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You might be right Chief, a cut might make them more responsible with other people's money. I was just looking at the total of their pay and benefits being a drop in the bucket of overspending.
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Yes Indeed Jim. That was the end point of my post. If they didnt have it so good, then they would more than likely be far more responsible in policies as well as in balancing budgetary issues.
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The road to hell is filled with good intentions. And I'm not sure very many politicians even have the best of intentions.
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Agreed.
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I think it's the only time our Congress ever has a unanimous vote as well.
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You bet your ass it is buddy. I'd bet the house and farm on it.
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Good article. Yeah shrinking families and an aging population make things extremely difficult.
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Completely agree here as well.
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I'm all for separating it. But there is plenty wrong with Social Security. The ages are too low, we've got a huge block of people reaching retirement age, but without the population growth to fund them. Which might be okay if the money they paid in their whole lives was still there. And there are too many people, like that fat moron in the diaper, gaming the system, collecting disability.
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Well the ages were set roughly 70 years ago. They have not adjusted it to the life span of the average citizen of today. The baby boomers are living 15 years plus longer than thier parents. But it would be extremely unfair to the citizens to hike the age up due to healthier living wouldnt you say Jim?
Now one thing that could've been done was to individualize it, by how much an individual put in the pot. Something like that would create a large amount of jobs IMHO. The technology now exists to be able to do such a thing.