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Originally Posted by diskman
you all missed the reason for my post which, should have been in the political forum.
WHY pick on social security and medicare? surely there are other places! How about we stop sending monies to other countries and ask them to call CHINA this year!
In pre election chatter i never heard Obama talk about ss or medicare!
Don't get me wrong i voted for him just not happy with this news report and neither should anyone who is or is about to collect social security & Medicare.    |
And any discussion by the Pres-Elect or Congress to muddle with SS or Medicare is total distraction.
The balance of payments deficit for 2008 totalled -$700Billion. (
http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/ustrade.html) Hmmm...$700Billion - where have we heard that number before? ? ?
As long as money is being shipped out of the country, our currency just keeps getting to be worth less and less in the same rate than more and more of it end up in foreign banks.