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		<title>By: veeper</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[veeper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 05:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it should go away.....


unless congress pulls a &quot;obamacare&quot; on this issue and demand by law that everyone invest in a retirement fund or be fined....


it is NOT governments place......]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it should go away&#8230;..</p>
<p>unless congress pulls a &#8220;obamacare&#8221; on this issue and demand by law that everyone invest in a retirement fund or be fined&#8230;.</p>
<p>it is NOT governments place&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: veeper</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[veeper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 05:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[actually, social security IS an entitlement.....nor is reasonable term unemployment.


what is NOT an entitlement is welfare, food stamps, rent assistance, student loans, and any number of programs that one can get without any participation whatsoever...

politicians lumped social freebies in with actual entitlements to give freebies credibility.....and protect them ......]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>actually, social security IS an entitlement&#8230;..nor is reasonable term unemployment.</p>
<p>what is NOT an entitlement is welfare, food stamps, rent assistance, student loans, and any number of programs that one can get without any participation whatsoever&#8230;</p>
<p>politicians lumped social freebies in with actual entitlements to give freebies credibility&#8230;..and protect them &#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: radicalrepublican</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 01:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite perspicacious of you; and quoting Chesterton?  There is hope for the world after all....]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quite perspicacious of you; and quoting Chesterton?  There is hope for the world after all&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: veeper</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[veeper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 20:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ONE and ONLY reason governments (city, county, state, federal) never have enough money and taxes keep getting higher is governments getting involved and spending money in places that government has absolutely no business or right to be involved....]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The ONE and ONLY reason governments (city, county, state, federal) never have enough money and taxes keep getting higher is governments getting involved and spending money in places that government has absolutely no business or right to be involved&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Toa</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Toa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Especially since there are way too many people who so savor being ignorant; nothing matters to them except making it to the next party, m-a-a-a-n, and making themselves feel good by demanding entitlements, suing other people, etc..]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Especially since there are way too many people who so savor being ignorant; nothing matters to them except making it to the next party, m-a-a-a-n, and making themselves feel good by demanding entitlements, suing other people, etc..</p>
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		<title>By: Sleeper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 00:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Security given back to the individuals who actually were taxed is not an entitlement . The government took money from me for ever hour that i worked . The equal amount that was &#039;contributed&#039; by my employer was in fact taken out of the amount that my employer paid me per hour .I never would have chosen to give that money to SS if I had a choice not to .   
When I retired because of a disability, I had my own small home and two rentals . I sold one rental and paid off the other because I did not know what my income would be . I was a truck driver . 
If none of my money had gone into SS I easily could have kept the second rental and probably had a third .
When I die, SS payments to me will stop . On the other hand ,if SS was never taken out ,  I would now be enjoying rent from two and most likely three rentals . Plus I could leave that property to my kin .
I do not want from SS an amount equal to what was taken from me , but rather 4 times that amount . That in real terms is what they took from me .
I am not greedy nor do I feel entitled . I WANT MY MONEY BACK .]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Social Security given back to the individuals who actually were taxed is not an entitlement . The government took money from me for ever hour that i worked . The equal amount that was &#8216;contributed&#8217; by my employer was in fact taken out of the amount that my employer paid me per hour .I never would have chosen to give that money to SS if I had a choice not to .<br />
When I retired because of a disability, I had my own small home and two rentals . I sold one rental and paid off the other because I did not know what my income would be . I was a truck driver .<br />
If none of my money had gone into SS I easily could have kept the second rental and probably had a third .<br />
When I die, SS payments to me will stop . On the other hand ,if SS was never taken out ,  I would now be enjoying rent from two and most likely three rentals . Plus I could leave that property to my kin .<br />
I do not want from SS an amount equal to what was taken from me , but rather 4 times that amount . That in real terms is what they took from me .<br />
I am not greedy nor do I feel entitled . I WANT MY MONEY BACK .</p>
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		<title>By: jimi belton</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 00:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[yes to that....We need to rise and vote out the appeasers like Bohner...and Johnny Issacson of Ga....pathetic pollies, Losers that slither their way into office and become career regrugs...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yes to that&#8230;.We need to rise and vote out the appeasers like Bohner&#8230;and Johnny Issacson of Ga&#8230;.pathetic pollies, Losers that slither their way into office and become career regrugs&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Donald J DaCosta</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 23:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s a sad commentary on how Americans have allowed themselves to be &quot;dumbed down.&quot;  As children most of us are taught to never take anything from strangers. As adults we&#039;ve got our hands out saying gimme, gimme, gimme from anyone needing our votes. That what&#039;s given is taken from our fellow citizens is either ignored or never enters the calculations. 


It&#039;s the attitude that the government can create out of thin air whatever freebies it promises to deliver. No effort, personal involvement, achievement or responsible behavior required from the recipient. Only the need for basic, life supporting products and services as we have been &quot;taught&quot; is our inherent right as human beings.


Sounds like ridiculous nonsense but the political ruling class perpetually promote this notion and it gets them elected.........the will of the governed in action.


Whatever happens, good or bad, it will be much deserved.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a sad commentary on how Americans have allowed themselves to be &#8220;dumbed down.&#8221;  As children most of us are taught to never take anything from strangers. As adults we&#8217;ve got our hands out saying gimme, gimme, gimme from anyone needing our votes. That what&#8217;s given is taken from our fellow citizens is either ignored or never enters the calculations. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s the attitude that the government can create out of thin air whatever freebies it promises to deliver. No effort, personal involvement, achievement or responsible behavior required from the recipient. Only the need for basic, life supporting products and services as we have been &#8220;taught&#8221; is our inherent right as human beings.</p>
<p>Sounds like ridiculous nonsense but the political ruling class perpetually promote this notion and it gets them elected&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;the will of the governed in action.</p>
<p>Whatever happens, good or bad, it will be much deserved.</p>
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		<title>By: russp</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think what Prof. Williams is saying is that the underlying problem is not politicians but rather the ignorance of the people who elect them. Tea Party people know how a government should be run, but many of them don&#039;t seem to understand that we can&#039;t force good government on an ignorant public. How can we overcome the ignorance? That&#039;s the $64K question. It will not be easy. It may not even be possible.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think what Prof. Williams is saying is that the underlying problem is not politicians but rather the ignorance of the people who elect them. Tea Party people know how a government should be run, but many of them don&#8217;t seem to understand that we can&#8217;t force good government on an ignorant public. How can we overcome the ignorance? That&#8217;s the $64K question. It will not be easy. It may not even be possible.</p>
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		<title>By: alericKong</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The laws which mandated social security, and publications by the Social Security Administration reveal the myth of &quot;paying into Social Security&quot; or &quot;it&#039;s your money.&quot; In fact it&#039;s another tax and spend entitlement scheme, and it&#039;s your money as long as legislators and administrators deems it so. Pretty soon it will go away. Check his earlier columns.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The laws which mandated social security, and publications by the Social Security Administration reveal the myth of &#8220;paying into Social Security&#8221; or &#8220;it&#8217;s your money.&#8221; In fact it&#8217;s another tax and spend entitlement scheme, and it&#8217;s your money as long as legislators and administrators deems it so. Pretty soon it will go away. Check his earlier columns.</p>
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		<title>By: Habbgun</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Habbgun]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every politician makes that argument. They then pave the way to something worse. Have they left the government better than they found it? Most likely no. Did they stay a short term or did they hang around decomposing past what a zombie would fine polite? They understand the realities because they know how to create them. The Tea Party is called dumb by both Dems and Repubs. They seem  to attract people though.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every politician makes that argument. They then pave the way to something worse. Have they left the government better than they found it? Most likely no. Did they stay a short term or did they hang around decomposing past what a zombie would fine polite? They understand the realities because they know how to create them. The Tea Party is called dumb by both Dems and Repubs. They seem  to attract people though.</p>
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		<title>By: scherado</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[scherado]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;The smart politician would go along with these people’s vision that Social Security [is] their money that the government was holding for them.&quot;

People who gave SS dollars to the State every paycheck are due what they gave PERIOD. There is no &quot;vision&quot; required. Mr. Williams has a ludicrous definition of &quot;entitlement&quot;, unless he means that those who handed their money to the Government are entitled to receive the return of it.

The indignity here is a reaction to Mr. Williams&#039; blindness of the obvious solution: end SS income tax and pay the people who paid-in until they die. Duh.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The smart politician would go along with these people’s vision that Social Security [is] their money that the government was holding for them.&#8221;</p>
<p>People who gave SS dollars to the State every paycheck are due what they gave PERIOD. There is no &#8220;vision&#8221; required. Mr. Williams has a ludicrous definition of &#8220;entitlement&#8221;, unless he means that those who handed their money to the Government are entitled to receive the return of it.</p>
<p>The indignity here is a reaction to Mr. Williams&#8217; blindness of the obvious solution: end SS income tax and pay the people who paid-in until they die. Duh.</p>
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		<title>By: Naresh Krishnamoorti</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naresh Krishnamoorti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 08:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;My epiphany came when I asked myself whether it was reasonable to expect a politician to commit what he considered to be political suicide — in a word, be dumb.&quot;

You call that an epiphany?  My epiphany is that government work is supposed to be a public service.  Politicians should no more be paid or worry about keeping their jobs, than servers in a soup kitchen should be paid or worry about keeping their jobs.  A soup kitchen server who is paid for his work, and paid well, will eventually develop an incentive to make sure more people go hungry, no matter how altruistic his initial motives may be.

Politicians should always do the right thing for the good of the Republic; not do whatever it takes to be reelected.  They should have a productive career outside of politics, to which they can return when their time of service is over.  This is not necessarily an argument for term limits as much as it is an argument against professional politicians.  If a man is noble and serves the Republic well, there should be no arbitrary limit to his ability to serve. 

The professional politician is the bane of human society.  As Chesterton wrote:

&quot;THE men whom the people ought to choose to represent them are too busy to take the jobs. But the politician is waiting for it. He’s the pestilence of modern times. What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them. The villagers who met under the village tree could also hang their politicians to the tree. It’s terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;My epiphany came when I asked myself whether it was reasonable to expect a politician to commit what he considered to be political suicide — in a word, be dumb.&#8221;</p>
<p>You call that an epiphany?  My epiphany is that government work is supposed to be a public service.  Politicians should no more be paid or worry about keeping their jobs, than servers in a soup kitchen should be paid or worry about keeping their jobs.  A soup kitchen server who is paid for his work, and paid well, will eventually develop an incentive to make sure more people go hungry, no matter how altruistic his initial motives may be.</p>
<p>Politicians should always do the right thing for the good of the Republic; not do whatever it takes to be reelected.  They should have a productive career outside of politics, to which they can return when their time of service is over.  This is not necessarily an argument for term limits as much as it is an argument against professional politicians.  If a man is noble and serves the Republic well, there should be no arbitrary limit to his ability to serve. </p>
<p>The professional politician is the bane of human society.  As Chesterton wrote:</p>
<p>&#8220;THE men whom the people ought to choose to represent them are too busy to take the jobs. But the politician is waiting for it. He’s the pestilence of modern times. What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them. The villagers who met under the village tree could also hang their politicians to the tree. It’s terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today.&#8221;</p>
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