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Originally posted by Gradius Maximus
Has America always been so heartless or is this a recent development from the bad economy?
How can a soceity of immigrants start saying immigrants are bad?
If your skillless great grandparents came over from europe and couldnt speak english would you deny them healthcare and kick them off your land because they are not "True Americans"?
By law, income to the trust funds must be invested, on a daily basis, in securities guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the Federal government. All securities held by the trust funds are "special issues" of the United States Treasury. Such securities are available only to the trust funds. In the past, the trust funds have held marketable Treasury securities, which are available to the general public. Unlike marketable securities, special issues can be redeemed at any time at face value. Marketable securities are subject to the forces of the open market and may suffer a loss, or enjoy a gain, if sold before maturity. Investment in special issues gives the trust funds the same flexibility as holding cash.
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Originally posted by SevenThunders
Originally posted by whatukno
telling us, that you would like for them to take that money (all that money that I have EARNED) and put it in the hands of private financial institutions? Really? You want me to give money that I have worked for, since I was 12, and hand it over to people like AIG?
edit on 9/25/2010 by whatukno because: (no reason given)
The government takes your money before you ever see it, spends it right away and promises to pay it back to you when you retire.
The government takes your money before you ever see it, spends it right away and promises to pay it back to you when you retire. This is the problem with Social Security period. It was not intended to be spent for anything but to pay people when they retire, it was not intended to be the government piggy bank. So wouldn't the best solution for the problem to go after your Congress people to enact legislation so it cannot be touched for anything but that?
Originally posted by Ceriddwen
reply to post by againuntodust
I agree we should pay doctors less, but then educational institutions need to lower the cost to attend medical school so that these professionals are not in debt in the hundreds of thousands of dollars as soon as they graduate.
Originally posted by whatukno
Don't blame the government for your problems, fix them yourself.