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		<title>By: home invasion</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tom-blumer/social-security-even-more-insolvent-than-you-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-4513812</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[home invasion]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Draw your future home invasion with sweet home 3 DF irst advantage for this software, is compatible with Mac OS X, iLife,
iWork, and professional software. This was my take away from the computer and cool-out?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Draw your future home invasion with sweet home 3 DF irst advantage for this software, is compatible with Mac OS X, iLife,<br />
iWork, and professional software. This was my take away from the computer and cool-out?</p>
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		<title>By: tanstaafl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tanstaafl]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ponzi scheme. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ponzi scheme. </p>
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		<title>By: Rifleman</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rifleman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#039;death panels&#039; will be deciding the guidelines, which means we won&#039;t have access to the process.  There&#039;s no arguing with, or appealing to, a guideline.   Nobody the patient comes into contact with at the hospital or doctor&#039;s office will have the power to do a thing for them, but give them a pain pill. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &#039;death panels&#039; will be deciding the guidelines, which means we won&#039;t have access to the process.  There&#039;s no arguing with, or appealing to, a guideline.   Nobody the patient comes into contact with at the hospital or doctor&#039;s office will have the power to do a thing for them, but give them a pain pill. </p>
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		<title>By: Rifleman</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tom-blumer/social-security-even-more-insolvent-than-you-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-4127149</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rifleman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s okay, I&#039;ve got a thick hide, but social security has been running a deficit since &#039;09 or &#039;10.  That&#039;s around two decades earlier than their 90s projections, and consistently being revised closer, not farther  It was buried by the msm, of course, but it was in the news.    ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#039;s okay, I&#039;ve got a thick hide, but social security has been running a deficit since &#039;09 or &#039;10.  That&#039;s around two decades earlier than their 90s projections, and consistently being revised closer, not farther  It was buried by the msm, of course, but it was in the news.    </p>
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		<title>By: Ronnie Jones</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronnie Jones]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rifleman, thanks, I never thought of that. They have left no stone unturned. Rw ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rifleman, thanks, I never thought of that. They have left no stone unturned. Rw </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tom-blumer/social-security-even-more-insolvent-than-you-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-4126151</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 06:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[oh geez.  These Dems... ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oh geez.  These Dems&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tom-blumer/social-security-even-more-insolvent-than-you-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-4126138</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 06:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a sneaking suspicion it&#039;s all been orchestrated as an excuse for &quot;population control&quot; (hence the &quot;death panels&quot;. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a sneaking suspicion it&#039;s all been orchestrated as an excuse for &quot;population control&quot; (hence the &quot;death panels&quot;. </p>
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		<title>By: Snow White</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Snow White]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SS money has been spent as it came in since it&#039;s beginning. SS was never meant to be a retirement fund for the elderly. It was FDR&#039;s  way of getting a destitute population to willingly  pay taxes to pay off his supporters and for his socialist programs. From the beginning the money was &quot;invested in govt. securities.&quot; and spent as it came in. If it had indeed been a retirement program the retirement age would not have been set 10 years above the average life expectancy at the time.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The SS money has been spent as it came in since it&#039;s beginning. SS was never meant to be a retirement fund for the elderly. It was FDR&#039;s  way of getting a destitute population to willingly  pay taxes to pay off his supporters and for his socialist programs. From the beginning the money was &quot;invested in govt. securities.&quot; and spent as it came in. If it had indeed been a retirement program the retirement age would not have been set 10 years above the average life expectancy at the time.   </p>
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		<title>By: Andy Lewis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Lewis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, this comment was meant for the original article, not you. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry, this comment was meant for the original article, not you. </p>
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		<title>By: Andy Lewis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Lewis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#039;re a lying piece of chit.  SS runs a surplus and everybody damn well knows it. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#039;re a lying piece of chit.  SS runs a surplus and everybody damn well knows it. </p>
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		<title>By: LindaF</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[LindaF]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that&#039;s not entirely true.  I&#039;m a Baby Boomer, who DIDN&#039;T buy a home that rose in price, due to inflation - I was paying rent then.  I spent my money on my children WILDLY - buying them food, clothing (mostly at resale shops), and a roof over their heads.  I DID put money in retirement accounts - every time the economy tanked, our investments went south.  They seldom did more than slightly recover by the time the next crisis hit. 
 
No, we didn&#039;t remodel the bath, or any other part of the house.  I&#039;ve only been to Disney World once - we paid for it in cash. 
 
Stop making assumptions about the crazy spending habits of BBs.  I truly do resent being tarred with the brush of the credit card junkies.  We&#039;re using what money we can making sure that we enter retirement (hopefully, within the next 5 years) with a bearable monthly expense, and with some money for small luxuries (like occasionally visiting our grandchildren). ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, that&#039;s not entirely true.  I&#039;m a Baby Boomer, who DIDN&#039;T buy a home that rose in price, due to inflation &#8211; I was paying rent then.  I spent my money on my children WILDLY &#8211; buying them food, clothing (mostly at resale shops), and a roof over their heads.  I DID put money in retirement accounts &#8211; every time the economy tanked, our investments went south.  They seldom did more than slightly recover by the time the next crisis hit. </p>
<p>No, we didn&#039;t remodel the bath, or any other part of the house.  I&#039;ve only been to Disney World once &#8211; we paid for it in cash. </p>
<p>Stop making assumptions about the crazy spending habits of BBs.  I truly do resent being tarred with the brush of the credit card junkies.  We&#039;re using what money we can making sure that we enter retirement (hopefully, within the next 5 years) with a bearable monthly expense, and with some money for small luxuries (like occasionally visiting our grandchildren). </p>
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		<title>By: Thomas Wells</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Wells]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#039;t worry, Obamacareless death panels will fix this. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#039;t worry, Obamacareless death panels will fix this. </p>
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		<title>By: Sussex Girl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sussex Girl]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw recent information indicating that 59% of Boomers nearing retirement, so those in their late fifties/early sixties, have less than $50,000 saved for retirement.  Why so little?  My guess--they all bought the SSA scam.  So instead of saving, they ran up credit card debt taking the kids to Disney World and remodeling the bathroom, thinking Uncle Sam had their back.  How surprised will they be to find themselves in retirement eating at soup kitchens for lunch. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I saw recent information indicating that 59% of Boomers nearing retirement, so those in their late fifties/early sixties, have less than $50,000 saved for retirement.  Why so little?  My guess&#8211;they all bought the SSA scam.  So instead of saving, they ran up credit card debt taking the kids to Disney World and remodeling the bathroom, thinking Uncle Sam had their back.  How surprised will they be to find themselves in retirement eating at soup kitchens for lunch. </p>
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		<title>By: JacksonPearson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JacksonPearson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:   
  
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary,   
  
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program,   
  
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,   
  
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent &quot;Trust Fund&quot; rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,   
  
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.   
  
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month &#8212; and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to &quot;put away,&quot; you may be interested in the following:   
  
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent &quot;Trust&quot; fund and put it into the General fund so that Congress could spend it?   
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democratically-controlled House and Senate.   
  
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?   
A: The Democratic Party.   
  
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?   
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the &quot;tie-breaking&quot; deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the U.S.   
  
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?   
MY FAVORITE :  
A: That&#039;s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive SSI Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!   
  
Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violation of the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!   
  
And the worst part about it is, uninformed citizens believe it! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:   </p>
<p>1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary,   </p>
<p>2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program,   </p>
<p>3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,   </p>
<p>4.) That the money the participants put into the independent &quot;Trust Fund&quot; rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,   </p>
<p>5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.   </p>
<p>Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month &mdash; and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to &quot;put away,&quot; you may be interested in the following:   </p>
<p>Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent &quot;Trust&quot; fund and put it into the General fund so that Congress could spend it?<br />
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democratically-controlled House and Senate.   </p>
<p>Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?<br />
A: The Democratic Party.   </p>
<p>Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?<br />
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the &quot;tie-breaking&quot; deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the U.S.   </p>
<p>Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?<br />
MY FAVORITE :<br />
A: That&#039;s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive SSI Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!   </p>
<p>Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violation of the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!   </p>
<p>And the worst part about it is, uninformed citizens believe it! </p>
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		<title>By: mike</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The situation with social security is only the tip of the iceberg.  The reality is that with the manipulation of the currency and interest rates, even makes the option of personal responsibility very difficult.  Savings are destroyed by the Federal government&#039;s policy of inflating the currency, and the deliberate effort to keep interest rates near zero means that you also do not have the option of an annuity based on a return on your savings.  While stocks are touted as an alternative, investments in this arena can also be a fools errand, since the average investor&#039;s gains are reduced by inflation, and much of the &#039;return on investment&quot; is illusory. 
 
Even social security has been jiggered by the government&#039;s calculation of the inflation rate so as to lower the government&#039;s pension liability.  In addition, it is likely that this pension will be further reduced by making it means tested, by adjusting the proportion of the benefit that is taxed, and by further increases in full retirement age.  Indirect methods will include making pensioners liable for increasing health care costs under Medicare part B and C, and by changing covered services, deductibles, co-pays and the like.   
 
The impact of all these changes will not be felt proportionately.  Individuals on welfare will still be exempted from any responsibility for a proportion of the cost, and he proportion of the population on SSI will increase as criteria for disability are expended or adjusted. 
 
The net effect will be to reward irresponsible behavior and to punish responsible behavior.  The consequences of this will be a social death spiral instead of a social security... ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The situation with social security is only the tip of the iceberg.  The reality is that with the manipulation of the currency and interest rates, even makes the option of personal responsibility very difficult.  Savings are destroyed by the Federal government&#039;s policy of inflating the currency, and the deliberate effort to keep interest rates near zero means that you also do not have the option of an annuity based on a return on your savings.  While stocks are touted as an alternative, investments in this arena can also be a fools errand, since the average investor&#039;s gains are reduced by inflation, and much of the &#039;return on investment&quot; is illusory. </p>
<p>Even social security has been jiggered by the government&#039;s calculation of the inflation rate so as to lower the government&#039;s pension liability.  In addition, it is likely that this pension will be further reduced by making it means tested, by adjusting the proportion of the benefit that is taxed, and by further increases in full retirement age.  Indirect methods will include making pensioners liable for increasing health care costs under Medicare part B and C, and by changing covered services, deductibles, co-pays and the like.   </p>
<p>The impact of all these changes will not be felt proportionately.  Individuals on welfare will still be exempted from any responsibility for a proportion of the cost, and he proportion of the population on SSI will increase as criteria for disability are expended or adjusted. </p>
<p>The net effect will be to reward irresponsible behavior and to punish responsible behavior.  The consequences of this will be a social death spiral instead of a social security&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: Gary King</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary King]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for your energy and attention!  Getting the right people to pay attention is always difficult. For example, my coauthor and I made this information publicly available (in preprints, on my web site, at conferences, and elsewhere) way before the start of the presidential election but the national media gets to pay attention whenever it likes.  How we all get our elected representatives to pay attention and try to come to a compromise to fix the problem is even more important, since the longer they wait the more traumatic the changes will have to be to keep Social Security solvent.   And doing nothing is not an option:  the law says that social security benefits will be cut automatically - probably by about 25% in one year - if the system becomes insolvent (as we predict will occur in 2031 if nothing is done).  So liberals, conservatives, retirees, and workers all have a big incentive to save one of the most successful and popular government programs. 
Gary King ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for your energy and attention!  Getting the right people to pay attention is always difficult. For example, my coauthor and I made this information publicly available (in preprints, on my web site, at conferences, and elsewhere) way before the start of the presidential election but the national media gets to pay attention whenever it likes.  How we all get our elected representatives to pay attention and try to come to a compromise to fix the problem is even more important, since the longer they wait the more traumatic the changes will have to be to keep Social Security solvent.   And doing nothing is not an option:  the law says that social security benefits will be cut automatically &#8211; probably by about 25% in one year &#8211; if the system becomes insolvent (as we predict will occur in 2031 if nothing is done).  So liberals, conservatives, retirees, and workers all have a big incentive to save one of the most successful and popular government programs.<br />
Gary King </p>
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		<title>By: patron</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[patron]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s a common misconception that people pay into S.S. and are supposed to have that money returned to them, due in part to propaganda starting in elementary school by big government advocates. An article on here last summer showed how S.S. is only a tax to finance a big government program no different than food stamps or welfare. 
 
Big government advocates will play this card up until the day they are broke to prevent spending reforms, and then they will weasel out and use this card to say &quot;Screw You&quot; to current retirees so they can keep flying to Hawaii every year for vacation. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#039;s a common misconception that people pay into S.S. and are supposed to have that money returned to them, due in part to propaganda starting in elementary school by big government advocates. An article on here last summer showed how S.S. is only a tax to finance a big government program no different than food stamps or welfare. </p>
<p>Big government advocates will play this card up until the day they are broke to prevent spending reforms, and then they will weasel out and use this card to say &quot;Screw You&quot; to current retirees so they can keep flying to Hawaii every year for vacation. </p>
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		<title>By: Rifleman</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rifleman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve known all my life (born in 66, two years after a dp congress and president started blowing the money as soon as it came in) that I&#039;d never see a dime of the money I put in it.   My dad made sure I was real aware of that fact from an early age.   It&#039;s way too late for people my age and the baby boomers before us to start getting upset now.     They trusted politicians with the money for their retirement and health care in old age, and that money is long gone. 
 
That&#039;s also why taking over the rest of the health care system was so important at this time, and why it was so stupid to let them do it.   A lot of people are going to have to die early and cheap, so they can write off the unfunded liabilities.    Americans made the same entity that gets to write off all their unpaid bennies, and collect a portion of their estate when they die, the gate-keeper to their access to health care.    A lot of people are going to be diagnosed too late for &#039;guidelines&#039; to allow expensive lifesaving treatment, and they&#039;ll be sent home to take a pill. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;ve known all my life (born in 66, two years after a dp congress and president started blowing the money as soon as it came in) that I&#039;d never see a dime of the money I put in it.   My dad made sure I was real aware of that fact from an early age.   It&#039;s way too late for people my age and the baby boomers before us to start getting upset now.     They trusted politicians with the money for their retirement and health care in old age, and that money is long gone. </p>
<p>That&#039;s also why taking over the rest of the health care system was so important at this time, and why it was so stupid to let them do it.   A lot of people are going to have to die early and cheap, so they can write off the unfunded liabilities.    Americans made the same entity that gets to write off all their unpaid bennies, and collect a portion of their estate when they die, the gate-keeper to their access to health care.    A lot of people are going to be diagnosed too late for &#039;guidelines&#039; to allow expensive lifesaving treatment, and they&#039;ll be sent home to take a pill. </p>
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		<title>By: John C. Davidson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John C. Davidson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you chek back and figure out what happened in 1929, you&#039;ll see the same pattern. The difference is, printing money has slowed things down a bit. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you chek back and figure out what happened in 1929, you&#039;ll see the same pattern. The difference is, printing money has slowed things down a bit. </p>
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		<title>By: Asher</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asher]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe many people who are entitled and paid into S.S. will not get it at  some point..they will be cheated out of it as we head for Greece. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe many people who are entitled and paid into S.S. will not get it at  some point..they will be cheated out of it as we head for Greece. </p>
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