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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (103677)	10/30/2011 11:05:34 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Just watch any AARP commercial currently running on TV. "50 million votes strong, who WILL vote to protect SS and Medicare." youtube.com youtube.com No pol wants to piss THEM off.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (103677)	10/31/2011 1:47:10 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

I know its a 3rd rail. The folks receiving government transfer payments are now such a large constituency, that it will be impossible to roll those benefits back. We're becoming exactly like Greece. It was Socrates, I believe, who said that as soon as the people know they can vote themselves a paycheck, that Democracy would come into decline. Well, it's happening here now. The old people have voted themselves a paycheck that comes from future generations and it will literally destroy the viability of our economy. Welcome to hell. There's no turning back now.