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INSIDIOUS 04-05-2014 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Botnst (Post 3311100)
Has anybody ever seen the government fund anything over which they did not eventually exert some measure of control?
What control do they exert after they mail your social security check?

MS Fowler 04-05-2014 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by INSIDIOUS (Post 3312163)
What control do they exert after they mail your social security check?
They tell me how much I can earn and if I exceed that paltry limit, they take back the SS $1 for $1> They "allow" me to earn about $11,000. I think I got 2 or 3 months' payments last year. Big Whoop. I had counted on that SS to help cover the 1/3 cut in wages I experienced. I have been paying other peoples' SS for almost 50 years, but they deny me mine.
Way too much control.

INSIDIOUS 04-05-2014 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by MS Fowler (Post 3312217)
They tell me how much I can earn and if I exceed that paltry limit, they take back the SS $1 for $1> They "allow" me to earn about $11,000. I think I got 2 or 3 months' payments last year. Big Whoop. I had counted on that SS to help cover the 1/3 cut in wages I experienced. I have been paying other peoples' SS for almost 50 years, but they deny me mine.
Way too much control.
And, back to my question ...
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What control do they exert after they mail your social security check?

Hatterasguy 04-06-2014 02:52 PM
They will never make campaign money public, than you would be able to see who was buying the election!

Botnst 04-06-2014 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by INSIDIOUS (Post 3312163)
What control do they exert after they mail your social security check?
Is it your opinion that there really is such thing as a free lunch?

Social Security is not free nor is it optional. Nor is its solvency assured at the current rate of disbursement.

Government at work.

MS Fowler 04-06-2014 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy (Post 3312489)
They will never make campaign money public, than you would be able to see who was buying the election!
Then WE have to find a way to make THEM do it. Are we smart enough to make transparency happen?

Pooka 04-06-2014 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by kerry (Post 3310933)
Probably would be simpler if we just proportioned votes to wealth. Poor get 1. Millionaires get 1000. Billionaires get 10,000.
H. L. Hunt always said that was the way it should be and tried to get the laws passed to make it so.

Hatterasguy 04-06-2014 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by MS Fowler (Post 3312572)
Then WE have to find a way to make THEM do it. Are we smart enough to make transparency happen?
Considering low voter turn out no.


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