Comments on: Geithner on White House Plans to “Fix” Social Security

By: ekunin

ekunin — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:40:52 +0000

If you think Hillary is the answer You’d better ask yourself, what’s the question.

By: marcshank

marcshank — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:08:33 +0000

Jane:

It’s becoming increasingly clear that that Obama Administration is fast becoming the “Bait and Switch” Administration. Barely out of his first hundred days, he is revealing himself to be less a leader than a bad democratic copy of the one before him. He has almost abandoned the liberal community that elected him, is in total denial about the Bush-Cheney crime spree and has given our social security money to the banks. The latest: he’s left the White House counsel nominee swinging in the wind. A prediction: before long, a draft-Hillary movement is going to start. Remember this.

Marc

By: wmd1961

wmd1961 — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:44:21 +0000

The cap is at $100,000+, not $90,000.

It should be removed altogether, and possibly add a medicare tax on ALL income, not just wage income, plus a surtax on was income above some threshold.

By: plutonicus

plutonicus — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:11:56 +0000

Not a pretty sight, is it? Not a picture of law or democracy or government by the people.

By: brandane

brandane — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:10:38 +0000

The Republicans and the corporations have been after SS since it’s inception, now it looks like they have finally succeeded in accomplishing their goal. They have lowered the wages in this country to about sixty percent of what they should be, thus business pays less into the SS fund,the employee pays less into the fund, they are outsourcing all the decent paying jobs therefore we will become a nation of $7.00 an hour part time employees and the SS fund will indeed go broke much faster than predicted. Thank you Obama, I am sure all the auto workers and manufacturing workers and the textile workers will appreciate their tax dollars being sent overseas to build new plants in China and elsewhere. So much for the politics of change.

By: Watt4Bob

Watt4Bob — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:48:51 +0000

You see what I see.

By: ekunin

ekunin — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:48:06 +0000

Ah the dishonesty doesn’t quit. As for Obama, I’m reading his book “Dreams from my Father”. The man can write and his heart seems to be in the right place, but he’s no dope. He knows big oil, big banks have hit men on their payrolls or they know where to get them. He’s got to walk a fine line, but you walk that fine line long enough and before you know it you’re on the other side. As for social security, nothing wrong with it if they’d stop pouring FICA taxes into Iraq and other lost causes. FICA taxes permitted the reduction of income taxes on the wealthy. It’s a rip off pure and simple. The question is what, if anything, should we try to do about it. Everyone is annoyed but no one seems willing to push back.

By: paz3

paz3 — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:37:14 +0000

The President explicitly rejects the notion that Social Security is untouchable politically

We shall see about that in the next elections.

So, despite the pessisimism here at the Lake, why couldn’t it be that the quote from ‘Timmeh’ means that the Prez will push raising the $90,000 cap?

That is doable politically, considering the clout that AARP has. It would keep more retired folks out of poverty, and would ultimately help the economy through stabilization.

The political capital is there now to do this, as a majority of the electorate would support it, and the righties would look really bad opposing it (Not that that stops them, but every scale that falls from that dead fish carcass of a political party is an advancement for the rest of us).

Oh, and transparency requires me to state that I am collecting SS.

By: plutonicus

plutonicus — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:05:15 +0000

Geithner’s bosses. America’s bosses. Dug in deep, since Reagan. No intention of allowing any silly return to being a country of laws. Who will stop them? And how?

By: Watt4Bob

Watt4Bob — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:53:02 +0000

Geithner isn’t doing other than what Obama wants him to do. I think it’s time to admit that until progressives become a much more effective voting bloc, big money rules no matter who the president is.

Might as well read;

Obama isn’t doing other than what Geithner’s bosses want him to do. I think it’s time to admit that until progressives become a much more effective voting bloc, big money rules no matter who the president is.

Or maybe we could once again try being a country of laws instead of a country of men.