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Government: You Want Your Social Security? Fine. Then Give Us Your Guns!
Townhall.com ^ | July 20, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 07/20/2015 4:50:39 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: savagesusie

“We can never allow pseudo-science decisions to be in the hand of the State, which this is.”

My father used to say: “Internists know everything and do nothing. Surgeons know nothing and do everything. Psychiatrists know nothing and do nothing!”


21 posted on 07/20/2015 5:37:01 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: WyCoKsRepublican
You completely missed the point about "control creep".

The initial phase was pointless as you said but they never quit. The anti-smoking lobby just kept on demanding more until they exercise excessive, nearly absolute control in individual lives.

The gay lobby has used the same technique by assigning "hate" status to anyone who simply disagrees with them. Now they are set to destroy any opposition financially. The next step will be a firing squad.

22 posted on 07/20/2015 5:38:49 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Kaslin
Once this has been in effect a while, the next step will be to have all Social Security recipients undergo a mental eval.
Just another step in the hare-brained plan to take our guns.
23 posted on 07/20/2015 5:40:16 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: Kaslin

Yet anther reason you shouldn’t want the Government managing anything. They tend to act in accordance to the various interest of political leaders rather than your interest. Thus suddenly your retirement plan and your healthcare suddenly become contingent upon a host of other unrelated demands.

Don’t be shocked at all when Obama ‘encourages’ IE orders ‘insurance’ plans to ‘discourage’ gun ownership, before moving on to strip other freedoms in the name of Washington’s political interest.

Keep control of theses things yourself and nobody can uses them against you. Let Government have control and they will be used against you when ever politicians see fit.


24 posted on 07/20/2015 5:51:34 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Kaslin
Imagine the screams from the Left if a republican president declared if you want your public assistance, prove you're not on drugs.
25 posted on 07/20/2015 6:18:18 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Rockitz

You would hear the screams straight across the Atlantic


26 posted on 07/20/2015 6:35:27 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Calpublican

I believe that


27 posted on 07/20/2015 6:38:57 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Not everyone receiving S.S. benefits through a representative payee are old people, many of them are minors.


28 posted on 07/20/2015 9:31:15 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Kaslin

Do you know how many Veterans receive Social Security Benefits. 65 is the age limit some start receiving it and most Viet Nam vets are in, or very close to that age.


29 posted on 07/20/2015 10:21:56 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: Kaslin

Anyone know if they’re going to come after the guns of the representative payees, too?

If so, they’d be in some deep doo-doo.


30 posted on 07/20/2015 10:27:57 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (We're gonna need more Benjamin Martins to hold off the Col. Tavingtons o'er the hill.)
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To: Calpublican

“Most of them could not handle their affairs because they had thieving lying relatives and/or caregivers.”

So they need a gun even more!

I think it would be hard to confiscate guns, but easy enough to prohibit them from buying new guns.

I imagine trust fund type things, or LLC’s that manage for retirement would also be included.


31 posted on 07/20/2015 10:33:35 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Kaslin
If that takes effect, it will be a shoot and get off free status.

What government could deem a person incapable of owning a gun for mental reasons and then convict them for "venting" (all sorts of puns waiting in the last)?

32 posted on 07/21/2015 3:06:09 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Kaslin

An ‘older’ white man involved in a national news shooting in Louisiana- boy is that convenient..


33 posted on 07/23/2015 9:22:59 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: delchiante

He wasn’t a senior citizen though at age 58


34 posted on 07/24/2015 4:50:51 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

When can someone begin getting social security?

I ask because I don’t know. Can someone get social security if their spouse was a senior citizen?

Again, I am not near the age so don’t know.

I suspect they would know what medications this guy was on. I haven’t caught up on the story today so some of this may already be known


35 posted on 07/24/2015 4:57:52 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: Uncle Miltie
I hope old people shoot social security administrators when they come for the guns.

Guns will not be their only problem.


36 posted on 07/30/2015 8:51:18 AM PDT by archy
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