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  • The Real Reason Hitting The Debt Limit May Mean Social Security Checks Stop

    07/17/2011 2:49:15 PM PDT · by blam · 85 replies
    IM-Implode.com ^ | 7-14-2011 | Aaron Krowne
    The Real Reason Hitting The Debt Limit May Mean Social Security Checks Stop July 14th, 2011By Aaron Krowne Founder, ML-Implode.com It’s crunch time, and now we’re hearing as part of the hyper-political debt ceiling debate that that Social Security checks may stop. But interestingly, we’re not just hearing that from Congressional Republicans: Obama has raised that spectre as well. Many left-leaning critics are shocked, believing Social Security to be… well… secure, and are incensed that Obama would be willing to slaughter this sacred cow. After all, if in the case of default, the government can prioritize payments to various areas,...
  • What Happened to the $2.6 Trillion Social Security Trust Fund? (Madoff would be proud)

    07/14/2011 12:43:38 PM PDT · by Hojczyk · 92 replies
    Forbes.com ^ | July13 ,2011 | Merrill Matthews
    Well, either Obama and Geithner are lying to us now, or they and all defenders of the Social Security status quo have been lying to us for decades. It must be one or the other. Here’s why: Social Security has a trust fund, and that trust fund is supposed to have $2.6 trillion in it, according to the Social Security trustees. If there are real assets in the trust fund, then Social Security can mail the checks, regardless of what Congress does about the debt limit. President Obama’s budget director, Jack Lew, explained all this last February in USA Today:...
  • ('no budget' Dingy Harry) Reid: No Social Security checks without debt deal

    07/14/2011 10:39:16 AM PDT · by Libloather · 102 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 7/14/11
    Reid: No Social Security checks without debt dealAP – 10 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Echoing President Barack Obama's warning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Social Security payments would stop if there is no deal to raise the government's borrowing limit by Aug. 2. Speaking on the Senate floor, the Nevada Democrat said flatly that payments for veterans benefits and the military, as well as Social Security, would cease if the government defaults on its obligations. His statement goes beyond Obama, who said earlier this week that he could not guarantee Social Security checks will be issued on Aug....
  • CBS: Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security checks will go out on August 3

    07/12/2011 10:45:43 AM PDT · by tcrlaf · 376 replies
    CBS NEWS ^ | 7-12-11 | Corbett Daily
    President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. "I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it," Mr. Obama said in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, according to excerpts released by CBS News.
  • Motion to Compel Docketed at U.S. District Court in Taitz v. Astrue

    07/12/2011 12:26:49 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 6 replies
    Post Email ^ | 7-11-11 | Sharon Rondeau
    When will Judge Royce Lamberth weigh in? ### Motion to Compel directed at the Hawaii Department of Health and its defense counsel, Hawaii Attorney General David M. Louie, was docketed this morning at the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC in her lawsuit, Taitz v. Astrue, which seeks the original social security application for Barack Hussein Obama. Taitz and others have stated that Obama is using a social security number issued in the state of Connecticut where he never worked, lived, nor attended school.
  • Hey, Washington--So How Much Are You Cutting From YOUR Benefits? (Social Security/Medicare)

    07/09/2011 11:00:02 AM PDT · by blam · 24 replies
    TBI ^ | 7-9-2011 | Henry Blodget
    Hey, Washington, I've Been Paying Into Social Security And Medicare For 48 Years--So How Much Are You Cutting From YOUR Benefits? Henry Blodget Jul. 9, 2011, 1:18 PM The following is supposedly a letter written by a Montana farmer to Alan Simpson, a former senator from Wyoming. Simpson was the co-chair of the commission President Obama appointed in 2010 to look at ways to fix our deficit problem. The recommendations of the commission were instantly ignored. Last year, Sen. Simpson compared Social Security to a milk cow with 310 million teats. He also called America's senior citizens the "greediest generation."...
  • The Sneaky Way They Plan on Cutting Social Security Benefits

    07/08/2011 4:41:50 AM PDT · by blam · 152 replies · 2+ views
    EPJ ^ | 7-8-2011
    The Sneaky Way They Plan on Cutting Social Security BenefitsJuly 8, 2011 Talk of changing the way the CPI is calculated is now part of on going talks on how to deal with the debt expansion. Reuters explains bluntly what is going on: President Barack Obama and lawmakers are considering cutting Social Security and increasing revenue by changing the way the government measures inflation. Four senior congressional aides said lawmakers are discussing using an alternative yardstick to gauge inflation, known as the “chained consumer price index,” to determine annual cost-of-living adjustments for millions of Americans. How much of an impact...
  • title:Video: SWAT team raids house over … unpaid student loans

    06/08/2011 10:52:52 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 43 replies · 1+ views
    Hotair ^ | 06/08/2011 | Ed Morrissey
    Via JWF and Reason, we now present this instructional video from the Department of Education. Now that the government has for all practical pruposes nationalized the student-loan industry, the DoE would like to educate recipients on new loan-collection processes. The banks used to send bill collectors and file claims in court, but the Obama administration doesn’t like those kind of harsh private-sector measures to retrieve lost capital. Instead, they’ll send a SWAT team to kick in your door and frighten your children — even if you don’t live with them anymore: CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO Kenneth Wright does...
  • SWAT Team Raids Man's Home Over Student Loans

    06/08/2011 8:54:30 AM PDT · by RIghtwardHo · 92 replies
    Michelle Malkin ^ | 6-8-2011 | RightwardHo
    "Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday."
  • Obama's CT Social Security # Traced To John Paul Ludwig (Lived In CT-Died In Hawaii)

    04/11/2011 8:26:51 PM PDT · by Tahiti Jack · 22 replies
    Blog ^ | 04/10 2011 | USArmyRetired
    This is what we know so far. We get more info on Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in 1890, had CT SSN obtained in 1976 and died in HI around 1981. There are 2 SS numbers for him and records show him dying in 2 different states: CA and HI around 1981. The reason this is important, is because there is a similar fact pattern to Obama. Barack Obama is residing today in the White House, using CT SS number 042-68-4425, issued in CT in and around March 1977 to an elderly individual named John Paul Ludwig, who was...
  • Inside the Secret Service

    02/11/2011 7:22:23 AM PST · by EnjoyingLife · 61 replies
    The Atlantic ^ | March 2011 | Marc Ambinder
    The Presidential Protective Detail is the holiest of holies. Everything stops for the presidential motorcade . . . The prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was not so understanding. His motorcade was arriving at the Sheraton Hotel while a “POTUS Freeze” was in place. The Secret Service agent in charge of Erdogan’s detail asked him to wait until Obama’s motorcade had departed, but the Turkish prime minister did not heed the advice. He opened the door to his car, and armed Turkish agents began exiting the other vehicles in the motorcade. “Don’t do that!” the American detail leader shouted....
  • Schumer steps up Social Security assault on House Republicans (forms caucus w/socialist Sanders)

    01/27/2011 5:36:31 PM PST · by Libloather · 24 replies
    The Hill ^ | 1/27/11 | Alexander Bolton
    Schumer steps up Social Security assault on House RepublicansBy Alexander Bolton - 01/27/11 07:28 PM ET Senate Democrats led by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are gearing up for a battle with House Republicans over Medicare and Social Security benefits. Schumer and other Democratic strategists see Medicare and Social Security as winning political issues that can help them regain the momentum they lost over the last two years. Schumer, who has taken over the Senate Democrats' communications operation, delivered some of his most direct shots at House GOP leaders. “They want to privatize Social Security,” Schumer...
  • Mugged by Medicare: Feds to withhold Social Security benefits if you don't sign up

    01/17/2011 3:37:35 PM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 72 replies · 1+ views
    American Spectator ^ | 1.17.11 @ 11:34AM | By Quin Hillyer
    the government actually claims it can hold hostage people's Social Security payments in order to FORCE those people to accept Medicare enrollment. The Department of Health and Human Services insists an individual cannot forfeit Medicare eligibility and continue to collect Social Security benefits even after paying into the latter system over an entire career.
  • Problems relating to removing gays from the military and Social Security (Welfare abuses) {Vanity}

    01/03/2011 3:12:04 AM PST · by Cronos · 15 replies
    Cronos ^ | 2-Jan-2011 | Cronos
    The removal of "Don't Ask, don't tell" causes problems, we know that. When the GoP comes back to power it can re-instate it or make it "No gays in the military" namely how it was BEFORE DADT. However, IMHO there are a couple of problems: 1. This will take 2+ years, by that time, gays will be entrenched in the military. Do we throw them out? If yes, then expect long court cases 2. What of the "closet" gays like the guy who leaked the WikiLeaks? I believe that the Dem's think that this is such a tricky and non-pc...
  • Interview with Nazi SS officer who signed off on the "Final Solution" (video)

    12/14/2010 10:07:49 AM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 25 replies
    GOPUSA ^ | December 13, 2010 | The Political Commentator
    Check out the interview with Dr. Bernard Frank, the SS officer who signed the paper that started the Nazi "Final Solution" against the Jews. Dr. Bernard Frank is the oldest living Nazi SS officer, a man who has gone unprosecuted for his crimes. During WWII, he signed the paper from Himmler that marked the beginning of the Nazi "Final Solution" against the Jews. In what appears as cold, clinical and with no show of remorse (in fact quite the contrary), Frank is led through his career by Mark Gould in an interview that spanned hundreds of hours. Gould, who portrays...
  • 2011 MEDICARE COST SHARING (SENIORS TO GET LESS in SS CHECK)

    12/09/2010 7:13:09 AM PST · by GailA · 22 replies · 1+ views
    Beginning in 2011, people who pay the income-related Part B premium will also pay an additional income-related Part D premium, known as a monthly adjustment amount. The monthly adjustment amount is not related to the premium of the plan in which such beneficiaries are enrolled, but is based on a percentage of the Base Beneficiary Premium for the year as determined by CMS. Thus, an individual with modified adjusted gross income of $86,000 will have a Part D monthly adjustment amount of $12.00 withheld from his/her check regardless of whether s/he enrolls in a plan with a premium of $14.85...
  • Grand Mufti Muhammad Haj Amin al-Husseini in photos: Islamofascism, Arab-Islamic Nazism, Arab racism

    11/21/2010 4:42:25 PM PST · by PRePublic · 16 replies
    Despite Hitler and Nazis' contempt for the "inferior" Arab and all Middle-Easterners' race, who have been considered 'half-apes.' (http://books.google.com/books?id=GteStbiDEjAC&pg=PA140) Nazi Arabs managed to "rise" above humiliation for the sake of the 'greater common evil' AKA: anti-Semitism [anti-Jew-ism]. Highlights about the infamous Arab Muslim leader from Palestine Jihad on the west During the 1920 and 1930s. Haj Amin al-Husseini was one of the first radical Islamic leaders to issue fatwas, or religious rulings, calling for jihad, or holy war, against Great Britain, the United States, the Jews, and the West. Since Workd War I, during which al-Husseini served as an officer...
  • The Point of No Return: Failure Is Coming (Social Security)

    06/21/2010 8:06:35 AM PDT · by blam · 17 replies
    Seeking Alpha ^ | 6-21-2010 | David Merkel
    The Point of No Return: Failure Is Coming by: David Merkel June 21, 2010 I first became interested in Social Security back in the 80s. In order to become a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries you had to study all manner of insurance programs, both private and social, to understand the framework in which insurance and pension products existed. The Greenspan Commission back in 1981-1983 proposed another large increase to Social Security taxes. The system only needed a small lift to get it past some demographic difficulties, but the Commission proposed, and Congress passed a large change, which would...
  • Open Thread: Ultimate Warrior; Waffen SS Vs. Viet Cong

    05/18/2010 7:05:53 PM PDT · by C19fan · 50 replies · 1,367+ views
    Pretty sick match up between the Waffen SS and Viet Cong. Give the edge to the professional ruthlessness of the SS.
  • IRS Commissioner Can’t Say How Many New Agents IRS Will Need to Enforce Obamacare

    04/07/2010 2:50:22 PM PDT · by Nachum · 61 replies · 1,795+ views
    cns news ^ | 4/7/10 | Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
    (CNSNews.com) - Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman said at the National Press Club on Monday that the IRS cannot say how many new agents it will need to enforce the new health care law signed by President Barack Obama last month. The IRS will play a key role in the new national health care system created by the law because it will be responsible for monitoring whether people buy health insurance, as the law mandates, and for collecting a fine from those who fail to buy insurance.