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Originally Posted by August
Well according to you i'm just a whiny leftist b****h so what do you care anyways?
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I was pointing out the leftist nature of your argument—or at least the fact that your argument is exactly what they want—because overall you don't appear to be one.
Tribesman's point was actually very true. It's only a handout when it's someone you don't like getting it—or anyone other than
you (not you personally, anyone). So you cannot complain about welfare, or illegals getting benis, etc, IMHO, if you don't at least admit that the largest welfare program is also just a handout, and should be on the table with everything else. Note that I'm not suggesting not paying out to people who have planned around SSI—I only propose modest changes in the retirement age that phase in over reasonable time periods that allow for altered planning. The specifics would clearly be up for grabs, the only absolute is to do it on a timeline that saves the system from going belly up and eating us alive.
Will you complain if the cost of living increases in SSI move from their bogus value now, to one that inflates at a lower rate (we're in
deflation right now, after all, but the SSI formula doesn't even admit that as a possibility of course, it ONLY grows)?
My frustration is that if people on the right or center (presumably where you lie) treat entitlements with the same sense of inviolability that the welfare moms of the cities treat their "entitlements," we're toast as a country.