Posted on 08/14/2010 12:23:10 PM PDT by Justaham
President Barack Obama used the anniversary of Social Security to trumpet Democrats' support for the popular program and accuse Republicans of trying to destroy it.
Seventy-five years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Social Security into law, Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday: "We have an obligation to keep that promise, to safeguard Social Security for our seniors, people with disabilities and all Americans — today, tomorrow and forever."
Some Republican leaders in Congress are "pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this fall," Obama said.
He contended that such privatization was "an ill-conceived idea that would add trillions of dollars to our budget deficit while tying your benefits to the whims of Wall Street traders and the ups and downs of the stock market."
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No argument here, but the Republican party must stay ever vigilant, and not hand the Democrats a gun to shoot them with.
This area of MD Howard county is a landlord/homeowners dream. The government is endlessly hiring.
The regime is blindly lashing out now. They see their end coming.
Also, any apartments near a University are very safe.
The GOP needs to just keep its mouth shut and watch while the dems self-destruct.
RE :”Also, any apartments near a University are very safe”
Not in Maryland.
To be safe, yes.
LOL!
I meant safe regarding occupancy. I wouldn’t want to own apartments near Columbia University, as that is spanish Harlem ;-)
Just some thoughts
Nope, they're using food stamp money to increase the pay of state employees and teachers. My ex makes $80K per year as a teacher, and will retire with $60K per year teacher pension and another $10K per year Social Security, plus another $800K in retirement account.
Me? Worked insurance 16 years, made over $50K last three, pension $3K per year. 401(k) that I started with $10K over the years (half went to ex) converted to IRA, will pay more than my defined benefits retirement.
But SS is scheduled (so far) to pay more than either.
If the AnnointedIdiot’s lips are moving, he is lying.......ranks right up there with the doctors who were amputating feet just for the money or hispanic grandfathers being hauled off to jail at ice cream shops..... =.=
Same shiite, different day.
Why would this be such a bad thing?
Should’ve been PRIVATIZED in 1983.
Those failing to understand this are not paying attention.
It's Democrats' Greatest Hits, new/old from the DNC!
bttt
The left has been accusing anyone remotely conservative of wanting to destroy Social Security and put grandma and grandpa out in the streets for about 50+ years now.
Its basically SOP
1. Accuse conservatives of only caring about the rich
2. Accuse them of being racist
3. Accuse them of trying to destroy social security because they hate old folks
4. Accuse conservatives of hating women and wanting to take away their rights
5. Accuse conservatives of hating every sort of degenerative, perverse lifestyle and I’m not talking about homosexuals, as on a personal level, I have no issue with homosexual unions between consenting adults but I do have a problem with the sexualization of children and all these perverted leftwing interest groups like NAMBLA and so on.
6. Make #5 somehow sound like a bad thing
They’ve been using the same playbook for decades.
Conservatives hate the poor, are racist and want to see dead seniors in the streets(forgetting that progressive ideology strongly supports eugenics and ultimately does result in the heavily-mocked “death panels” where denial of care is based on what value some group of random individuals judge your life to be worth.
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