Good strategy for an election year! Let's make it about Social Security & -- southdenverhoo 12/07/2017 10:01AMInsert a Link
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In case Trump voters wondered how the GOP will pay for tax cuts... -- HoosWillWin 12/07/2017 07:15AM Good strategy for an election year! Let's make it about Social Security & -- southdenverhoo 12/07/2017 10:01AM Cut taxes and spending and grow the economy. A failed strategy for nearly -- hokeyhokie 12/07/2017 09:39AM I beg to differ about the GOP desire to cut spending. -- HowieT3 12/07/2017 10:43AM So why don't they. They've controlled both houses and the Prez -- hokeyhokie 12/07/2017 10:50AM The cuts wouldn't get the required 60 votes in the Senate. -- HowieT3 12/07/2017 10:58AM Are you sure about that? I sure hope so, but I thought they could invoke -- khilldrup 12/07/2017 5:40PM Medicare and Social Security are not just for retirees. Cuts will also -- khilldrup 12/07/2017 09:32AM How do you know the cuts will affect the disabled and -- BocaHoo91 12/07/2017 10:05AM They will balance by cutting only waste, fraud and abuse (eyeroll) ** -- 81_Hokie 12/07/2017 10:25AM How do you know they won't? I guess we'll see though, won't we?** -- khilldrup 12/07/2017 10:17AM Well as long as we're making stuff up, I think the next time the -- BocaHoo91 12/07/2017 10:27AM Trumps's own 2018 budget blueprint called for $64 billion in -- khilldrup 12/07/2017 6:42PM Well if it addresses parents of kids with ADHD getting -- BocaHoo91 12/08/2017 12:45PM ADHD: Attention Deficit Disorder & Social Security Disability or SSI (link) -- khilldrup 12/08/2017 3:07PM I'd like to know the numbers. If ANYONE is getting paid by the gov't -- BocaHoo91 12/08/2017 3:11PM What are the Social Security disability benefits for children with (link) -- khilldrup 12/08/2017 3:45PM No. I don't think ADHD can be so disabling as to require payments -- BocaHoo91 12/08/2017 5:05PM You're right. The $653B over 10 years is for "income security programs", -- khilldrup 12/08/2017 7:20PM Sounds like the political ads I've heard for years! ** -- Shenhoo 12/07/2017 10:32AM I wonder if those programs shouldn't be separate from S.S. Nearly 40% of -- Hoodafan 12/07/2017 10:04AM Good. I'll believe it when I see it, but good. ** -- Hoodafan 12/07/2017 09:26AM Step 1 in shoring up funding: slash funding. ** -- WahooMatt05 12/07/2017 08:14AM Because the only way to retire at 65 is for the govt to allow you ** -- TomKazanski 12/07/2017 07:47AM The government has no say in when someone retires -- 111Balz 12/07/2017 08:12AM Retirement in this context is entirely a govt issue, no? -- hokeyhokie 12/07/2017 10:14AM That was his point. ** -- Hokie5150 12/07/2017 08:34AM He made no point. It was gibberish ** -- 111Balz 12/07/2017 08:41AM LOL! HoosWillWin lamented that people will have to work longer -- Hokie5150 12/07/2017 08:49AM HoosWillWin is talking about retirement afford-ability planning. TK's -- JSHoo 12/07/2017 2:44PM Whoosh ** -- TomKazanski 12/07/2017 6:34PM Like I said, gibberish. as is your attempted translation ** -- 111Balz 12/07/2017 09:07AM If the rest of the board understands something and you don't,it's probably -- HokieDan95 12/07/2017 09:12AM LOL! ** -- Hokie5150 12/07/2017 09:11AM Given the increases in lifespan is working a few extra years unreasonable? -- Hokie5150 12/07/2017 07:45AM How about stop giving SS money to those who never paid into SS? -- ConnHoo 12/07/2017 11:04AM Are you serious with this? A major component of OASDI is -- BocaHoo91 12/07/2017 12:58PM SSI, kids diagnosed with ADHD get a check ** -- ConnHoo 12/08/2017 10:59AM OK. I agree that's horse shit. But a benefit to a single parent -- BocaHoo91 12/08/2017 12:41PM YUGE amount of SSI abuse, why is SS admin paying for this? ** -- ConnHoo 12/08/2017 8:28PM The major part of increasing life expectancy is much fewer early deaths -- 81_Hokie 12/07/2017 09:24AM 5 years doesn't seem like much...until you multiply by some 50 million -- Hokie5150 12/07/2017 09:32AM I disagree. I think it DOES seem like a lot. It's a 38% increase in life -- BocaHoo91 12/07/2017 1:09PM Not at all. Most people will have to. How is that relevant to the topic -- 111Balz 12/07/2017 08:14AM That makes it more acceptable how? -- Chuck Taylor 12/07/2017 08:05AM Don't you mean the 'fruits of their labor"? ** -- Hokie5150 12/07/2017 08:10AM You’re like fucking osmium dude. Follow the point for once. -- WahooRQ 12/07/2017 08:54AM As a libertarian 5150 by definition has no "soul" or "conscience". -- HowieT3 12/07/2017 09:26AM Because nothing exemplifies -- Hokie5150 12/07/2017 09:50AM No, you follow the point for once. It is not the government's -- Hokie5150 12/07/2017 09:13AM I expected 3 strikes from you on my list of 3. Carry on. ** -- WahooRQ 12/07/2017 09:19AM Didn't Donnie Osmium just pass away? ** -- Tuckahokie 12/07/2017 09:02AM I greatly appreciate the element usage -- Stimp 12/07/2017 08:57AM They didn't build that ** -- Tuckahokie 12/07/2017 08:11AM Tuck likes to repeat bullshit ** -- 111Balz 12/07/2017 08:15AM You're right Balz...that was some serious bullshit ** -- Tuckahokie 12/07/2017 08:23AM Do you still not understand what was said? ** -- 111Balz 12/07/2017 08:40AM By any interpretation it was a stupid and incorrect point. ** -- Hoodafan 12/07/2017 09:33AM No, what he said was absolutely correct. apparently you still don't -- 111Balz 12/08/2017 07:14AM I grasp all of the various interpretations of Barry's comment. Taken -- Tuckahokie 12/07/2017 08:52AM This is where Wax’s favorite line about removing all doubt is apropos. ** -- WahooRQ 12/07/2017 09:15AM When they turn to insults............ ** -- Hoodafan 12/07/2017 09:35AM Does this mean you still don’t understand what Obama was saying either? -- WahooRQ 12/07/2017 09:56AM Actually it's exactly what Tuck pointed out. No matter which interpretation -- Hoodafan 12/07/2017 10:23AM No, there is what he said, and there are the spins that you -- 111Balz 12/08/2017 07:16AM Damn dude, this also exemplifies the Waxian dig at Tuck. -- WahooRQ 12/07/2017 10:46AM Of course, while attacking and diminishing the contributions of those that -- Hoodafan 12/07/2017 11:44AM These guys are confused about the role of cause/effect with......... -- Chuck Taylor 12/07/2017 11:13AM Insults from RQ are like extra sunshine ** -- Tuckahokie 12/07/2017 09:39AM Aren't they, though? ** -- Hokie5150 12/07/2017 09:54AM Or breathing. ** -- Hoodafan 12/07/2017 09:41AM Here you go...you and Balz can fawn over this interpretation as the gospel -- Tuckahokie 12/07/2017 09:23AM Smh. you still don't. ** -- 111Balz 12/07/2017 09:06AM It's like yelling at a mule, though. It doesn't accomplish anything, and it -- southdenverhoo 12/07/2017 10:06AM I like the metaphor. -- Chuck Taylor 12/07/2017 12:16PM It's a fair point, as of 2015, life expectancy in the US was -- Hooddihsm 12/07/2017 08:02AM As noted though, much of that 17 years is beneficial as people -- KCHoo 12/07/2017 11:15AM I found this great historical look at life expectancy (link) -- NJHoo 12/07/2017 8:23PM It’s getting past 10 that has changed most. ** -- KCHoo 12/07/2017 10:30PM Sure. But adding $1 trillion will add even more years to the years -- HoosWillWin 12/07/2017 08:01AM Progressives want the France/Belgium model of retiring at 60 ** -- Tuckahokie 12/07/2017 07:50AM Look, he's doing it again ** -- 111Balz 12/07/2017 08:16AM ...and if we tax the rich enough it can happen!!! ** -- Tuckahokie 12/07/2017 08:00AM Welcome to our side!!! You'll be fitted for your Birkenstocks later today. -- HowieT3 12/07/2017 08:37AM I was wondering why the Starbuck's barista was nicer today :>) ** -- Tuckahokie 12/07/2017 09:01AM Medicare needs to be reformed with or without the tax cuts. ** -- BocaHoo91 12/07/2017 07:35AM Agreed, but we just added $1 trillion or more to the "reform." -- HoosWillWin 12/07/2017 07:44AM I don't necessarily want tax cuts for the rich, although -- BocaHoo91 12/07/2017 08:34AM As you say, defense will never be cut. Therefore, they will cut SS and -- HoosWillWin 12/07/2017 10:27AM The notion of "paying for tax cuts" highlights, for me, the -- Hokie5150 12/07/2017 09:08AM If government would simply stop doing things it shouldn't be doing -- Faz d. Hoo 12/07/2017 11:38AM That’s because you have a second grade level understanding of economics -- WahooRQ 12/07/2017 09:22AM If you had even that level of understanding of economics you'd -- Hokie5150 12/07/2017 1:04PM You didn't care about the last ten trillion added -- TomKazanski 12/07/2017 07:47AM