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Why Liberals are really reluctant to means test Social Security benefits
Why Liberals are really reluctant to means test Social Security
benefits "..Social Security and Medicare depends heavily on the fact that many Americans don’t see them as wealth redistribution programs, but as earned benefits. “I paid in, I deserve to get something back.” ...Means testing would make that view far less plausible, since it would make it hard to disguise that these are not insurance plans but welfare programs..." google it |
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Why Liberals are really reluctant to means test Social Security benefits
On Dec 31, 4:52*am, "PJ O'D" wrote:
Why Liberals are really reluctant to means test Social Security benefits "..Social Security and Medicare depends heavily on the fact that many Americans don’t see them as wealth redistribution programs, but as earned benefits. “I paid in, I deserve to get something back.” ...Means testing would make that view far less plausible, since it would make it hard to disguise that these are not insurance plans but welfare programs..." google it The phrase "means testing" has two meanings. The one you know about and the one you don't. The one you know about applies to someone who might be drawing Social Security and still making a million dollars a year, for example. The meaning that you don't know about is a plan by the Democrats and the Republicans to cut benefits for everyone who made more than about $40,000 before they retired, but keep the benefits in tact for those who made less than that. In other words, the fix is in. Both parties plan to turn Social Security into a welfare program paid for by the middle class, and as you have indicated, that will eventually kill the program as soon as people get their head out of their butts and realize how they were screwed. |
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Why Liberals are really reluctant to means test Social Security benefits
On Dec 31, 5:52*am, "PJ O'D" wrote:
Why Liberals are really reluctant to means test Social Security benefits "..Social Security and Medicare depends heavily on the fact that many Americans don’t see them as wealth redistribution programs, but as earned benefits. “I paid in, I deserve to get something back.” ...Means testing would make that view far less plausible, since it would make it hard to disguise that these are not insurance plans but welfare programs..." google it nor should they means test the programs. that is a backdoor to slashing benefits, so that the charlatans and wealthy cranks that initiated urinated on ecomomics, do not have to be self responsible, and pay back the loans they took out from s.s., to cover up the huge failure the trickled on economics produces. |
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Why Liberals are really reluctant to means test Social Security benefits
On Dec 31, 12:49*pm, Nickname unavailable
wrote: *nor should they means test the programs. that is a backdoor to slashing benefits, That what I am afraid this is. The Wall Street hyenas are sniffing every corner for some extra cash that is still left in this country and they just can't stay calm looking at Social Security fund. People must be vigilant and don't let them steal their life savings. |
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Why Liberals are really reluctant to means test Social Security benefits
On Dec 31 2012, 12:22*pm, Old Pif wrote:
On Dec 31, 12:49*pm, Nickname unavailable wrote: *nor should they means test the programs. that is a backdoor to slashing benefits, That what I am afraid this is. The Wall Street hyenas are sniffing every corner for some extra cash that is still left in this country and they just can't stay calm looking at Social Security fund. People must be vigilant and don't let them steal their life savings. FDR and his advisers crafted s.s. to be a large pool of money that "CONSERVATIVES" could not raid in a economic emergency brought on by "CONSERVATIVE" extremism. that large pool of money goes directly into the real economy, as keynes/galbraith advised the money should go. that large pool of money that "THE CONSERVATIVES" cannot touch, is keeping the economy moving, barely, but moving. |
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