Comments on: Happy Birthday Social Security: Just Slightly Older Than John McCain

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:55:21 +0000

This is a very smart strategy by the Obama campaign. McCain simply can’t defend allowing “younger workers” to gamble with their SSI accounts and argue that it “protects Social Security”. It increases the risk, places the decision-making of high gains vs. stability in the hands of individuals who are more likely to take risks (younger workers). Or it places it in the hands of accounts managers that have other goals other than the long-term financial well-being of the accounts. We KNOW how “secure” these Big 5 Financial Houses have been.

McCain claims that he doesn’t understand economics. So why should we trust the guy who was thigh-high deep in the early ’90’s Savings and Loan scandals, and who has made such bonehead policy suggestions with the current credit scandals to resolve one of the most important financial issues of the 21st century?

Oh right, he is getting his financial advice from Phil Gramm, the VP of US Operations for United Banc Suisse (UBS) that recently was shown to have illegally sheltered over $12 billion from taxes that should have been paid by wealthy Americans. For a minimum of a $100,000 stake that would be concealed from disclosure through a set of “charitable donations”, bogus business losses, and secret passwords through store-bought cell phones and unlisted foreign numbers the rich could create tax-free foreign accounts in Lichtenstein.

Wonder if that’s why Cindy McCain refuses to reveal her taxes and “charitable donations”?

By: MadamDeb

MadamDeb — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:39:15 +0000

And to top it off, Senior Citizen John McCain pocketed a total of $22,104 in 2006 and $23,157 in 2007 in Social Security income.

With his $60,000/year Navy pension, his earnings from the Senate, and all his wife’s money, does he have to take the Social Security money? Sure, he paid into it, but so did “wealthy senior citizens” whom he wants to buy their own prescriptions.

Up until this year, I liked McCain okay; he was a POW, etc. But to see the numerous double standards the man lives with is beyond the pale and reveals his “straight talk” as a huge fraud.

By: JamesJoyce

JamesJoyce — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:16:47 +0000

The 1933 Business Plot a fascist plot to overthrow FDR and usurp the constitution, referenced today by Blue Texan is embodied and now realized in the “Iraq Oil Plot.” Today Georgia and Russia fight due to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.....n_pipeline and the placement of missiles in Poland. Meanwhile Rove was in Yalta on July 12th.

Corporate financiers have again raped America. McCain while claiming maverick conservative credentials is another wolf in the hen house. These leaders are myopic oil whores, more concerned with perpetuating energy business interests while shitting on Americans and wiping their asses with the constitution. If Americans buy McCain’s wind swept garbage, what non thinking losers……..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

By: barbara

barbara — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:05:00 +0000

Christy is upstairs. Bye for now.

By: barbara

barbara — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:03:16 +0000

He’s the Republican’s Republican. Slick. Personable. Majored in faux sincerity. Family values man. Contrast to McCain would be stunning, goofery notwithstanding. Dark hair, white hair. Tall, short. Young, old. And he’s certainly being prepped for something. Which would leave MN with Governor Carol Molnau — she who double-dutied as Lt. Governor and Transportation Goddess, under whose watchful eye the I35 bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River. Well, you can’t stay on top of everything, doggone it!

By: Beerfart Liberal

Beerfart Liberal — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:45:30 +0000

pawlenty impresses me less and less every time I see him. i hope mccain takes him. seems quite the goof to me.

By: Beerfart Liberal

Beerfart Liberal — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:44:26 +0000

so pathetic. there’s really nothing to be done except work with other countries. in the gop’s view, though, that’s pussy foreign policy. so their alternative is ……. what? bluster and bullshit. oh, an an extra shipment of humanitarian aid. can’t more people see that mccain’s vaunted expertise in foreign affairs is 100% unadulterated horseshit? why not?

By: dmac

dmac — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:41:39 +0000

fox news reporters were fired on by georgian troops, up close and personal….the reporters were talking with russian troops in ?goli?

they had to run down the road for their lives. literally.

was on about a half hour ago…wasn’t a pro-georgian report. on fox, couldn’t believe they showed it.

ok, outta here. take care.

By: Blub

Blub — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:41:35 +0000

Gates today: “The United States spent 45 years working very hard to avoid a military confrontation with Russia,” he said. “I see no reason to change that approach today.”

Um.. well, that’s good to know, I guess…

By: barbara

barbara — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:41:30 +0000

I live in the land of the late Paul Wellstone. Stuff like this raises my antennae and scares the, er, feces out of me.