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1466 Restraining the growth in social security and other entitlement spending hardlTimF-8/8/2008
1465unfortunately voters dont like to vote to cut their own benefits or the idea thac.hinton-8/8/2008
1464<I> social stability does not come free . </i> If we start cuttinTimF-8/8/2008
1463 Most entitlement spending isn't based on income. If the economy does bettTimF-8/8/2008
1462tim i am sorry to have to disagree with you i will admitt that we need reform bc.hinton-8/8/2008
1461tim i am sorry to have to disagree with your point of view re historial prospectc.hinton-8/8/2008
1460tim the time to cut entitlements is when fewer and fewer people need them becausc.hinton-8/8/2008
1459<I> tim please take into consideration that for the times the cost was hugTimF-8/8/2008
1458tim please take into consideration that for the times the cost was huge. you arc.hinton-8/8/2008
1457 We can pay more taxes, but doing so is a bad idea. We may not be able to paTimF-8/8/2008
1456 If your going to add up the total cost, rather than just look at the annual coTimF-8/8/2008
1455tim we are talking about americans ability to pay more taxes are we not? you sac.hinton-8/8/2008
1454Tim do the math and see how big a slice of the budget those entitlemnts were. &c.hinton-8/8/2008
1453 It has a very strong factual basis. The entitlement programs are on a path TimF-8/8/2008
1452re cant afford more taxes.... Tim thats a silly statement with absolutely no fac.hinton-8/8/2008
1451 $112 million per year, compared to over a trillion and a half per year. Even TimF-8/8/2008
1450<I> Tim, to call it nit picking is disgusting </i> Nonsense. &lTimF-8/8/2008
1449re miniscule ...tim how can you say such silly things...do you never do reaserchc.hinton-8/8/2008
1448Tim, to call it nit picking is disgusting.... considering the out come.shame !sc.hinton-8/8/2008
1447 OK, there was some minsucule entitlement program, that most likely was not calTimF-8/8/2008
1446there is a certain irony that we have given them their greatest weapon...the intc.hinton-8/8/2008
1445<i>"Even as it’s disintegrating, has Al Qaeda managed to establish itone_less-8/8/2008
1444wrong,tim there were entitlement promises made......"The Adjusted Service Cc.hinton-8/8/2008
1443DMA...you can only say that with 20/20 hindsight. you seem to believe that the c.hinton-8/8/2008
1442 Hoover's problem wasn't cutting entitlements (which didn't exist aTimF-8/8/2008
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