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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (213094)	12/30/2012 1:54:48 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541402

"10,000 baby boomers a day now are entering retirement -" That means 10,000 new jobs for kids. Maybe we should try and get 25K to retire and get out of the way. Then, remove the earning cap.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (213094)	12/30/2012 2:47:57 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 541402

Steve, people all over the world want to become Americans. Solve the demographic problem through immigration.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (213094)	12/30/2012 4:10:54 PM
From: Mary Cluney	9 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541402

<<<Clearly the voting public doesn't have the "smarts" to understand this issue. >>> The voting public clearly understand this issue. Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, Grover Norquisite, and the rest of the deluded rw are still trying to figure this out. Oh, btw, maybe you have heard - Obama won re-election by a huge margin. <<<10,000 baby boomers a day now are entering retirement - you do the math!!!>>> Baby boomers do not need to understand mathmatics - all they need to do is understand just a little arithmetic and have some common sense. They have made it clear as to how they feel. They went out and voted. The delusional do not understand that SS and Medicare are not entitlements but a proven method to protect the baby boomer from charlatans who want to privatise SS and medicare and leave them at the mercy of the whims of the super wealthy (Koch brothers, Rupert Murdock, Grover Norquisit, the invisible hand, et al ) when they get old and retire from the work force. All "intellectually advanced" nations (civilized people) treat their elderly citizens entering their final years ensuring some sense of dignity. Get over it. The election is over. .

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (213094)	12/30/2012 6:39:50 PM
From: Alex MG	5 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541402

<<<< Social Security and Medicare are not entitlements but you have to have some smarts, devoid of delusion, and some knowledge of arithmetic to understand that concept.>>>>> "Clearly the voting public doesn't have the "smarts" to understand this issue. 10,000 baby boomers a day now are entering retirement - you do the math!!!" __________________ Clearly it's you, Steve Lokness, who cannot do basic math and continue to chirp like a parrot the right wing talking points Social Security is not a problem and should not even be in the discussion... get the facts before you spout more crappola jaredbernsteinblog.com Social Security Is Not the Problem Aug 14, 2011 This is one of these facts that you may have heard before but it bears repeating: When people say, “the entitlements will bankrupt America,” they’re a) wrong, and b) not talking about Social Security, or at least they shouldn’t be. The figure below, from CBO, show that as a share of GDP, neither Social Security nor other spending (which includes the discretionary spending that everyone’s all gung ho to slash away at) are driving government spending as a share of the economy. It’s health care. And as I’ve stressed every time this comes up, that’s not a gov’t problem—that’s just a problem. In fact, health costs grow faster in the private than in the public sector. Which is why I said “a” above is also wrong. It’s not entitlements, it’s Medicare, Mcaid, etc. And it’s not even those that will “bankrupt America.” It’s health care spending system wide that must be brought under control. Social Security has a funding shortfall too—about 0.8% of GDP over the 75-year horizon. That’s just about equal to the revenue from the expiration of the high-end Bush tax cuts, and less than half from all the Bush cuts. So please don’t tell me we can’t afford this guaranteed pension that provides more than half of their income to more than half of the elderly. Source: CBO