Posted on 05/19/2011 5:53:31 AM PDT by IbJensen
Sat. Recon.
Electronic spying.
I think it would turn out worse then the last insurrection by the South. Especially since the government is more centralized now than then.
Yes. It isn't. Nothing worth doing is "easy". This does not mean it can't be done. I am proof of that. Nor am I an exception. Nor does it mean those "giving up" or "scamming the system" deserve anything other than derision.
Sorry if you fit this category. Not my fault and it shouldn't be my problem...
Again, this isn't "elitist"... It's just life.
I have never gotten unemployment benefits in my life. There are not enough jobs for everyone who is trying to get one. That’s a fact of life these days. When you’ve walked in the unemployed/underemployed shoes for a while, get back to me.
And if I take aim at anyone it would be those trying to gut the retirement account that I have paid premiums to for 42 years. I’m nearly ready to take a club to those who call my retirement account a “welfare entitlement” that they can just eliminate. Once they rob my Social Security account I expect they will go after my 401. If the big corporate banks are too big to fail then SS which provides a minimum retirement for 50 million Americans who have paid into it is in the same “too big to fail” category as the Banks.
Unfortunately, we may well find out.
Bull. The weekly want ads never seem to be empty. It may not be the job you want, or wrongly feel you deserve, but there are plenty of jobs out there.
When you’ve walked in the unemployed/underemployed shoes for a while, get back to me.
As I said, been there... Done that. You didn't hear me whining about it or demanding special consideration. I went out and worked hard to find a new job.
You sound like a Democrat. You certainly have all the talking points down...
Who is demanding special consideration? If you are entitled to receive unemployment benefits and can’t find a job, you receive unemployment benefits. Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to receive benefits? If you were making $50K at a job and were laid off, you should take a minimum wage job instead of unemployment benefits? That would just be stupid, wouldn’t it?
Sorry, SS is broke from being raided to fund other welfare projects. People my age can’t count on the Ponzi scheme you are counting on.
Until someone goes to jail for running a Ponzi scheme I will still consider SS to be a contract.
I’ve held up my end. I expect no less from a just Government.
And I was making $65k and found a $70k job to replace it. I had also had saved up a few months worth of pay "just in case". I have also since rebuilt that emergency reserve.
All of which would have been a lot easier to do had the Government not been so concerned with stealing my cash to being with to give to people on "unemployment insurance" for 99 weeks...
It was a contract. They broke it. You get to benefit from it. I will probably pay in for another 20 years and never see a dime.
No thanks.
Twice as many people my age believe in UFOs than believe they'll ever see a dime of Social Security. Anyone with a bit of scientific curiosity would at least admit UFOs might be real, and SS is a dream.
SS is not real. It's the oldest scam in the book, and US government approval doesn't make it any less of one. The only people who should be in jail are long dead. The financial death spiral these pyramid schemes have put our country in will soon lay the republic in a grave along side of them. The idea that any one American should say, 'I held up my end', and hold out their hands expectantly, ... well, no worries. You'll get your money.
You'll all get your money, until the printing presses run dry and the bills are worth less than blank paper. It dooms your grandchildren to poverty and war, but we'll stay warm burning that cash by the fire. And you'll get your money.
So if you are in a car accident, your insurance company should not pay for your car to be repaired since the costs are spread around from premiums from others. I thought that was the purpose of insurance, whether life, health, auto or unemployment. I guess you would refuse “other people’s money”.
Glad you were able to bounce back so quickly. I guess Obama’s economy is working for you.
Sorry, SS is broke from being raided to fund foreign nation building wars.
SS is not broke except in it's projections.
Our country is not all of a sudden so deep in dept because of our elderly. Everyone wants lower taxes...But we are paying trillions for building roads and bridges and other infrastructures in countries that we spent billions to destroy. And we want to cut old age pensions? That's a losing proposition for any Party.
Like Rats to fresh Garbage.......
Great, should I thank you for robbing me?
“SS is not broke except in it’s projections.”
It’s broke. The money that you paid into it is gone, it was spent, probably 25 years ago.
The money that you would be getting now is the money that I’m paying in SS taxes. So you are robbing me.
Hold on there!
Somewhere in Parkersburg, WV there is a filing cabinet with an IOU filed under your name...
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