Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
Posted on 02/10/2011 6:45:51 PM PST by sickoflibs
Now, I`ve been telling you the Republicans are going to cut your Social Security. And guess what happened? Now a Republican Senator admits that`s exactly what they want to do. We`ll tell you exactly what he said in a minute.
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UYGUR: For so long, I`ve been telling you guys, the Republicans and sometimes the Democrats or certainly the deficit commission, they`re coming to cut your Social Security. And to prove me right, Senator Shelby, republican of Alabama steeped up and agreed, yes, that`s exactly what we`re looking to do. We want to raise your retirement age and he says, we want to up to age every several years. So, hey, you know what? If 69 doesn`t knew the job, maybe we`ll make you work to 71, maybe we`ll make you work to 75. And it goes on and on and on. He says, he`s worried that if you do any kind of 6th grade Math. Then, you`ll know the Social Security is out of money.
He says, he`s worried about his kids. Here`s what he says about his kids, he said, quote, "they`re not going to receive anything or if they do, very little, there`s no proof that they will get much if anything." That is simply, positively not true. Social Security has a $2.5 trillion surplus. Don`t let them lie to you about it. It absolutely positively, the surplus that it has and that the American government must pay. It is our whole full faith and credit of the United States government is behind that surplus. Don`t let them take it from you. And let me give you one quick example. Do you know that if they raise your retirement age up to 70, do you know how much you would lose in Social Security rather than if you retired at 65? You would lose $63,573. Can you imagine a bigger robbery? Don`t let them do it. We`ll be back.
Funny stuff.
Who’s the new comedian?
Yeah. Good old lockbox, eh?
Cenk came from an online TV show The Young Turks (TYT). Those vids were very popular posted at DU. Then Olberman left and they needed another liberal card in the deck.
Where do Cenk Uygers come from? Venus or Uranus? This jackass is clueless! A surplus! Social Security? ROTFL! What a moron!
Did cenk uygur really get arrested for molesting a goat?
The face of stupidity.
Every objective review of SS shows it is a disaster.
I could see someone saying, Not THIS PARTICULAR reform, but to say ALL IS WELL!! is either lying or abject stupidity.
Lying. Carefully crafted, malicious lies, designed to stir up the stupid parasites who make up the democrat party base.
“Cenk Uygur”?
Didnt we capture a bunch of these guys, put panties on their heads at Gitmo, then release them to homeland, like somewhere around Mongolia?
Chunk Whigger is going to be fun.
So by telling the truth, the GOP is lying.
Typical Dem doublespeak. The surplus was spent as it came in, by both Democrats and Republicans. There's nothing left to loot. It's just a stack of IOUs. And to redeem the IOUs, the federal government has to do what the 'trust fund' was allegedly set up to avoid - having to borrow or print money to cover Social Security obligations.
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More like $2.5 trillion in IOUs.
YES!!!. The reason why I keep posting these MSNBC claims about a huge trust fund surplus is BECAUSE this is congressional Democrats VOCAL position on SS. Not only are they claiming that SS has this huge trust fund funding it for another 20 years, but they also say that the CBO confirms what they are saying about a huge surplus trust fund, even when it is REALLY running huge deficits now.
Most congressional Republicans are smart enough (politically) to avoid talking about reforming(cutting) SS. A few others are talking about the reform land mine field. But ponder this question as I have daily for the past two years:
Why can't some brave Republicans explain to voters exactly where the SS payments are coming from? Couldn't they do a tutorial and track exactly how it is funded by US treasuries, probably being bought by the Federal reserve. And then call Democrats liars. Then and only then can we talk about SS reform.
I even say Jim DeMint say we shouldnt mess with SS because the 'government' (Holy crap!) owes SS that money because it was borrowed. He knows better, but this is smart politics.
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