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Get a life. The election is over. Whine about the Swift Boat Vietnam Veterans all you want... but not here.[/reply]
I don't think I've said squat about this post in at least 10 days. But if you and Art want to poke sticks at me regarding this, then fine ... game on.
Your "get a life" comment is typical GOP bluster over substance b.s. When you don't have an argument, you resort to name calling and belittling people, raising yourself up on your hind legs and dancing to the NeoCon organ grinder's tune. Typical bullying from typical bullies. Excellent debate skills, Clydesdale and just the kind of stuff the "swift boat" spear campaigners are doing to the AARP. Funny how the GOP was fellating the AARP when they were in support of the widely-criticized prescription drug reform you guys pushed through congress, now, the newly-formed "USA Next" a wholly owned subsidiary of the GOP is smearing them with wonderful talking points like this:
Again, when the GOP doesn't have any facts, they resort to name-calling and hate-mongering. Does this ad cite facts? Does this ad provoke civil discussion of the issues, or does this ad, like your cocksure post instead just attempt to persuade through hate?
Since you and art have all the answers, please give me the answer to these questions:
1. The $11 trillion ss debt figure is projected into a date called "the infinite horizon" when is this? Your own facts project the real shortfall at 3.5 trillion in 75 years. That's 44 billion a year and certainly a more manageable number than the GOP is letting on. By the way these estimates are based on the economy growing for 75 years at half the rate it has grown since the Civil War. If that happens, we have WAY bigger isssues than social security.
2. Will devaluing T-Bills by divesting $500 billion social security dollars decrease the reliablility of what is widely known as "the safest investment on Earth"? What will the net effect be of President Bush calling them worthless IOUs? Think about it. These so-called IOUs enable us to go to other countries and kill people for weapons of mass destruction that don't exist. They are the backbone of our and much of the world's economy. One-third of these worthless IOUs are owned by China. Almost every country on the planet invests in US T-Bills. If the security of these investments is challenged by the people who created it, what would that potentially do to the world economy?
3. Doesn't a massive and artificial infusion of capital into the markets run counter to the principles of why a market economy works? Wouldn't $500 billion bucks injected into the market overvalue companies? Wouldn't we all be indentured to corporate Amercia because we all stand to lose if a company goes belly up?
4. What about smaller measures? What about raising the ceiling for FICA deductions and removing ss as an entitlement and giving it only to people who need it?
I think these issues are worthy of discussion and certainly more thought-provoking than "get a life." As a matter of fact this has a lot to do with a lot of folks lives.
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