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Study: Social Security 'going to be insolvent before anyone thinks'
American Thinker ^ | 05/09/2015 | Rick Moran

Posted on 05/09/2015 10:53:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 05/09/2015 11:21:13 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

According to the government, the Social Security trust fund is due to go broke in 2033. But two recent studies show that the Social Security Administration is using incorrect accounting procedures and that the fund will run out of the money years before that.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: insolvency; socialsecurity; ssinsolvent
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To: SeekAndFind

Here are 2 articles on how to solve the stealing of our money. Congress naturally wants no part of it as they have you pay their pensions.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2011/05/12/how-three-texas-counties-created-personal-social-security-accounts-and-prospered/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/us/how-privatized-social-security-works-in-galveston.html


41 posted on 05/09/2015 1:25:07 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: alloysteel

Social Security was never meant or intended to be a substitute for a pension or savings,

Well the private corporations got greedy and got rid of pensions. The savings accounts are getting less then a percent on your money and the Stock Market is good and bad depending on who you talk too. So how is it that people are supposed to have a decent retirement without SS? Social Security at least ensures that you are not homeless. I mean it is only 1300 dollars a month average. So due to the selfish companies, the horrible government and the economy that has never really been great, people who worked their lives are supposed to suffer? i guess so according to you. You could save every dime you made and put it into the Stock Market and if the timing sucks, you are in trouble.


42 posted on 05/09/2015 1:48:02 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

lol. I didn’t even get that class and I knew about it!! I’m pretty sure I could explain it to my 10 year old niece


43 posted on 05/09/2015 1:48:44 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Georgia Girl 2

And no one is considering what happens if there is another financial crisis. US Government deficit will easily go above $1.5 Trillion and if unemployment climbs to 8-10%, contributions to S.S. trust fund will drop drastically.


44 posted on 05/09/2015 1:54:52 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

But.....but.....what about the “Lockbox”?


45 posted on 05/09/2015 1:55:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dp0622

46 posted on 05/09/2015 1:57:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

rofl. if it wasn’t so sad...


47 posted on 05/09/2015 2:02:57 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: SeekAndFind

LOL, trust.

Guaranteed to go broke the day before I turn 62.


48 posted on 05/09/2015 2:21:11 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SeekAndFind

they’ve been printing money for years. what does an account balance matter to these people?

oh yea... they want to cause strife and turmoil and possibly the collapse of the country.


49 posted on 05/09/2015 2:36:59 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

When refugees bring over grand ma and grandpa, they are immediately signed up for ss.


50 posted on 05/09/2015 2:49:57 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: re_nortex

Wasn’t that Francis?


51 posted on 05/09/2015 2:52:02 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: upchuck

Ss and SSDI come from the same pot.


52 posted on 05/09/2015 2:53:07 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What needs to happen is cut off the deadbeats who are young and collecting SSD. The outright fraud in that program is mindboggling. There are millions of able-bodied Americans collecting SSD. And they brag about it.


53 posted on 05/09/2015 2:58:31 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Chickensoup
Wasn’t that Francis?

Yep, ol' FU was an evil man and a 'RAT, please pardon the redundancy. Yet for a few moments in that speech, he said some fiscally sound things.


54 posted on 05/09/2015 2:59:57 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: okie01

There is no trust fund. SS taxes go into the general treasury.


55 posted on 05/09/2015 3:02:04 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six
There is no trust fund. SS taxes go into the general treasury.

I believe I put quotes around "Trust Fund" for that very purpose.

My point was that I don't believe SSDI is charge against the Social Security account and is actually appropriated.

56 posted on 05/09/2015 3:08:10 PM PDT by okie01
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To: napscoordinator

“Well the private corporations got greedy and got rid of pensions.”

As is their right. There is no law requiring a private business to provide pensions.


57 posted on 05/09/2015 3:08:58 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: BenLurkin

It would be funny to hear that some crooked politician’s last words were,”Granny,what are you doing here?”


58 posted on 05/09/2015 3:27:26 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: napscoordinator
...selfish companies...

As is their right. In fact, it's up to a well-managed company to be "selfish" since their first duty is to maximize profits. Companies have a solemn imperative to return as much as possible to the stakeholders. If cutting pensions achieves that aim, then so be it.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these the moving impulses of our life.

59 posted on 05/09/2015 3:28:08 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: napscoordinator

I hate to inform you, as a business owner, I am not the welfare office. The deal is, you provide me value, and I pay you for it, no more or no less is owed. It is up to you to take care of yourself, not me. The greedy companies are those who took the risk, had the onions, to try and make it in this world. Some win and some lose. It is chances you take, and if you lose, you pick yourself up and try again. Most business owners idea of retirement is a pine box.


60 posted on 05/09/2015 3:42:16 PM PDT by gusty
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