No, the administrators of Social Security saw this coming and set up a trust fund so Soc Sec would have reserves to be able to pay full benefits to all retirees through at least 2040 at which point the balance should start shifting back again.Originally Posted by DeBlayde
oh come on i'll be 52 by 2040.I'll never get that check lol.
you won't if the Republicans have their way.
dang republicans!!!! we must protest this an dhave nothing effective done about it!!
It's simple for me - Bush can STFU about "fiscal responsiblity" and go stuff any and all of his 150 proposed reforms because the defense budget is now 419 billion dollars a year, not including the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq, which in order to not turn this into a war thread, I will simply label as ineffective. Education is not an priority, let's deflate or simply erase 50 education programs, but spending more and more money in Iraq in a losing effort is a priority?
Simple, real simple. If he really cared about turning around this deficit, which this year is a new record for America, breaking Bush's old record he set last year, he would stop spending well over a billion dollars a day on such an unnecessarily large military. And how he can wave around the military as such a huge priority and then call for a cut on veteran's benefits is a flagrant, disgusting act of hypocrisy. If any Democrats had any guts (I'm looking at j00, Barbara Boxer) they would stand up and call this cro-mag on all of his BS.
I can't wait for these next four years to be over with so we can be assured we will never, ever have to deal with this incompetent, war-mongering monkey as President ever again. In four years he has turned this country into an embarassment and the laughing stock of the whole world, let alone bankrupting it, leaving his mistakes as a mess for my generation to clean up. Damn him and damn all the red states that support his lying, cheating ass.
Last edited by LH; 02-08-2005 at 04:47 PM.
so it's all my fualt because I'ma republican :rolleyes2
I must say the fact that Kerry was the nominee helped Bush quite a bit. He wasn't the most inspiring of candidates.
That's true, BTV, however, Kerry still could have dominated the election had he opposed the war in Iraq and told the real truth about what Bush is in Iraq for. Judging by the way the democrats acted, it seems like they wanted to lose. With the minimal effort the put into it, they certainly deserved to.
Not Dean. He did the opposite. He opposed the war and said we were getting out. He thought the war was wrong and that we have no right to be over there in the first place. I wish Dean had won...now he will just be the DNC head guy. Which is good because he can lead the party and help out building up local and state governments a bit more as the Dems have been falling behind there greatly.
Yes, I think Dean could have been a contender, it's a shame the Democrats weren't willing to gamble with an edgier candidate.
I think he would have won had the primaries been held all on the same day. I hate how some piss ant little state gets to pretty much decide who wins...with a cacuas at that. Then everyone else just votes what they vote to go with the crowd. If you are from that state and you are offened then GOOD!
yea, let's blame Bush on RSL!!!!
Well thats better than pulling more money out of SS and investing in Enron. And cutting Veterans benefits, the same Veterans that fought when this country asked, and some from this recent Iraqi conflict. Or even better than pulling money from education while America falls farther and farther behind in global testing.
Dont republicans get tired of Bush's double talk? For example saying he is gonna protect Veterans, yet when its budget time they go to the top of the cut list.
Seriously, Dean sucked as a govenor so I doubt he would have been a good president.
Yeah lol you got to love those repubs.They sure do know how to run america effectively.Veterans getting screwed over because america fears a big army in times of peace blah blah blah.but yeah the education system sucks in most places except fo rhte south.The southern states literally enforce education and schools there are actually pretty good.But places like Chicago.Were you have to goto a private school just to get a half decent education.Well you know its pretty pathetic.But hey lets go ahead and spend 18 million bucks to do lethal injection on a innocent man.Instead of putting it in school funds.But anyway besides the fact htat more tax dollars is put into a prison than it is put into a public school means.They want us to goto jail as soon as we graduate highschool.They're alerady treating us like prisoners and crap when we walk into school and have to get searched and if the thing goes off soemtimes cavity searched in public by an officer that really wants to make it your day.Oh yeah america is great under the republican rule.
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