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10012<i>They might, but if they do I think it would be to a much smaller degreLane318/4/2011
10011The substance is the issue of whether late payments on Social Security checks (wTimF-8/4/2011
10010The answer seems to hang on what comprises "financial obligations." Lane318/4/2011
10009Debt Limits, Union Strike Threats, and Talk of “Extortion” and “Hostage-Taking” TimF-8/3/2011
10008<I> Anyway, the question is not about anyone having a right, property or TimF-8/3/2011
10007<i>Payments due under Social Security are not property rights</i> Lane318/3/2011
10006It ruled that there is no contractual right to receive Social Security payments.TimF-8/3/2011
10005<i> under actual supreme court precedent, no one has any legal right to SoLane318/3/2011
10004<I> There are laws and then there are laws. </i> And the budgets paTimF-8/3/2011
10003Thanks for the clarification. That's what I originally thought you were sayLane318/3/2011
10002I'm not agreeing that it would apply to entitlements. I am saying it properTimF-8/3/2011
10001You can change it to "no it wouldn't". My head is spinning. To cLane318/3/2011
10000verizonmath.blogspot.comTimF-8/3/2011
9999'Poverty' is among the most misleading words in politics TimF-8/3/2011
9998<I> Me: When the government does not meet a non-contractual financial obliTimF-8/3/2011
9997<i>Me: When the government does not meet a non-contractual financial obLane318/3/2011
9996<I> When the government does not meet a non-contractual financial obligatTimF-8/3/2011
9995<i> It has contractual obligations to vendors, but not to recipients of SoLane318/3/2011
9994<I> Reneging on some contractual obligations counts and not others? </iTimF-8/2/2011
9993<i>Default means not paying debt (or debt service) or contractual obligatiLane318/2/2011
9992Default has different meanings, and in the legal and financial sense there wouldTimF-8/2/2011
9991<i>I really wish people would stop calling it "default". HittiLane318/2/2011
9990It seems that my Congressman, having already lost my vote over Obamacare, doubleLane318/2/2011
9989<i> If they knew it was going to pass without them, they could vote 'nLane318/2/2011
9988<i>"That's why I said I would never vote for anyone who, in the eOeconomicus-8/1/2011
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