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NASA Says 2005 Could Be Warmest Year Recorded
Ant writes "CNN reports that a weak El Nino and human-made greenhouse gases could make 2005 the warmest year since records started being kept in the late 1800s." From the article: "While climate events like El Nino -- when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean --affect global temperatures, the increasing role of human-made pollutants plays a big part."
Getting way OT here, but whatever...
You are calling other people idiots when you strongly support a ponzi scheme. That is all social security is.
Ponzi schemes are generally known for being unstable and crashing because people stop entering into them after a while. This has not been the case with Social Security. It has been stable and working well for the past 60 years.
As long as more people keep coming in to the scam, it will work.
Reducing the poverty rate among the elderly from 50% to 10% is pretty impressive for a scam. Obviously it's pretty safe to assume that more people will continue to be born, so even you agree that it will work!
We are reaching the point where less people are coming in to pay than are expecting to get paid.
BFD, it's not that much less. Start redeeming the bonds in the trust fund, which Reagan and Greenspan set up in 1983 for this exact purpose and to which a portion of your payroll taxes have been flowing in preparation for the baby boom. Unless, of course, the fund has been exhausted because Bush defaulted on us, in order to finance making his tax cuts permanent.
Much larger federal budget shortfalls exist today, but nobody seems to care about them. "Reagan proved deficits don't matter", remember? This phase-out is about ideology, not accounting. If it were about accounting, we'd be talking about the Medicare prescription drug benefit, which over the next 75 years faces shortfalls more than twice as large as the projected Social Security shortfalls. But the president has declared it completely off limits. Welfare for pharmaceutical companies is a sacred cow.
You pay into the system for decades and the money is not yours. The government can change the rules of who gets the money. They could change it so you have to be 80 years old before you can collect and you only get $15 per month.
Yes, that's exactly why the majority of Americans (check his polls lately?) disapprove of what the president is doing. We've been paying into the system all this time and now it's being phased out on us. These crappy private accounts are a booby prize to get us to play along. And they are really crappy as "private accounts" go- you absorb all risk, and if your stocks make money the government takes all your profits- up to 3% over inflation. You get to pay those commission fees at every turn. And you can't even pass them on to your children when you die.
If it is such a great system, then why are all your senators and congressmen exempt from the program.
Oh geez, not this hoax again. Stop filling your head with propaganda.
You are too stupid to live in a free society. At least you recognize this since you are doing everything possible to free yourself from any personal responsibility.
Oh here the true colors come out... I bet this is where you checked the "Post Anonymously" box. You can't even take "personal responsibility" for your own damn posts.