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Old 01-04-2011, 07:20 AM
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It is all a load of BS, I worked up until 73 yet the Bush administratuion forced me to take my SS payments at 65. So naturally given the salary that I was earning those payements were taxed at the top rate.

All this talk about fewer workers to fill in behind the baby boomers, how so - are they planning on outsourcing every damn job?
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Old 01-04-2011, 08:23 AM
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"The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the Social Security trust funds will be exhausted in 2043.1
I wish the rest of our government outlay programs had an equally rosy future.
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Old 01-04-2011, 08:49 AM
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Yeah, 2043, on IOUs.

The Dems have a different way of screwing recipients - just never give them a cost of living increase.

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Old 01-04-2011, 09:25 AM
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Hey not to be snarky

SS will be a recurring topic because it's about to cost us a LOT.

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Old 01-04-2011, 11:58 AM
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It's a much different system than here.
The government's power, on both sides of the pond, to take control of the funds, or manipulate the system to gain control of those funds, make any differences irrelevant.
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Old 01-04-2011, 12:10 PM
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It is all a load of BS, I worked up until 73 yet the Bush administratuion forced me to take my SS payments at 65. So naturally given the salary that I was earning those payements were taxed at the top rate.

All this talk about fewer workers to fill in behind the baby boomers, how so - are they planning on outsourcing every damn job?
+1. Bull it is............

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Old 01-04-2011, 02:32 PM
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The government's power, on both sides of the pond, to take control of the funds, or manipulate the system to gain control of those funds, make any differences irrelevant.
The governmment here does not need to sieze private pension funds since non of them are fully funded in any case.
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Old 01-04-2011, 04:16 PM
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The government's power, on both sides of the pond, to take control of the funds, or manipulate the system to gain control of those funds, make any differences irrelevant.
huh?

sorry whell, that made no sense

that's just fear mongering, very GOP of you
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Old 01-04-2011, 05:13 PM
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huh?

sorry whell, that made no sense

that's just fear mongering, very GOP of you
Tell that to the folks in Europe who stand to get screwed in retirement.
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Old 01-04-2011, 05:14 PM
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The governmment here does not need to sieze private pension funds since non of them are fully funded in any case.
That's only government and union pension funds.
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