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...while you were sleeping the Senate voted to steal $150 billion dollars from Social Security...
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| Oct 30, 2015
| Sen. Mike Lee
Posted on 11/04/2015 4:20:53 AM PST by FR_addict
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KEYWORDS: budget; debt; socialsecurity
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To: FR_addict
As per usual there is not a damned thing anybody can or will do about it, we the people could do something about it but that won’t happen we’ve surrendered are republic to thieving communists, we have the constitutional authority to DEPOSE a tyrannical government and WE FAIL.
We don’t all have to march on Washington every congress critter has an office the people can take back control right from there, yeah they were voted in to represent, but not to steal and abuse, yet we still fail, it seems the Spirit of America has grown old and weak, all in all government has become nothing more than entertainment to watch from the comfort of the couch.
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posted on
11/04/2015 6:30:56 AM PST
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: PoloSec
Pitchforks, torches, and tar.
The reps already wear their feathers.
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posted on
11/04/2015 6:33:04 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: SGCOS
‘we committed to give 150B to Iran...It had to come from somewhere..’
Did we actually give Iran 150B or did we just release 150B of frozen assets? I’m confused!
To: Bluebeard16; SGCOS
Those assets were frozen back in the 80’s.
I’m pretty certain they no longer exist.
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posted on
11/04/2015 6:36:09 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: FR_addict
What will they go after when they bleed SS dry?
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posted on
11/04/2015 6:38:54 AM PST
by
bgill
( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: bgill; FR_addict
401k’s, IRA’s, CD’s, etc.
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posted on
11/04/2015 6:39:38 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: FR_addict
Only idiots and the evil voted for Obama, or ANY of the Democrats.
They've lied to us, constantly, and really are
"Collapsing the System". And now, these "Useful IDIOTS" who voted for them, are buying the lies that "Obamacare was designed to work." ?
It was designed to fail from the start.
THEN ... THEY GO TO THE
"SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM".
They've been sucking our wallets dry for over four years now on the "Obamacare" LIE.
AND NOW THEY WANT MORE TAXES ?
Our Founding Fathers would have hung them already!
Lets review:
Who was it that cut future funding for Medicare by $575 billion?
...the president and the Democratic Party successfully bamboozle voters... The 2012 election could turn on this falsehood.
The truth is that the Obama health law reduces future funding for Medicare by $575 billion over the next 10 years ...
Mr. Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius frequently make that false claim.
Indeed, even Medicare's mailings to seniors repeat the claim that reducing spending on Medicare will make it more financially secure for future years.
The fact is that Mr. Obama's law raids Medicare.
Who was it that moved Medicare Trust Funds out of the "trust box" and into the General Revenue, replacing them with Government I.O.U.s?
Who was it that expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?
The History of Medicare
In 1965, the Social Security Act established both Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare was a responsibility of the Social Security Administration (SSA), while Federal assistance to the State Medicaid programs was administered by the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). SSA and SRS were agencies in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). In 1977, the Health Care Financing Administration was created under HEW to effectively coordinate Medicare and Medicaid. In 1980 HEW was divided into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The first U.S. President to propose a prepaid health insurance plan was Harry S. Truman [DEMOCRAT]. On November 19, 1945, in a special message to Congress, President Truman outlined a comprehensive, prepaid medical insurance plan for all people through the Social Security system.
The plan included doctors and hospitals, and nursing, laboratory, and dental services; it was dubbed "National Health Insurance." Furthermore, medical insurance benefits for needy people were to be financed from Federal revenues.
Over the years, lawmakers narrowed the field of health insurance recipients largely to social security beneficiaries. A national survey found that only 56 percent of those 65 years of age or older had health insurance. President John F. Kennedy [DEMOCRAT] pressed legislators for health insurance for the aged. However, it wasn't until 1965 that President Lyndon B. Johnson signed H.R. 6675 (The Social Security Act of 1965; PL 89-97) to provide health insurance for the elderly and the poor.
On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Bill (Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act) in Independence, Missouri in the presence of former President Truman, who received the first Medicare card at the ceremony; Lady Bird Johnson, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, and Mrs. Truman also were present. President Johnson remarked: "We marvel not simply at the passage of this Bill but that it took so many years to pass it."
Medicare extended health coverage to almost all Americans aged 65 or older. About 19 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare in the first year of the program. Medicaid provided access to health care services for certain low-income persons and expanded the existing Federal-State welfare structure that assisted the poor.
The 1972 Social Security Amendments expanded Medicare to provide coverage to two additional high risk groups disabled persons receiving cash benefits for 24 months under the social security program and persons suffering from end-stage renal disease.
...(continued at link)
So Democrats,
Sen Mark Kirk's
statement Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 ...
"There are 55 million Social Security beneficiaries that will see little or no extra cash from this 2012 tax holiday; instead, the dedicated payroll contributions meant to pay for future benefits are being diverted from the Trust Fund
and replaced with Treasury debt that does not even have a AAA credit rating.
Social Security was designed to be independent and free from the danger of Congressional manipulation,
and maintaining the firewall between the Social Security Trust Fund and general government funding is the best way to maintain the solvency of this important program.
Neither bill protects the Social Security Trust Fund
so I voted no. "
It's not our fault that
DEMOCRATS raided the Social Security Trust Fund. Let's remember ...
![](http://i816.photobucket.com/albums/zz84/swoosh285/Lockbox.jpg)
Not ALL are to blame for the empty lock box.
It's the Democrats Communists.
Let's take a deeper look.
Okay, then the DEMOCRATS need to shut up!!!
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posted on
11/04/2015 6:40:22 AM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Darksheare; Yardstick
So you admit you misspoke earlier...got it.
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posted on
11/04/2015 6:41:18 AM PST
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: mac_truck; Yardstick
Only in as much as YOU misspoke ever Macky.
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posted on
11/04/2015 6:42:18 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: mac_truck; Yardstick
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posted on
11/04/2015 6:43:46 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Darksheare
Lol...you remind me of a worm on a hook.
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posted on
11/04/2015 6:45:22 AM PST
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: mac_truck
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posted on
11/04/2015 6:45:58 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Darksheare
If they know longer exist then where did the 150B go? Clinton Foundation?
To: Bluebeard16
Good question.
Likely spent, back in the 90’s, on some hare brained thing or other.
After all, it was assets frozen from a terrorist state.
Who in their right mind would think it was ever going back?
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posted on
11/04/2015 6:47:43 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Darksheare
Doesn’t frozen mean that there is a hold on the money and not a transfer of money??
To: Bluebeard16
One would think.
But government is good at rationalizing away such petty concerns.
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posted on
11/04/2015 7:00:09 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Darksheare
The corruption runs deep.
To: Bluebeard16
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posted on
11/04/2015 7:08:32 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: FR_addict
So our Social Security is going to Iran. I donât remember the Republicans telling us that when they approved the Iranian deal.I don't remember Congress asking us if they could borrow our money...
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posted on
11/04/2015 9:12:52 AM PST
by
Iscool
(Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
To: Yardstick; Darksheare
Right off the top of my head, I’d say if you cannot find any reference to Palin or anyone else going on at length about the mess that these people (lesser evils/GOPe/call them what you like) being the cause of this mess, then Yard, you simply don’t want to read it. Just last night America spoke rather clearly on the subject.
And spare me your semantics and word games. When someone talks about supporting traditional marriage versus homo idiocy, they are not excluding Mitt Romney and his open leftism from the equation and putting him in some sacrosanct lock box with AlGore’s testicles.
It is amazing that now that Romney Jr. just ascended to power in the House, all the screaming banshees of lesser evil/no matter what leftism have come fabulously back out of the closet as if by magic.
It was not enough that Romney’s fantasies for homos, gays and ‘working with’ the democrats have all come to pass. It is not enough that he has held his ‘retreats’ and strategy sessions to help fund and assist the torpedoing of conservative candidates and policy SINCE the great fail of 12 that so many of us TOLD YOU was coming. Oh no...
NOW you same leftist supporters are back, in the middle of a fundraiser as usual, creating more chaos and driving more people away from actual conservatism with your browbeating memes about how the great Mitt Romney really was oh do much better than Barry and how good old planet Earf would be saved had we only elected an abortion profiting, military shunning crony capitalist who fully backs destroying marriage, the gay agenda, global warming, socialism for thee but not for he, and every other issue of import rather than the abortion profiting, military shunning crony socialist who fully backs destroying marriage, the gay agenda, global warming, socialism for thee but not for he, and every other issue of import.
Anyone that cares to compare the two on a per case basis has found no significant differences in their ultimate positions.
The only people, three years later still pining for the socialism of Mitt Romney are the same crew of loud freeper leftists that browbeat the reasers here mercilessly, calling them anti American obama/Axlerod lovers for the crim of refusing to , on a CONSERVATIVE forum, back and vote for a abortion profiting, military shunning crony capitalist who fully backs destroying marriage, the gay agenda, global warming, socialism for thee but not for he, and every other issue of import.
Why anyone puts up with you people I will never understand. All you do is work toward getting Freepers to fall back into the trap of electing more lesser evils that as we have seen over the last 7 years, work WITH Obama.
You WANT liberalism.
You WANT what evil offers.
You IGNORE the reams of quotes and articles by former ‘supporters’ of the lesser evil stupidity who have spent YEARS disavowing the very concept and ideas it leads to.
Because if poopsie does not see the magic words in the exact order poopsie wants, then all of history is invalidated.
Sucks to be a leftist like you. The rest of us will be doing what we always do. Fighting you leftist backers every inch of the way. Because it makes you haZ a sadZ. And people like Palin will go on speaking against lesser evils such as you and Mitt and the rest of your screaming crew of banshees here and elsewhere.
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posted on
11/04/2015 9:47:14 AM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Embrace Existential Cage Theory. Solutions start at home.)
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