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somone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 10:03 AM Original message |
War on New Deal drumbeat: Baby Boomers Expected to Drain Medicare (ABC) |
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BeyondGeography (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
1. It's like nobody was supposed to get old |
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BlueJac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
2. The baby boomers paid their own way...... |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 10:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Damned right they did...They paid for their AND their parents' retirment. |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 12:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. +1000 nt |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 12:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Your social security and Medicare contributions paid for other seniors. It was a tax. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 11:21 PM Response to Reply #10 |
21. That was true in the past |
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me b zola (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 11:26 PM Response to Reply #10 |
22. Then whoever the fuck took my money needs to give it back |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 12:23 AM Response to Reply #22 |
28. Most went to grandma and grandpa. |
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me b zola (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 02:15 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Fuck anybody who wants to kill the New Deal |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 03:14 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I don't think they realized how f-ed up people like George Bush could make things. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 05:53 AM Response to Reply #10 |
33. Wrong. Boomers prepaid their own Social Security n/t |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 07:01 AM Response to Reply #10 |
34. If I borrow money and instead of paying it back, tell the bank it's "gone and spent" |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
3. The War budget doubled from $350 billion to $700 Billion in the last ten years |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
4. If you voted Reagan in 1980 you must renounce your benefits. |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 10:26 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. No Reagan vote, here bro...Never voted for a repuke in my forty year voting history. n/t |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 01:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. Reagan received more votes from the so-called "Greatest Generation" than from Boomers |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 08:42 AM Response to Reply #4 |
39. the boomers were the group least likely to vote for reagan. |
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deminks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
7. More of the 'prosperity for me, austerity for you' corporatist theme for 2011. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 12:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. More of facing reality. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 01:08 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. So what do you think should be done? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 09:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. First of all we need to acknowledge that future workers will be paying for future retirees. |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
8. This Boomer is ready to reintroduce Flower Power and any other |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
12. I am at the tail end of the Boom, and having paid into SS and Medicare |
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felix_numinous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
14. 'The MIC expected to drain the country of every last dollar |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
15. This "news" story is nonsensical propaganda |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 02:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Why go there when you can get your right wing talking points from here |
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craigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
19. The boomers did make alot of problems for the system. |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 07:13 AM Response to Reply #19 |
35. Nooo, it was the "Greatest Generation" |
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MiniMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
20. I'm at the end of the boomers, born in 1957 |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
23. God I feel old. I can remember when the big problem we Boomers |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 11:53 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. +1000 n/t |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 11:52 PM Response to Original message |
24. And the Dems did not know this when they silenced not for profit HC advocates... |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 12:27 AM Response to Reply #24 |
29. That really does explain the mandate, doesn't it? |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 09:14 AM Response to Reply #29 |
41. Does to me, it was a perfect time to push SP while discussing... |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
26. fuck the useless fear-mongering media. fuck them with two-by-fours. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
27. I really wish someone would contradict them on this |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 03:12 AM Response to Original message |
31. Sounds serious! Okay, here's what you do: Cut the military budget in half. Legalize & tax marijuana. |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 07:14 AM Response to Reply #31 |
36. And raise the cap |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 07:18 AM Response to Reply #31 |
37. put the tax cuts for the rich into a trust fund, then borrow from that to pay back Social Security. |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
38. There's an easy way to plump up the Medicare budget: let everyone in. |
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somone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 10:16 AM Response to Reply #38 |
42. Exactly. Sadly: |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
40. Where was this headline? |
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