Just fuck Grover Norquist. The silly bastard is named after a sesame street character. Only complete doofuses and dumb toadys could take a guy named Grover seriously. Holy shit right wingers are dumb.
Was going to respond to someone in the thread below, but they aren't worth the effort of engaging with.
Your social security is NOT going to 'run out of money' by 2034 or 2037 or 2040 or some doomsday date that righties throw around, It can't, unless you all just stop working and paying tax (at least income taxes). The calculations only work if you consider that every part of the equation is static. That the amount collected or the amount being taken out won't change. Or that the return on the money invested won't. That is harder to project accurately.
The reason the scenario occurs is that the recession that started in 2008 hit the collection side hard. By 2011 collections were down, But they didn't stay down. Returns on the invested funds were down, but they didn't stay down. So, to cap - you are collecting more money and getting a better return than in 2010. You can't be sure that there won't be another recession, but it would be better to spend time avoiding the conditions that might lead to one. Don't believe the hype.
Perhaps you ought to open the links I submitted to your fellow moron who thinks the government has surplus in the "trust" that isn't exactly a "trust" as much as "creative accounting". We've been discussing this since before 2010. You might want to read up on some more "current affairs" affecting you domestically, as opposed to getting all worked up every time Trump speaks. You're totally missing the big picture. Good for the Dem's. It's working.
Social Security is unsustainable at its current rate. Social Security’s rate of expenditures have exceeded its income since 2010 — and the government has difficulty paying benefits with no surplus. It projects that the cash-flow deficit will average about $76 billion between now and 2018 and will continue to climb and worsen as the number of beneficiaries — mostly baby boomers — continues to grow at a faster rate than the number of workers.
All economists agree on this. The fact you are unaware of this, as it has been discussed for over a decade, suggests you aren't exactly "up" on current affairs. You might want to start saving.
I am assuming that $16 billion for the soy-bean farmers amounts to a lot more than $14 a week per farmer......... oh noes... guess not:
"The cost for Monsanto’s Roundup Ready GM soybean seeds has increased from $35 to $50 per bag while the cost for Roundup herbicide has increased from $15 to $50 per gallon"
all the libertarian and "conservative just to be contrarian and own the libs" fuckers i knew in high school (self included) are universally socialists now. How did these dipshits avoid growing up and growing out of their high school "i got mine" ideology?
That specifically unpleasant type of fart that is super warm, not quite a shart, but still gross enough to make you feel dirty?I don't think there's a name for that yet :P
Just fuck Grover Norquist. The silly bastard is named after a sesame street character. Only complete doofuses and dumb toadys could take a guy named Grover seriously. Holy shit right wingers are dumb.
Was going to respond to someone in the thread below, but they aren't worth the effort of engaging with.
Your social security is NOT going to 'run out of money' by 2034 or 2037 or 2040 or some doomsday date that righties throw around, It can't, unless you all just stop working and paying tax (at least income taxes). The calculations only work if you consider that every part of the equation is static. That the amount collected or the amount being taken out won't change. Or that the return on the money invested won't. That is harder to project accurately.
The reason the scenario occurs is that the recession that started in 2008 hit the collection side hard. By 2011 collections were down, But they didn't stay down. Returns on the invested funds were down, but they didn't stay down. So, to cap - you are collecting more money and getting a better return than in 2010. You can't be sure that there won't be another recession, but it would be better to spend time avoiding the conditions that might lead to one. Don't believe the hype.
Hey! I did not start out by insulting you. Get fucked then!
Yes, too many of us have made a poor choice of parents.
Not when I have pretend cash. Screw the real credit.
As in, "Oh, man... I just laid a Grover."
These folks insult my very being...
As is the contents of my none too remarkable online life these days. Still, my cats seem to approve, so I will go with it.
Perhaps you ought to open the links I submitted to your fellow moron who thinks the government has surplus in the "trust" that isn't exactly a "trust" as much as "creative accounting". We've been discussing this since before 2010. You might want to read up on some more "current affairs" affecting you domestically, as opposed to getting all worked up every time Trump speaks. You're totally missing the big picture. Good for the Dem's. It's working.
Social Security is unsustainable at its current rate. Social Security’s rate of expenditures have exceeded its income since 2010 — and the government has difficulty paying benefits with no surplus. It projects that the cash-flow deficit will average about $76 billion between now and 2018 and will continue to climb and worsen as the number of beneficiaries — mostly baby boomers — continues to grow at a faster rate than the number of workers.
All economists agree on this. The fact you are unaware of this, as it has been discussed for over a decade, suggests you aren't exactly "up" on current affairs. You might want to start saving.
http://time.com/money/colle...https://www.huffingtonpost....https://www.marketwatch.com...https://www.businessinsider...
Womp womp
I am assuming that $16 billion for the soy-bean farmers amounts to a lot more than $14 a week per farmer......... oh noes... guess not:
"The cost for Monsanto’s Roundup Ready GM soybean seeds has increased from $35 to $50 per bag while the cost for Roundup herbicide has increased from $15 to $50 per gallon"
all the libertarian and "conservative just to be contrarian and own the libs" fuckers i knew in high school (self included) are universally socialists now. How did these dipshits avoid growing up and growing out of their high school "i got mine" ideology?
That specifically unpleasant type of fart that is super warm, not quite a shart, but still gross enough to make you feel dirty?I don't think there's a name for that yet :P
Isn't that called a "mortgage", "car loan" and "credit cards"?
What an inconvenient factoid for Grover, if he even grasps the concept of 'inflation'.