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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] Well, you're the only one. Excuse me? OASI and DI? What, are those technical terms for Social Security and Medicare, or did I miss some change in subject? Well, we'll go under the assumption that they are the former. Again, you obviously didn't read the third link I gave Jeff in the conversation he so pointlessly posted. "The Social Security Trust Fund is simply a meaningless record of taxes that have been collected for future needs, spent for current desires, and then recorded and counted as an asset" There WAS a SS trust fund. The Congress plundered it years ago, and promised to pay it back. They never did. (That was one of Bush's initiatives, BTW: recreate the SS trust fund with part of the surplus.) Effectively, Congress counts an IOU as part of its assets. There is no money in the Social Security trust fund. Congress just shoves numbers around to make it look so. And there never was a Medicare trust fund. It was designed to be redistributionist (read: socialist) right from the beginning. Social Security has only become socialist in the last few decades. Under any circumstances, the Democrat leadership is still lying scum. We have a surplus this year of over $150 billion dollars. How could we, by any stretch of the imagination, be removing funding from Medicare to pay for a tax cut when we have a massive surplus? They're lying to people like the senior citizens in Independence for the purposes of frightening them. Simple as that. So I ask: how can you, in good consience, support a party that purposefully frightens old people to get votes? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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