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Originally Posted by RidinHighSpeeds  The problem I see is that they do not include the debt owed to federal entities in the debate. These are things such as Social Security, which were introduced by Democrat's.
Sure you can say that the War is increasing the national debt, but so are the many federal entities introduced by the Democrat's.
This is by far my most favorite article: The Impact of Social Security on the National Debt | Any corporate business which would have tried to do what our federal government did with Social Security would find their butts in jail with a huge public outcry.
But neither party does anything about the situation, continues on with this GROSS accounting %@#$, and we keep re-electing them.
Perhaps they could start being honest? Eliminate the "Social Security" category from the paycheck tax accounting sheet, and just lump it in with "Federal Taxes"? And then pass new legislation which would be entitled "The REAL Social Security"??
Yeah. Like that'd happen...
Isn't it about time we gave our Congress members another pay-raise?
Or does that just happen automatically these days? At least just for Congress. The working stiff obviously has to fend for himself...
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Originally Posted by Jefferson I believe that in order to save Social Security, we're going to HAVE to raise the retirement age to at least 70. One of the reasons it's such a huge drain to the economy is that, when it began, people were not living as long as today. It was never designed to provide for retirees for 15-30 years. The system just can't handle that. | @#%@#$@!!!
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