Social Security didn't run out. The money was stolen by Ronald Reagan.
Thanks for the laugh .... but it was the Democrat Congress that pilliaged SS. Along with the help of Republican incumbents who need to be voted out.
On this point, I agree with you. I don't have a problem with Social Security. I have a problem with Congress raping SS to fund other projects.
This is the essense of the TEA party. You would probably agree more with the TEA Party movement if you understood that it really has nothing to do with Republican or Democrat, but everything to do with fiscal responsibility.
Want to extend unemployment? Fine ... cut somewhere else in the budget to pay for it. Don't just add it to the debt.
Want Gubmint funded healthcare? Find a way to pay for it other than borrowing from China.
Want to cut military spending? PUT IT ON THE BALLOT! I suggest to you, that the American people do not want to under-fund our military efforts.
There's no reason to assume that everything can be solved with another tax increase. Liberals ... sorry .... "progressives" cant get it through their heads that private industry and Capitalism are the engines of prosperity in the USA. Kill private enterprise, and you kill the prosperity. The Jobs go away, and tax revenues
D R O P .
The mentality that I hate is how the right always diminishes human beings and finds a way to dehumanize poverty.
Your rhetoric shows just how poisonous your ilk has become.
We see compassion differently than you.
You view compassion by how many people receive help by the government
We view compassion by how many people no longer need the government help.
We both have compassion for the impoverished. Unfortunately there is so much waste and fraud that the inefficiency of all those entitlement dollars ends up doing far more harm to the impoverished than good.
THE WELL IS DRYING UP - PROGRESSIVES THINK POURING SAND IN THE WELL WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
"Republicans care more about property, Democrats care more about people"
Ted Sorensen
If that were the only quote from Ted, I would assume he was an idiot.
Conservatives are far more charitable than liberals ... that is a proven fact.
I will link to the multiple studies if you would like. I'm new here, but I suspect that someone has already posted that fact.
I say that, not to brag or boast, but to show how utterly incorrect you are about your opposition, and how willing your Commerades are to outright lie about your oppositions motives and practices.[/QUOTE]
Here is what you don't understand...the jobs HAVE gone away. Trickle down FAILED miserably. We are now in the same wealth to poor ratio as the 1920's during the reign of the robber barons. During the despot Bush administration the FEWEST jobs were created since job creation statistics have been kept.
Bush On Jobs: The Worst Track Record On Record - Real Time Economics - WSJ
Ronald Reagan stole SS money to pay down the deficit created by the lose of revenue from his tax cuts. THEN Reagan raised taxes
In 1981, Reagan signed a law that sharply reduced the income tax for the wealthiest Americans and corporations. The president asserted his program would create jobs, purge inflation and, get this, trim the budget deficit. However, following the tax cut, the deficit soared from 2.5 percent of GDP to over 6 percent, alarming financial markets, sending interest rates sky high, and culminating in the worst recession since the 1930's.
Soon the president realized he needed new revenues to trim the deficit, bring down interest rates and improve his chances for reelection. He would not rescind the income tax cut, but other taxes were acceptable. In 1982, taxes were raised on gasoline and cigarettes, but the deficit hardly budged. In 1983, the president signed the biggest tax rise on payrolls, promising to create a surplus in the Social Security system, while knowing all along that the new revenue would be used to finance the deficit.
The retirement system was looted from the first day the Social Security surplus came into being, because the legislation itself gave the president a free hand to spend the surplus in any way he liked. Thus began a massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class, especially the self-employed small businessman, to the wealthy. The self-employment tax jumped as much as 66 percent.
In 1986, Reagan slashed the top tax rate further. His redistributionist obsession led to a perversity in the law. The wealthiest faced a 28 percent tax rate, while those with lower incomes faced a 33 percent rate; in addition, the bottom rate climbed from 11 percent to 15 percent. For the first time in history, the top rate fell and the bottom rate rose simultaneously. Even unemployment compensation was not spared. The jobless had to pay income tax on their benefits. A year later, the man who would not spare unemployment compensation from taxation called for a cut in the capital gains tax. Thus, Reagan was a staunch socialist, totally committed to his cause of wealth redistribution towards the affluent.
How much wealth transfer has occurred through Reagan's policies? At least $3 trillion.
The Social Security hike generated over $2 trillion in surplus between 1984 and 2007, and if it had been properly invested, say, in AAA corporate bonds it could have earned another trillion by now. At present, the fund is empty, because it has been used up to finance the federal deficits resulting from frequent cuts in income tax rates. If this is not redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich, what else is?
Thus, Reagan was the first Republican socialist - and a great one, because his wealth transfer occurred on a massive scale. His accomplishment dwarfs even FDR's, and if today the small businessman suffers a crippling tax burden, he must thank Reagan the redistributionist. However, FDR took pains to help the poor, while Reagan took pains to help the wealthiest like himself.
Reagan's measures were similar to those that the Republicans adopted during the 1920's, which were followed by the catastrophic Depression. More recently, such policies were mimicked by President George W. Bush and they are about to plunge the world into a depression as well. Ironically, the Reagan-style socialism or wealth redistribution is about to destroy monopoly capitalism, the very system that he wanted to preserve and enrich.
Reagan: The Great American Socialist[/QUOTE]
You are such an idiot.
All anyone needs to know about you they can learn from your moronic assertion that it's "poisonous" to point out when people are behaving in a way that dehumanizes others.
