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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (107678)	7/12/2011 5:40:14 PM
From: locogringo	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

"Hold on a second, my Social Security check and my Medicare benefits are borrowed? The money that you're using to pay for my Social Security are borrowed? I thought I paid into a trust fund. I thought I worked my whole life to pay into some system and now you're paying my money back and you're claiming that the money is being borrowed?" Yes, Steve, that is the beginning of the end for obama_the_failure, and kenny_the_liar_with_funny_brown stains_on his chin, IMO. A very VERY STUPID remark. As Rubio pointed out, this guy is incompetent (i.e. DUMB). I was 125% impressed by Rubio today. I predict that the MSM and commie/fascist libs will start the smear routine IMMEDIATELY on Rubio, and leave Palin and Bachman alone. They have to be trembling in fear right now. Kenny is.

To: steve harris who wrote (107678)	7/12/2011 6:15:47 PM
From: Wayners	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

What is really occurring is you have taxes of all kinds coming in, plus borrowed money coming in, and payments of all kinds going out. You can't really differentiate whether somebody's SS was paid with tax money or borrowed money since it's all comingled together. Kenny says X dollars of SS taxes were paid in and X dollars of SS benefits were paid out and the two are equal, so therefore assumes there is no borrowed money. But then he forgets to look ahead to the future, or even recent history when more SS benefits went out than were paid in, forcing an unexpected need to borrow money to pay the difference. Now looking ahead, the gap between what is paid in and paid out starts going up exponentially such that the gap, in total, is $50 Trillion to $60 Trillion. That is so much money, it can neither be raised through taxes, because there would have to be an 80% tax rate for everybody, and people won't pay, borrowing, because who is going to lend that much money, even if they had it to lend, to a country that is already at debt levels of near 100% GDP with no growth, or a combination of taxes and borrowing for both reasons just stated. The generous benefits of SS are over. Austerity is coming here. The Police State to back up Austerity has been increasing for years.