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They act like raising the Minimum Wage is some kind of cure all...IMHO it just encourages people to remain in mediocre jobs and not try and look for something better.

All on this thread: We must start to view things as irrationally as they do. They DO have an agenda. Their agenda is to make as many of us, hopefully ALL of us, dependent on the Government. If they can do anything in the next two years to get further down that road, they will have been successful in their minds.

Hell, look how much "political capital" it took for President Bush to just go after Social Security and he didn't even make a dent. Once one of these HUGE New-Deal type dependency programs are legislated, good luck removing them. We need candidates that will PLEDGE to reform our broken systems. Many Americans know they are broken, but Congress won't do anything to really fix them because it is their way of keeping us dependent.

Excellent post, every word true. I believe our country will be stuck with the Social Security ponzi scheme until my generation (the boomers) passes away. By then the number of retirees will be so large, and the tax burden for younger workers so staggering, that the younger generations will, I hope, rebel and force the politicians to phase it out.