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To: RetiredNow who wrote (103777)	11/2/2011 10:40:03 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

<<OK. I'm with you. The Federal Gov't borrowed the money from the SS Trust Fund and used all that money on a massively bloated gov't budget. So it is now gone. It isn't upsetting at all, it is pure bullshit. I don't get up set when I hear bullshit, I just point it out. Look at your sentence above: "massively bloated government." How about we examine that statement. Bush comes in and the deficit is 5 billion. He raises the debt another 5 billion to 10 billion in the next 8 years. So where did that money go? To massively bloated goverment? NO, to the rich, corporations and MIC! Not according to the congressional budget Office (CBO). They can do math to. MOST of it went in the 3 huge tax cuts to the rich according to the CBO. Most of the rest went to the military Industrial complex via two bullshit wars. So how about that math? So get back the trillions in tax cuts bush gave the rich and cut trillions out of the defense budget and then raise the cap on social security and you have your money for social security without anything bad happening!

To: RetiredNow who wrote (103777)	11/3/2011 2:45:30 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

It IS partisan gobbledygook. The SS payout money can come from RAISING TAXES (not mentioned by you) to pay back the borrowed money. Just as we did when we borrowed even more heavily to pay for WWII. During and after WWII, for the next 20 years, the top tax rate was 91%, to PAY for WWII. taxfoundation.org What we'd be paying for here are the "Reagan Revolution" tax cuts, the Bush Tax cuts and wars. I think Republicans should pay an extra tax surcharge for voting themselves a 30 year free lunch.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (103777)	11/3/2011 6:42:53 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

More than one in five Mississippians is on food stamps By Zachary Roth \| The Lookout – 18 hrs ago 5 Email Print Bill Ricker, 74, of Hartford, Maine is on food stamps. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty More than one in five Mississippians is on food stamps, according to a government report that shows the number of Americans on government-sponsored food assistance continues to rise. Fifteen percent of Americans, or 45.8 million people, participate in the food stamp program--officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)--according to a report from the Department of Agriculture. In the last year, as unemployment has remained high, the number of people receiving food stamps has risen 8.1 percent. Fully 21.5 percent of Mississippi residents are on food stamps. After Mississippi, the states with the highest levels of food-stamp use are New Mexico (20.7 percent), Oregon (20.6), Tennessee (20.2), and Louisiana (19.9). Go to the Wall Street Journal for an interactive map showing food stamp use state-by-state.