[screaminsunshine]

Amazing. People think the social security money is in a lock box. The reason Obama is “putting social security on the table” is this. The RATS can no longer take the excess social security taxes and spend it. There is less tax coming in than going out. Now social security is a drain on the slush fund. Meaning it reduces the amount of money they can use for their schemes. It has got to go. They will throw Granny under the bus without blinking an eye. The evil GOP is in the strange position of trying to save a Socialist Program. Pathetic. Is it not.

[eggman]

What's pathetic is the number of people in this country who have been reduced to government dependents. They no longer control their financial future. It is in the hands of the government and the mere suggestion by Obama that their next check may not be sent out will result in many of them demanding their representatives give Obama what he wants regardless of the future cost.

It doesn't matter that they paid into Social Security all of their lives. The government spent the money and gave nothing more than a promise to pay it back in the future (if you are still alive and if they have the money to pay you).

The liberal media will ignore Obama's FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) tactics. It's the evil Republicans who want to push grandma off the cliff, not Obama. The fact that the debt limit will be exceeded again and again while current taxpayers SS money is spent on other political giveaways to buy more votes is just accepted as business as usual for the socialists in DC.

[varon]

People think the social security money is in a lock box.

Tis cuz Algore said it