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Topic: Jackson Lee: ‘Who Wants to Make a Fuss About Social Security When It´s Solvent?´ |
Jackson Lee: ‘Who Wants to Make a Fuss About Social Security When It´s Solvent?´
Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 12/3/2012 1:21:00 PM
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| Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D.-Texas) said last week that Republicans are being "frivolous" when they talking about reforming Social Security as a means toward fixing the federal government´s fiscal problems because Social Security is "solvent." According to Social Security´s trustees, the program has operated in the red each of the last two years. “Who wants to make a fuss about Social Security when it´s solvent?” she asked on Friday. “And then who wants to make a fuss about Medicare when it´s solvent until 2024?” In remarks on the House floor, the Texas Democrat said Republicans have a “frivolous perspective”
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Comments: This delusional lying moron is the perfect example of why we are in the fix we are in.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
ZurichMike, 12/3/2012 1:27:32 PM (No. 9046213)
Her voters are equally stupid for sending this ignoramus back to Congress every two years.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
dwa, 12/3/2012 1:28:54 PM (No. 9046219)
This woman is truly as dumb as dirt, and that insults dirt.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
nimby, 12/3/2012 1:30:25 PM (No. 9046220)
She is the worst of the dimmicrats
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Keekng, 12/3/2012 1:33:40 PM (No. 9046225)
She and Hank Johnson, D-Ga, should be a couple, between them their IQ might total 100.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FL_Absentee_Voter, 12/3/2012 1:45:02 PM (No. 9046251)
Pathfider couldn´t do it. Maybe Curiosity will find that American flag. We´ll see who´s laughing then, LDotters.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
John21, 12/3/2012 1:45:03 PM (No. 9046252)
Texas why is it that you continue to elect the witless and uninformed to represent you in Washington? Being a liberal and a Democrat I guess allows you to be stupoid beyond the understanding of the human race.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bobn.t, 12/3/2012 1:49:26 PM (No. 9046259)
Another typical black fool lapping at the heels of zero. My boots know more about the gov´t solvency than she knows. See what we get when blacks vote.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Keekng, 12/3/2012 1:58:28 PM (No. 9046279)
She represents a predominately black district. Her constituents are too biased to think beyond color.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Axeman, 12/3/2012 2:13:39 PM (No. 9046316)
SS has been paying out more than the tax has been taking in for at least one year. It is one more part of the deficit. Adding to the debt. Like the Postal service, and Medicare, and everything else the feds try to run.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
The Architect, 12/3/2012 2:15:35 PM (No. 9046319)
#7, blacks don´t hold the francise when it comes to fools. Typically the number of fools in a specific group is roughly proportional to the percentage size of that group. If you would like to see a fine example of a fool in an other than black group, I suggest you look in the mirror. Racist remarks have no place in this forum.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
birddog, 12/3/2012 2:31:20 PM (No. 9046363)
Don´t worry...Obama wants to extend the "Taxcuts" for working Americans which will help "Save" Social Security....you know the 2.9% reduction in SS "contributions/Tax" which actual funds it. "By spending more while receiving less this program will then be as successful as our plans for American Business Growth"
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
dr.lakerman, 12/3/2012 2:43:03 PM (No. 9046390)
The real irony in Sheila Jackson Lee´s remarks is that black men are cheated the most on social security. black men are more likely to be single, so if they die before retirement age, they lose everything. Compounding that is the fact that black male life expectancy is substantially less than that of whites, so even if they live to collect social security, they will not collect for nearly as many years as whites. I would think that an african american congresswoman, who represents a majority minority congressional district, would ponder that irony.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rafter, 12/3/2012 2:44:03 PM (No. 9046391)
Nominating Sheila to be the first black American woman to land on Mars.
One way trip, beginning in Houston.
"Houston... we no longer have a problem." Works for me.
It´s an honor just to be nominated. But once she´s "there"... she can look for where the U.S. astronauts landed before her to plant that flag... s/o
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 12/3/2012 2:47:19 PM (No. 9046398)
Since we are in the South and our elections are overseen by the Federal Courts, we play a game every 10 years of defining election maps. Sheila is protected by court battles lasting more that a year to play connect the minorities. The game has become more complicated because minorities are intermixed. In cities like Houston or Dallas, white voters are shunted to surrounding districts while the remainder is grouped into intertwined Hispanic or black dominated districts. It gets harder and harder and a 3rd minority (gay) might well make it impossible.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Bufflwyr, 12/3/2012 2:55:03 PM (No. 9046416)
After their two decades on the Tax Teat, these "public servants" don´t much care what happens.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
BadgerBill, 12/3/2012 2:58:57 PM (No. 9046429)
#13--I submit that she would be going home...to Mars.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Coy860, 12/3/2012 3:00:08 PM (No. 9046433)
I bet this ignoramus eats dessert first.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
mickturn, 12/3/2012 3:06:59 PM (No. 9046450)
Note to Houston blacks, this woman isn´t your friend, she´s robbing all of you blind!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Sheepfarmer, 12/3/2012 3:08:49 PM (No. 9046456)
What an embarrassment.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JudithC, 12/3/2012 3:24:30 PM (No. 9046493)
How can anyone with an IQ that cracks 2 vote for this revoltingly stupid woman? She´s a national joke. Next time she´s seen will be at the State of the Union address hanging herself over the aisle to hug jug ears as he approaches the podium—her only claim to fame is being photographed trying to grab whoever is president coming down the aisle so she can add his picture to her scrap book. Sorry, I forgot to mention another claim to fame: having government cars ordered to pick her up to drive her one block to her office— the woman is the epitomé of classless nouveau riche. She´d do better as a circus clown and doesn´t even need a costume. Being "herself" would do the trick.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bkt23, 12/3/2012 3:40:10 PM (No. 9046525)
Uh, guys, she´s right. There will ALWAYS be dollars going to those collecting SS.
What she doesn´t say - and clearly doesn´t understand - is that the purchasing power of the dollar will necessarily fall.
SS is as solvent as any other government program. Yet the government is broke. Do the math.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Keekng, 12/3/2012 4:22:13 PM (No. 9046596)
Don´t get your knickers all wadded up, #10. If you knew anything at all about Sheila Jackson Lee, you would understand the racism comments.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LAW428, 12/3/2012 5:51:29 PM (No. 9046734)
She´s dumber than a lead pipe.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Democracy First, 12/3/2012 6:04:24 PM (No. 9046752)
The old cow has an iq that fails to exceed her rather large shoe size. I think those gunboats she´s sporting are about a size 14.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Penney, 12/3/2012 6:19:16 PM (No. 9046775)
Here is proof of the dem pols total irresponsiblity when it comes to $$$. ...And some still wonder why the country is on the edge of that fiscal cliff!!!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
nonsense, 12/3/2012 6:52:59 PM (No. 9046812)
dingy Harry told her to say it. He sports the same stupid line. Every young person I know, even those Obama voter children, know that there will be nothing left in the SS "lockbox" for them.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
amylu, 12/3/2012 8:53:22 PM (No. 9046974)
#26, Remember when Fairy Reid also insisted that paying federal income taxes is VOLUNTARY???!!!!
Dims have told so many lies, they can no longer differentiate between fantasy and reality.
In J.L.´s case, I doubt she could even define "solvent".
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