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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (81560)3/31/2010 12:53:21 PM
From: TimF3 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 224750
 
Tim, would you like to be the first to tell the boomer generation they won't receive their full SS payments

That doesn't really have any connection to my point. Sure the recipients want the spending, and may vote out people who reduce it, but that doesn't change the point that its government spending like any other government spending, or address the issue that the whole idea of the SS trust fund is almost meaningless.

because the Government spent the money on Bush's Iraq War and tax cuts for the rich

That tax cuts where for almost all federal income tax payers, and where not spending anything.

The Iraq war was only a small part of the spending by the US government since the war started, and its also temporary spending unlike entitlements, so its tiny compared to the unfunded entitlement liability.
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