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(26,624 posts) Sun Mar 10, 2013, 06:58 PM Mar 2013

Ron Johnson Gets the Facts Wrong on Social Security

Treats Social Security as a Trust Fund based on a dedicated revenue base, and Ron Johnson wants to change the rules....and wants to treat the trust fund as fiction...

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Ron Johnson Gets the Facts Wrong on Social Security (Original Post) midnight Mar 2013 OP

Get back to us when you catch Sunspot Johnson getting something right. Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #1

Ron Johnson is an asshole and a Moron Pharaoh Mar 2013 #3

You are right to question what kind of country allows Feingold to be privately sourced out of office midnight Mar 2013 #12

Maybe Cheeseland was Plucketeer Mar 2013 #10

Republicans Moving The Goal Posts Each And Every Day cantbeserious Mar 2013 #2

And here lies the problem, here is a Senator who does not understand social security intent on Thinkingabout Mar 2013 #4

This talking point implies Republicans want to "disappear" the Social Security Trust Fund. tclambert Mar 2013 #5

Hoof-in-mouth Johnson just told the world US Treasury bills are essentially worthless. AAO Mar 2013 #7

HE subject Mar 2013 #8

Yes, he most certainly is! AAO Mar 2013 #9

GOP to American People: "Sorry we spent your retirement, you are SOL; not our problem." ReallyIAmAnOptimist Mar 2013 #6

Why do the Oil companies get what comes down to social security funds, but those who paid midnight Mar 2013 #11

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

1. Get back to us when you catch Sunspot Johnson getting something right.

Reply to midnight (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 07:02 PM

Mar 2013

The man is an embarrassment, but we're getting used to that among our politicians here in Cheddarville.

Pharaoh

(8,209 posts)

3. Ron Johnson is an asshole and a Moron

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 07:06 PM

Mar 2013

How such a nitwit could beat Russ Feingold just shows you what an absurd country we live in.

midnight

(26,624 posts)

12. You are right to question what kind of country allows Feingold to be privately sourced out of office

Reply to Pharaoh (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 02:10 PM

Mar 2013

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)

10. Maybe Cheeseland was

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 11:42 AM

Mar 2013

a secret testing grounds for fracking at some point in the last 30 years. The pollutants forced into the waters underground, influenced the gourds of these WishCons and their constituents.

cantbeserious

(13,039 posts)

2. Republicans Moving The Goal Posts Each And Every Day

Reply to midnight (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 07:05 PM

Mar 2013

eom

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

4. And here lies the problem, here is a Senator who does not understand social security intent on

Reply to midnight (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 07:11 PM

Mar 2013

Cutting it when he does not understand the facts or is trying to tell this to those who believe what FOX puts out. We are not FOX believers.

tclambert

(11,087 posts)

5. This talking point implies Republicans want to "disappear" the Social Security Trust Fund.

Reply to midnight (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 07:38 PM

Mar 2013

The fund holds US government bonds, supposedly the most secure investment in the world. Yet Republicans want to call it a myth and make it vanish.

AAO

(3,300 posts)

7. Hoof-in-mouth Johnson just told the world US Treasury bills are essentially worthless.

Reply to tclambert (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 01:37 AM

Mar 2013

What a simpleton.

subject

(118 posts)

8. HE

Reply to AAO (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 01:46 AM

Mar 2013

seems worthless

AAO

(3,300 posts)

9. Yes, he most certainly is!

Reply to subject (Reply #8)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 02:13 AM

Mar 2013

ReallyIAmAnOptimist

(357 posts)

6. GOP to American People: "Sorry we spent your retirement, you are SOL; not our problem."

Reply to midnight (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 09:39 PM

Mar 2013

Johnson admits that the Government borrowed from the SS trust fund, and those bonds will be coming due (and therefore SS is broke).

Shall the US Government start treating all it's debts this way?

Sorry folks, we have billions to give away to oil companies, billions more to lose to illegal Cayman Islands (and other) off-shoring of company profits to avoid paying a fair/responsible tax contribution to the country they profit from. The list goes on.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

And to hell with this damned Grand Bargain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

midnight

(26,624 posts)

11. Why do the Oil companies get what comes down to social security funds, but those who paid

Reply to ReallyIAmAnOptimist (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 12:15 PM

Mar 2013

into them don't... Oil companies get Social Funds aka tax dollars.. that provides them with lots of security that is denied those who invested into the system...

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