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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 06:42 PM
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Do you want to see what worthless IOU's REALLY looks like?
Here are two examples...
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 06:44 PM
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1. Only one thing missing
Edited on Sat May-14-05 06:44 PM by acmejack
A social security card, which was always the symbol of why you paid the tax...
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 07:41 PM
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2. The difference between that and Social Security...
is a lot of this...


In here


The idea that 'Social Security funds are nothing but worthless iou's' is a meme designed to allow the government to not pay back the money it owes to us, the people who paid into Social Security. It's a scam, nothing more or less, to rob us.
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tallahasseedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 08:09 PM
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3. Dont I know about the second one...
My Husband and I lost all of our retirement to WorldCom. Burn in hell Ebbers and Sullivan.
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 11:43 PM
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6. Hubby joins you in the sentiment
He was a WorldCom computer tech...after the layoffs, he never has been able to find a job...and moving to Bangalore, India was not an option.
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kcass1954 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 09:22 PM
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4. Anybody got a UAL employee handbook?
It'd be interesting to see the pages referring to "pensions" (or lack thereof).
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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 11:14 PM
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5. the pension page has been ripped out
Edited on Sat May-14-05 11:14 PM by xray s
in it's place is a new page espousing the new paradigms of personal responsibility and ownership of your own future. oh, and it tells you you're fucked too.
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