Oh, it’s LYNNE? By the way, Social Security is taxed into what is supposed to be a separate “fund”- it’s insurance. Medicare is taxed ( I paid my 7% for years) as a separate FUND for INSURANCE. Unemployment is “taxed” in a separate fund with employer and employee again paying in for INSURANCE, should it be needed. Taking from these “Separate funds” called “borrowing” is where Reagan and the complicit really started to give everyone the shaft, while corporate and wealthy “undertaxed” got into our underwear, big time.
Congress, the public, and especially the TEA party need to reflect on what the GENERAL FUND is supposed to pay for OUTSIDE the supposedly, and to date, self-supporting funds that folks have already paid for. Granted, Social Security is NOT SUPPOSED to be a “pension” merely a safety net, and folks lost sight of that, and started bleeding it off for other purposes, like disability, but maybe Congress should give serious consideration to revising all those additional hits both Republicans AND DEMOCRATS have struck on what under actuarial tables, should be doing just fine, thank you, very much.
Now maybe if we stopped blowing so many people up, we’d stop blowing the economy?
Refund all of the money I’ve paid into Social Security, preferably with interest, and I’ll be okay with eliminating it. But only with a full refund. Otherwise, fix it and stop diverting the funds.
Harley- my dad took SS early, at 62, and died the day his first check came. My mom will be 99 in two weeks, worked until she was 80. It’s not “getting back” but playing the law of averages. When you buy life insurance, the companies are betting you’ll live long enough to miss a payment and get cancelled. YOU are betting you DIE!! Okay, where’s the benefit to YOU??
Obama appointed more Czars in his 1st term than Russia ever had in total.,,,and used the word “Czars” to circumvent congress’s approval. Wonder how much that added to our debt?
Unfortunately, Kimberley, they’ve spent your payments on fighting wars and subsidising handouts to the rich so there’s only enough left to keep the politicians in state-funded healthcare and to pay spin-doctors to try to convince you that’s a good thing …
Narrowminded, you continue to try to run your narrow-guage on a standard gauge set of tracks, but only have one rail, that’s called an intellectual train wreck.
zekedog55 almost 13 years ago
“…who’ll stop the rain?” (I ain’t no Senator’s son!)
-HARLAN almost 13 years ago
Hell hath no fury like a granny scorned!
stoic567 almost 13 years ago
Don’t fret, Grannie, you have already solved bigger problems than the petulant teenager currently occupying the Oval Office.
Dtroutma almost 13 years ago
That IS Dick Cheney, right??
Spyderred almost 13 years ago
I know it’s easier to prefer bigotry over facts, folks, but it’s the dissension in the elephant ranks that’s causing the problem.
jkshaw almost 13 years ago
The thing to keep in mind, spyderred, is that the people spewing nonsense in these cartoon comments are allowed to vote.
Carolo1 almost 13 years ago
The old lady is me. I don’t have a gun but I do vote.
Dtroutma almost 13 years ago
Oh, it’s LYNNE? By the way, Social Security is taxed into what is supposed to be a separate “fund”- it’s insurance. Medicare is taxed ( I paid my 7% for years) as a separate FUND for INSURANCE. Unemployment is “taxed” in a separate fund with employer and employee again paying in for INSURANCE, should it be needed. Taking from these “Separate funds” called “borrowing” is where Reagan and the complicit really started to give everyone the shaft, while corporate and wealthy “undertaxed” got into our underwear, big time.
Congress, the public, and especially the TEA party need to reflect on what the GENERAL FUND is supposed to pay for OUTSIDE the supposedly, and to date, self-supporting funds that folks have already paid for. Granted, Social Security is NOT SUPPOSED to be a “pension” merely a safety net, and folks lost sight of that, and started bleeding it off for other purposes, like disability, but maybe Congress should give serious consideration to revising all those additional hits both Republicans AND DEMOCRATS have struck on what under actuarial tables, should be doing just fine, thank you, very much.
Now maybe if we stopped blowing so many people up, we’d stop blowing the economy?
stoic567 almost 13 years ago
Rest easy tonight. Social Security Trust Fund has already been stolen. Are you having fun yet?
ScullyUFO almost 13 years ago
Ask not what your country will do for you; rather, ask what your country will do for you.
Carolo1 almost 13 years ago
Don’t make boner cry.
cjr53 almost 13 years ago
Refund all of the money I’ve paid into Social Security, preferably with interest, and I’ll be okay with eliminating it. But only with a full refund. Otherwise, fix it and stop diverting the funds.
Dtroutma almost 13 years ago
Harley- my dad took SS early, at 62, and died the day his first check came. My mom will be 99 in two weeks, worked until she was 80. It’s not “getting back” but playing the law of averages. When you buy life insurance, the companies are betting you’ll live long enough to miss a payment and get cancelled. YOU are betting you DIE!! Okay, where’s the benefit to YOU??
kreole almost 13 years ago
Obama appointed more Czars in his 1st term than Russia ever had in total.,,,and used the word “Czars” to circumvent congress’s approval. Wonder how much that added to our debt?
Kingoswald Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Unfortunately, Kimberley, they’ve spent your payments on fighting wars and subsidising handouts to the rich so there’s only enough left to keep the politicians in state-funded healthcare and to pay spin-doctors to try to convince you that’s a good thing …
halfabug almost 13 years ago
Just what makes Fennec bigot. Did you just feel you have to name call.
Dtroutma almost 13 years ago
Narrowminded, you continue to try to run your narrow-guage on a standard gauge set of tracks, but only have one rail, that’s called an intellectual train wreck.
kreole almost 13 years ago
Pretty simple….she paid into the system.. It’s HER money!
grayhares01 almost 13 years ago
You keep using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means…