I agree with Bush on this one

[sweepyhead]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-assess30apr30,0,4856942.story?coll=la-home-headlines

It's the only thing he ever proposed that made sense, and I support his efforts to push this through. I think I'm gonna be sick (choke-choke-gag).

Sweepy:sleep2:

[aila]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-assess30apr30,0,4856942.story?coll=la-home-headlines

It's the only thing he ever proposed that made sense, and I support his efforts to push this through. I think I'm gonna be sick (choke-choke-gag).

Sweepy:sleep2:

according to this, the middle class gets screwed again!

According to estimates by the Social Security Administration, a worker making $36,000 in current dollars would have an annual benefit reduction of about $7,600, or 28%, by 2075 — the year used in most measures of the program's solvency. For a worker making $90,000, the reduction would total almost $22,000, or 50%.

i will be the lone outsider, but i don't like the 'creative' aspect of any of this. has he once said what this is going to cost and how he's going to pay for it? he is spewing fear tactics, common with bush, instead of doing the simple thing. the more you earn the larger your ss check so let those that are earning the bucks continue to pay by raising the cap. if you work, regardless of your salary, you pay ss. we wont have to be borrow trillions to implement his plan and ss can remain solvent until we bring more jobs back into the u.s.

[arouet]

It's just another divide and conquer tactic. If you curtail benefits for the middle class, while still requiring them and the wealthy to pay into the program, it becomes another entitlement program. And we all know how much popularity entitlement programs garner. Once it's only the poor that receive any benefits from the program, and I'm sure that gradually that is what would happen, it would become despised and crushed. People are fighting for this program now, because for a majority of people, it's existence affects their lives. As the number of people who were positively affected by it declined, so would it's supporters.

[TabooU]

Well it makes me feel good that people like my Mom who can barely afford to live let alone buy medicine will be able to live a little easier. I am middle class but I also have an eye on my retirement. It's a lot easier to save when you make a middle class wage then when you make minimum wage. If Mom got paid by soc. sec. for the hardness of the work she did instead of the wages she made she'd be sitting pretty right now.