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Social Security official: Promises can't be met
The Uunion Leader ^ | 12/26/05 | Shawne K. Wickham

Posted on 12/26/2005 11:38:30 AM PST by qam1

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1 posted on 12/26/2005 11:38:32 AM PST by qam1
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2 posted on 12/26/2005 11:39:41 AM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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But the Democrat Senators tell us there is nothing wrong with Social Security!!!!! Are you telling us Dingy Harry and his Insane Clown Posse LIED to the American People????
3 posted on 12/26/2005 11:39:44 AM PST by MNJohnnie (We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.--GWBush)
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We have overpromised

Master of the obvious.

4 posted on 12/26/2005 11:42:15 AM PST by neodad (Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
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10-15 years from now, people will look back to 2005 and see what President Bush was talking about in reference to SS and wonder how both the demonRATs and weak kneed pubbies didn't respond with a positive plan. Shame on the RATs and the pubbies have mouse nuts.


5 posted on 12/26/2005 11:42:35 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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Real quick question.........If you are disabled, and on s.s., why does the government pay for your kids to go to college?


6 posted on 12/26/2005 11:48:09 AM PST by joe fonebone (Thin skinned people make me sick!!!)
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My parents told me 30 years ago not to expect SS to be there when I retired. Started an IRA at the age of 16 and still going strong. A shame that more people do not understand that the future is up to them.


7 posted on 12/26/2005 11:49:42 AM PST by beltfed308 (Cloth or link. Happiness is a perfect trunnion.)
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Sorry, I don't see the problem.

All the feds have to do is raise pay roll taxes.



\sarc


8 posted on 12/26/2005 11:50:02 AM PST by Casekirchen (More Americans died in New Orleans than in Iraq, where are the calls to get US out of the swamp?)
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..10-15 years from now, people will look back to 2005 and see what President Bush was talking about in reference to SS and wonder how both the demonRATs and weak kneed pubbies didn't respond...
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Just another massive failure of Washington to properly manage the country and work FOR THE PEOPLE -- just add it to the list of massive spending and taxation, runaway immigration and no border security, the realities of ABLE DANGER, the vile criminality and damage of the Clinton regime, 9/11, etc, etc, etc.

Happy New Year Washington!!!


9 posted on 12/26/2005 11:51:58 AM PST by EagleUSA
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I'm really happy with the superannuation system we have in Australia. I like the idea that by the time I retire, I will have enough money saved/invested not to have to rely on the government.

Plus the $800 billion + (and growing) in savings and investments does the economy good too.


10 posted on 12/26/2005 11:54:50 AM PST by Dundee (They gave up all their tomorrows for our today’s.)
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10-15 years from now, people will look back to 2005 and see what President Bush was talking about in reference to SS

But Juan Williams on Fox Sunday News just yesterday said that one of the big mistakes of 2005 was President Bush's wasting his time on SS reform. /sarcasm

11 posted on 12/26/2005 11:58:08 AM PST by Freee-dame
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"They used to call me Chicken Little back then," he said. In those days, Lockhart was sounding the alarm about an underfunding crisis in private pension plans.

Underfunding my arse!

It's the diverting of funds to other political endeavors NOT underfunding!

12 posted on 12/26/2005 11:58:51 AM PST by EGPWS
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I will have enough money saved/invested not to have to rely on the government.

Keep repeating as necessary.....

13 posted on 12/26/2005 12:01:01 PM PST by EGPWS
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Just another massive failure of Washington to properly manage the country and work FOR THE PEOPLE --

They should have stuck to just "regulating" the retirement of those who pay for and depend upon their own hard earned efforts for a content filled retirement instead of taking control of it and using those funds as they deem necessary as politicians.

14 posted on 12/26/2005 12:06:30 PM PST by EGPWS
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Bush caved way too early on this...


15 posted on 12/26/2005 12:07:36 PM PST by ErnBatavia (I post in slang..live with it or ignore it - reader's choice.)
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"But Juan Williams on Fox Sunday News just yesterday said that one of the big mistakes of 2005 was President Bush's wasting his time on SS reform. /sarcasm"

10-15 years from now people will look back and think that juan williams played shortstop for the Washington {what was the name of the baseball team that started in 2005 through 2009?}.

Williams is such a left wing nut, that if the fax at the dnc ever breaks, he won't have a thought in his empty head.


16 posted on 12/26/2005 12:08:21 PM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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Bush caved way too early on this...

Bush didn't cave. How about holding the Weak Kneed Squishy 7 Senate RINOS and the Democrat Senators accountable for THEIR actions for a change? I know this comes as a BIG surprise to many Freepers but we are a Constitutional Republic, NOT a Presidential Dictatorship.

17 posted on 12/26/2005 12:10:17 PM PST by MNJohnnie (We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.--GWBush)
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May as well face it, qam1. We Gen-Xers are hosed.


18 posted on 12/26/2005 12:13:09 PM PST by rdb3 (This is a ch__ch. What's missing?)
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Exactly. They've used the SS as a slush fund for years. The chickens are coming home to roost.....and they're trying to blame it on the American people who contribute... versus the ones who utilize it most... and don't.


19 posted on 12/26/2005 12:13:32 PM PST by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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"I will have enough money saved/invested not to have to rely on the government."

I DO have enough money saved/invested not to have to rely on the government, but I have children and grandchildren and they deserve some return on the money that is being taken from them. However, while not required, my SS is a nice offset for my golfing habit.


20 posted on 12/26/2005 12:14:26 PM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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