Tag: social security
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June 19, 2008 11:01 AM EDT --
Demand Reform to Social Security Disability
by Marilyn Mackenzie
Even if you're healthy today, you should want reform to the Social Security Disability program. You never know . . .
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May 12, 2009 03:44 PM EDT --
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Martin Crutsinger, Ap Economics Writer - 25 mins ago
WASHINGTON - The financial health of Social Security and Medicare , the government's . . .
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May 27, 2008 01:16 PM EDT --
I was writing this as a comment in response to Social Security Disability Abuse , an article written here on Gather by Duane B . I saw how long it was getting and decided to bring it into its own . . .
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February 21, 2007 02:30 PM EST --
PLEASE READ!! VERY IMPORTANT!!
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!
KEEP IT GOING!!!!
200 8 Election Issue!!
GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC. . . .
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November 03, 2007 09:31 PM EDT --
There are an estimated 500 million people paying into the Social Security entitlement program.
The first of the Baby Boomers are starting to retire. There are an estimated 78 million of these . . .
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March 17, 2009 12:15 PM EDT --
Comment by Craig
Although this is a joke, there is a lesson to be learned here. Bush wanted to put the Social Security funds in the stock market. This was rejected by Congress, fortunately. . . .
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November 23, 2007 02:13 PM EST --
Social Security Disability
by Marilyn Mackenzie
Most of us in the U.S. go about our lives without thinking much about the Social Security Disability system. Why should we? . . .
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January 13, 2008 10:28 AM EST --
CBS Investigates Social Security Disabilty Problems
by Marilyn Mackenzie
For five years, Linda Fullerton, president and co-founder of the MSN group, Social Security . . .
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October 08, 2009 12:32 AM EDT --
According to our own government, we're just a decade away from the next two fiscal mega-crises
"We suffer from a fiscal cancer and if we don't treat it, it could have catastrophic consequences . . .
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May 04, 2009 10:56 AM EDT --
Something is about to happen, that has never happened before. Some of the nation's Social Security recipients are about to have their only source of income cut, but approximately 75% of Social Security . . .
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February 10, 2009 10:24 AM EST --
My son, a middle manager at a medium sized manufacturing firm (yes, there are still some in America) grosses about $65,000 per year. He pays $4,030 in FICA tax, or 6.2%. His employer pays about another . . .
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June 09, 2009 03:56 PM EDT --
In a speech containing nearly 20 paragraphs and 1500 words from President Obama, only three paragraphs had any real meaning. These are the three paragraphs:
But we are also called . . .
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March 22, 2009 09:43 AM EDT --
Immigration:
This like most issues is a very sensitive one, we must all remember that we all were at one time immigrants. It is my position that we must take great care as to just who . . .
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June 19, 2008 06:56 PM EDT --
Have you played Budget Hero™ yet? After my first try, I managed to reduce the national debt from 37.7% of the GDP in 2008 to just 5.9% of the GDP in 2018. That equates to $7.1 billion in ten . . .
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April 25, 2007 04:38 PM EDT --
Partnering with The Citizens League, 89.3 The Current hosted a discussion led by the Honorable David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, at Solera Restaurant in Minneapolis last week. . . .
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September 24, 2008 02:42 PM EDT --
Wow. Doesn't that just make your mouth fall open? Can you imagine claiming to care about our most modest and vulnerable Americans when you have a track record of voting AGAINST raising . . .
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March 21, 2009 03:41 PM EDT --
I am ready to take a pretty good beating on this one but some body has to say it so why not me?
In the fiscal year 2010 our government is spending 533.7 BILLION dollars on defense, Why is that? I mean . . .
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March 21, 2009 03:29 PM EDT --
This has been a hot topic for as long as I can remember, Every President in the last 20 years has vowed to fix social security. To date none have ! How do you fix a system that is so far in over it's . . .
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December 14, 2007 08:17 AM EST --
I have to admit that one of the things that's kept me bummed out over the past few years is my financial situation. Or more specifically, my lack of a financial situation.
Yes, I receive . . .
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February 17, 2009 03:54 PM EST --
I wanted to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, He wasn't my choice, but I was happy that he won, voted for him, even, but considering the choices we had, that's hardly a glowing endorsement. . . .
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