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The latest Bush administration bull:
OK, this week government officials sounded like Trailer Park Dads who spent their unemployment checks on freebase and booze at the local Nudie Bar, then came home and told the kids that real Velveeta is too expensive and they'd have to eat bread and mustard sandwiches until the 1st of the month when the new food stamp allocation arrives. US Treasury chief says Social Security 'unsustainable'
OK!!! Get that from Trailer Park Hank: Social Security faces a 4.3 trillion dollar unfunded liability over the next 75 years? BIG FUCKING DEAL. George W. Bush blew through 5 trillion in just 7 years, increasing the actual national debt from under $5 trillion to almost $10 trillion. And it wasn't just his war addiction that caused the debt increase. Tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires are a major part of the problem. Bush is a big time "Tax Cut and Over-spend" nutjob, in actuality. So now they're saying that over 75 years there will be a 4.3 trillion deficit. I think we need to go back to those rich guys and get our money back. ALSO... the Wall Street bail-outs and the on-going nationalization of real estate by the Fed, Treasury and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac have a major purpose of halting the decrease in real estate prices. The real problem for average Americans is that their wages need to rise to make housing and health care available. But instead of doing that, having the government prop up real estate prices mainly benefits the millionaires who are heavily invested in mansions and other tangible assets. The resulting inflation will crucify poor and middle class Americans. If they think that we will accept getting screwed out of our Social Security checks after having paid in huge amounts over decades, they've got another think coming. We paid in the money and we want it back
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