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Trump Finds an Opening Against DeSantis (Social Security)
Bloomberg via Washington Post ^ | Jan 27 2023 | Joshua Green

Posted on 01/28/2023 7:41:42 AM PST by 6thavenue

Edited on 01/28/2023 9:04:42 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: desantis; desantisisntrunning; election2024; fl; florida; paywall; trump; yawn
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To: dragnet2

Exactly...Well said...


121 posted on 01/28/2023 10:33:05 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Portnoy001

Get real, Bush the globalist blew 3+ TRILLION on one single war, you know, his 10 year long, “Compassionate war”.


122 posted on 01/28/2023 10:36:16 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Nifster

Nifster wrote: “How about cutting the money allotted to the house and senate members first”

How much is allotted and how much is the deficit?


123 posted on 01/28/2023 10:38:07 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: dragnet2

Get real? YOU don’t understand reality. Face it, I’m right.

In one YEAR:

https://www.heritage.org/social-security/heritage-explains/the-state-social-security

The federal government spent nearly $910 billion on Social Security benefits in 2016. Together, Social Security’s programs account for nearly one-quarter of all federal spending in 2016.


124 posted on 01/28/2023 10:38:15 AM PST by Portnoy001
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To: JBW1949

The law and numerous court decisions say different.
Basically, your payments into SS earned you an IOU from the next working generation. What happens if they decide different? They could!

Age-wise I’m essentially in the same boat as you. The difference might be my father who was an accountant by training and long long time Republican from a family of WV Republicans. (Tbe family joke back then was all the WV GOP could meet in our living room!) Not rich, my grandfather was a coal miner who owned a general store. Dad set me down in HS and went through the numbers on SS. In short he demonstrated what a fraud it was and FDR solved nothing with it.


125 posted on 01/28/2023 10:39:58 AM PST by Reily
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To: 6thavenue
"I’d be fine with raising their taxes..."

Wow. Talk about making my point regarding how SS and its evil mandatory participation has dependency-leashed and corrupted minds on the supposedly Right side of Freedom.

Dependency is the opposite of Freedom. I'm a Free Republic type guy. I Rightly oppose the whole concept of fed level entitlements.

Govt has done this to your mind. It's not a good thing.

Yes, I get it. I'm a victim of SS too. I did not want to play, they forced me. Then spent my money. Now if we want to pretend we are getting our money back, it requires additional stealing from younger folks.

Force and/or fraud invalidate any phony notions that a program is somehow good. If it was good, you would not need force.

Do you support an option for folks to not participate in SS?

Do you support at least privatization so that you'd actually still own your money they confiscated with force?

126 posted on 01/28/2023 10:40:36 AM PST by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: BuddhaBrown

Face it, these geezers only care about #1.

‘It’s my money and I want it now’ meme.


127 posted on 01/28/2023 10:42:07 AM PST by Portnoy001
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To: Portnoy001
No, you're the one who don't get it slick.

In fact, between the hundreds of billions spent on millions of illegals over the past 20 years, now add trillions in foreign aid, add in all these bull shit wars costing trillions more....

And ya say none of this makes a difference?

Bull shit!

128 posted on 01/28/2023 10:42:40 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Portnoy001

Please tell us how much of that 910billion dollars went to SS Retirement benefits???

How much went to other programs under the name of SSA???


129 posted on 01/28/2023 10:42:49 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: joesbucks

With a good supplement plan, you never pay a cent, except for transportation.

You need the supplement more and more as you get older, as you get more things and more severe things and the treatments become more expensive, so plan ahead.


130 posted on 01/28/2023 10:44:13 AM PST by firebrand
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To: Portnoy001

“...Face it, these geezers only care about #1...”

That one comment explains a lot about you...


131 posted on 01/28/2023 10:46:10 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: 6thavenue

What are the companies that do this, besides Starbucks?


132 posted on 01/28/2023 10:46:43 AM PST by firebrand
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To: JBW1949

Yep, I hate boomers. They are worse than millennials. They aborted their offspring and wrecked the country and now whine about getting ‘their share’ when they are by far the richest segment in the country.


133 posted on 01/28/2023 10:50:15 AM PST by Portnoy001
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To: Portnoy001

You’re a poser and a fraud.


134 posted on 01/28/2023 10:50:58 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: firebrand

“ Walmart Expands Employee Abortion Coverage and Will Include Travel Expenses”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/business/walmart-expands-abortion-coverage-and-will-include-travel-expenses-for-employees.html

I expect there are many more. Don’t ask me to oppose tax increases for these wokesters. If that’s the price of admission to “conservatism”, I’ll stay outside the tent


135 posted on 01/28/2023 10:51:49 AM PST by 6thavenue
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To: JBW1949
Here you go. Still gonna stomp and say it's all ok?
136 posted on 01/28/2023 10:52:53 AM PST by Portnoy001
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To: Portnoy001
Between the hundreds of billions spent on millions of illegals over the past 20 years, now add trillions in foreign aid, add in all these bull shit wars costing trillions more....

And ya say none of this makes a difference?

Ya think anyone is buys all the bull shit you're peddling?

137 posted on 01/28/2023 10:53:32 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: 6thavenue

fine by me. I’m all for cutting spending.

but SS as it is can not continue as-is. So a change must be made.

No change for people over a set age, a new private system for those under a set age.


138 posted on 01/28/2023 10:54:34 AM PST by cableguymn
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To: dragnet2

I already gave you the sources, you look it up. I’m not going to keep googling basic info for ignorant people.


139 posted on 01/28/2023 10:54:55 AM PST by Portnoy001
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To: Portnoy001

Between the hundreds of billions spent on millions of illegals over the past 20 years, now add trillions in foreign aid, add in all these bull shit wars costing trillions more....

And ya say none of this makes a difference?

Right?


140 posted on 01/28/2023 10:55:47 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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