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Originally Posted by JP-pornshooter
really, i guess you have never paid any taxes.
if you had, you'd know that you pay into social security from your own salary (matched to some degree by employer), this money is in a government fund which you can use when you retire or if you become disabled or if you die your family can use this money to get by.
some douche bag politicians allowed for "borrowing" from this fund to pay for other things which is why now this fund is getting depleted prematurely and one solution is to push retirement a few years.
This issue is right up there next to healthcare and national debt (unemployment is a minor problem compared to these elephants)
Issues so large that no President want to touch them as in reality, it is tremendously difficult to find a good solution.
Obama did not fix healthcare, he patched it up a little..
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Umm yes I've paid SS all my life, so I know exactly what it is. I also understand why it's broken. The problem is, instead of fixing the reason Social Security is broken the Right Wing always wants to reduce payouts.
Bush tried to push this agenda while he was president, McCain was going to push it and now the guy Romney has picked for vice pres wants to utterly gut it and then turn it over to a private firm.
Whom who might these private firms be? Could they be the same bankers that have ruined the country's economy? The same bankers that are responsible for the housing market collapse? The same bankers that got federal bail outs for fucking up with get out of jail free passes while the middle class & poor got stiffed with the bill?
Could it be the same bankers whom just hired Romney's campaign co-chair to be the CEO of one the top banking- industry lobbyist firms?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...ntent=National
Can't change Washington from inside now can we...