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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 06:36 PM
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Why S.S. & Medicare will be cut
Because the rich want it cut. It's their fucking government, they bought it to represent them, and they want their money right fucking now.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 06:38 PM
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1. The GOP want to privatize everything even your cat
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 07:49 PM
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10. You have a socialist cat?
Edited on Fri Nov-12-10 07:50 PM by jberryhill
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 08:08 PM
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12. LOL!!! n/t
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Xicano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 08:10 PM
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14. +10
LOL! That's a good one jberryhill, you made me laugh. :)

:rofl:
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 09:00 PM
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15. Funny you should say that!
yes!
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 10:51 PM
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16. My dog is a libertarian

She thinks she owns everything, but I have to clean up her shit everywhere we go.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-10 12:35 AM
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17. LOL!
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readmoreoften Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 08:09 PM
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13. Yes, and apparently a good portion of the Democrats do too.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 06:41 PM
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2. I don't want to
but I believe you are right.
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The Wielding Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 06:45 PM
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3. They just don't wan it cut. THEY WANT IT.
It is that last great governmental wealth, that we - the working class - put there for our old age, and the scheming lousy greedy wealthy crooks want to get it. Greed is a deadly sin that kills the disenfranchised.

It should never be messed with by the lawyers working for the greedy.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 06:47 PM
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4. Probably they will eventually want everyone sick and/or old executed as in the way. They have
no interest in people and the country. All they view this as is a cash machine for their personal profit, and the people let them get away with it... Many Americans are so F'en clueless and lame...

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Curmudgeoness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 07:23 PM
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7. Soylent green anyone? nt
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 08:08 PM
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11. Yeah, exactly! n/t
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 06:48 PM
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5. Unrec...nt
Sid
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Samantha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 06:52 PM
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6. My personal opinion is that it will be cut because Corporations
Edited on Fri Nov-12-10 06:53 PM by Samantha
want the payroll tax phased out. For as long as I can remember, Corporations have complained about having to pay employees for sick time off, vacation time, health care benefits, pensions, holiday time off, and the payroll tax. One by one they have chipped away at these pesky expenses in order reduce costs and to "become more competitive" with their foreign competition as a result. Right.

Sam
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Curmudgeoness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 07:27 PM
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8. Why SS/Medicare will not be cut...
we are the fucking government. We have more power than we are lead to believe. They are few, we are many. Make us hungry with little to lose, and they will have a force that they will not be able to deal with.
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phasma ex machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 07:31 PM
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9. SS has tens of millions of votes behind it - that's why the powers-that-be call it the third rail.
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