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“The living of one protective principle of the gospel is better than a thousand compensatory government programs—which programs are, so often, like ‘straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic.’ ” Neal A Maxwell

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature." -ETB

I disagree. They can be eradicated completely. Course it requires either complete destructions of the human race or everyone being completly converted to doing what's right and following through.

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“The living of one protective principle of the gospel is better than a thousand compensatory government programs—which programs are, so often, like ‘straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic.’ ” Neal A Maxwell

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature." -ETB

Better than a non-competition system? Yes of course.

The fact that competition exists doesnt mean that everythings going to be perfect. In fact, its supposed to eliminate non-sustainable organizations. That way only things that work remain.

We have incredible advancement in technology and treatments that will cease to exist without competition to inspire them.

Whats the point of adopting a government system we know will be inherently more corrupt than the system we have?

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“The living of one protective principle of the gospel is better than a thousand compensatory government programs—which programs are, so often, like ‘straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic.’ ” Neal A Maxwell

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature." -ETB

now you know she cheats on the old man,, there is 35 years difference in their ages...