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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 04:57 PM Original message |
Why ARE they so insistent on pushing privatization of social security? |
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warrior1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. to steal it |
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Pepperbelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. We have a winner .... |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 07:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
43. Squarebob? He's with the enemy.... |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. Yep, follow the money. |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:49 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. Never forget the misplaced $2.3 TRILLION down the DoD black hole. n/t |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-05 11:39 AM Response to Reply #1 |
45. I think it's too late already |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. So they don't have to pay all the money back they borrowed from SS for the |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. and to inject a steady stream of cash into WALL STREET |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
3. Corporations over people. It's that simple. |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
4. Why do you question our leader? God told him to smite Social |
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Coastie for Truth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:04 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Political Fundamentalism of the GOP Flavor |
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Redneck Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:08 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. There ya go |
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illflem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:26 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. LOL |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
7. To make their brokers/donors fabulously rich |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. To destroy FDR social programs |
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Mr_Spock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. They are willing to create civil unrest just to prove a point? |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:50 PM Response to Reply #10 |
29. They don't think it will |
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Mr_Spock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 06:42 PM Response to Reply #29 |
41. "Ownership society" = death and destruction during economic downturn |
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Lexingtonian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
12. The average small investor is either timid or foolish |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
13. Wall Street is a casino |
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Fescue4u (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:35 PM Response to Reply #13 |
23. Yup.. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:52 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. We don't know what bush will do to the regulation of |
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Fescue4u (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 06:04 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. My concerns are different |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 06:22 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. That's it. they can use inclusion into the funds and the |
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Kber (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-05 12:46 PM Response to Reply #33 |
52. That's a really interesting take. |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-05 11:51 AM Response to Reply #23 |
48. All that would be good advice... |
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Fescue4u (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-05 08:25 PM Response to Reply #48 |
54. absolutely agree |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
14. To make sure the government is totally bankrupt - then the corporations |
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GreenArrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
15. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ |
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Fescue4u (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
17. Im not against choice in retirement |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
18. It's a big fat chunk of payroll taxes that they haven't got their |
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Trillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
19. The U.S. is nearly bankrupt? nt |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
21. Because they have bankrupted our Treasury |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
22. Check out stage 9 in this article |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
24. Piratization is about profit. |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
25. Seriously! They’re salivating over the possibilities |
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Itsthetruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
26. Perhaps This? |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
27. Desparately seeking a legacy for the 'base' beyond Quagmire |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
30. Corporacrats HATE a government "for the people". |
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BoristheBewildered (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
31. Defunding us, paying back contributors, Kenny needs new pair of shoes |
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Payback Time (62 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 06:14 PM Response to Reply #31 |
36. The Republican's Secret Sinister Plan sounds like fiction |
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ChairOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
34. because SS is a device for economic upward mobility... |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 06:16 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Exactly!!!! SPOT ON! |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
35. Some Democrat should attach a bill reforming Congressional pensions. |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 06:16 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. The excuse I've heard iss that SS is a self financed program. |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-05 12:41 PM Response to Reply #38 |
51. Seems to me that a cap works as welfare for the rich. |
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Fescue4u (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-05 11:37 AM Response to Reply #35 |
44. Because their is a cap on monthy benefits |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-05 12:35 PM Response to Reply #44 |
50. OK, so double the benefits. |
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Fescue4u (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-05 05:29 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. sounds good to me. |
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Mr Rabble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
40. nothing more than the destruction of SSI |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-05 06:57 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. This is the basic RW Agenda. |
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Ouabache (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-05 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
46. Stock Market crashes after the last fool shows up with his money. |
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peacetalksforall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-05 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
47. It's for big profit now (with a set-up financed by taxpayers) and a big |
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Lisabtrucking (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-05 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
49. because that is going to help the corporations get more money too |
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