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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:45 AM
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So Biden assures the Chinese that they will be paid what we owe them. How about our citizens?
Will they be paid what they are owed?

Without the people of the United States there would be no country. We are the taxpayers, we are the workers, we are the ones who make this country what it is with our day to day labor to make things work in this nation. We are the backbone of this country. Try and make it work without us.

After working for decades and contributing to Social Security and Medicare and doing our share to uphold our part of this social bargain we at least expect to receive what we were promised, what we are owed. I want to hear our Democratic leaders assure us that we will be paid what we are owed, that we are not somehow moved down the list of those who somehow deserve to be repaid.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:48 AM
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1. wish I could k&r this 1000000 times! n/t
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Autumn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:52 AM
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2. Wasn't it St Ronnie who gave us cheese from the government?
Obama will give us peas.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 08:00 AM
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3. gub'mint peas is the new gub'mint cheese.
:rofl: :rofl:

Hey -- it's *green*, right?
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Autumn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 08:01 AM
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4. Yep, it's green
promise kept.:rofl: :rofl:
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rdking647 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 08:05 AM
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5. exactly how much SS are you owed...
tell me... in exact numbers...
with our debt the actual amount owed is know by both parties.

with SS its not... show me where you have a contract with the goverment to provide you x amount of SS
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 08:45 AM
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6. Don't be disingenuous. You know as well as I do it is a social contract with our citizens.
We pay, we will get what is promised to each of us individually. I get the letter every year from SS telling me how much I will get at retirement. It is a specific number, it is an x amount just as yours is.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 09:30 AM
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7. Rush, is that you? n/t
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 09:34 AM
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8. We're not as important.
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