Comments on: McCain: Social Security Is a “Disgrace” http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:55:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: cbl2 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533470 cbl2 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:45:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533470 <p><a href="http://pentdego.com/prentjes/small_e4ff8f.jpg" rel="nofollow">test</a></p> test

]]> By: ThingsComeUndone http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533307 ThingsComeUndone Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:20:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533307 <p>The super rich will need social security if the fed keeps up its current level of success handling the financial crisis. I but Iran shelling kurdish northern Iraq and testing new missiles today won’t help.</p> The super rich will need social security if the fed keeps up its current level of success handling the financial crisis. I but Iran shelling kurdish northern Iraq and testing new missiles today won’t help.

]]> By: ThingsComeUndone http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533305 ThingsComeUndone Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:16:05 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533305 <p>I remember seeing a clip of the head of the Tribune Co before it was sold and his only interest was in the bottom line. Couldn’t have care less whether the papers were any good or not. Just as long as they brought in tons of ad revenue.</p> <p> Actually ad revenue charged is based on the number of subscribers which after 9/11 for the Trib went down below a million for the Chicago land area.<br /> The Trib lowered the delivery agents pay they organize the paper routes in a town. We had two agents quit in my warehouse of four agents then.<br /> Since then revenue has kept going down so much they had to sell.<br /> I think the Trib’s new owner just wants to keep the paper conservative.</p> I remember seeing a clip of the head of the Tribune Co before it was sold and his only interest was in the bottom line. Couldn’t have care less whether the papers were any good or not. Just as long as they brought in tons of ad revenue.

Actually ad revenue charged is based on the number of subscribers which after 9/11 for the Trib went down below a million for the Chicago land area.
The Trib lowered the delivery agents pay they organize the paper routes in a town. We had two agents quit in my warehouse of four agents then.
Since then revenue has kept going down so much they had to sell.
I think the Trib’s new owner just wants to keep the paper conservative.

]]> By: boogiecheck http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533302 boogiecheck Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:11:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533302 <blockquote><p>Why the super rich (anyone making over $90,00 in my opinion) are allowed a free ride is beyond me, besides super rich do not need an SS cheque.</p></blockquote> <p>I know of a couple that was super-rich–no worries about money whatsoever–and had no qualms about collecting Soc. Sec. “because they paid into it.”</p> <p>Social Security was started to help widows and the elderly poor from perishing. How soon it’s forgotten how desperate times were for those unable to save money.</p>

Why the super rich (anyone making over $90,00 in my opinion) are allowed a free ride is beyond me, besides super rich do not need an SS cheque.

I know of a couple that was super-rich–no worries about money whatsoever–and had no qualms about collecting Soc. Sec. “because they paid into it.”

Social Security was started to help widows and the elderly poor from perishing. How soon it’s forgotten how desperate times were for those unable to save money.

]]> By: Knut http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533300 Knut Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:10:02 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533300 <p>On McCain’s policies. I repeat what I said yesterday. They are not policies but simply dog whistles to ensure the loyalty of the thug base. He is replaying Rove’s successful election strategy of 2004. Keep the base, and scare the middle on the national security issue. The Democrats never learn. Elections are no longer decided on the basis of policy, but on the basis of emotion. Obama got off to a good emotional start, but he’s squandered a lot of it in the past two weeks. Still and all, it’s hard to see Rove pulling another one out of the hat this time, high gas prices and all.</p> <p>Anyway, no reason to get up and flustered about McCain’s social security stance. He doesn’t mean it, and even if he did he couldn’t do anything about it.</p> On McCain’s policies. I repeat what I said yesterday. They are not policies but simply dog whistles to ensure the loyalty of the thug base. He is replaying Rove’s successful election strategy of 2004. Keep the base, and scare the middle on the national security issue. The Democrats never learn. Elections are no longer decided on the basis of policy, but on the basis of emotion. Obama got off to a good emotional start, but he’s squandered a lot of it in the past two weeks. Still and all, it’s hard to see Rove pulling another one out of the hat this time, high gas prices and all.

Anyway, no reason to get up and flustered about McCain’s social security stance. He doesn’t mean it, and even if he did he couldn’t do anything about it.

]]> By: i4u2bi http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533293 i4u2bi Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:07:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533293 <p>McLame is seven years somewhat past his expiration date. McSame is a Senate floater, just biding his time for God knows what. As nature would have it all turds given enough time, decades now, wil rise to the top. Common sense says these turds need to be scooped out of the cesspool and disgarded.</p> McLame is seven years somewhat past his expiration date. McSame is a Senate floater, just biding his time for God knows what. As nature would have it all turds given enough time, decades now, wil rise to the top. Common sense says these turds need to be scooped out of the cesspool and disgarded.

]]> By: jackie http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533294 jackie Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:07:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533294 <p>Morning all :)<br /> A little OT, but just think if they had managed to privatize Social Security??<br /> Geneva - The global financial crisis could lead to losses of 1,600 billion dollars for financial institutes, according a report in the Swiss Sunday newspaper SonntagsZeitung. It quoted a confidential study by the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates as saying losses for banks holding risky assets could be four times greater than the 400 billion dollars previously estimated.<br /><a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/217143,financial-market-losses-could-top-1600-billion-dollars-report.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.earthtimes.org/arti.....eport.html</a></p> Morning all :)
A little OT, but just think if they had managed to privatize Social Security??
Geneva – The global financial crisis could lead to losses of 1,600 billion dollars for financial institutes, according a report in the Swiss Sunday newspaper SonntagsZeitung. It quoted a confidential study by the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates as saying losses for banks holding risky assets could be four times greater than the 400 billion dollars previously estimated.
http://www.earthtimes.org/arti…..eport.html

]]> By: Frank33 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533292 Frank33 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:06:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533292 <p>We need more mathematics. Bush=McCain, Pelosi=Boner, Iraq=VietNam, Neo-cons=Nazis, Mark Penn=Karen Hughes (they are going into the Influence Peddling business together.)</p> We need more mathematics. Bush=McCain, Pelosi=Boner, Iraq=VietNam, Neo-cons=Nazis, Mark Penn=Karen Hughes (they are going into the Influence Peddling business together.)

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533291 Bluetoe2 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:05:39 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533291 <p>Republicans do not believe in the “common good.” They worship individual greed and the “free markets.”</p> Republicans do not believe in the “common good.” They worship individual greed and the “free markets.”

]]> By: ThingsComeUndone http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533290 ThingsComeUndone Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:05:32 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/09/mccain-social-security-is-a-disgrace/#comment-1533290 <p>Why the super rich (anyone making over $90,00 in my opinion) are allowed a free ride is beyond me, besides super rich do not need an SS cheque.</p> <p> The super rich get the Fed to give them treasury bills at face value for worthless loans. Social Security should take bank stock in exchange for those worthless loans and start charging interest on those loans.<br /> Which is better than the fire sale Helicopter Ben is planning probably on those loans to foreign nation Sovereign Funds and Friends of Bush, right after the election to help McCain and prevent Obama from stopping it.</p> Why the super rich (anyone making over $90,00 in my opinion) are allowed a free ride is beyond me, besides super rich do not need an SS cheque.

The super rich get the Fed to give them treasury bills at face value for worthless loans. Social Security should take bank stock in exchange for those worthless loans and start charging interest on those loans.
Which is better than the fire sale Helicopter Ben is planning probably on those loans to foreign nation Sovereign Funds and Friends of Bush, right after the election to help McCain and prevent Obama from stopping it.

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