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"Democrats have been claiming on every single TV/political show that SS is fully self funded and is NOT adding a dime to the deficit or debt. So how can the debt limit have any bearing on these SS payments?"

I don't recall this being said (of course, listening to Democrats is like listening to fingernails on chalkboard, so I could easily have missed it).

Cookcounty wrote: I don’t recall this being said (of course, listening to Democrats is like listening to fingernails on chalkboard, so I could easily have missed it).

Here for one:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declared earlier this month: “Social Security is a program that works, and it’s going to be — it’s fully funded for the next 40 years. Stop picking on Social Security.”

From this article in January 2011

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/138991-obama-dem-lawmakers-diverge-on-social-security-

RE :” ”Democrats have been claiming on every single TV/political show that SS is fully self funded and is NOT adding a dime to the deficit or debt. So how can the debt limit have any bearing on these SS payments?”... I don't recall this being said (of course, listening to Democrats is like listening to fingernails on chalkboard, so I could easily have missed it). “

They might not say that today but yesterday worried about SS cuts in an Obama deal they claimed this on almost EVERY MSNBC show from 5pm to 11 pm even LAST night,

MSNBC LIVE WITH CENK UYGUR(Don`t let Republicans take Social Security's $2.5 trillion surplus) 2/9/11

The MSNBC Ed (Schultz) Show (’Republicans want Wall Street to get the $2.6 trillion SS surplus’) 1/27/11

If Republicans were worth a crap they would ask Obama (on TV dramically) why he isnt using the $2.5 Trillion dollar surplus instead of borrowing the money for SS payments, or instead of cutting off the checks. That is why I posted the above transcripts HERE!.