Posted on 10/05/2013 1:12:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Social Security Administration employees are being instructed to tell people who ask that if the debt ceiling is not raised, their social security benefits could be in danger.
In an email sent Friday, obtained by The Daily Caller, employees are instructed:
“If a member of the public asks whether their Social Security payment will be affected if the federal debt ceiling is not raised, you may give the following response: ‘Unlike a federal shutdown which has no impact on the payment of Social Security benefits, failure to raise the debt ceiling puts Social Security benefits at risk.’
“Direct all program–related and technical questions to your supervisor.”
According to the Treasury, the U.S. will reach its borrowing limit on October 17, and if the debt ceiling is not raised before then, the country will default on its debt....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
This is an African-American administration clearly demonstrating the strides made by Affirmative Action.
Isn't multiculturalism great!
We can take our medicine now or kick the can down the road and have to take it later. Raising the debt ceiling is not a cure. Like the commie kids are so fond of saying, “Let’s do this!”
>>Has there ever been an American administration like this one? <<
I don’t think there has even been a UGANDAN Administration like this one!
He’s 4% black, IIRC.
Looks like the “third rail” will be shut down. FDR must be spinning in his grave at 15k rpm.
Don’t they also like to say “Man the barricades!” or some such?
Good point.
Until the Social Security Trust Fund is depleted (current balance roughly $4 trillion), Social Security payments in excess of FICA taxes collected can be paid by redeeming bonds from said trust fund without an increase in net government borrowing.
Anyone who claims otherwise deserves an appointment with a short rope and a tall tree.
Propagandizing for the POTUS. Fundamental transformation at the behest of Hsi Chin-p’ing.
The Clown has the money to pay the debt. Send a bill to the Senate that funds SS. End of discussion.
Perhaps, but he’s 100%.....uh.... er.... well.... something else.
It’s AGAINST THE LAW to WITHHOLD SS PAYMENTS!!!! the Negro Nero doesn’t care about laws!!
Is there even a real Social Security Trust Fund anymore? Or is it an electronic entry with a lot of electronic government IOUs against it and anything real has long been spent?
BS! We ALL know that the funds are in a SECURE LOCK BOX.(/S)
ponzi scheme
FICA taxes are added to the general fund and are allocated for whatever purpose that Congress directs.
Bonds in the Trust Fund are in effect IOUs. Cash to redeem bonds has to come from somewhere. If there is no cash, it means the cash was allocated for other purposes.
Bottomline is a choice will have to be made to pay the interest on the debt, or pay out entitlements, or raise the debt ceiling and pay both.
The Constitutional issue is whether or not the House of Representatives as the body closest to the will of the people will be respected as the controller of the purse.
Perhaps it is time for us to do what the Egyptians did recently when they were fed up with the Muslim Brotherhood government. Up to 20 million Egyptians flooded the streets of Cairo and took back their country. Seems that we have a member of the Muslim Brotherhood destroying our nation, in MHO.. Maybe we might even get the attention of the MSM.
Good. It was never constitutional in the first place. Shut it down, along with every other unconstitutional program and agency.
Liberty and constitutional republican self-governance would then be well on the way to being restored.
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
— James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution
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