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AARP Pivots on Social Security Benefit Cuts

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-06-17 09:32|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 AARP.......COMMUNIST BASTARDS !!

Posted by armyguy 2011-06-17 10:13|| 2011-06-17 10:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, technically they're crony capitalists who front for various insurance and investment activities. Their support of Obamacare was because they're getting a 'piece of the action'. Note well how the German version of such capitalists, state sponsored and supported businesses, worked well with the National Socialist Workers Party.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-06-17 10:21|| 2011-06-17 10:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry......was having a pissed off moment this morning.....can I say NAZI ???

Posted by armyguy 2011-06-17 12:48|| 2011-06-17 12:48|| Front Page Top

#4 At some point I think AARP must have given up on me and stopped sending me solicitations to join their little group. Thank goodness for some small favors.

Memo to all politicians: I am an old guy but AARP does NOT speak for me.

armyguy, inasmuch as AARP favors Social Security, I think you are correct in labeling them communist because Social Security IMHO is communism. It redistributes the wealth. It robs from the rich and it robs from everybody else and gives to the poor. I think it should be abolished but only after they give me back all the money they have stolen from me.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2011-06-17 14:05|| 2011-06-17 14:05|| Front Page Top

#5 ...No they didn't:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/17/stage-set-for-social-security-talks-lawmakers-push-reform-aarp-reportedly-open/

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-06-17 14:20|| 2011-06-17 14:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Abu, I fill the return envelopes with junk mail and send them to AARP.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-06-17 14:52|| 2011-06-17 14:52|| Front Page Top

#7 I fill the return envelopes with junk mail and send them to AARP. The US Postal Service thanks you for your support.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-17 15:05|| 2011-06-17 15:05|| Front Page Top

#8 It redistributes the wealth.

SS accounting till now relied upon payroll deductions FICA and not income tax to support its operation. Even though the books were officially cooked during the Johnson administration, that source pretty much covered what is due. Unfortunately, both parties, one largely committing relatively misdemeanor theft and the other engaged in large scale felony embezzlement, have used the payroll FICA withholding to finance the here and now without putting back into the books that which they took out. As a result we are now about to indeed start the process of income redistribution as other sources of revenue are going to have to be tapped to pay the now due obligations. A situation created in no small measure by AARP's alliance with the Donks and continued resistance to reform since the Reagan administration.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-06-17 15:23|| 2011-06-17 15:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Sometimes I think it's time to drastically cut benefits - if not to kill SS once and for all.

When people complain tell them "Hey! *YOU* already spend the frigging money by voting in the thieves and frauds who stole it and replaced it with worthless IOU's!".

Sometimes.

I don't expect to get a dime of what I put into SS all these years. Most of it will go to illegal aliens and people who haven't paid a time into it.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-06-17 15:48|| 2011-06-17 15:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Realistically, it is time to drastically cut federal bennies and expenditures. Even if the entire DOD were cancelled, the USA would still be in far, far over its head. The federal government's biggest liabilities are to Social Security, Medicare, and popular programs like that. That's why nothing has been done, those programs are popular and entrenched.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-17 16:01|| 2011-06-17 16:01|| Front Page Top

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