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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (28013)2/13/2008 5:06:01 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
MSM Columnist Falls For Internet Hoax?

By Bull Dog Pundit on News
Ankle Biting Pundits

Sometimes you just have to laugh at some of the idiots that major newspapers allow to write columns. Take for example Chris Satillo of the Philadelphia Inquirer. In his most recent column about the impending doom of Social Security (a legitimate topic), he wrote the following:

<<< Experts on Social Security have known for years what fixes would work. The only debate is how you mix and match the elements: raise the income limit for the FICA tax; trim or means-test benefits; let Social Security seek higher-yield investments; fold government employees into the program; or (drum roll) raise the full retirement age above 67. >>>


Does this guy - or his editors - have the slightest clue about anything? Hey idiot - government employees are in the Social Security program. Only those state and local government employees hired prior to 1986 - that’s 22 years ago - and working for the same state or local government agency, might not be in the program (the Feds made Social Security mandatory for their employees in 1983). So how many American workers aren’t in the system? In 2003, only about 4% (many of whom have likely retired since then)

And raise your hand if you’ve even heard “experts” say that one potential solution to the problem is to get this 4% of people into the system. Hell, if anything, the number of those people not in the system and still working, is so infinitesimal, that in all likelihood they’d receive far more in benefits over their life than they’ve paid in. In essence they would a net negative on the system.

About the only reason I can think that this dunce wrote what he did is because he actually believed the urban legend about Congressmen not paying into Social Security. Gee, and you wonder why it is the newspaper business is going the way of the manual typewriter.

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