tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post2633059783994108761..comments2024-03-04T11:41:37.259-05:00Comments on lovable liberal: So much stupidity, so little time, Ilovable liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15616294696912710046noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post-16017253697415563452009-04-22T00:09:00.000-04:002009-04-22T00:09:00.000-04:00Disaster? Assumes facts not in evidence - just be...Disaster? Assumes facts not in evidence - just because you ideologically don't like it.<br /><br />The kumbaya "argument" tags you an idiot. Can you cons ever come up with new material?<br /><br />Of course, you're fond of just making up more bullshit. In fact, Social Security was intended from the beginning to reduce poverty among the elderly. You need better sources than Rush and Hannity.<br /><br />It's like Twain said (I'm paraphrasing): It's not what people don't know, it's what they're sure of that just ain't so.lovable liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616294696912710046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post-22524300361128205422009-04-21T23:45:00.000-04:002009-04-21T23:45:00.000-04:00>Social Security has been a tremendous success ...>Social Security has been a tremendous success reducing senior poverty<br /><br />Social security was sold as a retirement plan for workers, not as a senior poverty reducer. It was meant to be an investment plan, not a govt service. If the people who paid in got an appropriate return and no more, you and I would hold hands and sing kumbaya. <br /><br />You are again adept at holding two contradictory thoughts at once: the New Deal introduced a small payroll tax and can't be held responsible for the disaster that Soc Sec has become AND Soc Sec is the greatest thing since sliced bread. That's nuance I lack, I'll spot ya.globeisatrocioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10920803265187006386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post-46634854847427464402009-04-20T10:11:00.000-04:002009-04-20T10:11:00.000-04:00So, amid all the semi-literate rhetoric pretending...So, amid all the semi-literate rhetoric pretending to say something, I guess there's acknowledgement that the government services work better than what the so-called free market had previously provided.<br /><br />Social Security has been a tremendous success reducing senior poverty. The "free" market? Not so much.lovable liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616294696912710046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post-69924091881668236552009-04-20T01:58:00.000-04:002009-04-20T01:58:00.000-04:00Nice histerical-ography. Govt-run retirement, star...Nice histerical-ography. Govt-run retirement, started for those who paid in, was too sweet a plum to not hand out to the votes that did not. Increases were inevitable. Obamas opt-in health care will begin and end the same way. Improving man? Rather, infamy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post-51996473006399383142009-04-19T21:53:00.000-04:002009-04-19T21:53:00.000-04:00One other point: Any sixth grader who can read a ...One other point: Any sixth grader who can read a graph could tell that the New Deal passed small payroll taxes and their real growth began later, coincidentally when corporations started to find ways to avoid taxes in the 1950s. There was again a huge growth in the early 1980s, which "saved" Social Security. Of course, the Republicans refused to put that money in Al Gore's hokey lock box, so Social Security holds IOUs that fully fund it through 2041 (or maybe 2038).lovable liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616294696912710046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post-32423253006481564002009-04-19T21:42:00.000-04:002009-04-19T21:42:00.000-04:00Unlike paleocons, liberals always look for ways to...Unlike paleocons, liberals always look for ways to improve on past progress, instead of rigidly adhering to some past imagined golden age that was also imperfect.<br /><br />By the way, good that you've learned to use Google. Maybe you should try Google Alerts, as your well-deserved infamy spreads like grease in dishwater.lovable liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616294696912710046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post-16270650138420762052009-04-19T20:17:00.000-04:002009-04-19T20:17:00.000-04:00sweet Christ, didnt the New Deal itself give those...sweet Christ, didnt the New Deal itself give those regressive taxes? I thought the Amity Shales dig at my dyslexia might wrap back around - and I am glad to extrivate you from another non sequitur<br /><br />globeis...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com