Originally Posted by Posh 08

Any of ya'll collecting Social Security yet? Maybe you refuse it because it would make you a socialist possibly? Just curious.

Just so you know, it's the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics' and Cuba's socialism (equal distribution of misery) that we are against.

Originally Posted by Posh 08

Are you sure it was raided purely by Democrat administrations? OK, so Social Security isn't in your definition of socialist. Glad to hear that. I can now feel no guilt when I start collecting.

Yes, I'm sure that the democrats were the ones that opened the floodgates.

Does the expression The war on Poverty mean anything to you? You know, The Great Society? How about the VietNam war?
President Johnson started using the SS funds for his personal pet projects in the 60's.

So, how is that 46 years of war on poverty working out for us? It did give us our first Affirmative Action President. I rest my case.

Originally Posted by KatzPajamas

Start collecting?
Let's see, the house didn't pan out...may I venture to say, because of the government?!
Like I said...don't count chickens that haven't hatched yet either.

Oh my house will pan out, just not when I thought. Government fault? I fail to see what they have to do with it.

Originally Posted by Posh 08

Oh my house will pan out, just not when I thought. Government fault? I fail to see what they have to do with it.

A chicken in every pot...
Everyone has a right to own a home...
????

Originally Posted by Loveithere

Yes, I'm sure that the democrats were the ones that opened the floodgates.

Does the expression The war on Poverty mean anything to you? You know, The Great Society? How about the VietNam war?
President Johnson started using the SS funds for his personal pet projects in the 60's.

So, how is that 46 years of war on poverty working out for us? It did give us our first Affirmative Action President. I rest my case.

Glad it stopped from 2000 to 2008 and also those Nixon, Reagan and GHWB years.

Originally Posted by KatzPajamas

A chicken in every pot...
Everyone has a right to own a home...
????

Your right Katz, the government was pushing for everybody to buy a house. It was only a matter of time that the housing bubble would burst.

Originally Posted by KatzPajamas

A chicken in every pot...
Everyone has a right to own a home...
????

Oh, the American Dream.

Originally Posted by Loveithere

Your right Katz, the government was pushing for everybody to buy a house. It was only a matter of time that the housing bubble would burst.

I thought is was the mortgage brokers/bankers. A buck was to be made.

Originally Posted by Posh 08

Are you sure it was raided purely by Democrat administrations? OK, so Social Security isn't in your definition of socialist. Glad to hear that. I can now feel no guilt when I start collecting.

There is a "socialist" aspect of it. It definitely was devised for the "social good". But it was more of a "group insurance" plan than a "government payroll plan". Today since it's paid with the taxes collected and not actually from an "insurance trust fund", it's status is more socialism than ever.

Conservatives have been trying to "fix" this plan for years. They are deterred by the incessant caterwauling of the Democrats and their accomplices in the lamestream media that Grandma's going to be eating cat food.

Originally Posted by Posh 08

Glad it stopped from 2000 to 2008 and also those Nixon, Reagan and GHWB years.

Funny about government programs and taxes. Very easy to start and almost impossible to stop. Once the beast gets his daily fill, a diet is out of the equation.

Originally Posted by RichieLion

There is a "socialist" aspect of it. It definitely was devised for the "social good". But it was more of a "group insurance" plan than a "government payroll plan". Today since it's paid with the taxes collected and not actually from an "insurance trust fund", it's status is more socialism than ever.

Conservatives have been trying to "fix" this plan for years. They are deterred by the incessant caterwauling of the Democrats and their accomplices in the lamestream media that Grandma's going to be eating cat food.

I don't understand why folks that have, let's say a lung ailment, can collect from the social security fund (disability)?? and still smoke, drink and raise Hell. It really ****es me off.

Originally Posted by Loveithere

Funny about government programs and taxes. Very easy to start and almost impossible to stop. Once the beast gets his daily fill, a diet is out of the equation.

The problem is on The Hill. That's the change we need. All of them.

Originally Posted by Posh 08

Oh, the American Dream.

I believe that the American Dream is the Right to Life, Liberty and the pursute of Happiness.
I was always taught that meant that you could work and hard, enjoy the fruits of your own labor, and pretty much be master of your own destiny. The government didn't dumb down the loan officer that granted me a loan to buy a home. No banker in their right mind gives out a loan to someone who cannot pay it back...duh.
BTW, I'm starting to wonder what is being inhaled in Virginia this afternoon.

Originally Posted by ilovetv

Just so you know, it's the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics' and Cuba's socialism (equal distribution of misery) that we are against.

OK, thought maybe it was Franklin's Democratic Republic.

Originally Posted by KatzPajamas

I believe that the American Dream is the Right to Life, Liberty and the pursute of Happiness.
I was always taught that meant that you could work and hard, enjoy the fruits of your own labor, and pretty much be master of your own destiny. The government didn't dumb down the loan officer that granted me a loan to buy a home. No banker in their right mind gives out a loan to someone who cannot pay it back...duh.
BTW, I'm starting to wonder what is being inhaled in Virginia this afternoon.

Your BS