Again, you don't understand how these systems work. You support them because you allow your emotion to cloud your reason.
This is the case with most liberals.
S.S. and Medicare are pyramid schemes and this is why they are going broke.
I could support these programs if the money collected in taxes was not spent by our government and replaced by I.O.U.'s. You are stuck on evil corporations but these same evil corporations allow us to have a strong middle class and have a 14.2 trillion dollar economy.
Big government and massive debt are destroying this country in a global economy with cheap labor. There's not enough jobs or the kind of jobs to sustain this massive debt. The President talks about green jobs but green jobs are not magic jobs. They are not immune to free trade. Liberals want everyone to drive the kind of cars that they want you to drive and use energy like them.
22,000 Green jobs were shipped over to India.
BANGALORE: As the Obama government gets ready to raise a protectionist wall against offshoring, the US firms seem to be shipping more jobs to India.
The US firms have offshored 22,000 green technology jobs to India since January 1, 2009, Doug Brown, co-author of the influential 2009 Green Outsourcing Report, informed TNIE.
“We see the (green job offshoring) trend increasing as the US and the UK outsourcing buyers are seeking lower cost in labour and energy consumption. There are few suppliers who match credentials and outcomes of Indian firms,” he said.
Noting an interesting irony the authors of the report say, “In the US, green stimulus plan is creating low-wage installation and construction jobs.” But, in India, which is usually associated with cheap and low-skill work, “…New green jobs include higher dollar engineers, strategic business management and support technicians charged with designing innovative environmental friendly solutions,” they add.
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Like I said, green jobs are not magic jobs but liberals will destroy the economy in favor of their emotions and in the name of saving the planet. Liberals will always need emotion to cover up their silly plans.
In a global economy with cheap labor we have to switch to a consumer based society vs a producer based economy. This is because of cheap labor. The President wants a big union, big government based economy and this will bankrupt the country. We need a small, limited government in a global economy with cheap labor.
Back to the pyramid schemes.
S.S. and Medicare depend on workers paying into the system and paying out benefits to those at the top of the pyramid.
There isn't any money in the S.S. trust fund. It's just government I.O.U.'s. These programs were projected to reduce the debt just like Obamacre and we know this is a joke.
Entitlement programs don't reduce the debt because of governments spending the money that they collect that's supposed to be used for these programs.
Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam's IOUs
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. – The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.
It's time to start cashing them in.
For more than two decades, Social Security collected more money in payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits — billions more each year.
Not anymore. This year, for the first time since the 1980s, when Congress last overhauled Social Security, the retirement program is projected to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes — nearly $29 billion more.
Sounds like a good time to start tapping the nest egg. Too bad the federal government already spent that money over the years on other programs, preferring to borrow from Social Security rather than foreign creditors. In return, the Treasury Department issued a stack of IOUs — in the form of Treasury bonds — which are kept in a nondescript office building just down the street from Parkersburg's municipal offices.
Now the government will have to borrow even more money, much of it abroad, to start paying back the IOUs, and the timing couldn't be worse. The government is projected to post a record $1.5 trillion budget deficit this year, followed by trillion dollar deficits for years to come.
Social Security's shortfall will not affect current benefits. As long as the IOUs last, benefits will keep flowing. But experts say it is a warning sign that the program's finances are deteriorating. Social Security is projected to drain its trust funds by 2037 unless Congress acts, and there's concern that the looming crisis will lead to reduced benefits.
"This is not just a wake-up call, this is it. We're here," said Mary Johnson, a policy analyst with The Senior Citizens League, an advocacy group. "We are not going to be able to put it off any more."
For more than two decades, regardless of which political party was in power, Congress has been accused of raiding the Social Security trust funds to pay for other programs, masking the size of the budget deficit.
It goes on to make this point.
Social Security's financial problems have been looming for years as the nation's 78 million baby boomers approached retirement age. The oldest are already there. As that huge group of people starts collecting benefits — and stops paying payroll taxes — Social Security's trust funds will shrink, running out of money by 2037, according to the latest projection from the trustees who oversee the program.
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This is the same thing with Medicare and it will be the same thing with Obamacare.
This is exactly what I'm saying. These programs are pyramid schemes and when people start living longer then the top of the pyramid will widen and the system will crash.
This is why Al Gore kept talking about a "lockbox" and others want to put S.S. funds in secure bonds so government can't touch it.
What Obamacre is designed to do is "reduce the volume" in healthcare. This means rationing healthcare in order to try and close the top of the pyramid. They also want to mandate and force people into this broken system.
You talk about the evil insurance companies but they will make the most money from Obamacare. This is because the government is forcing us to buy their products. If the government was to mandate that we all buy GM cars the GM executives would be throwing a party.
The reason Obama wants to mandate people into the system is because he needs more people at the bottom of the pyramid to pay the benefits to those at the top of the pyramid. So their will be millions who have to enroll in government programs like Medicaid and their will be millions who are forced to buy insurance from private companies.
Again, politicians layer these things in lies on top of lies and they depend on people like you to be lead by emotion and never get past the surface.
It has nothing to do with being a Nazi.
What the Hitler quote shows is that stupid people back then fell for the lies just like stupid people of today. The governments of the day follow the same playbook and we need to Thank God we have a Constitution that ties the hands of these crooks in Washington.
That's why when Obama says the Constitution is fundamentally flawed because it "restrains" government it raises all kinds of red flags.
[edit on 26-3-2010 by Matrix Rising]
