Withdrawing Help Will Only Cause Chaos

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Patsy, let me esplain something to you, k? You don't need religion for morals. If by now you don't know da diff between right and wrong, you lack empathy, not religion. Quit pushing religion down our throats. And I personally don't like the idea of someone that's elderly referred to as old. That is so wrong..Many of our elderly are as young and vibrant as we young people are.

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With more and more boomers set to retire in the next decade, the strain on Medicare and Social Security will be too much for these programs to handle without putting undue burden on other areas of the Federal budget, unless something is done now keep them financially viable for years to come. Reforming them now can be done without hurting those currently receiving benefits. But our Gov't is too afraid to make those tough decisions for fear of losing votes.

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Huh?? If you're rich, why would you be reaching out for help when you become elderly??

"The rich should not horde their assets to the point that they become niggardly and selfish. Someday, they too will be old and reaching out for help".

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"Empathy is the capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another sentient or fictional being. One may need to have a certain amount of empathy before being able to experience compassion." "mor·al adjective 1.of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes. 2. expressing or conveying truths or counsel as to right conduct, as a speaker or a literary work. 3. founded on the fundamental principles of right conduct rather than on legalities, enactment, or custom: moral obligations. 4. capable of conforming to the rules of right conduct: a moral being. 5.conforming to the rules of right conduct " Not even close to the same thing.

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Would somebody desribe "poor" so I know we are on the same page?

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here comes my free entertainment for today: the hate radio and fox news crowd .... keep the posts coming..

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Im a boomer and i wont be retiring any time soon, i simply cant afford it. The problem arises when a young person wants a job which normally would be there but i can not retire. Sorry.

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If they couldn't transfer funds and collected the billions in waste/fraud in SS plus refused to send one thin dime to a foreign nation or foreign national until we were out of debt, we could afford universal health care.

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Social sec has been expanded far beyond its original purpose, now were broke, thanx gov creeps.

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Yes sueanne, and it wan't just the dems either. Washington has become exactly what the founders feared it might.

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Actually, the big problem with Social Security is that money was taken out to fund the government and pay for other things (like, say, tax cuts) and replaced with government-issued IOUs. Technically those IOUs are Treasury Dept. special issue bonds saying one gov't branch owes another, which are essentially worthless. It's like someone with multiple personalities having one personality promise to repay another since it's from within the same government.

If they had been replaced with publicly held bonds, that would have been fine because those have actual value. But the special issue bonds? None. So SS was essentially robbed and replaced with meaningless pieces of paper that they're still trying to claim have value.

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Yes. Techicnally SS is fluid for many more decades.

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Did she really use the "N" word and the PJ printed it?

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Did who and where?

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I just knew sooner or later that would be a question. Please look up niggardly. Do not tweet Mellissa Harris-Perry for an answer.

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"nig·gard·ly [nig-erd-lee] adjective 1. reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly. 2. meanly or ungenerously small or scanty: a niggardly tip to a waiter." Not a racist term at all except to a race baiter who sees racism in everything.

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I'll help you out 50s4ever. "Poor" is the dumb sap who goes to work 40+ hours per week so that Mr O and his cohorts ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE can "re-distribute" what he has earned to those who have not earned it, so they can sit at home and watch Vanna turn letters all day on the 55" LED TV that they bought with the EIC portion of their tax "refund"** check. NOTE** In 47% of instances, the term "refund" is a mis-nomer. You actually have to pay IN to call it a refund. That's what poor is all about, Charlie Brown.

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First off quit trying to takeaway from the people who have worked hard all their lives and built this country. Your goverment has robbed SS and if thats not bad enough they took people who lived on welfare for any lengh of time gave them a medical cond and put them on SSI. I see people on welfare get a part-time job for a couple of weeks show me a tax check for 15,000 dollars. How do you justify that to a person struggling to make a living and having to pay in every year? The welfare mothers who have many baby-daddys running around making more welfare dependants. I wont even talk about our huge goverment and growing daily I might add. It will end one way or the other I hope Im alive to see it. One day the people will hold goverment responsible everyone will have to work or go hungry and take resposability for the 9 kids they walked away from. Because our nanny goverment will implode its just a matter of time. Then you will see chaos. Let the elderly be they have more than paid .

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riderr--Another attempt awhile back by some race baiter to control the language of the country by pouting and playing victimized. Im afraid pbj believed it because somebody actually apologized for using it. It just gets dumber and dumber. Imagine MLK referring to himself and people as N e g r o e s. I spread that because I think it is a banned word. Actually it is the most correct word for a particular race. We won't even get into the hip hop/rap claims. I'll be lucky if this post isn't pulled...

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Sorry PBJ - this left wing PC hysteria you tried to create backfired. Next time look up the word before trying to bring "race" into the discussion.

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Seadog, you're looking to get into a tar baby scenario....

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I see piit is sneaking back on older forums.

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Another person who ignorantly clings onto the silly idea that these programs work, that the poor will rise up when you give them stuff, and that the rich, despite paying for almost everything, still don't pay their fair share.

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Estimate up all the dollars put into Chicago in the last 50 yrs. That's why it's so full of law abiding geniuses.

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