Michelle Malkin: The criminal raid on Social Security

TownHall.com ^ | Wednesday, January 7, 2004 | Michelle Malkin

[Chong]

IMHO, Bush made two major mistakes since he took office; first the CFR and now this.

I wonder if the good decisions he made would outweigh the bad.

[international american]

Nope, and we won't.

[Little Ray]

If the DNC ran Zell Miller for President, they'd have my support.

[CWOJackson]

Hey, instead of complaining so much perhaps you should start taking Spanish lessons.

[CWOJackson]

"If the DNC ran Zell Miller for President, they'd have my support."

And I'm sure the DNC appreciates your support very much.

[Paul C. Jesup]

According to Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, benefits paid to retirees will exceed revenues in just 15 years. The pay-as-you-go system could go belly up as early as 2030.

Bump.

[Paul C. Jesup]

According to Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, benefits paid to retirees will exceed revenues in just 15 years. The pay-as-you-go system could go belly up as early as 2030.

[tubavil]

MM rocks bump. Can't wait to see her next column on bush & immigration.

[gipper81]

Milton Friedman, Social Security Socialism, 1999

[Texasforever]

Count the number of times CWOJackson and Texasforever resorted to name-calling and personal attacks in the first 79 posts on this thread for yourself, LM.

Hey guy I made ONE post to that thread. All I saw was a temper tantrum from most of the posters, I said so and let them alone. What is your problem? I have probably posted a total of 30 posts over the last 3 months. Should I just stop all together?

[A Navy Vet]

Hey, instead of responding in not so clever quips, you should answer my question directly. Yearly: 1,000,000? 5,000,000? 15,000,000? 30,000,000? 70,000,000? You open border types never answer this question, ever. Because you know the next questions coming and don't have answers for them.

[Fledermaus]

She was allowed to wait until her son was 8 years old? I thought you had to get a Social Security number for the kid before you popped it out to declare it as a dependent on your taxes.

[Fledermaus]

I hear ya man. The Democrats are turning into the Communist Party and the Republicans are filling in the gap by becoming Democrats.

[Fledermaus]

Typical bait and switch. No one or no party is against immigration. We are talking about massive illegal immigration.

Big, huge, enormous difference.

[dread78645]

She was allowed to wait until her son was 8 years old? I thought you had to get a Social Security number for the kid before you popped it out to declare it as a dependent on your taxes.

Yeah, I'm amazed that she was allowed to reproduce at all < /sarc >

First sentence in the article : "My 8-week-old son's ..."

[VRWC_minion]

You really have no clue about finance. I'm a CPA and a financial planner. I know you refuse to believe it because you are confused about how a pay as you go system works. All retirement plans will eventually have payouts that exceed revenues but it doesn't mean that from inception the payouts exceeded the revenues plus earnings. The funds we collect far exceed the value of the benefits paid out. The reason everyone talks about a

The SS is a good deal for the gov't and a terrible deal for its participants. The fact that the participants are not protected because the money isn't set aside is just further evidence that from the participants view that SS is a terreible deal for them,.

[4Freedom]

"Should I just stop altogether?"

I took some time to read some of your posts prior to the Lead Moderator's attempt to bring civility to the immigration threads and all of the posts you made after.

IMHO, the Forum wouldn't miss your name-calling, personal attacking style, one bit.

Furthermore, according to the Lead Moderator, either you or CWOJackson were warned about flame war-baiting on these threads on a prior thread. That specific FReeper, or possibly the both of you, should have been given a time-out.

One of you for ignoring the warning and not cautioning the other to 'cool-it', with the name-calling and personal attacks, and the other for joining-in.

LM, is the 'trick', to being able to continue to 'bait' the FReepers on the other side of the issue into a flame war, to burn a thread down on a day we believe you're resting after what we perceive was a very busy day for you? ;^)

[Lead Moderator]

"LM, is the 'trick'... a day we believe you're resting after what we perceive was a very busy day for you? ;^)"

Part of the trick is to avoid constantly hinting of bias on my part or making little comments that I might not have been accurately presenting what my day was like (all with a little wink thrown in to show it was all justajoke wink wink). It tends to try my patience and make me believe that no matter what I do, I will get hit with those hints and flat out allegations made directly (by others, not you).

So now that I have that out of the way, I'll answer your question thusly. An approach I could take is to hit everyone I see doing the things that destroy these threads with a suspension when I see it. Given the amount of whining over the little bit I have done so far, I imagine that would cause a huge uproar, but if the forum wants it, they can let me know here on this thread and Jim and me and the rest of the moderators will discuss it.

Personally, I don't think you would like the way that would play out.

I included the other names on that reply only because you had pinged them. If you want to see who I scolded yesterday, then review my posts.

Regards

[Paul C. Jesup]

It is called theft.