Posted on 08/18/2010 11:22:32 AM PDT by Nachum
President Obama said Social Security is not in crisis and only modest changes are needed to keep it solvent. The president acknowledged at a small town hall gathering in Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday that the pension fund "has to be tweaked because the population is getting older" but said Republicans' plans to drastically overhaul the program are wrong. "Social Security is not in crisis," Obama said. "We're going to have to make some modest adjustments in order to strengthen it." Social Security has become a significant campaign issue during the August recess Democrats have attacked the GOP,
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He’s a liar and an idiot.
Well, that settles it.
If Imam Stroker says that it’s so, then it must be so.
I am so glad that he cleared that up.
/sarc
Okaaay.
This is really scaring me. Nothing that a teak could not fix...
Whatever ZERO says, believe the opposite.
Sheesh......
but the health system was in crisis
and you used the excuse to pass government run health insurance =care
never let a crisis go to waste
-rahm emanuel
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Reaching for Hope
It’s in the red! What kind of crisis does he need for it to be a crisis!!!
If SS is in such good shape, why hasn’t there been a cost of living increase?
The Ponzi scheme is about to blow up.
Of course, The One, has a magic wand named "Deflect, Delay, and Deny."
yeah, that ‘little tweak’ is just confiscating all of our private retirement funds to dump into the general treasury. No biggie.
The Imam has spoken. Why do you doubt him and the great Allah?
So this would be like the only thing?
60 square miles surrounded by Reality.
Baghdad Barack.
His lips are moving...
The typical elitist, Ivy League attorney ignorance on arudimentary economic issue: Too stupid to even see the clear economic picture, that even your average eight year old could grasp.
It would have been REAL helpful if these effete snobs had actually worked at an actual, honest job at some point in their cushioned, unproductive lives.
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